Hay announced that he had written Jefferson to send the desired papers and expected to receive them within five days.
He promises Wayne that, in case of a second edition,[664] he will shorten his interminable pages which shall also "receive very material corrections.
The people of the country to which we are going are prepared to receive us.
This should be done before they receive their compensation, that they may not evade examination.
The people of the country to which we are going are prepared to receive us; their agents, now with Burr, say that if we will protect their religion, and will not subject them to a foreign Power, that in three weeks all will be settled.
On the other hand, the Guise faction were to receive certain cities into their possession, as pledges that this sanguinary edict should be fulfilled.
He could not himself be denounced as a heretic, for he had always held himself ready to receive instruction, and to be set right where he had erred.
There I will endeavour in a few months to obtain the sum necessary to take me to France--from you I will not receive any more.
Receive a kiss from Fanny, I was going to add, if you will not take one from me, and believe me yours Sincerely MARY.
When you receive this, my burning head will be cold.
I shall not write to you again, till I receive an answer to this.
But let me see, written by yourself--for I will not receive it through any other medium--that the affair is finished.
Perhaps this is the last letter you will ever receivefrom me.
When you receive this, I shall either have landed, or be hovering on the British coast--your letter of the 18th decided me.
Should you receive three or four of the letters at once which I have written lately, do not think of Sir John Brute, for I do not mean to wife you.
But, knowing that I am not a parasite-plant, I am willing to receive the proofs of affection, that every pulse replies to, when I think of being once more in the same house with you.
I am charmed at the opera; and receive a very high, and, I think, rational, delight at a good play.
And now, my Louisa, and you, my dear honoured father, will you receive your poor wanderer?
When I receive your commands, I will attend them, and hope the time will soon arrive when you will be better disposed to listen to a tender lover who adores you, rather than to seek to irritate a man who has you in his power.
Write to us very often, and tell us you are happy; that will be the only consolation we can receive in your absence.
Not that I have the vanity to think he possesses any predilection in my favour; but, till I see a man I like as well as him, I will not receive the addresses of any one.
I was preparing to receive him as a visitor; when taking out his pocket-book, he begged I would do him the honour to inspect some of the most fashionable patterns, and of the newest taste.
I receive him, my Julia," cried her father, "I receivehim to my bosom as my brother.
I was doomed, however, to receive still more shocks.
Receive the blessing of our only parent, joined with the affectionate love of a tender sister.
My fortune was too circumscribed to disclose my flame; but I secretly indulged it, from the remote hope of having it one day in my power to receive her hand without blushing at my inferiority in point of wealth.
Indeed, Louisa, if you knew the slights I hourly receive from my husband, and the conviction which I have of his infidelity, you would not criticize my expressions so harshly.
The border under the terrace wall is clearing away to receive currants and gooseberry bushes, and a spot is found very proper for raspberries.
At length the day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy, and when you receive this it will be over.
You and I need not tell each other how glad we shall be to receive attention from, or pay it to anyone connected with Mrs. Knight.
Mr. Knight left Godmersham for town on the 23rd, but owing to a delay in the delivery of the letter, James Austen did not receive his till the 24th.
Miss Lloyd thought it as clever as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasure from it as from P.
He will receive my yesterday's letter to-day, and I shall write again by this post to thank and reproach him.
William will be quite recovered, I trust, by the time you receive this.
I look forward with great impatience to it, as I rather expect to receive an offer from my friend in the course of the evening.
I shall be glad to have our numbers a little reduced, and by the time you receive this we shall be only a family, though a large family, party.
He found the purchaser very willing to receive back his money and to resign all claim to the copyright.
Many of the men did not receive the infection, although inoculated at least three times and kept in the same room with those who actually underwent the disease during the whole time occupied by them in passing through it.
He purposely associated with them, but could not receive the smallpox.
In the same way in the egg, when the chick was formed and had increased in size, the heart too increased and acquired ventricles, which then began to receive and to transmit blood.
Nor am I certain that the nipples of the cows are at all times in a state to receive the infection.
On seeing this, and finding him inaccessible, I desisted, thinking it must often happen to the departed to be distressed by the inability or unwillingness of those they love to receive and recognise them.
For the priests, taking him who doth so consult, keep him one day from meat and three days from wine, that he may in a clear soul receive the oracles.
And the priest answered, "We receive no more than they.
It seemed to me as though the gates of heaven itself were unfolded to receive the returning sun into the golden land of the Hereafter!
But the hour is early yet, and if I start so soon, your sister may not be able to receive me.
