" They could do nothing but thank him and accept his offer.

' She refused the kind offer.

I was not a merchant out of charity, and I had to decline many offers, and so made many foes.

Theatrical managers, upon hearing of this new and novel combination; which was drawing such tremendous houses, were all anxious to secure us; and we received offers of engagements at all the leading theaters.

When I insisted on a hundred ounces of gold to secure her being the chief object of the imperial choice, they first pleaded their povertyand then, relying on her extraordinary beauty, rejected my offers altogether.

2-8), and on the fortieth day brought the prescribed offering to the Temple, where she met Simeon and Anna.

Chief watching him surreptitiously, and seeing he was no nearer making an offer, felt he should have some encouragement.

When clean mats have been spread, and they are all seated, the king and his ministers present their offerings according to rule and law.

The kings, ministers, and peoples of the kingdoms around vie with one another in making offerings at them.

XIII.THAT YOU MUST LOVE ME, AND LOVE MY DOG "Good sir, or madam, as it may bewe most willingly embrace the offer of your friendship.

" Nicholas approached trembling, but no doubt remembering how necessary it had been to add to the Shamán's offering before he would consent to listen with favour to Pymeut prayers, he pulled out of their respective hidingplaces about his person a carved ivory spoon and an embroidered bird-skin pouch, advanced boldly under the fire of the Superior's keen eyes and sharp words, and laid the further offering on the lynx-skin at his feet.

The messenger bore back, at my suggestion, a refusal of the offer and a further refusal to consider any more offers that evening.

Just beyond these a throng of hucksters, market-women, butchers, bakers, etc., vociferously urge him to accept their votive offerings of garden truck, carrots, cabbages, parsnips, haunches of beef, baskets of French rolls and the like, all of which the Prince proudly declines, whereupon the vast concourse breaks forth into this wild chant to the air of BINGEN ON THE RHINE.

So on the five-and-twentieth day of the month of Casleu, which the Macedonians call Apelleus, they lighted the lamps that were on the candlestick and offered incense upon the altar [of incense], and laid the loaves upon the table [of shew-bread], and offered burnt-offerings upon the new altar [of burnt-offering].

The Chiapanecas had a tradition that they sprang from the roots of a silk cotton tree; while the Zapotecas attributed their origin to trees, their cypresses and palms often receiving offerings of incense and other gifts.

my friend, who ought to have known better, forgot the good advice he had given me only a few years before, and I, heedless of consequences in my hilarity, repeated the offer of evens on the favourite.

The Colonel and the Boy opened the ball by renewing their joint offer of eighty dollars for Red and Spotty.

Then was he gone to the god's home, carrying an offering of the chief spoils from Troy: and there in quarrel concerning meats a man smote him with a knife.

On Aug. 15th Herschel wrote to me, communicating an offer of the Duke of Northumberland to present to the Cambridge Observatory an object-glass of about 12 inches aperture by Cauchaix.

He refused to have any regular salary or to receive pew rents, taking only such offerings as his congregation wished to give him.

While the Boy stood at the mantel with his back to Father Brachet, acting on a sudden impulse, he pulled the ivory pen-rest out of his shirt, and stuck its various parts together, saying as he did so, "She sent an offering to you, too.

"Yes, but," returned Waite, "what I hear from town is that the Annapolis townspeople have been driven to cover; that they aren't taking up the offers of the visiting Hanniston boys.

" "He sent an offer of six hundred dollars for it last night," I said.

He pretends to have the same views as the late Ministry; but it is impossible to suppose the French can resist the offer of Belgium.

"'You did,' she responds, very much embarrassed, as she supposed of course he would remember his offer made when he was an old man with a goat's beard; 'but gladly will I forget all, if you will relinquish my hand.'