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At the time when our hero first arrived at Ben-Ahmed's home, he had been despoiled of his own garments while he was in bed the slave costume having been left in their place. On application to his friend Peter, however, his pocket-knife, pencil, letters, and a few other things had been returned to him.
On the contrary, not only his wife, but his children, knew all his affairs. Whatever business he had to do was done in the midst of his family, usually in the common sitting-room; so that we were intimately acquainted, not only with his general principles of conduct, but with the minute details of their everyday application.
Colonel Gamble, commanding, replied that he would be glad to comply with the request, and put himself at their head, but that he had just sent them on board the "Brandywine" and "Vincennes." Application was then made to Commodore Hidgely, commander of the station; but he refused, on the ground that he had no authority to interfere.
"Has the word 'memory," he asks, "a real application to unconscious organic phenomena, or do we use it outside its ancient limits only in a figure of speech?"
They then sent for a supply to the English envoys who were anxiously watching the progress of events at Berwick: but the sum sent to them in answer to their application was intercepted by the Earl of Bothwell his first appearance in history, on which he was to leave thereafter such traces of disaster.
Is son to the lord-keeper North, hath been abroad, does not want sense nor application to business, and his genius leads him that way. Swift. A mighty silly fellow. Macky. Having-followed King James's fortunes, is now in France. He was always a great sportsman, and brave; a good companion, turned of 60 years old. Swift. His son was a plain drunken fellow. Macky.
Stuart, though even then giving promise of the distinction at which he arrived in his profession later in life, was at that period so entirely devoted to politics that the business of the office was altogether a secondary matter to him; and Lincoln, although no longer in his first youth, being then thirty-two years of age, had not yet formed those habits of close application which are indispensable to permanent success at the bar.
Otherwise, if there are not good grounds for your application for the prize of virtue there will be no reason why you should make a mystery of your legacy. You could then invest it in some more normal manner than that I have suggested to you." "Oh! how cautious monsieur is!" she said, with evident disappointment, having thought the affair settled. "This money, God be thanked!
Bleak, the children and the horse at a quiet soda-fountain in the suburbs. After repeated application over the wireless telephone, the terrible Bishop the Prohibishop, as Quimbleton called him had agreed to grant them an audience, and had accorded them safe-conduct through the chuff troops. Even so, their progress was difficult.
There is nothing more helpful in the training of the will than the frequent performance of tasks requiring application, self control, and the making of decisions.
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