Austin,
probation officer, Court of General Sessions," he explained.
Not only do we know this ourselves, but Christ, the Son of God, came down to earth and told us that this life is but for a moment and is a
probation; yet we cling to it and think to find happiness in it.
A candidate had to enter, as it were, "before the mast," to undergo a long
probation, and to rise slowly by his merits and services.
The three months' interval of Frank's
probation in London passed less cheerfully than usual in the household at Combe-Raven.
In the beginning of the change that gradually worked in me, when I tried to get a better understanding of myself and be a better man, I did glance, through some indefinite
probation, to a period when I might possibly hope to cancel the mistaken past, and to be so blessed as to marry her.
All was clear to
probation. The CACHE had been found and rifled; the seven hundred thousand pounds were gone!
We were then at a full stand; for whatever shrewd suspicions we might entertain, we had no shadow of
probation. In the very article, comes Captain Hoseason with the story of your drowning; whereupon all fell through; with no consequences but concern to Mr.
That tribute, which it would seem nations must ever pay, by way of a weary
probation, around the shrine of Ceres, before they can be indulged in her fullest favours, is in some measure exacted in America, from the descendant instead of the ancestor.
Gradgrind, and was not without strong impulses, in the first months of her
probation, to run away.
And there, too, was a sprinkling of less distinguished Parliamentary Barnacles, who had not as yet got anything snug, and were going through their
probation to prove their worthiness.
In the meanwhile, all around her showed that their present state was that of punishment and
probation, and that it was their especial duty to suffer without sinning.
Military rank under the crown of Great Britain was attained with much longer
probation, and by much more toilsome services, sixty years ago than at the present time.