He became Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal in 1875; was created a Baronet in August, 1876; and was appointed Governor of the Presidency of Bombay in January, 1877, which office he held till March, 1880.

As ye have proved this night that ye are not yet purged of the feelings and prejudices of a vicious education, I will perform this office for you all, and set you an example, by which ye may hereafter profit.

He had always promised me a winter in Italy when he left office.

One morning, Auguste, looking very pale, entered his father's office, and handed him a newspaper.

" Hwúi of Liu-hiá, who filled the office of Chief Criminal Judge, was thrice dismissed.

So presently another council was called, and the Colonel resigned his office, stipulating that each man in turn should hold it for a week, and learn how ungrateful it was.

The court was presided over by the Duc d'Aumale, who accepted the office after much hesitation.

His first words on taking office were: "On nous a jetes a l'eau, maintenant il faut nager.")

The dispersion of the rest of their companions from Richmond was accounted for by furloughs granted them so soon as they reached the provost-marshal's office.

During the next few days Uncle John visited the printing office several times and looked over the complete little plant with speculative eyes.

During their hours of leisure, therefore, the Birchites were left pretty much to their own devices, or more often to those of Master Fred Acton, who liked, as has already been stated, to assume the office of bellwether to the little flock.

She absolutely refused to make over her property for the good of the sisterhood, and would not undertake an office which would shut her up from her mission of proclaiming far and wide, as the Divine Hand opened the way, the message of the Saviour's love and the Holy Spirit's sanctifying power.

Nor is the sustenance and nutrition of the animal kingdom the only function these minute productions may perform; they may also be the purifiers of the vitiated atmosphere, and thus execute in the Antarctic latitudes the office of our trees and grass turf in the temperate regions, and the broad leaves of the palm, &c., in the tropics."

In discharging a temporary office, that exposed to him the condition of criminals, he was led to meditate on the evils which had grievously contaminated the operations of Justice.

It was finally agreed that Roldan should return to his duty, still retaining the office of chief justice; that all past offences should be condoned, and that he and his followers should receive grants of land, with the services of the Indians.

In due season he was admitted to the bar, and opened an office for the practice of law in New York.

Like all the great Roman jurists, he was versed in literature and philosophy, and so devoted to his profession that he refused political office.

It was an undisputed fact that SMITH had given up a lucrative office to follow his political convictions.

They answered that their sonne should one day be one of the greatest men in the world, and that out of doubt he should obtain seven times in his life the chiefest office of dignity in his country.

The first time was when, leaving the hotel to seek the post office and despatch his letter to London, he found himself suddenly face to face with Dupont, who was seated at a café table near the hotel entrance and narrowly scrutinising all who passed in and out; covering this occupation with affected interest in the gossip of his companion, the little rat man of the Gare de Perrache.

The word "double" (duplex) is derived, some authors hold, from the ancient custom of reciting two offices or saying two Masses on the same dayone for the current feria and one for the feast (festa).

About this time his brother, Thomas Yeardley, began to exercise the ministerial office.

This is how it happened: Smith established his office in the First Guarantee Bank Building which was quite the proper thing to do.

GENERAL DYER The Army Council has found General Dyer guilty of error of judgment and advised that he should not receive any office under the Crown.

They found themselves in a chamber where sat a man who had lived long and known both good and evil, and fulfilled many great offices, so that he was famed and honored among men.