It was Birchill who suggested postponing the burglary until Sir Horace left, but Hill urged that the original plan should be adhered to.

Hill had told them that he had tried to dissuade the prisoner from going to Riversbrook to burgle the premises, because his master had returned unexpectedly; Fanning had told them that the prisoner was in favour of postponing the crime, but that Hill had urged him to carry it out.

Preparing himself for a resolute defence, the Seljukian governor Baghasian had sent away as useless, if not mischievous, most of the Christians within the town; and the crusading chiefs had begun to discuss the prudence of postponing all operations till the spring, when Raymond of Toulouse with some other chiefs insisted that delay would imply fear, and that the imputation of cowardice would insure the paralysis of their enterprise.

He thought his son might be led, but not driven; and, relying on his own powers for managing, the general saw his only safety in executing the scheme was in postponing his advances for a regular siege to the lady's heart.

At least, it was postponing the inevitable for a month, and in a month what may not happen?

I'm afraid postponing it won't make it any better.

My powers of postponing our voyage to Holland appeared to have a distinct time-limit.

Sir William Dolben said, that he did not then wish to enter into the discussion of the general question of the abolition of the Slave Trade, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was so desirous of postponing; but he wished to say a few words on what he conceived to be a most crying evil, and which might be immediately remedied, without infringing upon the limits of that question.

Lord Frederic Campbell was convinced that the postponing of all consideration of the subject till the next session was a wise measure.

She was not happy at the prospect of so abruptly quitting the delights of Lane End House and the vicinity of Edwin Clayhanger; she was not happy at the prospect of postponing the consideration of plans for her own existence; she was not happy at the prospect of Sarah Gailey's pessimistic complainings.

An excursion which he had meditated to Florence, Rome, and Naples, he was under the necessity of postponing to a future occasion.

Overtaken by the Duke, who said he heard that people were delighted with the measure of postponing the King's visit to the City.

The English had two good reasons for postponing voyages to and settlement in far-off lands.

Still, it is difficult to repress an emotion of astonishment on finding that a British Government intentionally permitted De Grasse's fleet and the French army in its convoy to cross the Atlantic unmolested, for fear of postponing for a time the revictualling of the garrison beleaguered at Gibraltar.

At home, Cromwell had signified his intention of postponing the signature of the treaty with France till he was acquainted with the opinion of Louis on the subject of the troubles in Piedmont.

One good reason for postponing a trial is to enable the parties to secure witnesses.

Down to August 1st both Sir Edward Grey and M. Sazonof were busy trying to find some formula which might be accepted as a basis for postponing hostilities between the Great Powers.

Lamb says that in consequence of this event he is postponing his Wednesday evening to Friday.

She was surprised, amused, and at times indignant; but, as she had come to look for the Bannisters, she confined herself to that business, postponing reflections and judgments.

He thought for a moment, and then went on, deliberately postponing a reply.

At the beginning of the Milford Haven operations, the boisterous weather necessitated the postponing of operations, on account of the unfitness of the torpedo boat crews to continue work after the twelve hours of serious fatigue they had already undergone.

But pray do not suppose that postponing questions is only another name for evading them.

" "Then perhaps in the next life they will again live in toil and gloom, postponing their happiness once more," said my companion.

This unauthorised interpolation may have had its share in postponing the prohibition of the book by the Church of Rome.

He would wait till the Assizessix weeks' delayand then write to the Colonel, postponing his visit.