After conferring with him upon the chaos of the times, they decided to issue a call for a general conference of the representatives of the States to be held on September 11, 1786, at Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss how far the States themselves could agree on common regulations of commerce.

When they could not agree on a peace, they gave the signal for battle.

But they were deplorably led, they could agree on no policy, and their warmest supporters in the Press and in the country were the first to admit that the formation of an alternative Conservative Administration was unthinkable.

As the advocates of the plan, however, comprise two classes of persons, with views not only distinct but contradictory, it is difficult to foresee how they are to agree on details, when it assumes a practical shape.

Neither must they be boys to be instructed, but fellow-teachers with whom I may, wrangle and agree on equal terms.

On the fame of this wealth, the viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoça, and Cortes, determined to send a force to take possession of the country; but, as they could not agree on this subject, Cortes and his wife went over to Spain in 1540, where he died seven years afterwards.

But they did agree on one thing, and that was that when he caught a very wicked man, which he did sometimes, or very bad boys, which he often did, he just threw him into one of his big ears and held him there.

I think Miss Gordon is an excellent young lady, but she and I wouldn't agree on the temperance question.

"Yes, but as we could not agree on the total abstinence question, we parted company.

In connection with the two churches which adjoin each other so closely, tradition tells the well-known story of the two quarrelsome sisters who could not agree on the building of a church and therefore each built one.

Why, they can't even seem to agree on that!

If we do not agree on this middle and moderate ground, he was afraid we should lose two States, with such others as may be disposed to stand aloof; should fly into a variety of shapes and directions, and most probably into several confederations,and not without bloodshed.

" If all the accounts of contemporary historians did not agree on the subject we could hardly believe that one hero could keep back two hundred men at the narrow entrance of the bridge for close upon half an hour.

Therefore, it should be they; thus, "The jury will be confined till they agree on a verdict.

You never saw two of 'em yet that could agree on anything for ten minutesexcept that they want something for nothing.

It would be more difficult to induce a committee of politicians to agree on the plotting of curves, representing the social advantage to be obtained by the successive increments of satisfaction in an urban industrial population of those needs which are indicated by the terms Socialism and Individualism.

Björnson and Ibsen, as we know, did not agree on a number of things.

The Republicans had only a slender minority in the Senate, and a plurality in the House; they could do nothing but resolve on a course of parliamentary inquiry, and agree on an attitude of defense.

We'll agree on the time of day and the signals to-morrow.

And the worst is, there is no question ever rises that we do not agree on, or that would have power to make us fall out in earnest.

The jury could not agree on the first trial, and she remained in jail two years, awaiting a decision of her case.

The French missionaries who lived many years with the Caribs of Guadeloupe and the other French possessions, do not agree on the subject of their origin.

And the moment this is brought about on both sides of the water, the business is finished; you would only have to agree on fair and equal terms of peace.

CAUCUS, a preliminary private meeting to arrange and agree on some measure or course to propose at a general meeting of a political party.

We cannot agree on the one; on the other we may, and good men do."