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When I arrived rather early, the day of the party, I found the mistress of the house, aided by Count Hatzfeldt, then German ambassador to England, busily engaged in transforming her drawing-room.
CHAPTER IX Aylmer At the Carlton Aylmer had easily persuaded Bruce and Edith to dine with him next day, although they were engaged to the elder Mrs Ottley already.
"I am engaged with Halifax just at present.
" The latter was engaged on the closing sentence of his letter; but on hearing the intelligence which Diggory had to impart, he threw the unfinished epistle into his desk, and rose to his feet with an exclamation of astonishment.
Silly, the daily papers inform us, has been engaged for the Grand Opera House in opera bouffe, and will make her début about the middle of September.
I found there several parties paired off, and engaged at different games; but, like the rest of the bystanders, I felt myself most strongly attracted towards the two who were betting highest.
General Custer thanked me for having brought him straight across the country without any trail, and said that if I were not engaged as post scout at Fort Hays he would like to have me accompany him as one of his scouts during the summer; and he added that whenever I was out of employment, if I would come to him he would find something for me to do.
She was engaged during most of the trip in reading HORACE GREELEY'S
The reason of this might be, because the King was greatly feared, and now, if he should find himself clear and secure from his enemies, they were afraid they would be reduced, or at least their offices and pensions retrenched; for there were several present who had been engaged against him with his brother the Duke of Guienne in the confederacy called the "Public Good."
themScotland Yard men engaged from among the shipbuilding trades unionsaccounting for every one, so that no man can be away from his post without our knowing and shadowing him.
On two successive days the hostile armies are hindered from engaging by the severity of the weather.
We are so sure of ourself that we never hesitate, not even when the lady is a visitor, and not quite the ordinary short-kirtled Hen whom one can engage without further ceremony by such advances CHANTECLER But THE PHEASANT-HEN I do not bestow my affections quite so lightly.
This universality of the Romance in the French dominions during the eleventh century, also accounts for its introduction in Palestine and many other parts of the Levant by Godfrey de Bouillon, and the multitude of adventurers who engaged under him in the Crusade.
" HAMLET Ann Sidley was engaged among the dresses of Eve, as she loved to be, although Annette held her taste in too low estimation ever to permit her to apply a needle, or even to fit a robe to the beautiful form that was to wear it, when our heroine glided into the room and sunk upon a sofa.
There is something engaging about a tug.
To all these I had been engaged before taking my B.A. degree.
These wild, disordered elements suited better for the campaign in which he engaged of renovating an Irish nationality.
It is further told how, when the attack began, two Mogul chiefs of note were engaged within upon a game of chess.
That night in the drawing room we found the two young ladies engaged over an album, containing a number of Clive's drawings made in the time of his very early youth, and Miss Ethel seemed to be very much pleased with these performances.
For weeks at a time the only real rest for many of the troops engaged along the line of battle came in snatches of a few hours when they were temporarily relieved by fresh troops brought up from the rear, and these in their turn might be soon exhausted by the continuous strain of keeping on the alert to repel attacksor, as frequently happened, their ranks might be decimated, or worse, when they were ordered to a charge.
But she met her match in the second week of November, when she was engaged off the Cocos or Keeling group of islands, southwest of Java, by the fast Australian cruiser Sydney and driven ashore a burning wreck after an hour's fight, with a loss of 280 men.
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"When the lines are not engaged after business hours, you can send a night-letter; a long message at less than the proper charge.
When I was a young man, sir, politics in the South was a career for a gentleman, and I still can't see how he could be better engaged than in the service of his State or his country.
Deceiving is the proper work of slander: and truth abused to that end putteth on its nature, and will engage into like guilt.