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'Well, sir, I should advise you to get your lawyer to read it. In my opinion, sir, you are not liable at all. 'Not liable! Frank felt as if his heart had turned suddenly from a round-shot to an air-balloon. 'Why not liable? 'You were a little slapdashy, if one might say so, in matters of business, sir, and perhaps you read that bond less carefully than I did.

"I'm liable to get out of here right now and have a little bout with you." "Well," said Stubbs, "I can lick you now." Chester grinned. "Guess you're right," he said. "Maybe I had better postpone it. By the way, did the attack succeed?" "Did it?" exclaimed Stubbs enthusiastically. "I rather think it did.

As we see, grief itself is easily softened when we charge those who grieve with weakness and an effeminate mind; or when we commend the gravity and constancy of those who bear calmly whatever befalls them here, as accidents to which all men are liable; and, indeed, this is generally the feeling of those who look on these as real evils, but yet think they should be borne with resignation.

The great fortunes of the new order of things by their very magnitude were stable acquisitions, not easily liable to be lost, capable of being handed down from generation to generation with almost as much security as a title of nobility.

That made me laugh, but I didn't think it necessary to explain to her that, once away from the shelter of my own walls, I should be just as liable to a panic as any one else, or that I knew we should not find a conveyance, or, worse still, that her money and her jewels would hardly be safe inside her corset if she were to meet with some of the Uhlans who were still about us.

It seemed as though the colonel wanted to prepare me for any service that in the nature of things I was liable to be called upon to perform.

Neither was he the man to go down into a well in search of her. Truth was not liable to wet feet but Pope was. And he had no such ardor for Truth as would ever lead him to forget that wells were damp, and bronchitis alarming to a man of his constitution. Whatever service Pope may have meditated to the philosophy of morals, he has certainly performed none.

They destroyed their temples and mosques, and so harassed and interfered with the people that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain any longer in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment, torture, and death if they worshipped after their own fashion the gods of their fathers.

If so, the second inquiry is, Was he so connected with the murder itself as that he is liable to be convicted as a principal? The defendant is indicted as a principal. If not guilty as such, you cannot convict him. The indictment contains three distinct classes of counts.

"I'll do nothing of the kind!" Lorraine set her mouth stubbornly. "Well, then I'll have to lay you down," said Al, lifting her to her feet. "If you get balky, I'm liable to get rough." Lorraine drew away from him as far as she could and looked at him for a full minute. Al stared back into her eyes.