We'll offset any effect there may be from this girl's ravings by sending the Chief out for one speech.

Nor could it be said that he had any important successes to offset this loss.

In the case of the lowest classes of the towns, it is probable that the rise in rents offsets all the advantages of cheapened prices for other commodities.

If he stole our steersand, mind you, I don't say he didthree slices off the breast of a turkey will hardly offset my interest in five tons of beef.

Plays that had won game after game went wrong and youth was not resourceful enough to offset the breaks.

That he had so few lawsuits to meet was only because those to whom he owed money had reasoned that the cost of collection would more than offset the sum gained in the end from this man, who had, they thought, no real property behind him.

The tariff rates were primarily intended to offset these taxes, "to impose an additional duty on imports equal to the tax which had been put on the domestic articles," as was said by the sponsors of the bill.

They serve to offset the lack of proper ventilation, faulty positions at the desks, and the prolonged inaction of the muscles.

The invaders were thus screened from Jack and Dick when they had turned the corner, and the latter were forced to move with painful caution to get the advantage of surprise to offset superior numbers.

This sum, the reserve, is kept invested and accumulating an income, sufficient to offset the increase in losses as years advance.

It hurts, it cripples them, they ride thirty miles to vote against you; it costs you all the extra mileage money to offset their votes.

Even the dreadful accounts they received from Phibbs failed wholly to reassure them, and Louise redoubled her solicitious attentions to her aunt in order to offset the influence Patricia seemed to be gaining over her.

It is another object to point out the services of Caesar to the State, which, however great and honestly to be praised, do not offset crime.

Moreover, to offset the Indian complaints of lands taken from them under fraudulent treaties, the Georgians submitted lists [Footnote: Do., p. 77, October 5, 1789.] of hundreds of whites and blacks killed, wounded, or captured, and of thousands of horses, horned cattle, and hogs butchered or driven off by Indian war parties.

And to offset that remote contingency we shall permanently enslave the powerful John Merrick.

If you have only such advantages, Marquis, if you have no charming accomplishments to offset your crudityI can vouch for their opinionfar from pleasing women, you will seem to them like a critic of whom they will be afraid, and you will place them under so much constraint, that the enjoyment they might have permitted themselves in your society will be banished.

Captain Wiltsey of the Bohio had given orders to run the engine at full speed, hoping by the use of the propeller to offset somewhat the powerful current.

The genuine Creole scarcely knows what it is to be sad for more than a few hours at a time, a very little pleasure more than offsetting a very great deal of trouble and suffering.

It is due partly to observance of proper conditions of impression, and much can be done to overcome or offset innate difficulty of modification by such observance.

It had no effect on the war, for the treaty of peace, although not yet heard of, had been signed weeks before; but it enabled America to close the conflict with a splendid success, which offset the disasters and mistakes of the Northern campaigns.

His negotiation with the King of Holland for the cession of the Duchy of Luxemburg, by which acquisition he hoped to offset the disgrace which his Mexican enterprise had caused, excited the jealousy of Prussia; for by the treaties of 1815 Prussia obtained the right to garrison the fortress,the strongest in Europe next to Gibraltar,and had no idea of permitting it to fall into the hands of France.

But after a short investigation, Patty was as firmly convinced as Marian that its charms could not offset its drawbacks.

Examples are a duty on woolen goods to offset a duty on wool, or a duty on shoes to offset one on hides.

Here and there small Irish chiefs accepted the English rule, offsetting the Norman Irish families who at times were "loyal" and at times "rebel."

This gave him the confidence he needed to offset the fearless questioning in the blue eyes.