161 Verbs to Use for the Word contract

" After signing a contract for the supply of electrical power, whereby he was outrageously robbed but the supply was guaranteed, Mr. Merrick and Arthur returned to the farm.

I shall have to break my contract with you, for you can't possibly write a drama, cast it, and rehearse it properly for Monday night.

The regular soldier, on the other hand, makes a contract with the State.

The industry of this creature urged the Lily to toil and spin, contrary to its usual habits, while the Shamrock converted its trifoliated leaves into shovels, and took a contract for excavating the hemisphere.

To their honour be it said, these Germans kept faith with the British, much to the surprise of the Americans, who, like many modern writers, could not understand that these foreign mercenaries took a professional pride in carrying out a sworn contract, even when it would pay them better to break it.

" "Still, I remember when Mr. Steadman was Councillor here, and there was a bridge built over Pine Creekhe only let the contracthe did not build itit was his brother who built it!" There was a queer thrill in the audience at this, for Bill Steadman had got the contract, in spite of the fact that he was the poorest builder in the countryand the bridge had collapsed inside of two years.

He stood and pondered if God's hand was back of the fact that Takern had taken his son from him on the day before he was to draw up the contract to lay it waste.

He fined both them and the men who had secured any contracts from them, on the pretence that they had spent nothing.

He who had been such a great and energetic worker had lost both mental and bodily vigor; he could no longer plan remunerative strokes of business; he no longer had the strength to undertake important contracts.

A minor may, however, enforce a contract if he chooses to do so.

Leaving my partner, Rose, to complete our grading contract, I immediately began my career as a buffalo hunter for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and it was not long before I acquired considerable notoriety.

No just or honest use of it can be made, in opposition to the plain intention of its framers, except to declare the contract at an end, and to refuse to serve under it.

Before I left Paris we had closed a contract with Mr. Chamberlain to carry the telegraph to Austria, Prussia, the principal cities of Greece and of Egypt, and put it upon exhibition with a view to its utilization there.

He saw Vassili's masklike face contract with stupefaction when he set eyes on Etta.

Vain must be the machinations of my enemies, vain the onslaughts of the rabble, so long as I fulfil a certain contract registered in hell's chancery, as I have now done these three hundred years.

I shall tear up this contract.

Let me go to King Cais, and I will not leave him until he promises to come to you and cancel the contract."

Nor is it only by the sale of forged memoranda and autographs that a countless sum of money was collected together in that house, while Antonius, whatever he sold, said that he was acting in obedience to the papers of Caesar; but he even took bribes to make false entries of the resolutions of the senate; to seal forged contracts; and resolutions of the senate that had never been passed were entered on the records of that treasury.

Of course, I recognize that a far greater number kept their contracts, even when it brought them to the verge of ruin.

Every such person is bound to fulfill every legal contract that he makes.

What to that architect and engineer who, when the fatal pillars were first delivered to them for inspection, had found one broken under their eyes, yet accepted the contract, and built with them a mill whose thin walls and wide, unsupported stretches might have tottered over massive columns and on flawless ore?

But business firstaught new?" "I've brought that South American contract off," replied Appleyard.

The stake is too important to be left at the mercy of rival companies claiming to hold conflicting contracts with Nicaragua.

Since they could no longer regard the khalîfs as their leaders, because they walked in worldly ways, they have constituted themselves independently beside and even above them; and the rulers have been obliged to conclude a silent contract with them, each party binding itself to remain within its own limits.

Then we will execute a contract between Horse's Neck and Lallapaloosa by the terms of which the old bankrupt corporation will sell to the new corporation all its assets for one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

161 Verbs to Use for the Word  contract