He proceeded to give his
prospective son-in-law a detailed lecture concerning the mismanagement of the field hospitals at the front, and having disposed of that subject, he opened a broadside attack upon the Admiralty.
The title suggests all kinds of mysteries; a glance at the chapter-headings quickly confirms the suspicions already aroused, and the sub-title: "A Book for All and None", generally succeeds in dissipating the last doubts the
prospective purchaser may entertain concerning his fitness for the book or its fitness for him.
In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a
prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.
Collins staged the trick properly, as it would be staged in the theatre, even had ready and set up all the necessary apparatus, and himself acted as ringmaster while the
prospective purchaser looked on.
With some endowment of stupidity and conceit, she might have thought that a Christian young lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of "Female Scripture Characters," unfolding the private experience of Sara under the Old Dispensation, and Dorcas under the New, and the care of her soul over her embroidery in her own boudoir--with a background of
prospective marriage to a man who, if less strict than herself, as being involved in affairs religiously inexplicable, might be prayed for and seasonably exhorted.
The two chums were in the Swift home, talking over the
prospective trip, when Mrs.
He saw Madame de Cintre every day, and never saw either old Madame de Bellegarde or the elder of his
prospective brothers-in-law.
A week later John took me to the house of his
prospective father-in- law, and in Miss Margovan, as you have already surmised, but to my profound astonishment, I recognized the heroine of that discreditable adventure.
On Friday the Rostovs were to return to the country, but on Wednesday the count went with the
prospective purchaser to his estate near Moscow.
On the way, however, a more flagrant instance recalled young Rattray's remark, that the man was "not like other people." I had imagined it to refer to a mental, not a physical, defect; whereas it was clear to me now that my
prospective landlord was stone-deaf, and I presently discovered him to be dumb as well.
Alexander the Sixth, in wishing to aggrandize the duke, his son, had many immediate and
prospective difficulties.
Yes, Nell,' he added, when they had departed, 'my son is
prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor.