Every sign was given of disappointment and resentment at such a step being taken, and the 'harangue' of the Chancellor to Sir Edward Goschen, and his astonishment at the value laid by Great Britain upon the 'scrap of paper' of 1839 would seem, when coupled with Herr von Jagow's desperate bid for neutrality at the last moment, to show that the German Government had counted on the neutrality of this country and had been deeply disappointed.

There can be little doubt that, at the death of Nasr-oo-din, the Governor of Ispahán will make a bold bid for the throne; in fact, the latter makes no secret of his intentions.

Is there any othah bid?

And now we see that this proposal, which a few months ago had appeared merely as a despairing bid for popularity by a statesman who had sacrificed every other means of securing his policy, had become a device convincing in its simplicity; at once all possibility of discussion or opposition was prevented; not indeed that there were not many warning voices raised, but as Bismarck, in defending this measure, asked,what was the alternative?

But neither he nor other sufferers had any remedy;stocks were worth only what they would bring; prices must take care of themselves; and the calm, determined bids of Tonsor were like the voice of Fate.

As the negotiations had showed me that the members of the party were not all incorruptible, and as I had learned that Tynan, who was then in New York, and who was supposed to be the famous No. 1, was conversant with all the facts relating to the murder in Phoenix Park, I suggested to my friend the principal detective that I should make Tynan a direct bid for the information we wanted, offering an ample compensation.

You will be sorry to hear that our last summer's siege with dysentery bids fair to be repeated.

When the woods gloom dark and darker, Sedges in the night-wind moan, Then a faint mysterious wailing Bids me weep, still weep alone.

Thus artfully their persons they disguise, Till the last flourish bids the curtain rise.

And the fourth bid them God speed.

And Fergus sent, when the children were ill, and made me a handsome bid for them.

Sweet mouse, the hermit bids you stay here; he'll visit you anon.

What impulse bids you thus elude him?"

She read the ingenuous matrimonial bids.

Better than this is the lot of our restless countrymen, whose modern instinct bids them tend always towards "fresh woods and pastures new."

Mr. Leslie Stephen remarked (1873) that “it may be said, with little exaggeration, that there is not only no article in the creeds which may not be contradicted with impunity, but that there is none which may not be contradicted in a sermon calculated to win the reputation of orthodoxy and be regarded as a judicious bid for a bishopric.

Lanyard bid in two or three sketches, more out of idleness than because he wanted them, and succeeded admirably in seeming ignorant of the existence of the Princess Sofia and the husband whose surface of a blackguard was so harmonious with his reputation.

"We make our little bids for happiness, but it helps one to remember that the issue lies with God.

"Cupid in Lucian bids Venus his mother be of good cheer, for he was now familiar with lions, and oftentimes did get on their backs, hold them by the mane, and ride them about like horses, and they would fawn upon him with their tails."

One might almost believe that the writer of Ivan had felt the incompleteness of Lear, and had seen the absurdity of making a melodramatic bid for sympathy in behalf of this old man thrust out by his daughters.

The Dyaks themselves clearly understand that such attentions are mere bids for favors.

The myrtle bough bids lovers live A sprig of hawthorn has the same meaning as a sprig of myrtle: it gives hope to the loverthe sweet heliotrope tells the depth of his passion,if he would charge his mistress with levity he presents the larkspur,and a leaf of nettle speaks her cruelty.

When the woods gloom dark and darker, Sedges in the night-wind moan, Then a faint mysterious wailing Bids me weep, still weep alone.

Perhaps the Ordinary of Newgate bids as fair for this office as any one.

'[108] Before the news of this had reached Berlin the Imperial Chancellor had made his notorious 'bid for British neutrality' on July 29: 'He said it was clear, so far as he was able to judge the main principle which governed British policy, that Great Britain would never stand by and allow France to be crushed in any conflict there might be.