This is a most serious objection, for the reason that the copy in the tissue was used as record of the invoice for the purpose of posting into the ledger.
Much excellent material dealing with special phases of business activity has been prepared, but this is so scattered that the student desiring to acquire a comprehensive business library has found himself confronted by serious difficulties.
Sometimes I used to sigh for more serious work, for a heavier role, and in that way 'In Mexico' came to pass.
She was almost below the sphere of serious attention.
The serious things of his life are the frivolities of the work-a-day world, and the viewpoint of these work-a-days must be a constant source of perplexity to him.
Although Miss Tempest was engaged chiefly in light opera, during these years she at various times undertook more serious work, frequently singing in oratorio and in the high-class London concerts.
There are already enough serious actors of ordinary calibre, while the genuine burlesquer of Marie Dressler quality is rare indeed.
He feels that Alice Nielsen has hardly been tested as yet, for she has been only two seasons at the head of her own company, and she has not appeared in an opera which is of itself artistically worthy of serious consideration.
Making our way through the low growth and bushes of the valley, we came into a fine open forest, watered by a noisy brook, and after an hour's easy going reached the serious ascent.
In one wretched hut of logs he found a poor woman, with whom, after conversation on serious subjects, he desired to pray.
It never struck Cecco that it might grow into a serious storm.
The serious little companion of the blind man smiled all over her face, and Hede grew much excited.
Hede,' he said, 'I have come to have a serious talk with you.
They were meant for man's leisure, for his playtime; they could not be woven into the serious business of life.
Nada resumed, in her soft, musical voice: "This morning my brother and I had a serious quarrel.
I believe my sister is quite innocent of any serious designs against us, but it is always as well to be on the safe side.
So many go, that one more would not have made a serious addition.
How could a man in his position be of any serious use, a man who had to skulk in obscure corners, lest he drew upon himself the too vigilant attention of the police?
That they expected a serious resistance was apparent, for they not only provided themselves with pistols, but had bribed a party of soldiers to assist them in the enterprise.
After some trifling discharge of gunpowder, which caused no serious loss of life on either side, he deemed it prudent to stand out to sea, and allow the French fleet to retire unmolested.
Rapidly the trees in Cornwall were disappearing, as the produce of tin ore became greater, and the lack of the necessary fuel was becoming a serious impediment.
But his most serious loss was entailed by his building a house for Lord Chancellor Jeffreys, which that judge agreed to take at L300 per annum.
I then dismounted and looked around for my hat; but seeing nothing of it, I turned back, leading the horse, determined to find it if possible; for the loss of a hat was to me of serious consequence.
It is a serious offense," he said; "to strike a minister is a grievous offense, and the Church provides a censure.
This went on for several months, and meantime the Deemster was too deeply immersed in secular affairs to make serious note of the shadow that hung over his house.
There she was at that moment, and from a peculiar delicacy of her health at the time, there was but too much reason to fear that the shock might have serious results.
Bryce and the men who were to assist him looked very serious at this.
One of these is a boy about six years of age--akin in his fragile body and his serious mien--a youngster that is very precious to me.
This curiosity of theirs, however, was attended with very serious effects.
After that feel of the leg where bitten, and ascertain how serious the injury has been.
It is a very serious thing to be awakened so rudely out of a sound sleep, by a bull dog, to find yourself in the watermelon vineyard of a man with whom you are not acquainted.
It is a serious matter, Herman, to prescribe a course of study that will be exactly what you need to bring you out.
No serious accidents have occurred in the starry heavens since I began to observe and study their habits.
This idea has been suggested to me before, but not in such a way as to inaugurate the seriousthought which your letter has stirred up in my seething mass of mind.
The idea of inebriating a man at the box office, so that he will endure such a sham, is certainly worthy of serious consideration.
It is a serious matter, and if we do not want to play the Desdemona act we must take some timely precautions.
A more serious offence against taste was the erection of a fourth bay at the west end, by which the old proportions are lost.
This was a notable work in the days when the water-supply was a very serious problem.
Indeed, the weight of the long neck itself would have been serious had it not been for the fact that the vertebrae in this part of the skeleton, and as far as the region of the tail, have large cavities in the sides of the centra.
This was almost the only serious dispute that had disturbed the even tenor of their married life, and it ended in compromise.
The farmer eyed him curiously, while the crowd, realising that a serious offer had at last been made, held their breath to see what would follow.
