It happened that the king's son gave a series of balls, to which were invited all the rank and fashion of the city, and among the rest the two elder sisters.
But to a large extent such a collection as this represents that consensus of opinion which invests a given work with the rank of a classic.
Shailer Mathews regarding the rank of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.
Gourd-like swells of the rank of the soil, Hollow, more hollow at core.
Those faceless discords, out of nature strayed, Rank of the putrefaction ere decayed, In impious singles bear the thorny wreaths: Their lives are where harmonious Pleasure breathes For couples crowned with flowers that burn in dew.
In Mr. Cox will be found yet another name to be enrolled among those English writers who have vindicated for this country an honorable rank in the investigation of Greek history.
In that world, no divinity hedges a king, no accident of rank or fashion ennobles a dunce or shields a knave.
It is a matter of no moment to the cataloguer that the compiler say of a dictionary of quotations holds the rank of colonel.
But all Naaman's valour and rank and fame, and the honour felt for him by his king, were valueless to him, for he was suffering from the horrible affliction of leprosy.
In no case would he rank them as equal in importance with the fiery Elijah or the king-making Elisha, who had been for four generations the counsellor of his race.
After centuries of neglect, his country at one bound found itself in the first rank in this department of natural science.
Would you lead us to believe that the unhappy wretch found it necessary to post up to town to obtain his relay of demons for his own discomfiture when so much rank and fashion was at the Wells, though at the fag end of the season?
I asked the library man if he knew who wrote the book, and he replied that he had heard the name, but had forgotten it; so far as he remembered the author was a peer of high rank but eccentric habits," said Edward.
But I have known, and still know, many of the rank and file, and delightful people they are.
But the rank and file of The Salvation Army, with its almost uncanny knowledge of men, has found a better, happier way.
Though no longer in office, Jefferson remained till his death the chief personage in the United States, and his authority continued to be almost supreme among the leaders as well as among the rank and file of the Republican party.
Those who depart from it, whether there or here, are attainted, corrupted in blood, and wholly fallen from their original rank and value.
The rank and file were neither so far-sighted nor so moderate.
For he could hear the hostile deputies in the front rank behind him, muttering curses and sneering at the enthusiasm with which he was received.
The great work in which he failed was accomplished three centuries later by Charles the Frank, who has won for himself that place in the first rank of world-moulders which Theodoric has missed.
The fact that I was persona non grata to the Germans was a lien upon his sympathy, and gave me high rankwith him at once.
That was a trumpet blast annihilating allrank and caste.
Although it pleased God that I should be born in the rank which I this day occupy, still I can not forbear admiring the bounty of Providence in choosing me, the youngest of your daughters, for the noblest kingdom in Europe.
What a happy, thing it is for persons in our rank to gain the love of a whole nation so cheaply!
A screen of pine and rank grass undergrowth hides an impressive sight.
There are those who cannot forgive the Negro having got free from slavery, and for them the spectacle of the Negro in the rank and file afforded much pleasure.
Acharnai of old was famous for its men, and as touching games the Timodemidai rank there pre-eminent.
The dress of this effigy has, probably, given rise to the conjectures concerning the rank in life which Gower maintained; but that is too precarious a ground on which to form a decided opinion on such a point.
A death which I should owe to an act of despair would be cowardly; suicide does not suit my principles nor the rank I have holden in the world.
If the business of issuing notes were put into the hands of the clearing banks, their power to do so would be limited by the extent of their assets, or of such of their assets as were thought fit to rank as backing for their notes.
And to meet the danger that the officials as a whole might combine "in a huge conspiracy against the rank and file," Messrs Bechhofer and Reckitt can only suggest vigilance committees within the Guilds.
This house was built of gray stone, and stood back from the road, surrounded by a few sombre pines and much rank shrubbery: shrubbery and trees, and the house itself, had long been abandoned to decay.
In this last instance however he conceived that the offence was so atrocious, as to make it impossible that any rank could protect the culprit against the severity of justice.
It is a rank and rotten soil, from which every finer shrub draws poison as it grows.
It is now known to philosophers that the spirit and character of the Government intrudes itself into every rank of society.
The following story consists of such adventures as for the most part have occurred to at least one half of the Englishmen now existing who are of the same rank of life as my hero.
The tyranny of Mr. Tyrrel would not have been so patiently endured, had not his colloquial accomplishments perpetually come in aid of that authority which his rank and prowess originally obtained.
Mr. Falkland is a man of rank and fortune; he is your master.
The boorishness of his rank in society was lost in the cultivation his mind had derived from habits of sensibility and benevolence.
One consequence, at all events, of his accomplished task had been to place him in the front rank of living historians, and another had been his appointment to a vacant stall in Lichbury Cathedral.
Unless you own the genuine thing in rank or reputation, how frightfully difficult it is to send an astute vulgar old millionaire the one present which will open his doors to you.
And mowed down like the grass, else all we reap Is rank abundance, and a rotten harvest Of discontents infecting the fair soil, Making a desert of fertility.
If it be so, at least his obsequies 310 Shall be such as befits his name and nation, His rank and his devotion to the duties Of the realm, while his age permitted him To do himself and them full justice.
He had long been enamoured of this young maiden, but had never dared to make her acquainted with the soft emotions of his heart, knowing that she was betrothed to a chief of higher rank and greater power, but now, .
You shall join them ere they will rise, If you preach farther--Why, this is rank treason.
The archangels, said to be seven in number, and to occupy the eighth rank in the celestial hierarchy.
Who, in this sunken, sickly eye, the pride Of rank and ancestry?
You are made for the service: I have served; Have rank by birth and soldiership, and friends, Who shall be yours.
Reduced to the rank of country squires, they no longer filled a need and soon they became a nuisance.
In the Germain Empire, a number of important cities had obtained the rank of "imperial cities" whose representatives must be heard in the imperial diet.
You, consequently, hold the rankto which you were elected.
SIR, I have received a letter from Captain Kearsley respecting the settlement of the rank of the captains and subalterns.
Sir, The reasons I did myself the honour to mention to your excellency in a letter of September last still exist, and determine me to resign my rank and command in the army.
I find he requires as much study and attention as Horace; so I shall not rank the reading of him among amusements.
Without the passions, man would hardly rank above the beasts.
Colonel Hammond's regiment, on such an event, is to remain there; and one hundred rank and file of continental troops only are to keep them in countenance.
In the beginning of January, 1778, it was reported to Burr that Lord Stirling had made some remarks respecting the manner in which the colonel had contributed to arrange the rank of his (Burr's) subaltern officers.
Although his rank was only that of a lieutenant-colonel, yet he was constantly in the actual command of a regiment, and frequently of a brigade.
His force in this direction was upwards of six thousand rank and file.
But, as a decent regard to rank is both proper and necessary, I hope it will be excused in one who regards his honour next to the welfare of his country.
Know from him the manner in which the ranks of the Virginia and Pennsylvania officers have been settled, and arrange accordingly, at least pro tempore, the rank of your gentlemen.
Among the orators whom the pope associated with the cardinal de Courçon, one of the most remarkable was James of Vitri, whom the Church had already placed in the rank of its celebrated doctors.
These words flew fromrank to rank, and the whole fleet drew as near as they could to the vessel of Louis IX.
Their leader alone was on horseback, and rode from rank to rank, exciting the soldiers, and flying to every point where the danger seemed most pressing.
It was likewise acknowledged in all the crusades, that they who died with arms in their hands were placed in the rank of martyrs.
In the distribution of the cities and lands of the empire, every one of the lords and barons had obtained domains proportionate with the rank and services of the new possessor.
