Others were dined and honoured as notable guests and given unusual opportunities for seeing as much as your officials wanted them to see.

Picture people enjoy praise as much as preachers do. 11.

I will tell it you from the beginning, and then you will know as much as I do; for, as to the end, that is known to no one.

To Gascon or to Breton he was a man of hated race and alien speech, just as much as he was to Scot or Welshman; he seemed a stranger alike to Angevin and Norman, and to Englishmen he came as a ruler with foreign tastes and foreign aims as well as a foreign tongue.

In any ease, a congress must have produced one consequence which she deprecated as much as any other, a waste of time, while, as she truly said, her enemies never wasted a moment.

The pointing I consider a matter to be dealt with as any one pleasesfor the sake of sense, of more sense, of better sense, as much as if the text were a Greek manuscript without any division of words.

The grace and dignity of his life, quite as much as the sincerity of his Apologia, had long since disarmed criticism, and at his death, in 1890, the thought of all England might well be expressed by his own lines in "The Dream of Gerontius": I had a dream.

I give you a thousand thanks for the tea you sent me, but the lively tone of your letter pleased me as much as your present.

As a matter of fact, nobody can help quite as much as you.

And you don't want me to, if I could!" Notwithstanding the playful manner which was part of Nina's self, there were tears of real feeling in her eyes, and I doubt if Simon's were quite dry while he answered "You belong to us just as much as if you were a relation, Nina.

Possibly one thing that hurt Joe as much as anything else was a curious change in Marty Briggs.

One infuriated battery commander said it was as much as he could do to get anyone else on the telephone but himself.

Concini and his wife had alike pledged themselves to M. de Condé that they would support his pretensions with all their influence, and their vanity was consequently enlisted in the cause as much as their interests.

We believe as much as Judge Douglas (perhaps more) in obedience to and respect for the judicial department of government.

"'" "But what did they do it for?" asked Malcolm, who enjoyed the account as much as the others.

The Federal authorities, both military and civil, disliked the intruders as much as they did the Indians, stigmatizing them as "a banditti who were a disgrace to human nature."

I have endeavoured, in the Course of my Papers, to do Justice to the Age, and have taken care as much as possible to keep my self a Neuter between both Sexes.

Just dodge the old man round the sheds, get into conversation with his staff, keep your eyes open generally and you'll pick up as much as you want for half a column.

they may curse an' swear as much as they like, it doesn't hurt me.

"They wanted to know where I had been, and it did not take a minute to tell them what a splendid swimmer you are, and how you came over after me without taking as much as two seconds to think about it.

Did Albert?" "No, you told me as much as that, yourself.

In the South of England I have made as much as £300 a week.

I went one day to see them, and they took a pan of dirt from behind a big rock and washed it out, getting as much as two teacupfuls of nuggets, worth perhaps a thousand dollars.

"Remember, Keith," he said in his ordinary tone, "that you may look as much as you please, but that you must not touch anything.

And Buck Daniels, softening his voice as much as he could, answered.