There was a breeze that brought him sweet, warm odors from the garden, together with a blurred shrilling of crickets and the conspiratorial conference of young leaves.

There were many conferences with the Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier, Duc de Brogliewith Casimir Perier, Leon Say, Gambetta, Jules Ferry, and Freycinetwhere the best men on both sides tried hard to come to an agreement.

Now one is invited each time, there is always music or a comedie, sometimes a conference in Lent, and a buffet in the dining-room.

They wanted very much to go to the Conciergerie to see the prison where the unfortunate Marie Antoinette passed the last days of her unhappy life, and Mr. Gladstone, inspired by the subject, made us a sort of conference on the French Revolution and the causes which led up to it, culminating in the Terror and the execution of the King and Queen.

Her husband was a literary man who made conferences at the Sorbonne and the College de France, and they lived entirely in that quartercame very rarely to our part of Paris.

I sat down on a smooth rock under a tamarind tree, the scene of many an interesting conference between the Brahmin and myself; and I cast my eyes aroundbut how changed was every thing before me!

Town after town, city after city in Belgium and France fell to the American and allied forces, so that the German government (October 27) addressed a note to the President of the United States asking him to intercede with our allies for an armistice and a conference for discussion of terms of peace.

The harm that would result from the occupation was pointed out at the Conference by the American representatives and even more strongly by the English.

" Thus, without effecting an accommodation, when they had returned from the conference to their armies, they informed them that words had been bandied to no purpose, that the question must be decided by arms, and that they must accept that fortune which the gods assigned them.

He began to be an exhorter; then a local preacher; and at last he joined the Conference as a Methodist itinerant at six dollars a month.

Avowedly exclusive confidence, conferences from which the rest of the household were directly shut out, would have suggested to their envious tempers that Eveena played the spy on them, or influenced and advised the exercise of my authority.

The next morning Patsy, Beth and Louise met in earnest conference over the important proposition made them by young Jones, and although Uncle John and Arthur Weldon were both present the men took no part in the discussion.

It remained simply a conference without real power.

There's to be a European conference about the Malay pirates, but there's nothing very funny in that.

They would be meetings of statesmen responsible to their own sovereign parliaments, and any decisions taken would therefore, as in the case of the various allied conferences during the war, have to be unanimous.

Here was another guarded conference among the four; Gloria, though she could watch them, was unable to hear what they were saying.

The President was right in his conception as to the greatness of the task to be accomplished, but he was wrong, radically wrong, in believing that it could be properly done at the Paris Conference under the conditions which there prevailed and in the time given for consideration of the subject.

The writer pointed out at that time what seemed an intrinsic weakness of the convention, that it could have little practical result, because it would be, after all, only a conference, where the Federal Government, by its limitations, was powerless to carry the findings of the conference into effect, and the Governors, acting not as a co-operative body, but as individuals, would be equally powerless in effecting uniform legislation.

Four men sat in low-toned conference around the governor's writing-table, and if any one of them had looked up the silent witness must have been discovered.

If the person of Augustenburg meets with more opposition in the Conference than the project of a division, then let the former drop.

As the Boy, hesitating, did not accept the chair offered, smiling, the Jesuit went on: "Will you talk of zis matterwhatever it isfirst, or will you first go up and wash, and have our conference after supper?" "No, thank youaAre you the Father Superior?

Peace, German offer of; Allies’ terms of; United States’ desire for; Russo-German conference toward; German desire for.

POURPARLER, a diplomatic conference towards the framing of a treaty.

What was more, he cherished an unshakable confidence that the "Rev. Martin Luther Shenk" would be one of the leading ministers of his Conference within five years.

[-36-] This was the situation at home when the leaders first made proposals to Sextus through companions as to how and on what terms they could effect a reconciliation; afterward the parties concerned held a conference near Misenum.