At the last meeting of my ward and your nephewjust before your dinner here,they concluded to break their engagement of marriage, for certain good reasons, and thenceforth be only brother and sister to each other.

Again, when this debt was paid, would he be able to fulfil his engagements?

This was on the evening Roger Stapylton gave the long-anticipated dinner at which he was to announce his daughter's engagement.

No one considers prayer meeting a binding engagement, and I'm sure we go as often as we can.

He made up the Cowgate at a rapid swing; he had forgotten some engagement.

Of course she'll be disappointed, but you can go round and see her, and speak to her nicely and tell her that after all we can't come because we've got another engagement.'

William's only chance of safety lay in bringing on a general engagement; and he joyfully advanced his army from their camp on the hill over Hastings, nearer to the Saxon position.

" "Will she renew her engagement, think you?" inquired Mr. King.

No weather could stop him from keeping his engagements.

Such conduct, sir, I would gladly recommend on the present occasion, on which I should be far from advising a faint, an irresolute, or momentary assistance, such supplies as declare diffidence in our own strength, or a mean inclination to please contrary parties at the same time, to perform our engagements with the queen, and continue our friendship with France.

On the contrary, it is our duty to encourage them to the extent of our constitutional authority to apply their best means and cheerfully to make all necessary sacrifices and submit to all necessary burdens to fulfill their engagements and maintain their credit, for the character and credit of the several States form a part of the character and credit of the whole country.

Emily thanked him, and pleaded her engagement.

Of this prince, I know not why, it has been asserted that he will probably violate his engagements to Britain and Austria; that he will purchase peace by perfidy, and grant a passage to the army of Spain.

But the Germans apparently were not ready to risk a general engagement, and the British could not force them to come out and fight.

Flo and I applied for the job and earned thirty dollars between us; but then the manager thought he would like to employ us regularly, and with Auntie to chaperon us we accepted the engagement.

When Emmet's company left St. Paul they got stranded and many of them found engagements in other organizations.

It is preposterous to think of opening on Monday night, and I'll cancel the engagement.

Nay, two, possibly three, are as many as Clarissa would deem consistent with good manners," returned the maid, unable to forego the pleasure of teasing him; "indeed, I am bewildered even now remembering sundry engagements already made.

Mr. J. Clinton Hall, manager of the Rochester Opera House, was very anxious to have me play an engagement at his theatre.

Mr. Budworth was certainly no stranger to the learning or abilities of Johnson; as he more than once lamented his having been under the necessity of declining the engagement, from an apprehension that the paralytick affection, under which our great Philologist laboured through life, might become the object of imitation or of ridicule, among his pupils.'

The first was the immunity for twenty years of preserving the African slave-trade; the second was the stipulation to surrender fugitive slavesan engagement positively prohibited by the laws of God, delivered from Sinai; and thirdly, the exaction fatal to the principles of popular representation, of a representation for slavesfor articles of merchandise, under the name of persons.

Warwick, who studiously avoided an engagement, that he might be joined by a squadron from Portsmouth.

The theatrical manager, who had offered her an engagement should she ever require it, had moved to York, and it was to that city that Magdalen hastened.

"He was in my service in Leghorn for several years, and on leaving me he came to London and obtained an engagement as waiter in a restaurant.

That, of course, was not the same thing as taking an engagement to France, and I told M. Cambon of it only to show that we had not left Germany under the impression that we would stand aside.