Justin Smith's books, cited above, have useful lists of authorities; though there is no discrimination between documents of very different value.

His companion made no reply, but taking out a pencil, copied the cipher on the back of an envelope, and then replaced the mysterious document in the crack between the window-frame and the bricks.

As we had all seen the paper's hiding-place I found it a little difficult to be impressed by the elaborate efforts, unconscionably long drawn out, of the departed spirit to disclose the matter to Helen and Hugh; while the masterly inactivity of Stephen, who was trying to find his document by pure reason (mere looking for it would not occur to his Napoleonic brain), confirmed the opinion I had earlier formed of that solemn ass.

"After the old man had turned him down for good, Slade fished down in his warbag and hauled out an old tattered document from an oilskin case.

When you come, the official documents with you.

Fortunately I had my master's certificate with meI'd passed fresh-water on the Great LakesI always carry that sort of document on the chance that it may come handy.

As he could not write his own , I the document for him.

They had suffered grievously for more than ten years from misrule and had a distaste for mere phrase-making, of which they had had a satiety, for the Constitution, in which there is not a wasted word, is as cold and dry a document as a problem in mathematics or a manual of parliamentary law.

Well, the disclosure of the document to a third person, who shall be nameless, would bring in question the honor of a personage of the most exalted station, and this fact gives the holder of the document an ascendancy over the illustrious personage whose honor and peace are so jeopardized.

The patent on our table, being for a nominal hundred thousand acres, contains the names of one hundred different grantees, while three several parchment documents at its side, each signed by thirty-three of these very persons, vest the legal estate in the first named, for whose sole benefit the whole concession was made; the dates of the last instruments succeeding, by one or two days, that of the royal patent itself.

By the by, do you carry this document about with you?" Vine shook his head.

Among the documents herewith communicated will be found, with other charges requiring legislative interference, an account for traveling expenses, with a statement of the grounds upon which their reimbursement is claimed.

He hesitated a moment, and then thrust the useless document into its enclosure and cast it aside.

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The document before him was a legally-worded affair awaiting a signature.

Those who have not already visited it will find a description, accompanying a study for the plan submitted for competition in 1858, by Messrs. Olmsted and Vaux, and published among the Documents of the New York Senate, which will satisfy their utmost expectations.

It certainly sounded almost like a fairy-tale, this claim based upon the supposed validity of an ancient document over 400 years old.

After this a desultory conversation took place, in which some were of opinion that it would be proper, on the introduction of the subject into the Assembly, to move for a committee of inquiry, which should collect facts and documents against the time when it should be taken up with a view to its final discussion.

I can't imagine what I should want with any dry old document out of the Foreign Office, can you?"

It was a curt, military document without explanation or unnecessary mitigation of the truth.

along with many similar documents among the deed files at Norfolk, Va.]

THE GRIP OF DESIRE THE STORY OF A PARISH-PRIEST TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF HECTOR FRANCE [Illustration: Début d'une série de documents en couleur.]

She felt truly that she would now never obtain the documents through her.

Mr. Pivott did not offer to throw any light upon its contents, nor was the bailiff, sharpsighted as he might be, able to seize upon so much as one paragraph or line of the document during the process of attaching his signature thereto.

As she concocted these documents between her naps she could never remember in her whole life any such night of mirth and minstrelsy, and not one pang of conscience interfered, to cloud the present joy nor dim that anticipation which is even greater.