"Your woman will show me where I am to look;" and Madame Victoire, chatting in her half-French and half-English jargon, opened while the Captain examined one drawer after another; but, as Harry Esmond thought, rather carelessly, as if he was only conducting the examination for form's sake.

But, for all that, he spoke only once, for form's sake, and pressed Cimon less than any of his other prosecutors.

J.W.'s farmer was quite ready to talk about the new barn equipment and how it was working, and he had remarkably few complaints, these more for form's sake than anything else.

For form's sake, indeed, he invested Toledo, but he could have entertained no expectation of reducing it; and when he perceived that the Andalusian princes refused to join him, he eagerly left that city, and proceeded to secure far dearer and easier interests: he openly threw off the mask, and commenced his career of spoliation.

For their form's sake somewhat tender, Yet consume them to a cinder; Years of reverence shall not save them From the greedy flames that crave them.

; pro forma [Lat.], for form's sake, by the card. invariably, &c (uniformly) 16.

I put the negative of the question, for form's sake, but there was an unbroken silence.

In 1599 he was elected student of Christ Church, and, for form's sake, was put under the tuition of Dr. John Bancroft, afterwards Bishop of Oxford.

Marcus Marcellus, having entered upon the consulship on the ides of March, assembled the senate on that day merely for form's sake He declared, that "in the absence of his colleague he would not enter into any question relative to the state or the provinces."

Besides, when Monseigneur made his visitation, I did not show myself ... for form's sake, for Monseigneur knew very well that I was there.

If a petition is required, for form's sake, to be referred to the committee to report, shall I ask the favor of you to make such petition in proper form?

Miss Panney had another call to pay in the neighborhood, and she had intended, for form's sake, to spend a little time with Mrs. Bannister; but she did neither.

He hears a lecture now and then for form's sake, though it is rather an unusual thing for him.

And now the spirit's dead and the form's leftand what's so absurd as a form that rattles dead bones?" "Father didn't feel as you do, Wayne.

We ate as leisurely as keen appetites would permit; laughed, chatted, related the events of the morning, conversed of our plans for the day, and indulged our several tastes and humours, like people who had been up and stirring, and not like so many drowsy drones swallowing our food for form's sake.

Wallis did, and Ben Jonson had better done; but, for form's sake, he condescends to bestow upon it ten short lines.

"When she has made her own choice, for form's sake, she sends a congé-d'-élire to her friends.""Let

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which is here inserted for form's sake.

"When she has made her own choice, she sends, for form's sake, a congé-d'élire to her friends.

For form's sake, the Diarist mentions now and again, very superficially, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton; but in reality, the garden of his study is bounded by a thick hedge behind the statue of Dryden.

Emily may have had no more sense of form for form's sake than Charlotte; she may have had no more dramatic instinct; but she had an instinct for the ways of human passion.

When she has made her own Choice, for Form's sake she sends a Congé d'elire to her Friends.

There was nothing left now but to examine the cash-book, for form's sake.

"Married for form's sake," he went on, stammering out fragmentary, incoherent phrases.

But the translations of the Americans were merely for form's sake, as the original Latin, in a copy furnished from a British public office, was laid before the King of the Netherlands; and no fear need have been felt that the umpire would not have been able to judge whether the translations were true or not.