He meant, he assured her, that she should have her annual spring visit to Parisbut he stared in dismay at her suggestion that they should take possession of the coveted premier of the Hotel de Chelles.

Had the aged premier been content to steer his ship of State in placid waters, nothing would have been wanting to gratify moderate desires.

We have, as so often happens in the lives of distinguished premiers, three courses before us: (1) to charge the present value for each kind of wine; (2) to put on a certain percentage to the original value of each kind; (3) to make a compromise between these two courses.

Fitzgerald first premier, 253. Fitzroy, Governor, 204, 206-209.

And it was thus in the eastern part of Turkestan, four hundred kilometres from the Pamir plateau, at dessert after our excellent dinner served in a saloon of the Grand Transasiatic, that the Obsession was given with remarkable talent by Monsieur Caterna, grand premier comique, engaged at Shanghai theater for the approaching season.

This fact, together with a number of others, make clear that while the gonads may be the jeune premier of the drama, the vitality of the plot depends upon the other endocrines.

In this, however, he failed, and had to persevere for many years more in the ill-paid drudgery of authorshipmeditating a translation of "Father Paul's History," which was never executedwriting in the Gentleman's Magazine lives of Böerhaave and Father Paul, &c., &c., &c.and published separately "Marmor Norfolciense," a disguised invective against Sir Robert Walpole, the obnoxious premier of the day.

It was pretty well understood that the outgoing premier had made his selection, and that, if the question rested with him, the mitre would descend on the head of Archdeacon Grantly, the old bishop's son, who had long managed the affairs of the diocese.

The American Government had no actual premier except the President, and it seemed out of the question for him to attend an annual meeting of the proposed council.

The rest of the fine old mouldering housethe tall-windowed premier on the garden, and the whole of the floor abovehad been let for years to old fashioned tenants who would have been more surprised than their landlord had he suddenly proposed to dispossess them.