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.

At the Conferences of Paris and London, in 1919 and 1920, I did all that was in my power to prevent the trial of the Kaiser, and I am convinced that my firm attitude in the matter succeeded in avoiding it.

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.

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

It remained simply a conference without real power.

D. WHISTLES FOR TESTING THE UPPER LIMITS OF AUDIBLE SOUND IN DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS Read in 1876 at the South Kensington Conferences in connection with the Loan Exhibition of Scientific Instruments.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fenelon took part also in some of the Conferences on Scripture that were held at Saint Germain and Versailles between 1672 and 1685.

glad I see Thy Face, and Morn return'd I cannot but take notice that Milton, in the Conferences between Adam and Eve, had his Eye very frequently upon the Book of Canticles, in which there is a noble Spirit of Eastern Poetry; and very often not unlike what we meet with in Homer, who is generally placed near the Age of Solomon.

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

Rev. C.S. Macreading came from New England, where he had held leading appointments in the Providence and New England Conferences for many years.

I never broke a law in all my days" "Excuse me, madam," interposed Simmons, with whom the second footman had just held a whispered conference behind the screen, "but James informs me that there is a police hofficer awaiting to see you in the front 'all.