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Updated: June 7, 2025
Men had arisen there who undertook the collection of the land tax of a district and paid the government an agreed-upon sum. The poor cultivator could not reach the government at all. He was in the power of the Zemindar, who alone dealt with the authorities. As was to have been expected, the result was just as it has been found in Ireland.
Therefore, when the first line of the enemy at the shore were driven back by our men, unable to bear our attack, they set fire to the grass, thereby giving the agreed-upon signal to retreat to those who were guarding the tents during the battle. In response to the signal, they snatched anything of any value, and fled.
She appeared to be listening and watching for some agreed-upon signal from the corral. Ned moved over toward her cautiously. Once the old woman moved, involuntarily, toward the mules, but she drew back in a moment and stood, waiting, with her eyes on the boys, now in a little group not far from the spot where she stood.
And so the game went on, usually with the result explained by Shakespeare's fisherman in Pericles: 'I marvel how the fishes live in the sea' -'Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. The Newcastle coal trade grew into something very like a modern American trust with the additional advantage of an authorized government monopoly so long as the agreed-upon duty was paid.
"'At night, when I shall come to you again, under cover of the darkness, you will pay over to me the agreed-upon price the ten pearls which her highness has placed in your custody. "'They are here, I assented, holding aloft the little string of pearls, the purpose they were intended to serve at last made clear to my understanding.
Instead of the agreed-upon single shot as the signal that water had been found, Hippy Wingate emptied his revolver into the air, then, urging on his weary pony, rode on ahead, with Emma following, shouting and urging her pony to go faster that she and Hippy might reach the precious water ahead of the others.
Your way of doing business makes a hit with me." Phil inserted the agreed-upon price in the contract. "Just sign your name there, please," he said, still in that soft, persuasive voice. The storekeeper read the brief contract through, nodded approvingly, then affixed his signature with the fountain pen that Phil had handed to him.
A dinner-dance is pretty much alike in all civilized and semi-civilized communities. It will really be more descriptive to indicate a few aspects in which this function of amusement differed from one of the same kind given last night in a fashionable home or hotel in New York. First, the guests came all together from some agreed-upon rendezvous.
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