Thou knowest our York saying, that 'first offers are the best.'" "He that likes may purchase, and he that prefers his gold to fine laces, rich silks, and stiff brocades, has only to sleep with his money-bags under his pillow.

"Your present offer is a favour which I would accept from you, if I accepted such from any man ...

The offer itself is an additional proof of the high estimation in which he stood at this time.

Lamb's salary at the time of his retirement was nearly seven hundred pounds a year, and the offer made to him was a pension of four hundred and fifty, with a deduction of nine pounds a year for his sister, should she survive him.

If the sum is small or if the owner is at all uncertain as to his plans or if he is not in a position to find another attractive form of investment, the offer by the bank of a small rate of interest on special time deposits (2 to 3 per cent is not an unusual rate in such cases) will suffice to cause him to leave such funds in the bank.

Should I elect to remain where I was, till the grave there was nothing before me but the life I was leading now: my only chance of getting above it was by marriage, and Harold Beecham's offer was the one chance of a lifetime.

An offer, by the defendant, to marry the woman, will not be a bar to a prosecution for seduction, as nothing but actual marriage will constitute such bar.

Hawkins is startled at this insolence, and at Johnson's uniform assertion that an offer of money was an insult.

England's own offer, brought by the Hanoverian courier, was a great surprise to mehe!

The German offer for a solution of the problem of world-government is German sentiments, German racial pride, German manners and customs, an immense increase of German territory and German influence, and above all an acknowledged supremacy for the German race among the nations of the world.

MY CLUBBING OFFERS This is the TWENTIETH YEAR that I have been in the subscription business, and in this Catalogue No. 39, I am giving the best bargains in periodical literature that have ever been placed before the public.

Obviously, the offers are NO LONGER AVAILABLE and most of these periodicals are no longer published!

The last offer was six wigwams full of dead enemies for the so much coveted strap.

Mr. Russell's offer of twenty-five dollars a month was a temptation which I could not resist.

My offer's a second-class berth.

"My opinion is that his preposterous offer is mere bluff.

Thus, in the centre of Western New York, he found his Academy, his Royal College, his Gallery and life-school, in one adequate effort of Stuart's masterly hand; the offering of gratitude became the model and the impulse whereby a farmer's son on the banks of the Mohawk rose to the highest skill and eminence.

" As the sum given by each was often noted down in "quarter books" or "Easter books," and was, on denial, occasionally sued for before the official (together with dues for other purposesclerk's wages, pew rents, etc., presently to be noticed), an "offering" might become virtually an assessment or rate.

But the peace-offering was a waste of patience and good-will.

When the offerings and the tributes to religion are the support of the industrious poor, it is their best appropriation; and he who gives labour for a day, is a more useful benefactor than he who maintains in idleness for two.

To the King, his offering was two large bowls and vases of crystal so exquisitely worked as to be considered unrivalled; while he tendered to Madame de Verneuil, who did the honours of the royal circle, and whom he was anxious to attach to his interests, a valuable collection of diamonds and other precious stones.

This goddess had a temple at Rome, and her offerings were milk.

He met the fury of the tempest, and the floods went over His head; but His offering was an offering of peace, calming the storms and the waves, magnifying the law, glorifying its Author, and rescuing its violator from the wrath and ruin.

Her offering of friendship had been a blind.

Revenge, I'll build a temple to your name; And the first offering shall be Gloster's head, Thy altars shall be sprinkled with the blood, Whose wanton current his mad humour fed; He was a rhymer and a riddler, A scoffer at my mother, prais'd my father: I'll fit him now for allescape and all. RICH.