With their more fortunate and envied sisters in the smart set, an engagement is the loosest kind of a bond, and neither man nor woman is safe from the wooing of other men and women until the marriage vows have been pronounced, and, if your society is very fashionable, not even then.

The engagement may have been a simple protest against breach of the terms of the armistice, but I suspect there was more than that in it.

I will tell you frankly, had I known of them, the engagement never would have been contractedno, not though the inferno had opened beneath me as my only alternativebut honor binds me now.

The engagement with the infantry was particularly dull, a few Romans in the first rank engaging while the Thurians rather waited than helped on the issue.

Engagements with the Spanish troops soon became a matter of daily occurrence, and Martinez Campos realized that a formidable movement was on.

My engagement is a fact.' 'Oh, of course, Mr. Smithson is the winner.

Close-quarter engagements were the rule, dirty fighting in the jungle, ambushes, patrol encounters; and the deadly machine-gun that enfiladed or swept every open space.

A most bloody engagement was the result of this meeting.

" "Not till my engagement is over, aunt," replied Andy, "and then only for a visit, if you wish it.

The engagement being completed, the next event in the drama was preparation for the wedding.

An engagement is a very solemn thing, Del. You promise?" She put out her hand.

My engagement to Miss Bamberger was just a business affair.

He had always understood that the engagement was merely tentative, a sort of family understanding, subject to confirmation after Delamere should have attained his majority, which was still a year off, and when the major should think Clara old enough to marry.

" Her tongue faltered as she tried to say such a secret unsanctioned engagement would be treachery, but he cut off the words.

I imagine the engagement was no surprise to you?" "Of what engagement do you speak?" he said.

Every one spoke to me as though our engagement was a certainty, and our marriage settled.

My engagement was a season of doubt and conflictdoubt as to the wisdom of changing a girlhood of freedom and enjoyment for I knew not what, and conflict because the step I proposed was in opposition to the wishes of all my family.

After the start my first engagement in New York was one long triumph.

The engagements of this day were not an open-field fight, to be sure, but the circumstances were peculiar.

It never occurred to Sir Frederick, however, that the engagement with himself was an act of equal injustice and folly, because it was done with more form and deliberation, which, to the eye of sober reason, would rather make the matter worse.

" "Then," I said, "I suppose your engagement of to-day was a meeting of this society?" "Yes," he answered, "a meeting of the Chamber to which I and the elder members of my household, including my son and his wife, belong.

Your engagement is surely no concern of mine.

"They seem to think professional engagements are the only ones worth keeping.

Such were the data Basil French's inquiry would elicit: her own six engagements and her mother's three nullified marriagesnine nice distinct little horrors in all.