The gentleman usherof the black rod--the black rod which he carries being the ensign of his office--is the principal usher of the court and kingdom.
These negotiations can usher in a new era of international trade that not only increases the prosperity of all nations but also strengthens the peace among all nations.
The word Manes, says Usher in his Annals, has the meaning of Paraclete or Comforter or Saviour.
Petavius and Usher fix it on the 25th of December, five years before our era.
Percival was summoned, and told tousher the "colored gentleman" in.
Ben helped to hurl the Don from his stronghold in the Greater Antilles; and then, hiking across half the world, he marched as a corporal-usher up and down the blazing tropic aisles of the open-air college in which the Filipino was schooled.
The usher of the school got preferment, and his successor happened to be well read, both in the dead and living languages.
This was the period at which he once more became an usher of the school where you were educated.
His spiritual flock was right glad that he was gone; and his funeral was only attended by my mother, myself, the lawyer, the master and usher of the grammar school, and a few visiting friends.
Immediately after our father's death, from the recommendation of his own merit and the misfortunes of the family, he was appointed a Latin usher in the same school; in which station he remained five years.
In the course of conversation with the lady, I thought I remarked many strong traits of resemblance between her and my former friend and instructor, the usher of the grammar school, whose name also was Wilmot.
I therefore worked and starved till they were all discharged: after which I returned to the country, and became usher at the school where I first knew you, Mr. Trevor.
I can't bear to think of taking my place as head usher on Sunday, although my pastor tells me to march down the aisle with my head erect.
Cunningham, vestryman and Sunday School teacher and chiefusher in the Jackson Boulevard Christian Church, has come to the conclusion that he is "just an old fool, after all.
On another occasion--the eighteenth experiment--Mr. Usher sought to transmit a crude design of a flower in a pot.
From first to last the latter remained in London, while Mr. Usher was part of the time in Bristol, more than one hundred miles from London, and part of the time in the Austrian city of Prague, a thousand miles away.
Instead Mr. Burt saw and designed a peculiar plume-like ornamentation, which Mr. Usher instantly recognized as a picture of part of the unusual carving on the table at which he had been seated.
Thus, one evening in Prague Mr. Usher tried to make Mr. Burt get the impression of an oblong composed of numerous small dots.
The report of the Burt-Usher experiments appears in the Annales des Sciences Psychiques, January and February, 1910.
His Majesty hears," he lowed in the correct "palace accent": and the usher bowed and retired.
And so the announcement made by the Comptroller was merely preliminary to another and more flourishing announcement by an usher of the Court.
Lee was attached to the Parliamentary staff as Usher of the Black Rod.
A woman fainting in the theater is sure to bring bad luck to the usher in whose section she is seated.
An usher feels sure that if he makes a mistake in seating the first person in his section, it is sure to be quickly followed by two more.
No earthly friend could go with me 'through the valley and shadow of death,' but Christ can go with me, and open wide the gates of heaven, and usher my willing spirit into the presence of the happy throng that worship before the throne of God.
Scott had spoken and was trying to speak again in defiance of rule, with Hasilrig backing him, when "Mr. Speaker informed the House that the Usher of the Black Rod was at the door with a message from his Highness.
Ex-Primate Usher had lived in London through the Commonwealth and the Protectorate with the highest honour, pensioned at the rate of £400 a year, and holding also the preachership to the Society of Lincoln's Inn.
To Richard Scutt, Usher of the Council Chamber:--For himself and his assistants at 13s.
Mr. Richard Baxter had the honour of being one, having been asked to undertake the duty by Lord Breghill, when the venerable ex-Primate Usher had declined it; and it is from Baxter that we have the fullest account of the proceedings.
This being yielded to and a supper provided, Thomas Usher and others were invited to make up the feast, and unto whom Sir James told what had happened.
Usher jeeringly, "it is no such great dishonour for to be foiled by an English gentleman since Caesar the Great was himself driven back by their extraordinary courage.
The usher hastened on his errand, but was only just in time, for the tailor was positively swinging in the air, when his voice fell upon the silence of the crowd, commanding the hangman to cut down the body.
The chief usher assured him that he was heartily welcome, and that the Sultan would receive him with pleasure; and in case of success, he would gain a magnificent reward.
And as he is in this town, let an ushergo with you at once in search of him.
The Sultan of Kashgar no sooner heard these words than he ordered an usher to go to the chief of police and to bring all the persons concerned in the hunchback's death, together with the corpse, that he wished to see once again.
The usher and the tailor soon returned, bringing with them an old man who must have been at least ninety years of age.
For this a year was allowed me, and in order that it might be accomplished without expense, I undertook the duties of a classicalusher to a school then kept by William Drury at Brussels.
Then the usher got the other couple's coupons and they were the same number as ours.
My friend thought the usher had made a mistake, and there was a mix-up for a while.
Mr. Gifford was originally bred to some handicraft: he afterwards contrived to learn Latin, and was for some time anusher in a school, till he became a tutor in a nobleman's family.
This done he struck a small silver bell, and, in answer to the summons, the usher immediately appeared.
Here they remained for a few minutes, when a side door opened and an usher in plain attire came in, and addressing the two young ladies, begged them to follow him.
Having received his instructions, which were delivered in a low tone, the usher bowed profoundly, and quitted the cabinet.
When the church is held in another room, an older child or person can receive the attendants and usher them to seats.
One of the children can act as usher, and if there is but one child, this one can usher her dolls to seats; or imaginary people may be shown to seats.
A table or a basket or an usher may be placed at the door for this purpose.
At the opening the superintendent is merely a master of ceremonies to usher in the work as buoyantly as possible; at the close he is a teacher, the high priest of all the teachers.
If a boy is especially mischievous and restless, make him an usher and set him to keeping the rest in order.
A single usher guarded his door, and in the first ante-chamber there were only a couple of messengers.
But the usher drew near and repeated that the Minister was now waiting for the Baron; and Fonsegue went to sit down beside Abbe Froment, whom he also was astonished to find there.
And he was still laboriously trying to devise some scheme, when the usher entered saying that Monsieur Gascogne, the Chief of the Detective Police, particularly wished to speak to him.
Then he was about to dismiss him when the usher came back saying that the President of the Council was in the ante-room.
When the usherhad admitted Fonsegue the reconciliation took place in the simplest fashion.
Just then the usher appeared, and hastened up to the banker.
Tregars guided Maxence through the labyrinth of corridors of the building, until he came to a long gallery, at the entrance of which an usher was seated reading a newspaper.
