So, when the good JACK started up the hill, loving GILL generously offered to accompany him.

They had no arms, but they took them down from the temples; men were wanting, but slaves were freed to take the oath of service; the treasury was exhausted, but the senate willingly offered their wealth for the public service, leaving themselves no gold but what was contained in their children's bullæ and in their own belts and rings.

It is all that you can do to drive them into your churches; they do not voluntarily offer themselves.

" And as Denbigh politely offered to meet the challenge, the board was produced, and the parties were seated.

I'm in a RaptureHow shall I pay my Gratitude for this great Negotiation?but as I may, I humbly offer, Sir.

She greeted him with less eagerness, if less patronage, than her other protégé, but graciously offered him tea and permitted a cigarette.

"I know," said he, "that to-morrow some of you will find yourselves, and will eagerly offer your lives for religious callings.

I had some American silver in my pocket, which I repeatedly offered to exchange for cakes, fruits and refreshments, at the numerous stores and stands which I passed, but no one was willing to invest in my stock of change.

It is no new thought with me that mine are strong and willing; I would gladly offer them.

Winthrop, the governor, also exerted himself in the erection of a fortress, to repel the dreaded attacks of the Indians; but he soon perceived that this was a needless precaution, for all the neighboring tribes readily offered their friendship, and even their submission; and, as the strength of the colony daily increased, he found that he had less and less to fear from the Indians.

It is not enough to use the drama as merely offering suggestions for handwork, and one small doll's house does not allow of real play for more than one or two children.

Mr. Osborne formally offered to take the boy, and make him heir to the fortune which he had intended that his father should inherit.

They were loud in their expressions of sympathy for the disappointed picnickers and promptly offered their potatoes as refreshments when they should be done.

As there was little to do on board the vessel afloat, her crew cheerfully offered to assist in this labour.

Several strings of wampum, both white and purple, were silently offered by the Sachem for the horse which he selected as most suitable for his daughter's use, and, after a pause, were as silently rejected by the possessor.

The stranger declined the chair which Oliver courteously offered him, and remained standing near Betty, Moppet clinging to his hand and looking up gratefully into his face while Miss Euphemia related to her nephew the story of Moppet's rescue from her perilous accident of the previous day.

And againBy Christ let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks unto His name.

He did not add that he had personally offered to guarantee the title.

Ah! that we would offer to God more frankly the sacrifice of thanksgiving!

But the conditions of the question were considerably altered when a body of electors sought me out, and spontaneously offered to bring me forward as their candidate.

I was too selfish to offer the half of a short seat, and too tired to reason about the man's being, possibly, more tired than I. "I was invariably offered the seat near the window that I might lean against the side of the car, and one gentleman threw his shawl across my knees to keep me warm (I was suffering with heat at the time!).

There was nothing very compromising in the note, but Mr. Van Torp certainly did not know that his butler regularly offered first and second prizes in the servants' hall, every Saturday night, for the 'best-put-together letters' of the weekto those of his satellites, in other words, who had been most successful in piecing together scraps from the master's wastepaper basket.

He had missed her little timidly offered ministrations, the touch of her fingers upon his shoulder, the whole nameless delicacy which her presence had brought into the cold, magnificent surroundings, which seemed to him now as though they could never be quite the same again.

"I promised my father never to claim it,never to take it unless it were offered to me openly and freely,and I intend to keep my promise.

Consequently when the existence of the Empire was threatened in 1899 by the Boer challenge, I offered my services to it, raised a volunteer ambulance corps and served at several actions that took place for the relief of Ladysmith.