And this invitation, coming; when Jane is practically on her death bed, is a warrant that Beth will get the money.

This invitation was a cataract of lightning leaping down an ink-black sky.

Somehow this invitation to enter was the last thing that Captain Alec had expected.

She began to wonder if the invitation to work in the Educational Department might not be a plan to get her safely out of the way until after the election.

If, on the other hand, this invitation was the result of chance, Fortune had favored Claude de Chauxville beyond his deserts.

Lady Kirkbank felt that this invitation was a turning point, and that if Lesbia went to stay at Rood Hall, her acceptance of Mr. Smithson was a certainty.

"Pray, dismount from your horses, dear guests," said he with a smile, though one could see that the next invitation would be a bullet.

(An invitation to lunch at the manse is an honour not to be trifled with.)

Roberta was quite sure that her invitation and that of Mr Croft was a piece of artful management on the part of the old lady, and imagined, though she was not quite sure about it, that it was intended as a bit of match-making.

The last invitation anybody would accept is "Come, let us weep together."

It seems the invitation of one section was a ruse.

An invitation to dinner being dispatched to him from head-quarters,and such an invitation was no slight compliment in a camp where the rations were so abridged,the orderly to whom it was intrusted for delivery, whether maliciously or not it does not appear, pretended to have mistaken his directions, and proceeded to place him under arrest.