All I can do is to approve or reject such doings of yours as you bring me to decide on.

She would take a school some place nearand see what was going to happen; and besidesshe suddenly thought of thisshe must not decide on anything until she saw Mr. Donald, her old teacher, and got his advice.

The hinges turned, and the Bravo stood in presence of those unknown men who were to decide on his fate.

" "I believe you sincerely, but the things you mention are points for Jane to decide on.

" "But how can you expect me to decide on your proposition without first consulting my client?

"Well, shall we decide on it?" asked Betty after a pause.

It was the duty of the judge to preside and regulate proceedings according to law; and it was the duty of the jury, after hearing the evidence and pleadings, to decide on the guilt or innocence of the accused.

Of course, if we could decide which is the gravest crime, then we could also decide on the heaviest sentence and formulate a descending scale which would establish the relative fitting proportions between crime and punishment.

There we will find a sufficient supply to carry us on any other journey we may decide on.

If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each....

' It is difficult to decide on the correct spelling of Roseberry Topping, as it is often spelt in the same way as the earldom, and as frequently in old writings it appears as 'Rosebury.'

I am afraid to decide on either part.

With a view to this I submit the case to the consideration of Congress, who, estimating its importance and reviewing the powers vested in them by the Constitution, combined with the amendment providing that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation, will decide on the course most proper to be pursued.

The policy which induced Congress to decide on and provide for the defense of the coast immediately after the war was founded on the marked events of that interesting epoch.

Cabinet to decide on Reform or no Reform this session.

Examinations of the country are now making, with a view to decide on the most suitable points for the erection of fortresses and other works of defense, the results of which will be presented to you by the Secretary of War at an early day, together with a plan for the effectual protection of the friendly Indians and the permanent defense of the frontier States.

Hesitating but a second, to decide on a course of action, she followed him boldly into the store.

Marble had the watch at four o'clock, and he sent for me, that I might decide on the course to be steered and the sail to be carried.

We shall not decide on the lawfulness or otherwise of any attempt to depict such importations; we can only rest perfectly satisfied that, granting the author's premises, it is impossible to imagine them carried out with more felicitous skill and more exquisite consistency than in the heroine of "Vanity Fair."

During the few moments of suspense that succeeded, Wilder stood silent and composed, a smile of something like scorn struggling about his lip, and maintaining the air rather of one who had power to decide on the fortunes of others, than of a man whose own fate was most probably at that very moment in discussion.

" "We'll have to cast our professional eyes into the garden and decide on the best place for the sweetpeas," said Roger.

After calling her page to survey the spectacle which fully explained and excused her husband's immoderate grief, she sat down by the bed to reflect on the past, and decide on her own future conduct.

"Stop!" said Avonley; "just see that he doesn't escape, while we decide on his punishment.

But the "whirligig of time" brought about even stranger "revenges," when not only Mr. Gorham and Mr. H.B. Wilson in their own defence, but the tribunals which had to decide on their cases, carried the strictness of reading and the latitude of interpretation, quite as far, to say the least, as anything in No. 90.

Evidently, that the confederates meet to-morrow to take their respective shares in the stolen money, and to decide on the safest means of getting the notes changed the day after.