He had before this been greatly troubled by the proclamation of General Durando; still he had hoped that the Italian League would be shortly concluded, and that, when he had furnished the quota of troops that might be due from him as a temporal sovereign, he would then have been able, in the capacity of pontiff, to use those good offices which he considered requisite to assure the consciences of Catholics.

Sir, you may have to contribute your quota to our enlightenment.

The host waved me to a pile of pipes and case of sweet-scented on the table, and I was soon adding my quota to the clouds which enveloped us, and listening with all my ears to what was said.

those whom God blessed with good health, refused to pay their quota to the support of a physician for their sickly neighbours, consequently, every European's life was in the greatest danger, should a serious accident occur to them.

Mozojeed's village was, in fact, completely caught almost in the very act of sending out its quota of warriors.

Mr. Payne (of Massachusetts) urged the original resolution of Congress, to proportion the quotas of the States to the number of souls.

Robert Johnson, being able to meet the army requirements, was enlisted as a substitute to help fill out the quota of a Northern regiment.

No community raised their quota of substitutes more rapidly, during the war.

"It all occurred during the York racing week, a time which brings to the quiet cathedral city its quota of shady characters, who congregate wherever money and wits happen to fly away from their owners.

If, for instance, he gets double the quota he needs only half each vote.

Toby thinks one of us might suggest a scheme whereby we could guard the fox farm, and at the same time obtain our full quota of sleep.

Every apartment in the house held its quota of wounded, and down below the busy surgeons had transformed the parlor into an operating room.

Some one was always ready with the great theme; and once it was started, he did not let the conversation languish till every one present had given his or her quota of hearsay or opinion to the general fund.

The peculiar invention of the system is what is called the single transferable votethat is to say, a vote which may be given in the first instance to one candidate, but which, in the event of his already having a sufficient quota of votes to return him, may be transferred to another.

When in 1794 that high and distinguished body, the East India Company, sent a well-armed "snow" to the Hauraki gulf for kauri spars she did not leave until her captain had killed his quota of natives,two men and a woman,shot, because, forsooth, some axes had been stolen.

At the same time, that his diminished forces should be recruited, he levies a fixed quota of soldiers from each state, and defines the number and day before which he should wish them brought to the camp, and orders all the archers, of whom there was a very great number in Gaul, to be collected and sent to him.

This method would enable each of the two parties in a district to return as many Members as it could muster "quotas," no matter how the votes were distributed.

The month of August was largely occupied in preparing the quotas from each district and meanwhile cantonments were made ready for the training of the new army, while thousands of prospective officers received intensive training in special camps at various points, east and west, and were commissioned in due course.

Give me the facility of procuring my quota in your tribe, and you shall take yours from my tribe."

The car propelled by the hunchbacked engine grated and bumped its way over its cog-wheel road, pushing its delighted quota of passengers higher and higher into the mountains.

In the one case the State would receive its quota of the national revenue for domestic use upon a fixed principle as a matter of right, and from a fund to the creation of which it had itself contributed its fair proportion.

"We cannot drive the females out of the trade but we can restrict this daily quota of labor through factory laws.

There would be no risk of a seat being left vacant through two candidates of the same party sharing a quota between theman unwritten law would soon come to be recognisedthat the one with fewest votes should give place to the other.

Everybody has heard how the State of New Jersey, along the railroad line, stood through the evening and the night to shout their quota of good wishes.

To supply one quota of the inside history of the great Abolition war, is the primary object of this work; but scarcely secondary to this object is that of recording incidents characteristic of the Peculiar Institution overthrown in that struggle.