Would the All-Merciful let him see her once again for a moment in return for an extra thousand years of Hell or whatever it was that unhappy mortals got as a continuation of the joys of this gay world?
He would be very willing to offer his right hand in return for a little water.
One made honourable proposals of marriage to me, quite recently, in return for my catching the runaway hat of her young charge.
As matters stood, I had demanded no return formy time and labour beyond certain author's rights in case of success.
In return for this, we presented each of them with a hatchet and some beads.
In his childish dreams of the future, however various they might be, Father Lasse was always at hand, enjoying a restful old age, in return for all he had done for Pelle.
This fear of becoming indebted to any one, and carefulness to do two services in return for one, is all very nice and profitable in your own world; but it's what you'll be run down by in your relations to us.
Two or three days ago she got up while I was out, and began working in the house--I suppose as a return for my keeping her.
A louse with three tails has escaped, and may be left, in return for a good tip, with the landowner Lasse Karlson, Heath Farm.
I should mention that at the landing-place we met some of the French, missionary's boys, who brought me a present of eggs and fowls and salad from the farm, in return for a dollar which I gave them yesterday to buy cakes withal.
I sometimes think of how I am to return for a change,--by the Pacific, by Siberia.
In return for this I expect that they will, in so far as it is possible for them to do so, carry out my views for the maintenance of the connexion with Great Britain and the advancement of the interests of the province.
Come, come, do not look so astonished, or you will make me think you are laughing at me in return for my good nature.
His life, madame, belongs not to him; it is mine, in return for my having myself saved him from death.
The old party leaders, particularly of Tammany Hall, the Democratic party organization in New York City, offered concessions to labor in return for votes.
Marcella, knowing that the life of Hurd's widow at Mellor was gall and bitterness, had sent for her at the moment that she herself was leaving the hospital, offering her a weekly sum in return for a little cooking and house service.
Will you give me some lunch, Miss Boyce, in return for a message?
He does not think the attack will return for a long while, and he has given me the means of stopping it if it does come back.
Do you know whether the shopkeeper enters the price of the shawls, and the amount of the goods sold to you in return for them, in any book?
I think I have not sent up a return for five or six years, not having anything to send.
Are these marked and sold at the same price as those which you give in return for hosiery?
If a man is lost, his widow, in return for the 3s.
They sometimes bring a few eggs in summer, and they always get goods in return for them.
The kings on their part asserted their jurisdiction over the temporalities, and to safeguard their rights they insisted that the bishop-elect should surrender the papal grant in return for a royal grant.
They were offered certain concessions or "Graces" in return for a subsidy, and to placate the Catholic peers it was said that the fines for non-attendance at church would not be levied, and that they might expect tacit toleration.
Mahamed now disposed of half of his herd of cows, giving them to the chiefs of the villages in return for porters.
In return for my civilities, the king then send one of his chopi officers to see me, who went four stages with Bombay, and he also sent some rich beads which he wished me to look at.
She sent me a goat, a hen, a basket of eggs, and some plantains, in return for which I sent her a wire and some beads.
Whatever I wanted I should have in return for it, as it was evident to him I had really done him a great honour in visiting him.
Equally desperate and futile was the last diplomatic effort of the Confederate agents in Europe, taking the form of an offer to abolish slavery in return for recognition.
Cautiously adverting to his suspicion that Mercier's trip might have had in view French commercial advantage, Lyons asked whether France had received any proposals of benefit in return for recognition.
Great Britain would soon, in return for cotton, give recognition to the South and, if required, armed support.
However, while I pass over what is futile and irrelevant I must point out that the first thing which we have to learn is, what we owe in return for a benefit received.
He had to give services, but in return for them he got something definite in the form of protection and the use of land.
Thus, from primitive times when wandering savages gave bits of flint or copper in return for salt or fish, individuals have sought to adjust their goods to their desires through trade with men of other political groups.
Several large statistical and financial expert agencies[5] in return foran annual subscription, offer advice to investors regarding general market conditions and special securities.
A purple day is dawning for the Fatherland and this is a return for a new departure, O people of Italy!
VI The New France "This is a return for a new departure!
Instead, "This is a return for a new departure, O people of Italy!
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