Officially, at large gatherings, everyone said that Countess Bezukhova had died of a terrible attack of angina pectoris, but in intimate circles details were mentioned of how the private physician of the Queen of Spain had prescribed small doses of a certain drug to produce a certain effect; but Helene, tortured by the fact that the old count suspected her and that her husband to whom she had written (that wretched, profligate Pierre) had not replied, had suddenly taken a very large dose of the drug, and had died in agony before assistance could be rendered her.
Alexey Alexandrovitch's departure made a great sensation, the more so as just before he started he
officially returned the posting-fares allowed him for twelve horses, to drive to his destination.
But he was (
officially) reported drowned, and assuredly went over the side of a transport- ship at night in an Irish harbour within a few hours of her arrival from the West Indies, as I have myself heard both from officers and men on board, and know to have been (
officially) confirmed.
The Court was now to hear what had been seen and done by the persons
officially appointed to verify such cases of suspected crime as the case which had occurred at Gleninch.
Tranquilly permitting these irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, business-like, but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip
officially; and that done, unofficially gave him much wholesome advice.
Dowlas consented to go as a second person disinclined to act
officially; and so poor Silas, furnished with some old coverings, turned out with his two companions into the rain again, thinking of the long night-hours before him, not as those do who long to rest, but as those who expect to "watch for the morning".
I remember once seeing the commander -
officially the master, by courtesy the captain - of a fine iron ship of the old wool fleet shaking his head at a very pretty brigantine.
This gentleman was a person of considerable worldly wisdom and experience; he had been
officially associated with cases of striking and notorious crime, in which Government had lent its assistance to discover and punish the criminals.
I couldn't venture to tell him that the miller-gun was a little invention of my own, and that I had
officially ordered that every shopkeeper in the kingdom keep them on hand and sell them at government price -- which was the merest trifle, and the shopkeeper got that, not the government.
I was provided with a receipt and duly and
officially accepted as an excursionist.
To attach the preparatory to the senior school these three classes were known
officially, on speech days and in reports, as upper, middle, and lower second.
I meant "Alicia" when I said "hear, hear"--and when I
officially produced my subscription list, it was all aglow with the roseate hues of the marriage-license.