He said recently when questioned on this subject by a representative of the Evening Post: "I went to France to study the matter, for if it can be made to succeed it will make an immense fortune, as it has already done in Paris.
The plan works well enough in European cities, and there would seem to be no reason why it should not succeed here, save the indisposition of the companies to bear the first cost of making the change.
I'll try my fate as mother did, and perhaps I may succeed as well.
Doctor advises it, and I fancy the experiment may succeed if we can only amuse the dear child, and make her forget herself and her troubles.
He had been appointed Territorial Governor to succeed Governor Shannon.
If we can succeed in making this a free state, a great work will be accomplished for mankind.
He was one of those men, who, wanting a sense of moral beauty, are in every other respect wise in vain, and succeedonly to become despised and unhappy.
When men succeed to this extent in what nature evidently designs them for, great allowance is to be made for their disinclination to other tasks; and Butler had no children to render the neglect of his fortune criminal.
His father was a rough admiral, who could not for the life of him conceive why his son should relapse into a preciseness so unlike the rest of the world, and so unfitted to succeed at court.
Davenant is just now dead, and so, who will succeed him in the mastership of the house is not yet known.
Southern, one of those dramatic writers who, without much genius, succeed in obtaining a considerable name, and justly, by dint of genuine feeling for common nature.
Upon the vacancy in the Cambridge Chair of Modern History which occurred in 1902, Maitland was invited by Mr Balfour to succeed Acton.
Maitland was invited to succeed Lord Acton in the Chair of Modern History at Cambridge.
The foundation was recent, and Maitland was chosen tosucceed S.
Why not bring over Salmond to succeed you at Oxford?
For we always imagine that making children mind is the one thing that other mothers succeed in better than we do.
I know your reason for that, and think you will succeed without any device of love or cunning.
Both together succeed in making good their escape, and they return to Jerusalem.
The literary movement of the first half of the nineteenth century did not succeed in making itself felt among the masses.
You may not succeed very well the first or second time, but now I am quite an artist in larding, as is also my cook, whom I taught, it being so much like sewing.
Apart from this, we shall stand on a different footing in success and in failure, for if we succeed I shall have such honour as you grant me: of the risk and the dangers we shall share the burden equally.
I myself did not succeed to a safe and peaceful throne, and, when once the news of your adoption is spread, I shall cease to be charged with my advanced age, which is now the only fault they find in me.
It is more of an insult than a compliment to be chosen to succeed Vitellius.
The Truffler might succeedand make him mildly rich.
We will see whether I cannot succeed in putting you in the right place.
But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy.
Still he felt that he had broken through all the conditions with which fate had surrounded his existence, and it seemed to him that he could never succeed in recovering the still, narrow, but peaceful life of the past.
If it does not succeedat first, it is certain the second time.
If thou could'st succeed in falling on the rear from the north of Kadesh, while the foot soldiers seize the camp of the Asiatics from the south, the fortress will be thine before night.
All his peace of mind had deserted him, his soul was in a tumult, and he could not succeed in obtaining any calm and clear control over the new life-pulses which were throbbing in his heart.
I brought them up to succeed me, to inherit my labors and my hopes.
When the throne is clear, the weak legs of the Regent may succeed in clambering up to it with the help of the priests.
I am afraid our shipmates will not succeedin reaching it," said Harry, "as they must be far to leeward of us by this time.
Now what more likely than that with the help of the plank, and this island but two miles to leeward, he should succeed in reaching it?
Above him, faintly revealed in the lurid light, he could meanwhile see a larger and stronger branch, which he hoped he might, by a sudden upward stretching of an arm, succeed in grasping.
He is told that he can never succeed in the ministry till he is married.
In the third act Ethelerus holds council with magister Rhynperg as to the means, by which they {270} can best succeed in teasing and provoking the proud Sunneborn.
They succeed and in the fourth act we are in the midst of this town, where we find Fides, who, knowing that her son has turned Anabaptist, though not aware of his being their Prophet, is receiving alms to save his soul by masses.
He would succeed where Alick Corfield had failed, and Leam, who refused her old friend, should gratify her new.
Perhaps then Lieutenant Peyton would succeed to the command?
The officers in command of the caracoas assembled the people and had Raja Bungsu, who was wounded in the fight, elected sultan to succeed Tangah.
We are trying to secure Datu Ache; if we succeed in this, I shall advise you.
All the people of Sulu and its Archipelago shall obey only the King of Spain, Alfonso XII, or whosoever shall succeed him.
Men succeed in their professions quite as much by complaisance and kindliness of manner as by talent.
I did not succeed in giving you faith in me, although I had faith in you.
It was much the same thing as if Bennet had said to Gilbert-- "If you succeed in getting me off from the capital charge, I shall not release Kitty from her engagement, but will marry her after my term of imprisonment has expired.
He knew that Gilbert loved the girl, and there was nothing in all the world he desired more than that Gilbert shouldsucceed in his court to her.
I wondered, too, how Jack would succeed in getting Peterkin out of the cave without my assistance; and I trembled when I thought that he might lose presence of mind, and begin to kick when he was in the tunnel!
We were now forced to take to fishing again in the shallow water until we should succeed in constructing a raft.
I don't see how you can hope to succeedunless you do that.
I feel much pity for poor Avatea; but you are not likely to succeed in saving her, and you may die in the attempt.
This was said with tipsy solemnity; and then Mr. Brook made another effort to shuffle the cards, and stooped a great many times to pick up some of those he had dropped, but seemed never to succeed in picking up all of them.
My first cousin, Sir Reginald Eversleigh, who would succeed to a very handsome income in that event.
I suppose you will want to be paid rather stiffly by and bye, if you do succeed in getting me any portion of Sir Oswald's fortune?
If either of these young men were to die unmarried, his brother would succeed to his estate, worth five thousand a year.
If I die without a direct heir, he will succeed to the baronetcy, and I hope he will try his uttermost to win a fortune by which he may maintain his title.
He still occupied chambers in the Temple; he still called himself a barrister; but he had no longer any desire to succeed at the bar.
I would like to succeed in making you divine this, as you follow out the simple history itself.
A stagnation seemed to succeed to their excitement and energy.
But all the reply he heard was: "Ephraim Hardenburg has been elected chairman of the executive committee of the Great Coal Tar Company, to succeed James H.
I mean I'm going to succeed in my plan of having Hester succeed me!
Burton, frankly explained the state of affairs when he said: "It is high time the Republican party of Kansas quits its foolishness, and if it expects to succeed it must go before the people on strictly political issues.
To succeed beyond the average is to realize a weakness in humanity and then bank on it.
Only a person of infinite patience and persistency can succeed at it.
No man knows what he is doing: we succeed by the right oblique.
We succeed only as our thought is echoed back to us by others who think the same.
