"After that there isn't another one stopping there till 4.5." Mrs. Holymead consulted her watch anxiously.

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Bertie was hastily consulted, and Bertie as usual ran true.

I wish to consult her professionally.

She resumed the practice of private prayer; she had masses said, in order to obtain Divine grace to enable her to find favour with her husband and his mother, and to ascertain the Divine will; she consulted her looking-glass very seldom; she regularly studied books of devotion, such as The Initiation of Jesus Christ, and the works of St. Francis de Sales, and read them aloud, so that the servants might profit by them.

There they consulted briefly, from group to group.

But this is not a question of privately consulting one man or the other.

But we cannot refrain expressing our regret, that such formidable weapons in the cause of morality, should be suffered to be wielded by any indifferent or mercenary dealer, who undoubtedly will consult rather the public tastes than the private good: the evil may be remediless, yet we love to express our sentiments, though we should suggest nothing new or even profitable.

I remember gravely consulting you how we were to receive herfor

A merchant's desire is not of glory, but of gain; not of publick wealth, but of private emolument; he is, therefore, rarely to be consulted about war and peace, or any designs of wide extent and distant consequence.

Perhaps the ideal library, after all, is a small one, where the books are carefully selected and thoughtfully arranged in accordance with one central code of taste, and intended to be respectfully consulted at any moment by the master of their destinies.

His prophetic ministry extended over a period of about fifty years, and he was continually consulted by the reigning monarchs.

He has, I am sure, an Italian-English phrase book, which he consults hurriedly in the kitchen, for, whenever he sets a new course before one, he shoots out some carefully prepared and usually quite irrelevant sentence, and watches eagerly to see if one understands.

Quack doctors were secretly consulted, instead of the regular practitioners; the searchers were bribed to silence; and large fees were given to the undertakers and buriers to lay the deaths to the account of some other disorder.

and in a word, what that native idiom is, a coalition with which is to be thus studiously consulted?

I have consulted you frankly and you approved my plans.

He had personally consulted Shenstone, Mason, Whateley and other English authors on subjects of rural taste.

These fair night-wandering ladies, now no longer rivals, became once more true friends; all the unkind words which had passed were forgiven, and they calmly consulted together what was best to be done in their present situation.

General Washington repeatedly consulted the Senate and asked their previous advice upon pending negotiations with foreign powers, and the Senate in every instance responded to his call by giving their advice, to which he always conformed his action.

Mr. Murray invariably consulted Mr. Barrow as to any works on voyages or travels he was required to publish, and found him a faithful adviser.

Wherefore when we ought to share a friend's danger, or that of our country, you must not consult the diviner whether you ought to share it.

But, when it was laid before them, they could not get them to consult upon it regularly; it was received with an uproar on all sides, and by the indignant shouts of the fathers, at the thought that the consuls threw on the senate the odium for that which should have been carried out by consular authority.

The young innocent Creatures who have no Knowledge and Experience of the World, are those whose Safety I would principally consult in this Speculation.

It must always be kept in mind that a State is not justified in looking only to the present, and merely consulting the immediate advantage of the existing generation.

Recovering himself, however, he was soon in a state of mind to consult intelligently and freely.