But, my dear, let the articles be drawn up, and engrossed; and solemnize upon them; and there's no more to be said. Let me add, that the sailor-fellow has been tampering with my Kitty, and offered a bribe, to find where to direct to you.

Little did the worthy owner suspect that the Vineyard people were tampering with these very hands, and keeping them from coming to terms, in order that they might fit out a second Sea Lion, which they had now been preparing for near a month; having purchased her at New Bedford, with a view to profit by the imperfect information that had reached them, through the masters of the brig and sloop.

The President of the Assembly moved that the members should adjourn and repair to the palace for the protection of the royal family, but Mirabeau resisted the proposal, and procured its rejection; and when a large party of the members went, as individuals, to place their services at the king's disposal, he mingled with the rioters, tampering with the soldiers, and urging them to espouse what he called the cause of the people.

He impressed upon us the danger of tampering with the rights of property.

Great precautions were taken to prevent any accident or tampering with these instruments; they were kept in boxes having three locks, the keys were held one by the Captain, one by the first lieutenant, and the third by the astronomer, so they could not even be wound up except in the presence of all three.

Above all, use exercise, take a little more spirituous liquors, learn to smoke, continue to keep a good conscience, and avoid tampering with hard terms of artviscosity, schirossity, and those bugbears, by which simple patients are scared into their grave.

Jugurtha retreated into the interior, enticing Aulus Albinus by hopes of coming to terms, and meanwhile tampering with his officers.

I began to wonder if she was going to accuse me of tampering with the tapsbut not a bit of it!

This tampering with the subject and with me, in the conduct of the agent of that company, whose duty it is rigidly to exclude the article by every means, would accord better, it should seem, with the spirit of one who had not recently taken obligations which are applicable to all times and all space.

I have heard engineers say that someone had been tampering with their engines and storm around about it, while the facts were that the supply being open the water simply flowed in from atmospheric pressure, in order to fill the space made vacant by the condensed steam.

No matter what, he was obviously not in a mood to bear tampering with.

It does seem the evident duty of every man to become an abolitionist, who believes slavery to be sinful, for the Bible allows no tampering with sin.

I have been too much exposed already to unparalleled mortification and hardship, and my wounds will not bear this perpetual tampering.

One or two trifling dilapidations, and the fact that somebody has been tampering with the locks of the organ and piano, dispose me to believe this tale.

In addition to other treacherous acts, Boone had to complain of the friars tampering with his soldiers and slaves, and encouraging them to desert.

Poetic observation was pure, there was no quackery in its free course, as there is so often in this wilful tampering with the hidden springs of life, for it is tampering unless done in a patient spirit and with severe truth; yet it may be, by the rude or greedy miners, some good ore is unearthed.

Poetic observation was pure, there was no quackery in its free course, as there is so often in this wilful tampering with the hidden springs of life, for it is tampering unless done in a patient spirit and with severe truth; yet it may be, by the rude or greedy miners, some good ore is unearthed.

"When Zimbardo sent his first message to Mars, evidence of his tampering with the Martian communication system was discovered.

This allowed us to trace how his tampering was done and therefore where the signal came from-at least in a general direction.

"'Tis very dangerous, tampering with a muse; The profit's small, and you have much to lose.

Who has been tampering with these pianos?

Modern scholarship would not now venture to perform such an office for such a result, because it involves tampering with a text (as who should say, shooting a fox!)

The weather being favorable, they remained all three in company during that and the next day; meanwhile Avery, tampering with his men, suggested, that they had now on board what was sufficient to make them all happy; "and what," continued he, "should hinder us from going to some country where we are not known, and living on shore all the rest of our days in plenty?"

Neither will it be, under the influence of the old methods,not until legislators and politicians give over the business of tampering with the currency,till they give over the vain hope of "hedging the cuckoo," to use Locke's figure,and the principle of FREEDOM be allowed to adjust this, as it has already adjusted equally important matters.

Each political party in turn is only too eager to charge the other with tampering with the National systema sin, the bare hint of which is like suspicion of witchcraft or heresy in the Middle Ages.