I have heard it is your pleasure to rail upon me behind my back, and, as I well know I deserve some slight portion of your anger, I am as well content to receive it myself, in place of its being put upon these lads, my fellows.
I would fain contract a marriage, and the good yeoman her father is right willing to receive me for a son-in-law.
His was a new acquaintance, and he hardly knew how the good yeoman might receive a visit so soon repeated.
Or receive it either, I believe," said Sir Thomas, sotto voce.
Then receive the wages of your service, heretic," said Somerville, at the same moment discharging the contents of a petronel full in Sir Thomas's visage.
You, Froth, being mounted, will accompany us, and remain without the park in readiness toreceive the deer when we have struck it.
For the next four hours we shall be engaged here in consulting with our gallant friend, and certain messengers we expect to arrive; after that, if it so please your mayor, we will receive him.
The maiden indeed seemed nothing loth to receive his attention, for his handsome figure and gallant conduct had already made some impression upon her.
Along the road the walls are adorned with silk and purple, and the inhabitants receive him with all kinds of song and exultation, and they dance before the great king who is styled the Caliph.
In respect of all these countries the Head of the Captivity gives the communities power to appoint Rabbis and Ministers who come unto him to be consecrated and to receive his authority.
Happy to be alone to receive the applause of the house, the tenor did his best with the powers which have since achieved European fame.
But if what I have done receive the gracious construction of a painful pilgrimage, and purchase the least remission, I shall think all too little, and that there were wanting to the rest many miseries.
The summer of 1348 had come, and it seems that at Avignon the plague had by this time spent itself, people were no longer afraid to go there now, and the Pope would peradventure come out of his seclusion and receivean embassy.
Again we ask and receive no answer--what must have been the mortality among the monks and the servants of the convent?
Jealous as the religious houses were of their rights and privileges, the heads of monasteries, as a rule, were compelled to receive institution too at the hands of the Bishops of the see in which they were situated.
If you pressed him for further particulars he poured forth words that might mean anything, a metallic jargon which you were ordered to receive and ponder.
The officers who came as passengers got ashore in the course of the day and made their way to the Ayuntamiento to report their arrival and receive their assignments.
Even a brakeman could go to her and hear her pleasant words and receive that beaming smile and perhaps a clasp of that cool, slender little hand, while he who so longed for it all stood without the pale.
At Hong Kong it was his hope to receive the word "Come over.
Already, you will see, I am breaking into verse, but when I receive your photograph I may even write a sonnet.
He, of course, went to the palace to receive both the D.
Dear friend, I hope that soon I shall receive a photograph of your charming self so that my dugout may become a paradise.
So insatiable was the thirst which tormented him, that his mouth, like a funnel, was always open toreceive the various liquors that might be poured into it and especially cold water, which calmed him more than every other.
There shalt thou receive the diadem of Gian Ben Gian, {50} the talismans of Soliman, and the treasures of the preadimite Sultans: there shalt thou be solaced with all kinds of delight.
Let him receive as many robes of honour, and thousands of sequins of gold, as he hath spoken words.
Eblis permitteth that the portal of his palace shall be opened, and the subterranean fire will receivethee into the number of its adorers.
I receive the good folk who have thus filled thee with joy.
In which Sabrina receives money from an unexpected source, and brings to light how she came to receive it and what she intends doing when the entire sum is given her.
Fate may compel her to earn her own living or she may receive an income from a source that has nothing to do with these stories.
If what you receive is really insufficient for your support satisfy me by Accounts that it is so, and I shall order more.
But, no matter how or when the chance seed was sown, it fell upon ground eager to receive it.
We are growing old fast ourselves, and shall expect the same kind of indulgences; if we give them, we shall have a right to receive them in our turn.
After his return from his second mission to England, he wrote to Sargent, asking him to receive the balance due him by Messrs.
I said I was pleased to receive civility from anybody; so he staid with me some time; towards night I said he should fetch a gun or two, as we had none.
It was high time that this object should receivethe attention of the Englishry of the province as one of his letters indicates.
He even believes that, if he were engaged to go to Paradise this morning, he would pray for permission to remain on earth until half-past one, to receive the embrace promised him at the Turgots.
I worked with great steadiness and regularity, I knew exactly where to place the productions of my pen, and could calculate, with a fair degree of accuracy, the sums I should receive for them.
And when, in a very short time, the story was published, we found that the reading public was inclined to receive it with as much sympathetic interest and favor as had been shown to it by the editors.
Mr. Tolman hastened behind the counter to receive his commands.
