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She wished to graduate in her class with a high grade. It was a foregone conclusion in her mind that Mercy Curtis was to bear off the highest honor. Her powers of invention, however, were taxed to their utmost just now as she wrote the scenario of the picture drama. Before Mr.
If he did he'd realize he can't be sure of winning his election without my valuable services. 'Geoffrey Stonor's re-election is always a foregone conclusion. Farnborough banged his hand on the arm of the chair. 'That the great man shares that opinion is precisely his weak point' then breaking into a pleasant smile as he made a clean breast of his hero-worship 'his only weak point!
I would fain that our enemies were such that they might amend toward us, and that they would do as much good to us without harming themselves as they have done evil, on condition that mine anger and yours were foregone against them.
There is no disputing that Tatyana Grigoryevna Zarubkin was one of the most looked-up-to of the ladies. She invariably played the most important part at all the regimental affairs the amateur theatricals, the social evenings, the afternoon teas. If the captain's wife was not to be present, it was a foregone conclusion that the affair would not be a success. The most important point was that Mrs.
He, now that she seemed to have relinquished the painful subject, drew to her, and as one who wished to smooth a foregone roughness, murmured: "God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman! My Emmeline bears her sleepless night well. She does not shame the day." He gazed down on her with a fondling tenderness.
It was a very fine wedding, and at three in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Philemon Nevitt Henry were put in a coach, a great luxury then, and went off in splendid state, with a supply of old slippers thrown after them for good luck. Captain Vane had lost his estate, that was a foregone conclusion. The next of kin had acted and proved the estates forfeited.
Moreover, he had taken his own way in going to Châtillon; was he sure that it was God's way? Vincent was humble enough to believe that he might be in the wrong. He consented to go to Paris to see M. de Bérulle and to allow himself to be guided by his advice. The result was a foregone conclusion, for the de Gondis had won over de Bérulle completely to their side.
Scenes crowded up in her memory as in a bright mirror glass, to demonstrate the deception of a marriage which, all that it should be in the eyes of the world, was in reality wretched. What had the delicate pride of young womanhood done for her the bliss foregone, the sacrifices made to the world?
The truth is, he was so far committed to a foregone conclusion, that he could not become a philosophical geologist. He might be aptly described as a theologian studying geology. The dominant idea with which he wrote, may be seen in the titles of two of his books Footprints of the Creator, The Testimony of the Rocks.
Yet there have been moments, or periods, in history, when the threatening conflagration could have been stayed and turned back from its course, when the useless shedding of blood might have been foregone when the fierce passions of the people might have been soothed and pacified, and when Justice might have been nobly done and catastrophe averted, if there had been but one brave man, one only! and that man a King!
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