These are then informally discriminated or else (in a few instances) questions are asked about them.

The Commodore said he had no objections to the discussion of the matters informally; but he protested against considering the interpreters as the official representatives of the commissioners, with the latter of whom only, he declared, could he treat authoritatively.

It made a queer relation for her; a relation that struck her at this moment as less edifying, less natural and graceful than it would have been even for her remarkable motherand still in spite of this parent's third marriage, her union with Mr. Connery, from whom she was informally separated.

That she couldn't afford it where she had got tocouldn't afford the deplorable vulgarity of having been so many times informally affianced and contracted (putting it only at that, at its being by the new lights and fashions so unpardonably vulgar): he took this from her without turning, as she might have said, a hair; except just to indicate, with his new superiority, that he felt the distinguished appeal and notably the pathos of it.

Couldn't you," he wound upfor they were now near their gate, where she was to leave him"couldn't you just simply make us meet him, at tea say, informally; just us alone, as pleasant old friends of whom you'd have so naturally and frankly spoken to him: and then see what we'd make of that?" It was all in his expression; he couldn't keep it out of that, and his shining good looks couldn't: ah, he was so fatally much too handsome for her!

"Then, before tea, others dropped in from the neighborhood, and the tea was served in the drawing-room, handed round informally.

The Grand Secretary, while I was in the post-office, invited me quite informally to participate in the opening exercises, and to assist at the banquet, the benediction, so to speak, of the secret rites.

That is why we did not inform you formally or informally.

My dear, would you care to come to-morrow quite informally, and take a simple snail with us?

On the heels of this a biplane from another aviation field somewhere down the left wing dropped in quite informally bearing two grease- stained men to pass the time of day and borrow some gasoline.

She apologized for presenting herself so informally: said she had come, "de la parte de maman," to ask me what I proposed to do.

It was thought, however, to be in keeping with the rule adopted to ascertain informally from the Miamies what they would be willing to take for their lands when it was their pleasure to emigrate, etc.

She ushered him ostentatiously into the parlor and drew up a chair close to his "Mr. Carrollit's just simply scrumptuous of you to call on me informally like this.

As dinner-giving put the heaviest strain on their budget, all hospitality was suspended; and when Undine attempted to invite a few friends informally she was warned that she could not do so without causing the gravest offense to the many others genealogically entitled to the same attention.

It was informally offered to Cairns through one of the councillors, but again he sent a declinature, and again he kept the matter carefully concealed.

Many persons spend the entire day out, preferring to eat their déjeuner "informally," perched above some safe precipice, or on a glacier-bordered rock or in the shade of the cool woods, but there are always some who linger both morning and afternoon on the terrace with its far expanse of view, with the bright sunshine streaming down upon them.

announced Blue informally from the door of the dining-room.

Gentlemen of the Senate: Conceiving that in the possible event of a refusal of justice on the part of Great Britain we should stand less committed should it be made to a private rather than to a public person, I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informally into the conferences before mentioned.

The exchange of a diplomatic character had been informally, but repeatedly, suggested on their part.

"You know you did drop in rather informally.

The Countess packed me into her carriage and drove over to the hotel where the prince was staying informally, giving me minute instructions all the way over as to my conduct while there.

When coffee was served informally things were not so awkward.

There are no civil authorities to make out a death certificate if one had the bad taste to dieand one can't die informally in France.

And so the good-natured athlete went over with it all, with a huge relish for the smallest detail, and others came in, until nearly all the male patrons of the school had assembled; and Bart informally, but with hearty unanimity, was declared the greatest school-master of his day; they quoted all the similar instances within the range of memory or legend, and this achievement was pronounced the greatest.

The class was probably informally organized by Brother Thomas McElhenny, the first Leader, in 1839.