So long as the mother faileth to train her children, and start them on a proper way of life, the training which they receive later on will not take its full effect.
When all mankind shall receive the same opportunity of education and the.
For example, when it is not possible to educate all one’s children, daughters receive preference over sons, as mothers are the first educators of the next generation.
Bahá’u’lláh has announced that inasmuch as ignorance and lack of education are barriers of separation among mankind, all must receive training and instruction.
When all mankind shall receive the same opportunity of education and the equality of men and women be realized, the foundations of war will be utterly destroyed.
Praised be God that there is now a school of this type in Ṭihrán where young maidens can, through His bounty, receive an education and with all vigour acquire the accomplishments of humankind.
The jury at first found him guilty of manslaughter; but the crime being deemed murder in the eye of the law, the judge could only receive a verdict of Guilty, or acquittal.
Our fortunes are now made; and, ere youreceive this, we shall be far from hence.
My companions desired me to beg your acceptance of the horses you will receive herewith, as a mark of their most grateful acknowledgments.
The host had already retired, but rose from his bed toreceive me.
We were informed that the Mullah himself had gone to a neighbouring village to decide some dispute, but two of the sons came out to receive us, and led us into a verandah, where we were soon surrounded by the curious of the place.
Perhaps it may not be long before a mission school at Kabul will receive the royal sanction.
It was pitch dark, and it was only with some difficulty that we found our way to the Money School of the Church Missionary Society, where we were to receive hospitality.
Thus most of the Muhammadan boys in our school have already studied the Quran in a mosque, and many continue to receive religious teaching from their Mullah while studying in school.
Unfortunately, he regards it as a heinous sin for any Muhammadan to take service with, or to receive pay from, the British Government.
After each journey I return to my preceptor, and tell him my experiences, receive fresh counsel and instruction from him, and now I am just starting on a fresh journey to Dwarka.
No doubt one reason why Indian Christians are so largely adopting Western dress is that they receive much more courtesy, conspicuously so when travelling on the railway.
This has resulted in a wonderful (wonderful, at any rate, to a missionary from bigoted Bannu) openness to conversation about the Christian Scriptures, and readiness to receive Christian teaching.
Hearing of our arrival, the owner of the guest-house comes to receive us in the Oriental fashion so familiar to readers of the Old Testament.
However, all for a considerable time was quiet, and the ceremony was performed; little Nancy, our niece, handing the bairn upon my arm to receive its name.
Thus you will do the government a great service, and may receive the difference in price between the Bishareen camel and that mean brute you ride now.
The way to receive pay," said I, "is to take this letter to the governor of Hebron, who will then know that a certain man is pretending to be Ali Higg.
Not until the fourth day of my incarceration did I receive a letter from Anna, for Mr. Ulceby's messenger had been delayed by one mishap after another, howbeit they need not be set down here.
On my asking whether the poor fellow would welcome a visitor, she went to inquire, while I took my meal, and came back with the message that he would be very glad to receive me.
We are not likely toreceive amends for our losses, I fear.
Yes, it is specified in the articles; and not only the length of the voyage, but the price they are to receive for their oil when they arrive.
The owner is seen with his horse and the inevitable green box on wheels, waiting on the cliff shore to receive him, and take him to the arms of his family.
The inside of each section or half is built concave to receive the hull of the ship, and to fit round her sides, and under her bilge and floor, as nearly as possible to its general form.
The order was given to haul the mainsail up and square the mainyard, and the good ship, arrested in her course, seemed to sit in state, like a hostess, to receive company.
Being now ready to receive the ship, our anchor is hove up, lines streamed, and she is hauled in between them.
On the twelfth day of the sixth month, 645, the Empress held a Court in the great hall of audience to receive memorials and tribute from the three kingdoms of Korea.
His remains did not receive even the measure of respect that would have been paid to the corpse of the commonest among his subjects.
The annual expenditure and revenue of the State shall, in the form of an annual Budget, receive the consent of the Imperial Diet.
In fact, never did any foreign creed receive a warmer welcome than that accorded to Buddhism by the Japanese after its first struggle for tolerance.
She did not receive the title of Empress, that distinction having been hitherto strictly confined to spouses chosen from a Kwobetsu family, whereas the Fujiwara belonged to the Shimbetsu.
Moreover, from farthest India to the three Han, all have embraced the doctrine, and there is none that does not receive it with reverence wherever it is preached.
Yoshitsune, pleading illness, declined to receive the envoy, and it was determined at Kamakura that extreme measures must be employed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
