After being variously amended, the ordinance without this clause was adopted.

He scarcely amended the text at all.

They were as yet incapable of it; but their situation might be gradually amended.

"Or," he amended, deliberately, "you may keep them, burn them, do what you will with themon fair termsmy terms.

Present laws being inadequate to overcome a united opposition, even in a single State, Congress alone has the power to decide whether they can be effectually amended.

This year was the plague of the Black Death, and the following year is the first Statute of Laborers discussed in an earlier chapter and elaborately amended in the following year.

and amend your ways ere it be too late!

"I mean, that's too bad," he amended gracefully.

Angy hastily amended.

All sorts of propositions to amend the Constitution have been made; but I ask that you allow no other amendment to be called the sixteenth but that which shall put into the hands of one-half of the entire people of the nation the right to express their opinions as to how the Constitution shall be amended henceforth.

After being reported to the House and passed, money bills are sent to the Senate, where they are invariably amended by increasing the appropriations and are returned to the House.

Inwardly, however, she amended, "Maybe I shan't!"

that men can never get over that silly spirit of contradictionwhy, but last Thursday, nowthere you wisely amended one of my faults, as you call themyou insisted upon my not going to the masqueradeand pray, what was the consequence?

"Perhaps I should say, the thing which Mademoiselle lentto a friend in England, and Monsieur has now kindly returned," amended the Commissary of Police as politely, as patiently, as ever.

"It hath been justly deemed by our ancestors," said the old man, "that the reverence due to the great men who are worshipped in our temples, by reason of our indebtedness to them for the arts of life, could not but become impaired if their posterity were suffered to eclipse their fame by new discoveries, or presumptuously amend what might appear imperfect in their productions.

This was repeatedly amended and finally repealed in 1870, to continue in force until the year 1872.

He thought of poor old Rip Van Winkle's plaint, "How soon we are forgotten when we are gone!" and sarcastically amended it to "How soon we are forgotten when we are here!"

Dr. Rawley, his chaplain, says,and it is a marvellous illustration of Bacon's diligence and desire for perfection,"I myself have seen, at the least, twelve copies of the 'Instauration,' revised year by year, one after another, and every year altered and amended in the frame thereof.

And so with a libera nos a malo I leave you, promising to amend whatsoever is amiss at his next setting.

No, I wasn't proud, either," Mr. Woods amended, bitterly; "I was simply pig-headed and mulish.

that men can never get over that silly spirit of contradictionwhy, but last Thursday, nowthere you wisely amended one of my faults, as you call themyou insisted upon my not going to the masqueradeand pray, what was the consequence?

Rarely have I known a woman, however rigid her integrity otherwise, who would not brazenly amend or even repeal utterly those decrees of Fate which are symbolized by the game.

I should say," he amended cynically, "will you, when you're in my fix?" "Charles!" exclaimed Matilda.