Very naturally our housekeeper's first choice will be some kind of cereal.

Nor will the choicest of my fair-one's favours be long prohibited goods to me!

Works, i. 219) thus writes of his own style:'The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

He once thought of selecting Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; but his final choice was Paradise Lost, which stands first on this special list.

Our poet, something doubtful of his fate, Made choice of me to be his advocate, Relying on my knowledge in the laws; And I as boldly undertook the cause.

This preaching of secession seemed to shallow minds harmless election buncombe; but when the contingency finally arrived, and the choice of Lincoln became a real event, they found themselves already in a measure pledged to resistance.

My, I would hate to cast any reflections on the judges, but their choice certainly was bum.

Beleeve me, gallant Earle, your choice is faire.

It may be said that, in choosing position, he always chose the right and never the wrong one; and the choice of Mine Run now as a defensive line was a proof of this.

" "But should that choice be Giacomo Gradenigo?" "The Senate will not hear of it.

Choice is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case.

But as we no longer live in the days of Günther of Schwarzburg, when the choice of Emperor was a serious business, the imperial crown ought to go alternately to Prussia and to Austria, for the life of the wearer.

His choice, therefore, was in itself a loss of control and a dangerous one, for nothing is more perilous to sanity than the certainty that most other people in the world are wrong.

And though I say it that should not, the choice was not such a bad shot for a stupid instinctive force that has to work and become conscious of itself by means of human brains.

If the stems are not especially worthy of admiration the better choice is an opaque vase of china or pottery.

The choice of the aperient, or the dose, or the exact condition of the health of the infant, or whether it is an aperient at all that is required, are points entirely overlooked: a little medicine is thought necessary, because the child appears unwell, and a purgative, or a little white powder, is forthwith given.

The interreges were, Quintus Fabius Maximus and Marcus Valerius Corvus, who elected consuls Quintus Publilius Philo, and Lucius Papirius Cursor a second time; a choice universally approved, for there were no commanders at that time of higher reputation.

But they said "no," they must be off at once, for the ride was a long one, and Van Bibber looked at his list and saw that his choice was Jack Frost, a very likely winner, indeed; but, nevertheless, he walked out to the enclosure with them and mounted the coach beside the girl on the back seat, with only the two coachmen behind to hear what he chose to say.

The choice of a hat should be the subject of the most earnest thought, even of prayer.

"Lady," he cried, "O dear lady bethink thee, now, bethink thee, thy choice is a perilous choice" "Yet is it my choice, Godric.

"Methinks thy choice was but a sorry one for" BOWMAN (laughing).

Your choice, princess, if it is of your heart and will, must be goodonlyit was unexpected news to me; therefore, perhaps, I received it a little too seriously.

This choice is assuredly a eulogy on his good taste, they are made for each other.

"As the senior here, except Dr. Earle, I naturally thought the choice would be my house.

"A choice made by persons who have no right to choose, is an error of the first concoction."