Always, when I'm up late, I feel as if it were something unlawful, as if affairs were in progress which I had no right to witness, a kind of grand freemasonry.

Sooner or later the whole affair would be public property.

The Trent Affair, 1861.%One of the vessels sent in pursuit of the Sumter was the San Jacinto, commanded by Captain Wilkes.

All the love-affairs of the present generation taken altogether are accordingly the meditatio compositionis generationis futurae, e qua iterum pendent innumerae generationes of mankind.

Though the affair was but a whim of youth, more odious than poetical, it caused some talk, and raised around the extravagant host the haze of a mystery, suggesting fantasies of irreligion and horror.

Nor did the affair remain a secret for more than a moment Midshipmen returning to their own decks stepped to the wall to let the squad pass.

A person gazing in at the window, and unacquainted with the facts, might have guessed that the affair was simply a tea party at which the guests had arrived a little too soon and where no one was startlingly proficient in the art of small-talk.

"And I know I am right about my name." said I. "Still, the whole affair may be a compound of coincidences.

Rodes pressed on, followed by the division in his rear, and the affair became rather a hunt than a battle.

As concrete examples of the evils of secret negotiations the "Fiume Affair" and the "Shantung Settlement" are the best known because of the storm of criticism and protest which they caused.

The affair was, therefore, clearly a violent quarrel, and Selwyn was obliged at last to give up the child.

This threw a damp on the whole concern: the speakers who followed were few, and none of them did their best: the affair was a complete fiasco; and the oratorical celebrities we had counted on went away never to return, giving to me at least a lesson in knowledge of the world.

This was in the year 1634, when John Stevens was nine years of age; but the affair was the talk of the time, and consequently was indelibly stamped on his young mind.

The affair becomes a precedent.

The whole affair was a hopeless muddle.

Being asked how he could justify this anachronism, he extricated himself by observing, that the whole affair was a miracle, and that thus the miracle was made still greater.

"The jolly way she manged that Rollins affair was proof poz of her ability.

Yet, despite this loss, its affairs were so generally successful and the need for the telegraph so real that it continued to thrive until it reached its present remarkable development.

" Lost in smoke, the clerk grumbled that the gory affair was unmentionable nonsense.

Then she explained, in her select slang, that young Horne's love affairs were the great amusement of his fellow-pupils, and that she, being sure that the parasol was no present from me, as Isa had given the cousins to understand, had set Bertie Elwood to extract the truth by teasing his friend.

The affair was a "scandal," and it was not in the Dagonet tradition to acknowledge the existence of scandals.

We are without coveralmost without defencesour vessel is unfit to receive thee, and this affair will be very different from that off Elba.

Austria-Hungary insisted that Balkan affairs are European affairs and that the Treaty of Bucharest should be considered as merely provisional, to be made definitive by the great Powers.

A love affair is emotional insanity.

Their sole love-affair is the fattening process, on the result of which, as with a pig, depends the girl's value and the demand for her.