He was fond of using long words, and he was always pleased when they made her laugh, though he could not understand why they were laughable; they were quite serious matters with him.
Mr. Hobbs stared wildly at the innocent, seriouslittle face before him.
He says it was one of the most serious times he ever had.
His conversation with Mr. Hobbs was a long and serious one.
Dinner was usually a very serious matter with the Earl--and it was a very serious matter with the cook, if his lordship was not pleased or had an indifferent appetite.
It was rather a slow and serious process, but he gave his whole soul to it.
Newick tells him if he doesn't pay it, he must leave the place; and of course that would be a very serious matter.
He hated America and Americans, but it amused him to see how serious and interested this small patriot was.
Mr. Havisham felt rather at a loss as he looked at his companion's innocent, serious little face.
I beg your pardon," with serious politeness and delicacy, "for contradicting you.
Why, of course," Rex assured her heartily, but over her head he shot Madge a glance which told her that he considered the situation more serious than his words indicated.
I think Enid is making a serious mistake not to tell the police about that note.
Jake was up again in an instant, however, and there might have been a serious fistic encounter had not Allen cried out: "Here, fellows!
It's a kind of scandal in London and it has itsserious effect.
So, you see, there never was anything serious in this either in my mind or in the President's.
MY DEAR HOUSE: A rather serious situation has arisen: The Germans of course thought that they would take Paris.
But this armament flurry is worth serious thought.
England will risk a serious quarrel or even hostilities with us rather than yield.
Sometimes I hear criticisms, now and then more or less serious ones.
The purport was that the activities of certain British commercial interests in Mexico, if not checked, would produce a serious situation between Great Britain and the United States.
This shows that the efforts which the Administration was making were not casual or faint-hearted, but that they represented a most serious determination to bring hostilities to an end.
The British, that is, had met the wishes of the United States in the two great matters that were then making serious trouble--Huerta and Carden.
They forgot him--rather, they never tookserious notice of him.
The last thing that the British Government desired at this time was a serious misunderstanding with the United States, on Mexico or any other matter.
There's one other thing," went on Darrow in a more serious tone of voice.
The fear would bring about a general catastrophe only less serious than the fact itself.
Even Darrow felt, absurdly enough, that it would not be greatly serious to jump off the top of any building into the street.
Internal rebellions of the most seriouscharacter broke out over the whole territory of the Republic.
But it is in the main a delicate and serious love story, with its setting in the green Irish country, among the poetical, unpractical people among whom Mr. Hinkson is so thoroughly at home.
Roubaix offered far moreserious resistance than Lannoy had done.
Will-o'-the-Wisp has to face at a tender age and with no experience the most serious and difficult problems of sex, motherhood and marriage.
No serious evil would, he thought, probably come of it; but still Bunce had been wrong to go.
Now, no doubt, serious trouble was about to commence.
And we must remember that coaches running down hill without drags are apt to come to serious misfortune.
This he said in the most serious tone which he could command.
But it is serious enough to take up every thought.
Boris began to take heart, for half the journey had been accomplished, and if nothing more serious were attempted by the wolves than had been ventured by them up till now, there was no reason to fear any evil consequences.
In January the opportunity arrived, and a serious engagement was fought at Erestfer, Boris being present with his regiment.
Her depredations became so serious at last that it was resolved by the council of the peasants to send into the town a request to Boris to devote his earliest leisure to a personal interview with the widow of his late antagonist.
The rest were pale and determined, for they realized the fact that the tipsy major had plunged them into a serious dilemma.
His own experience of the ferocity and greed of these animals, however, had always led him to laugh at such tales as old women's yarns, unworthy of a moment's serious consideration.
What right had he to take serious action upon so feeble a suspicion?
Neither was there much advantage to either side in 1706, though the Russians were lucky in retiring from the fortress of Grodno, hard pressed by the Swedes, without serious misfortune.
The Tsar was now in a somewhat serious position, for it is never pleasant to be obliged to face a bear with no weapon excepting a knife, and from the insecure position of a pine branch it is even less agreeable than on terra firma.
The provost-marshal, with a gloomy countenance, informed them that the prince took a very serious view of the affair of their cousin.
But another and more serious objection may be urged against the present strictness of scholastic discipline--which is, that it deprives the boy of a sense of free and independent agency.
The Cassidys could very well bear to lose him; but there were many struggling farmers, on whose property serious depredations had been committed, who could not sustain their loss so easily.
