She was in the power of her father's enemy, the man whose proffer of friendship they had rejected with scorn.
There was stirring in her heart a sweet womanly pity and sympathy for the enemy whose proffer of friendship had been so cavalierly rejected.
The habitants were fond of visiting one another, and hospitality demanded on every such occasion the proffer of something to drink.
The Mohawks were now quite ready to make terms, and in 1667 they sent a delegation to Quebec to proffer peace.
All I would ask is, leave to proffer a few more suggestions to your own large and candid experience.
He waved his hand, wheeled his horse, and trotted off towards the fair suburban lanes that still proffer to the denizens of London glimpses of rural fields, and shadows from quiet hedgerows.
I find that I am not much to you; you do not need me; you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors, though you proffer me house and lands.
These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.
A silken towel, bright coloured, a count's son wouldproffer fair, Swift to the guest he gat him, and knelt low before him there.
The queen of France doth proffer the chance of a worthy love.
He feels consoled, relieved, and eased To meet with her who can be pleased To proffer kindness, amid compute His acquiescence for pursuit; Who troubles not his lonely mood; And asks for love mere gratitude.
Then wait the mood In which a woman may be woo'd Whose thoughts and habits are too high For honour to be flattery, And who would surely not allow The suit that you could proffer now.
It is but when you proffer more The yoke weighs heavy and chafes sore.
And here I proffer thee, heire of Linne, Before these lords so faire and free, Thou shalt have it backe again better cheape, By a hundred markes, than I had it of thee.
Noe, Douglas, quoth Erle Percy then, Thy proffer I doe scorne; I will not yeelde to any Scott, That ever yett was borne.
Possibly because the British Government had notified him, through Page, that his proffer of mediation would be unacceptable, Mr. Wilson moved cautiously and slowly, and Germany became impatient.
He has a handsome seal, which he keeps to proffer to such of his friends as have not one in readiness, when they would fold up an epistle; nay, he will seal it for you, and pays himself by discovering the direction.
From this she was promptly driven by Mrs. Taylor and established in one corner of a lounge with a soft silk cushion behind her, and further propitiated by the proffer of a cup of tea in a dainty cup and saucer.
Ay, they make it manifest they love it, since so great a proffer will not prevail with them to leave it.
And to be sure we shall find it the more difficult to make the Lord our hope only, when things that are here, though deceitfully, proffer us their help.
Despair undervalues the promise, undervalues the invitation, undervalues the proffer of grace.
She accepted the proffer of friendship, however, and shoved a rickety old chair for her visitor's use.
I accept your proffer of continued friendship," he said with a forced smile.
Fulton was obliged to proffer his services to foreign nations for a long time before he was able to devote them to his own country.
The inventive character of Fulton he seems to admit, but would apparently deprive us of the credit of his name, by the remark that he was obliged to proffer his services to foreign nations for a long time.
No minister had yet been found cool enough toproffer a baronetcy to those princes of the Squire-archy.
He began to think if it would not be possible, by proffer of large monies, to tempt him to desert his master's fallen fortunes, and to abide in the house that he became so well.
By critics of the peevish school who cry for better bread than can be made of political wheat, Mr. Gladstone's proffer to do away with the income-tax has been contumeliously treated as dangling a shameful bait.
It seemed that Mr. Cottrell was so taken aback by the proffer of this very handsome advice that for a moment or two he was at a loss for a retort; before he found one his mistress had interposed.
He has been heard to declare that never again will he proffer assistance to any strange woman whom he finds by the wayside.
Fain with the same I'd serve thee to th' height of thy desire, But that I fear such proffer might waken Kriemhild's ire.
Then spoke the youth: "Chiefs I lend your ears, Nor judge our proffer by our years.
An' hit war ther same reason thet made ye proffer ter take away thet letter an' seek ter diskiver who writ hit, warn't hit .
That individual love should resent the thraldom of death may be unreasonable; but it is useless to ignore the fact of such resentment, or to proffer consolations which can neither convince nor console.
