These told him that he was mightily overseen, both when he went into Kent and when he went into Scotlandthe one being a place so near London and under the King's nose; and the other a nation so distasted with the people of England, that if they had loved him ever so well, yet they could never have taken his part in that company.

He himself oversaw and arranged these details and all other matters in Italy and in Gaul (where there was a slight uprising).

Solomon had seventy thousand men that did nothing but bear stone and mortar and other things to the edifying of the temple, and were bearers of burdens only, and he had eighty thousand of hewers of stone and masons in the mountain, without the prefects and masters, which were three thousand three hundred that did nothing but command and oversee them that wrought.

He had overseen the flying of the kites, the impudent invasion of the upper depths when a button was touched, and then he had seen the white cumulus clouds gather and become nimbus, followed by a brief rainfall upon a hot and yellow land.

We have much property in Antioch and many tenants to oversee.

And lastly unto you, my lord and father, Your love to me is too much overseen, That in your care and counsel should devise To tie your daughter's choice to two such grooms.

All his dealings are square and above the board; he bewrays the fault of what he sells, and restores the overseen gain of a false reckoning.

He is a very sober man, considering his manifold temptations of drink and strangers; and if he be overseen, 'tis within his own liberties, and no man ought to take exception.

That which other men neglect he believes they oversee, and stores up trifles as rare discoveries, at least of his own wit and sagacity.

My guide looked cautiously round, but there was no one to oversee us.

Though a man be liable to such a jest or obloquy, have been overseen, or committed a foul fact, yet it is no good manners or humanity, to upbraid, to hit him in the teeth with his offence, or to scoff at such a one; 'tis an old axiom, turpis in reum omnis exprobratio.

But suppose they had been a little overseen, should divine Plato be defamed?

He personally oversaw and investigated absolutely everything, not merely the usual appurtenances of camps,I mean weapons and engines and ditches and enclosures and palisades,but also the private affairs of each one, and the lives, the dwellings and the characters both of the men serving in the organization, and of the commanders themselves.

"Well nigh whittled, almost drunke, somewhat overseen.

The farmer knows, that, to rear a premium colt or calf, he must oversee every morsel that it eats, every motion it makes, every breath it draws,must guard against over-work and under-work, cold and heat, wet and dry.

" "And to you, Herr Captain," said Otto, turning to Frederic and saluting, "to you, whom the War Office itself sent here to oversee this all-wonderful plan of mine which it has seen fit to approve, to you and your mate falls the greatest honor and glory.

It is a very ticklish thing to live on the borders of Fairy Land; for though you cannot get to the Fairies, they can get to you, and it is not altogether a pleasant thing to have your private affairs overseen and interfered with by such beings as they are, though sometimes it may be most useful and agreeable.

His imagination told him that the person who committed this crime had suggested the manner of it, and overseen the details of it down to even the precise placing of the eye holes.

Lawrence Tompkins, for example, signed with his mark in 1779 a contract to oversee the four slaves of William Allason, near Alexandria, and to work steadily with them.

"Set?" asked Madera of the technician who had overseen the procedure.

Finally in 1797 he erected a machine on plans evolved by William Booker, who came to Mount Vernon and oversaw the construction.

Some time afterward one of the native guides began to make love to Ola: "I oversaw the two flirting and was highly amused at the manner in which they went about it.

The small force of Americans required to oversee the transit must watch that the Germans did not take any of the food and retain both British and German confidence in the absolute good faith of their intentions.

Your partiality to me, my good Sir, is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin.

However, he stuck to his duties and oversaw the first routine of the morning without betraying his anxiety to any of the lads under his charge.