Having heard of the valor and enterprise of the Castilians, this chief desired to enter into treaty and friendship with them; and a principal Indian, a dependent of Careta, having presented himself as the agent in this friendly overture, Vasco Nuñez, anxious to profit by the opportunity of securing such an ally, went with his followers to visit Comogre.

Secret and mysterious overtures had been made to Congress which led it to hope for assistance.

He quotes Germany's threats, but not one word from the peaceful overtures which were so often mentioned.

Duke Waifre was as able in negotiation as in war: at one time he seemed to accept the pacific overtures of Pepin, or, perhaps, himself made similar, without bringing about any result, at another he went to seek and found even in Germany allies who caused Pepin much embarrassment and peril.

OREM, PRESTON WARE, comp. Celebrated light overtures, arr.

From Palmerston's speeches I gather that he adheres to the policy of my first visiting the North, and making amicable overtures; and, secondly, taking Canton, if these overtures fail.

Mr. Farmiloe rather liked the look of him, and once or twice made conversational overtures, but with no encouraging result.

These later killings in the series were not regarded as murders but as diplomatic overtures.

He first sounded Brutus and, finding that he was safe, made direct overtures to him.

"I hope that your Excellency will on my behalf as Viceroy and as representing the King convey to His Majesty's Indian troops my thanks for the contempt with which they have received the disgraceful overtures which I know have been made to them.

Already the hot sun of Catalonia had ripened her charms, and neighboring lords were beginning to make extravagant overtures of marriage.

I have made a handle of Mr. Lovelace's bold attempt and freedom, as I told you I would, to keep him ever since at a distance, that I may have an opportunity to see the success of the application to my uncle, and to be at liberty to embrace any favourable overtures that may arise from it.

Sir, the Mother Country must set the example, while she responds with gratitude and affection to those filial overtures from the outlying members of her family.

The gay overture of "The Eve of the Derby," at a London club, with which the curtain rises, contrasts with the evening amusements of the prolétaire in the gin-palaces of Manchester in a more than operatic effectiveness, and yet falls rather below than rises above the sober truth of present history.

At any rate, the new court at Rome began very soon to make generous overtures to the literary men of the day.

The next day there were more visitors; they all seemed as genuinely glad at her return, and they all made as genuine overtures of friendship.

Although Ormond was a prominent member of the Lancastrian party, he at once made gracious overtures to him.

Voltaire spent a visit of several weeks in Berlin; he was dazzled by the graciousness of his reception and the splendour of his surroundings; and he began to listen to the honeyed overtures of the Prussian Majesty.

Expel, Out of the camp, expel the bargainer Who made this ignominious overture.

If she had learned that he was in the habit of receiving secret information from her slave, there were a thousand ways she might take to avenge herself; a very simple way would be to charge him with improper overtures and have him killed by the praetoriansa way that might particularly interest her, since it would presumably increase her reputation for constancy to Commodus.

Anyhow, England is taking no risks on the strength of these irregular "overtures.

As I speak, I timidly half stretch out the little bunch to him, that he, too, may inhale their odor, but the gesture is so uncertain and faint that he does not perceive itat least, he takes no notice of it, and I am sure that if he had he would; but yet I am so discouraged by the failure of my little overture that I have not resolution enough to tell him that I had gathered them for him.

So that evening, as they sat in the theater listening to the lively overture, even Miss Lydia was minded to relegate their troubles, for the hour, to second place.

O magic overture of Spring, O

The masterful overtures of such a lover as Dunborough, who would take all by storm, are still natural, though they lack respect; a woman would be courted, and sometimes would be courted in the old rough fashion.