The party outside heard him, as it was intended they should, and they supposed that my mother really had quite a force at her command.

Consequently the parties whose duty it was to make preparations had fled from that respectable county and gone away towards Six Mile Bottom, just in one of the corners of Cambridgeshire, as if the intention was that the dons of the University should have a look in.

The chief defect of the American Presidential election is that as the old single vote method of election is employed it has to be fought on purely party lines.

The reasonable probability was they composed merely a party of innocent fishermen, returning home after a day of sportplantation servants possibly, who having stolen away unobserved, were now endeavoring to beach their stolen boat, and reach quarters without being seen.

He never could have been a strictly party man.

Mamma had gone out to dinner and there were cards for three parties afterward.

At last the moon rose; the whole party, regardless of wet slippers, sauntered with Mr. Raleigh to the shore, where the little Arrow hung balancing on her restraining cord.

To have given them the remotest air of probability, the critics should have proved some acquaintance or connection between the parties respectively, some courtship, or contiguity of residence, which might have brought the young people within the ordinary sphere of attraction.

Here are people here had rather choose Fairfax than Jenkins, and others that prefer Jenkins to Fairfax; but both parties, separately, have wished to me you would have stood, with assurances of having preferred you to either of them.

Jordan went to the desk and gave an order, then returned to his party upstairs.

There was a fine breeze, the boat sailed admirably, the party aboard laughed and talked and sang; their voices made merry music that reached the shore.

poor Lancelot found himself of no party whatsoever.

A distinctively English party grew up, both in Oxford and away from it, strong in eminent names, in proportion as Roman sympathies showed themselves.

And so Elsie, thanks to her grandmamma's tact and tenderness, went to Dolly Blossom's birthday party.

Don't you love the white horse in the haycart, and the jolly party picnicking under the tree?

In the rector's absence it was practically a family party which sat down, with the exception of Ellis, who, as we have seen, would willingly have placed himself in the same category.

Here Wilder discovered precisely the very party to whose conversation he had been a listener the previous day, while caged, with the Rover, in the loft of the ruin.