But while they feasted at Mr. Merrick's expense and gravely canvassed the situation, the newly installed electric lights suddenly failed.

Lincoln canvassed the State.

When the student left school he continued to seek means of persuasion in canvassing votes, pleading in the courts, or deliberating in the senate.

but,' says she, 'I've a better tack for collectin' than most people, and I've concluded to canvass this town myself for donations to this noble and worthy cause; and I've come to you, Miss Bugbee,' says she, 'to lead off with your accustomed liberality.

I have now, I think, pretty well canvassed the subject, and I shall therefore hasten to a conclusion.

Indeed, we canvassed the possibilities of work in other directions, and in the meantime we drew up elaborate arrangements to occupy our time.

I have tried the experiment of canvassing four States prior to Oregon, and in each State with the best canvass that it was possible for us to make we obtained a vote of one-third.

" After properly canvassing the matter, we decided to purchase a ranche, stock it well with cattle, and place it in charge of old Jerry, with Hal and Ned as assistants, and Patsey as "general utility boy.

We were in the thick of canvassing the county for the parliamentary seat in my uncle's interest.

Mirabeau espouses the cause; canvasses the National Assembly.

He embraced the patriotic sentiments of that era with great ardor, and was in the first revolutionary procession that marched through and canvassed the settlement with martial music, and the Committee of Safety at its head, to determine who was Whig or Tory.

During his stay, John Murray, the bookseller in Fleet Street, who has more real knowledge of what concerns his business than any of his brethrenat least, than any of them that I knowcame to canvass a most important plan, of which I am now, in "dern privacie," to give you the outline.

I think Beth knew of Diana Von Taer, for the latter's portrait frequently graced the society columns of the New York press and at times the three nieces, in confidential mood, would canvass Diana and her social exploits as they did the acts of other famous semi-public personages.

While English women take an active part in elections, holding meetings and canvassing their districts, here, even the wives of judges, governors, and senators speak with bated breath of political movements, and seem to feel that a knowledge of laws and constitutions would hopelessly unsex them.

LOWTH and his followers, whose doctrine BROWN canvasses, also, WEBSTER'S, WILSON'S, MURRAY'S Poss. case, its equivalence to of and the objective, not a sameness of case, (in oppos.

Altogether, they were all better provided for than they had feared would be the case; so the little party spent a pleasant evening and separated early, Beth and Louise to go to their rooms and canvass quietly the events of the day, and the boy to take a long stroll through the country lanes to cool his bewildered brain.

This fault is frequently discernible in impulsive people, who notoriously make snap-judgments, which means that they decide before canvassing all the evidence.

"The Antiquity, Evidence, and Certainty of Christianity canvassed, or Dr. Middleton's Examination of the Bishop of London's Discourses on Prophecy.

The former accept surface facts and decide immediately, while the latter refuse to decide until after canvassing many facts.

When the German Emperor and the King of France were, at the same time, canvassing the favor of the cantons and bargaining in competition for troops, so great was the contempt or insolence of the French ambassador at Bern, 1516, that he distributed the royal pensions to the lords by sound of trumpet.

The States-General were to be immediately assembled, and De Guise, once the poetic lover of Marguerite, through his emissaries canvassed all France to ensure the triumph of the party of the church against Henri de Navarre and his queenthe Marguerite whom De Guise once profest to lovewho soon were to come to the throne of France.

When I found myself canvassing a gentleman, I have sometimes felt tempted to ask him if there was any rule against his giving me food and drink; but the matter seemed a delicate one to approach.

All we ask is to be given plenty of time to canvass the honor of the candidates, thoroughly to understand and investigate the platform (with an eye to how near he will come to sticking to his promises after election), and to be allowed to cast a free and untrammelled vote.

Wait until you have canvassed all the ideas that bear importantly upon the case.

He seemed to be canvassing an inadequacy in himself with dissatisfaction.