I was not a merchant out of charity, and I had to decline many offers, and so made many foes.

He was immensely popular, quite sought after socially; but he declined half his invitations and lived a rather quiet existence in the small flat, with its Oriental decorations and violent post-impressions and fierce Chinese weapons, high up in Victoria Street.

O'Flynn, will you go?" O'Flynn was in the act of declining the honour.

Being in a fret because you couldn't go also, you haughtily declined the honor, and when I offered a farewell kiss, struck me with this very little hand.

But the young man declined the proposal, because he thought himself unfitted for the sacred calling.

He was several times elected to Parliament, was legal adviser to the Supreme Council of India, was a member of the cabinet, and declined many offices for which other men labor a lifetime.

Graciously declining my services, he betokened his appreciation of my delicate attention by presenting me on the spot with a complete set of his worksAuthor's Edition.

Quiroga hesitated, refused, consented, wavered, and again declined the task.

My good Luke, till he can show us a little better specimen of the kingdom of Heaven organised and realised on earth, in the country which does belong to him, soil and people, body and soul, we must decline his assistance in realising that kingdom in countries which don't belong to him.

He resisted all the entreaties of Kárun, who said to him "O, should thy hoary locks be stained with blood, Thy legions will be overwhelmed with grief, And, in despair, decline the coming battle.

Would it not then be cowardly to decline the contest with him?"

"I am happy to inform you, sir," commenced the ambassador, "that the ball-players have adjourned; and as for Mr. Lather, he declines your proposition.

Mr. Budworth was certainly no stranger to the learning or abilities of Johnson; as he more than once lamented his having been under the necessity of declining the engagement, from an apprehension that the paralytick affection, under which our great Philologist laboured through life, might become the object of imitation or of ridicule, among his pupils.'

" She had declined the chair I offered her, and was standing facing him, her eyes almost on a level with his.

I never did see much in it, so I will decline the nomination.

Walter Scott, to whom the place was offered, as the most popular of living poets, seconded the counsel of Croker, but declined the appointment, as beneath the dignity of the intended founder of a long line of border knights.

I declined any interference with the minister's appointments, assuring her I had no influence whatever, and she took leave of me very icily.

What a gusto in that which follows: "wherein it is profitable that he can orderly decline his noun, and his verb."

Teach your son to honor his pa and ma, and decline the English mission, when it comes his turn.

The purpose of this letter is to request of you (my dear friend) that you will not take it unkind if I decline my proposed visit to Cambridge for the present.

" "Suppose I decline these terms?"

He was now within reach of Richmond himself, who declined not the combat, when Sir William Stanley, breaking in with his troops, surrounded Richard, who, fighting bravely to the last moment, was overwhelmed by numbers, and perished by a fate too mild and honorable for his multiplied and detestable enormities.

I judge the vitality of the intention, and accept or decline the proffered brotherly alliance of mutual support.

But when, having declined this splendid proffer, the authorities pressed the place of "Assistant Secretary of the Treasury" upon their townsman, the whole village awoke to the fact that all its greatness had not gone when Senator Sprague was gathered to his fathers.

Nor did Fulvius decline the challenge; not so much from any hope of success entertained by himself, as drawn by the blind impetuosity of his soldiers.