Set down Mercer, and I to my chamber, and there read a great deal in Rycaut's Turkey book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed.
By and by by coach, set down Mr. Holliard near his house at Hatton Garden and myself to Lord Treasurer's, and sent my wife to the New Exchange.
Home and to my chamber to set down my journal, and then to thinking upon establishing my vows against the next year, and so to supper and to bed.
Several grinned at Billy Harden as he set down, and three or four laughed outright.
I set down in a lumber yard near the railroad track, and when she started up agin I grabbed onto the iron ladder and swung myself aboard.
Which they was orderly enough before that, but they all took off their hats when he rapped, like in a court room or a church, and most of 'em set down.
I think these cads want to be set down,’ returned the attorney’s clerk, chuckling at his sally.
So to my office to set down my journal, and so home and to bed.
We then are by him already in heaven; in heaven, I say, by him; yea, set down there in our places of glory by him.
Those holy or unholy suggestions suddenly injected, would by the world be set down as the hallucinations of a distempered imagination.
Of which Orus Apollon hath in Greek composed two books, and Polyphilus, in his Dream of Love, set down more.
I will not fail to set down in a journal a full account of our navigation, that at our return you may have an exact relation of the whole.
Slight indications, very easily verified, are all that may be set down here; a formal and detailed proof would be altogether too dangerous.
Nor is this all; for the inconvenience of the contrary is set down in gloss.
I therefore say my say, set down my thought, print my line, and do not heed the suspicion that I may not be as original as I supposed, in the passage I have been writing.
Well, she asked me to set down, and then she begun.
If he is classified in the Linnaean scale, he must beset down thus: Genus Homo; Species Rotifer infusorius, the wheel-animal of infusions.
He pleased himself with the idea that he knew a man of mark at sight, and he set down Clement in that category at his first glance.
I’ll set down no such slander against an orthodox divine.
The name should he set down right, for an Indian’s name has always some meaning in it.
For my part I cannot attempt to explain these occurrences; I only know that they happened and that I set downwhat I saw, heard and felt, neither more nor less.
He had no faith in my alleged interviews with Oro, which he set down to delusions of a semi-mesmeric character.
If you wish," said I, persuasively, "I will give you the manuscript where all that I have said is set down plainly.
We then joined the company which consisted of a dozen or so of their friends, but the only person who attracted my attention was a very young man, whom I set down at once as in love with Agatha.
A Spanish doctor is almost as badly off; if his patient recovers, the cure is set down to the credit of one saint or another; but if he dies, the physician is blamed for his unskilful treatment.
After this digression (it may be too long, but that is my business and none other's), I must confess that never have I had so unpleasant a truth to set down as that which I am going to relate.
He set down to that meal with a face on him like a pair of nutcrackers, and afore 'twas over he was laughing and eating apple pie and telling funny yarns about robbing his "friends" in the Street.
Two or three times we got up to have it out, but 'twas too hot to fight, so we set down again.
We walked up on Archie like he'd set down to rest, and passed him afore he was within a half mile of home.
But 'twas too hot to sleep much, and I got up about three o'clock in the morning and went out and set down on the beach in the moonlight.
If I go, I shall be set down as a spooney abolitionist; if I don't go, I shall be set down as an overseer or nigger driver, and not a clockmaker.
This instinct, at least, may be set down as a racial inheritance.
In the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, as told in what is set down in history as the first opera, music and love were mated; and they have not yet been divorced, though both have undergone many and great changes of character.
But under such a classification Wagner's comic opera would also have to be set down as a novelty.
In the sometimes faulty and incomplete records of the American stage to which writers on musical history have hitherto been forced to repair, 1750 is set down as the natal year for English ballad opera in America.
Those actions, therefore, which have regard solely to the good of the agent I set down to courage, those which aim at the good of others I set down to highmindedness.
Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use.
He smiled sadly at the idea that his holding aloof from this advertising custom might be set downto his ambition of being a "swell doctor.
Webber was openly envious of Dresser's prosperity, which he set down to the account of a superior education that had been denied him.
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