" "I thank you," said Mr. Charteris, "for the high opinion you entertain of my moral character."

"Dear friend," the Princess began, "thou knowest the singular affection which I have invariably entertained for thee.

Bredwel then in his satanic masquerade meets Gayman, and bringing him a roundabout way, introduces him into Sir Cautious' house, where, after having been entertained with a masque of dances and songs as by spirits, he is conducted to Lady Fulbank's chamber by her maid disguised as an ancient crone, and admitted to his mistress' embraces.

'They haven't any children, and they make a kind of hobby of entertaining in an unconventional way.'

Besides all the exposition people, there were many tourists and well-known English people, all expecting to be entertained at the embassy.

He seemed as entertained as the rest, but quite willing to leave his family history in professional hands.

In six months it drew to itself two hundred thousand members and built organizations in thirty-nine States, established classes to train women for the new work opening to them, opened recreation centers and canteens at which were entertained on a single Sunday, at one center, eighteen hundred soldiers and sailors.

Those, I must here observe, are greatly mistaken who divide history into two parts, the useful and the agreeable; and in consequence of it, would introduce panegyric as always delectable and entertaining to the reader.

The defeat increased the discontent in Austria-Hungary and added to the bad feeling entertained towards Germany.

The presence of Henrich among that portion of the tribe that was governed by Tisquantum had, indeed, secured to himself the respect and regard of almost the whole community; but it had not weakened the strong prejudice that they, as well as the main body of their tribe, entertained against his race, or lessened their ardent desire to rid the land of the powerful invaders.

This is a remark which has been made, and repeated, without justice; why should the life of a literary man be less entertaining than the life of any other man?

" Crewe's plain words were an echo of a secret fear which Rolfe had entertained from the time his suspicions were directed towards Mrs. Holymead.

"Mäzli" may be pronounced the most natural and one of the most entertaining of Madame Spyri's creations.

and so he continued, and was as entertaining as ever to the very end.

And indeed we seldom got a direct and explicit answer, without previously stating by way of explanation that we had no doubts of our own, but wished to remove those extensively entertained among our countrymen.

One bronzed mariner with silver earrings I entertained to three stoups of usquebaugh, hoping for strange tales, but the little I had from him before he grew drunk was that he had once voyaged to the Canaries.

But the wrong notions the Allies still entertain about Caliphate are a sufficient indication of the effects of the work of this official delegation.

I know the sick and impotent hatred of me that is seething in your heart; and I feel for you the pity you pretend to entertain toward me.

I've been teasing him, pretending to be a worldling, but foreign travel and entertaining in London are just about as unsuited to me as to Peter.

Quai d'Orsay, description of house of Foreign Minister at the; removal of Waddingtons to; receiving and entertaining at; large ball given at; English visitors at; view from, on cold winter nights; departure from; formal visit to Madame de Freycinet at.

The Grants were very much entertained during their stay in Paris, and we met them nearly every night.

For my own part I was quite entertained by watching the people, the beautiful women, the handsome men, the bearers of names which had been heard of in no previous generation, but which now rung round the world.

The Barlow cousins were much easier to entertain than the St. Clairs.

What can be the meaning of it?" She pondered for a few minutes, and then she tried to play; but not finding it entertaining without an auditor, she soon rose, and, drawing aside one of the curtains, looked out upon the lovely night.

Lockhart writes: "It would hardly, I believe, be too much to affirm that Sir Walter Scott entertained under his roof, in the course of the seven or eight brilliant seasons when his prosperity was at its height, as many persons of distinction in rank, in politics, in art, in literature, and in science, as the most princely nobleman of his age ever did in the like space of time.