I began by offering him a cigar; but he pulled out his pipe--a great dangling German pipe, with a flexible tube and a painted china bowl like a small coffee-cup.
I had good health, good spirits, and tolerably good looks.
If, however, I could not keep the enemy out so long, then I had another resource.
The rightsof literature, Sir, are the rights of intellect.
You then gravely ask me what rights I imagine literature possesses.
After a little delay, came a letter offering five guineas for full and complete rights in the fortunes of Geoffrey, Mavice, Cyril, Esmee, and Jasper.
Your parrot-like talk of Mr. Curtiss's rights provoked me," and she moved toward the door.
Pemberton, the editor of the third edition of the Principia, from a conjecture thrown out in conversation by Sir Isaac Newton.
In more than one particular, Franklin was lax in France where he was only liberal in America.
While he rarely attended the services at this church, he was one of its mainstays in every pecuniary sense.
For they were composed by men of much greater piety and wisdom, than our common composers of sermons can pretend to be.
As respects observance of the Sabbath, he fully fell in with French usages and was in the habit of setting apart the day as a day for attending the play or opera, entertaining his friends, or amusing himself with chess or cards.
This he was until it became impossible for him to be loyal to both.
It is that particular Wise and Good God, who is the author and owner of our System, that I propose for the object of my praise and adoration.
Howbeit, I conceive that each of these is exceeding wise and good, and very powerful; and that Each has made for himself one glorious Sun, attended with a beautiful and admirable System of Planets.
The movie-rights alone of this are worth a fortune.
Interference with the expenses of the household meant interference with the perquisites or fees of this legislative turnspit, and the rights of sinecures were too sacred to be touched.
Thomas Paine replied to them with an energy, courage, and eloquence worthy of his cause, in the Rights of Man.
It is a trait of serfdom, the keen eye to measure the inherent rights of a man to be master.
Such views of the rights and duties of property as he put forward, of the claims of labor, and of the responsibilities of the aristocracy, had not been often heard at Oxford.
The rebel we can compel to return to his duties; if necessary, we can leave him to get back his rights as he best may.
Rights of citizenship, having been abjured, do not return with the same coercion which demands duties of citizenship.
Then the slaves near our armies will come to us: those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are, and will, where opportunity offers, prepare to take them.
His inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable only so long as he remained obedient and true to the sovereign.
But whatever the rights of the public may be in the matter of seeing, the right of discussing, with the parties at hand, Hazel plainly thought needed a check.
The proclamation of Admiral Sloat on this memorable occasion included these words: "All persons holding title to real estate, or in quiet possession of lands under color of right, shall have those titles and rights guaranteed to them.
He had assured them "of the sincere desire of the Government to secure their rights and promote their interests, and of its intention to do whatever might be found practicable in this direction.
I am Sanford Embury's wife, and as such I have rights that shall not be imposed upon!
Moreover, I have rights as your hostess, and I forbid you to go skylarking about by yourself.
Thus encouraged, the Transvaalers annexed Bechuanaland in 1868, but three years later it was taken away from them under the Keate award, in an arbitration to determine the respective rights of Boer and native over the debateable territory.
They were, however, dissatisfied because the rights of Panda's men were also regarded, and many trekked away across the Drakensberg.
White, Holt strongly upheld the rights of the voter as against the House of Commons.
It was not Wood nor his coins, it was the freedom of the people of Ireland and their just rights and privileges that were being fought for.
Nor were there any who could order the resentment into battalions of fighting men to give point to the demands for equal rights with their English fellow-subjects.
He has nothing to say of the rights and liberties of a people which had thereby been infringed and ignored.
But that prosperity and that contentment had nothing whatever to do with safeguarding Irish institutions, or recognizing the rights of the Irish people.
He lays some blame for the agitation on Wood's indiscretion in flaunting his rights and publicly boasting of what the great minister would do for him.
This one battle remains to be fought, and he will have his rights and we our liberty.
They had treated the people as if they were so many cattle grown troublesome to their masters, and the cattle were human beings with rights as real as their own.
Debts he insisted must be paid, bonds fulfilled, the rights of property respected, no matter what wild hopes imagination might have indulged in.
They moved about in other countries with the rights of legates, at the expense of the province, with their trains of slaves and horses.
The crime alleged against all was the opinion that the people of Rome and Italy had rights which deserved consideration as well as the senators and nobles.
By an edict of his own he restored the children of the victims of Sylla's proscription to their civil rights and their estates, the usurpers being mostly in Pompey's camp.
In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue.
The 10th of queen Anne restored the rights of patronage.
The persons entrusted with the great interests of the state may even without any corrupt views, sometimes imagine it necessary to sacrifice to those interests the rights of a private man.
The registration of mortgages, and in general of all rights upon immoveable property, as it gives great security both to creditors and purchasers, is extremely advantageous to the public.
She was to him at times as attractive as ever--perhaps more so for the reason that her self-imagined rights were being thus roughly infringed upon.
I insist that the street-car companies have some rights; at the same time the people have rights too.
Don't let him evade you or quibble or stand on his rights as a private citizen or a public officer.
He wouldn't know the people's rights from a sawmill.
All this palaver about therights of the people and the duty to the public--rats!
What rights had the rank and file, anyhow, in economic and governmental development?
Already, in spite of her original daring in regard to the opinion of society and the rights of the former Mrs. Cowperwood, she was sensitive on the score of her future and what her past might mean to her.
The masses should be made cognizant of their individual rights and privileges.
Trade being dull, as it usually was during the dinner hour, he had very little work to do after he had cleaned the glasses and set things to rights generally.
The dam and canals or races are constructed, and mill sites, with accompanying rightsto the use of the water, are granted, usually by perpetual leases subject to annual rents.
No wonder we have kerosene accidents, with agents scattered through the country selling county rights and teaching retail dealers how to make these murderous 'non-explosive' oils.
Absalom, too, was for the people's rights against the tyranny of his father and his king; (2 Sam.
Let this deter those that desire unlawful things, the rights of others: for God that is just, will certainly repay such with interest in the end.
Incidentally, this violation of general or public rights but reminds us how human-like are bears in their habits, good and bad.
Send me Dominique, my dear--I'll put myself torights a bit!
I don't give a tinker's damn for men who talk about their rights in such matters.
The inhabitants of the oasis had for centuries been subject to the Pharaohs, and paid them tribute; and among the rights granted to them in return, no Egyptian soldier might cross their border and territory without their permission.
He and his house are the enemies of our rights and of our noble country.
I know him well, and I am sure that though he is cunning indeed, he is full of true veneration, and will righteously establish us in therights which we have inherited.
Papal rights in the disposal of Bishops' sees, the confiscation or sale of church lands, to an amount unsuspected in Protestant countries--these and other convulsions have shaken the Papacy in a memorable degree.
Mind you, I was well within my rights in this matter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: claim; desert; deserving; due; lump; merit; right
