"I've a desperate instinct to fit all these young fellows up with mates as soon as possible.

The serjeant had the good sense to see that his drill had not yet produced perfection, and he brought his men to a shoulder again, as soon as possible.

"Our work here is finished, and it will be best for us to leave as soon as possible.

It is important that you should learn to write a good commercial hand, and also acquire, as soon as possible, a very thorough knowledge of the French language.

"He thanks you for your pass, which he returns to you, and begs you to join him as soon as possible.

Miss Amesbury, loving friend that she was, realized that it was well both for Agony and for the rest of the girls that she should not be present at that farewell banquet where she was to have been presented with the Buffalo Robe, and had borne her away as soon as possible.

On Saturday of that week the sun shone brightly, and I was up betimes, had an early breakfast, and set to work at my picture as soon as possible.

Longing to go in quest of this gold, I took my leave of Budomel, and repaired to the river Senegal, where I went on board the caravel and got under weigh, as soon as possible.

Upon which the fathers decreed, that Quintus Fulvius Flaccus should enlist five thousand foot and four hundred horse, and take care that the legion thus formed should be transported as soon as possible into Sardinia, and send invested with command whomsoever he thought fit to conduct the business of the war until Mucius had recovered.

The boy, of course, hadn't expected anything but to return to his home as soon as possible, and he was so surprised that he hardly knew what he should reply.

I strained my anxious eyes to catch a glimpse of it as soon as possible, for it is always described as being a second Eden; some go so far as to affirm that our common father, Adam, settled there on his expulsion from Paradise, and, as a proof of this, adduce the fact of many places in the island, such as Adam's Peak, Adam's Bridge, etc., still bearing his name.

He conducted me to a Christian family, and promised to make arrangements for the continuation of my journey as soon as possible.

He should rest as soon as possible.

He was determined as soon as possible to leave that neighborhood, always provided that Nelly would go with him.

I'll get to the office as soon as possible.

The three sailors now at the oars, and the passenger who had taken the place of the fourth, grown reckless by long toil under the momentary expectation of death, and longing to see an end anyhow to this protracted misery, were for pushing the boat on the rocks, because the nearest land, and thus having it all over as soon as possible.

He was anxious to earn a good living as soon as possible, that he might marry Mary Agnew.

On this account alone, I hope your Lordship will, as soon as possible, afford him an opportunity of joining his family in safety.

We learn about Crusoe's island, for instance, gradually just as Crusoe learns of it himself, though the author is careful by taking his narrator up to a high point of vantage the day after his arrival, that we shall learn the essentials of it, as long as verisimilitude is not sacrificed, as soon as possible.

It is a thoroughly contemptible word, of which we should seek to get rid as soon as possible.

" There were four of them; four of them whose military books ordered them to reach the nearest railway station, with two days' rations, as soon as possible after the declaration of mobilization.

" "Then I'd have it over with, as soon as possible," said I.

Colonel S. Overshine having been appointed by proper authority Deputy Provost-Marshal of the districts of the city (including Ermita and Malate) outside of the walled town and south of the Pasig river, will organize and establish his office as soon as possible, and report the location thereof to these Headquarters.

I knew I could do it, and dressed as soon as possible and walked to the Lone Oak, a sergeant escorting.

I thought I knew that, as soon as possible after my majority, Mr. Bainrothe's conditions would be laid before me.