But she found him too deeply engrossed in what to him was the most momentous event of his career, impatiently awaiting the day, rather dreading the publicity of it.

He was in great pain, and expressed much anxiety for the event of the action, which now began to declare itself.

The most remarkable point about this description is the air of reality which Defoe gives to his account of an event which took place nearly twenty years before his birth.

Where is the clergyman?" Butler, who, in great terror and anxiety, had been detained within a few yards of the Tolbooth door, to wait the event of the search after Porteous, was now brought forward, and commanded to walk by the prisoner's side, and to prepare him for immediate death.

All the encumbrances being shipped on the morning of the 16th, it was intended to embark the fighting men in the coming night, and this difficult operation would probably have been happily effected; but a glorious event was destined to give a more graceful, though melancholy, termination to the campaign.

After this sad event Poe wrote a poem which is a sort of requiem for her death.

A strong party declared that the amendment had not been carried; and in any event could not be construed to apply to the present incumbent.

One specially fortuitous event has stamped the Birmingham "music meeting" with a glory and prestige all its own.

The profit of the operation may be sure or doubtful; the outlay is certain, and to be deducted in any event.

Recovery had become the rule, and death a remarkable event.

It was, moreover, they were certain, in some minds only a pretext for delay, as the event proved.

Could such an event as the release from slavery of eight hundred thousand negroes in the British Colonies pass by unnoticed?

Observe the war, in every annual course; 150 What has been done, was done with British force: Namur subdued,[30] is England's palm alone; The rest besieged, but we constrain'd the town; We saw the event that follow'd our success; France, though pretending arms, pursued the peace; Obliged, by one sole treaty, to restore What twenty years of war had won before.

" So Joseph, yet a youth, expounded well The boding dream, and did the event foretell; Judged by the past, and drew the Parallel.

"The event of Maria's loving her brother.

"The event of the persons' going."Ib., p.

"The Imperfect (or Past) tense represents an action or event indefinitely as past; as, Cæsar came, and saw, and conquered; or it represents the action definitely as unfinished and continuing at a certain time, now entirely past; as, My father was coming home when I met him.

I remember that Wednesday was always a great event in my life, as a child.

In order to perpetuate this event, Santa Barbara was depicted on the canvas as a lady dressed in a full skirt and slashed sleeves, and at her feet was the basilisa in the dress of a Valencian peasant arrayed in great jewels.

In any event, be persevering.

The consequence of this event was, that when the news spread that Christians had landed in Cuba, the Comendador's neighbours, who were his bitter enemies, and had often made war upon him, sent to Enciso asking for priests to baptise them.

It may have been brought by the giver from some far or famous place; it may be unique in its workmanship; it may be valuable only from association with some great man or strange event.

Visits of condolence are paid within the week after the event which occasions them.

Once accepted, nothing but an event of the last importance should cause you to fail in your engagement.

It may have been brought by the giver from some far or famous place; it may be unique in its workmanship; it may be valuable only from association with some great man or strange event.