The only man who seemed to be able to look ahead a little and understand what a future there might be for France in Tunis was Gambetta.

'Miss Townsend won't be able to come back any more,' she said steadily. 'Really?

I am very glad to be able to give a reproduction of so interesting a memento.

"You're lucky to be able to get it," said the Father, whether with suspicion or not no man could tell.

And such are the Platonic dogmas concerning ideas, which sophistry and ignorance may indeed oppose, but will never be able to confute.

The French Commission of Enquiry came to the following conclusion on this point: "This allegation is false, and those who put it forward have been powerless to give it the appearance of truth, even though it has been their custom to fire shots in the neighbourhood of dwellings, in order to be able to affirm that they have been attacked by innocent inhabitants, on whose ruin or massacre they had resolved.

If therefore I should be able to show that this maxim would be true, if applied to all the operations and demands of West Indian agriculture, I should be able to establish my proposition on a new ground: for it requires no great acuteness to infer, that, if it be cheaper to employ free men than slaves in the cultivation of our islands, emancipation would be a profitable undertaking there.

If you can imagine what it feels like to spend hour after hour crouching in the heart of a wood in a pitiless drizzle of rain, you will be able to get some idea of what I went through.

They might also, at times, be able to trade for reindeer meat.

Yet I am glad to be able to say, that not all the Roman Catholics here are opposed to me.

If the movements of the Federal forces, however, were so prompt as to defeat his march in that direction, he might still be able to reach Lynchburg, beyond which point the defiles of the Alleghanies promised him protection against the utmost efforts of his enemy.

I hoped to be able to send a letter to Bombay in sixty days.

At first I made light of the matter, thinking I should soon be able to dislodge this new work, and so find a way out.

A few years after the time of which we are speaking, Lord George Germaine thus described the mode of proceeding which had previously prevailed: "The managers of petitions did not ask those on whose support they calculated to attend at the examination of witnesses, but only to let them know where they might be found when the question was going to be put, that they might be able to send them word in time for the division."

" Bud concluded that he might be able to get more definite information out of Telfer if he humored him a bit.

We may not always be able to define the principle, to put it clearly in words; but if we feel that the author has been guided by no principle, that he has proceeded on mere hand-to-mouth caprice, that there is no "inner law of harmony and proportion" in his work, then we instinctively relegate it to a low place in our esteem.

Marcellus said, that "if the Sicilians had already had an audience of the senate, his opinion perhaps might have been different, but as the case now stood, lest any one should be able to say that they were prevented by fear from freely venting their complaints respecting him, to whose power they were presently about to be subject, he was willing, if it made no difference to his colleague, to exchange provinces with him.

I imagine this letter will turn into a sort of diary, as it is difficult to say when I shall be able to get any mail matter off.

By remaining quiet that night the colonel would be able to get back to Thompson City in the morning.

But we'll be able to move it.

And, of course, that's a thing he won't be able to understand, and it's bound to annoy him; and, of course, if he takes a ticket every time it will cost him a lot of money.

I was told that I was an excellent Medium, that, if I cultivated the faculty, would soon myself be able to obtain these slate writings.

I should like to say, I write too well to be able to describe to you my inward state of mind.

B. Be able to answer orally any two of the following: 1.

Their houses, which are common to all, are built in the shape of a bell, firmly constructed of large pieces of timber, and covered over with palm leaves, so strong as to be able to resist winds and storms; some of them so large as to be able to contain six hundred persons.