258 examples of option in sentences

If the Bassett, in the belief that the Wooster heart had long been hers and was waiting ready to be scooped in on demand, had decided to take up her option, I should, as a man of honour and sensibility, have no choice but to come across and kick in.

I always retain an option on eating the crop fresh.

The apprenticeship was to be for four or seven years, at the option of Charles Hunter.

It is peace that we have uniformly and perseveringly cultivated, and harmony between us and France may be restored at her option.

But how much that condition was to be wished for, they had been taught by the Hernicians; who, when they had the option, preferred their own laws to the freedom of the Roman state.

" However, that may be, we at least at Westminster here have no choice and no option.

Jadwin sold out in September, having made a fortune, and then, in a single vast clutch, bought 3,000,000 bushels of the December option.

In the other slave states the amount of food for the slaves is left to the option of the master.

In the other slave states the amount of food for the slaves is left to the option of the master.

It is manifest that visitors can see only the least repulsive parts of slavery, inasmuch as it is wholly at the option of the master, what parts to show them; as a matter of necessity, he can see only the outsideand that, like the outside of doorknobs and andirons is furbished up to be looked at.

It was provided that the legislature should enact a general law for the political organization of townships, under which any county might act whenever a majority of its voters should so determine.[10] This was introducing the principle of local option, and in accordance therewith township governments with town-meetings were at once introduced in the northern counties of the state, while the southern counties kept on in the old way.

It is very significant that in Missouri, which began so lately as 1879 to erect township governments under a local option law similar to that of Illinois, the process has already extended over about one sixth part of the state; and in Nebraska, where the same process began in 1883, it has covered nearly one third of the organized counties of the state.

[Sidenote: County option and township option.]

[Sidenote: County option and township option.]

The principle of local option as to government has been carried still farther in Minnesota and Dakota.

The method just described may be called county option; the question is decided by a majority vote of the people of the county.

Show how the principle of local option in government has been applied in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota.

They say of him: whichever option is uppermost, that is always his opinion.

It was at their option to accept or decline his invitation to share with him in the dangers, and, as he trusted, in the glory that would attend the undertaking.

Murder: A life for a life, or a heavy payment by the murderer or his relatives at the option of the murdered man's relatives.

I had no option, I must obey.

He wanted particularly to see it as Chase saw it, that upon mention of the fact that Max had already been interviewed by a prospective buyer, he had, in spite of his effort to appear indifferent, really shown such eagerness to be given an option upon the place.

It is at your option to notice him.

It is, at all events, more polite on your part to give him the option, and perhaps more pleasant.

Don't frighten him too much; leave him the option to come or stay.

258 examples of  option  in sentences