Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
He said that whatever the first intent of the constitution was, usage had made the presidential electors strictly the instruments of the party which chose them, and that for him to have voted for Tilden when he had been chosen to vote for Hayes would have-been an act of bad faith.
"I recognized him. Yes, Robert Patience, my old college chum. It was he. I took his outstretched hand: "'And how are you? "'Fine! "His smile was like a paean of victory. "He asked: "'What are you doing here? "I explained that I was government inspector of taxes. "He continued, pointing to my red ribbon: "'Then you have-been a success? "I answered: "'Fairly so. And you? "'I am doing well!
"Cedarhurst, July 22nd, 1915. "If we ask what have-been the results of our eleven weeks' negotiations over the Lusitania incident, and which involved the employment of all our available arts of persuasion, we may well reply that we have, despite our grave difficulties, averted the severance of diplomatic relations and the inevitable war that must have followed.
She was of about two hundred tons burthen, but must have-been old and rotten. Tibbets was master, and Wilson was chief-mate. I shipped as a sort of second-mate, keeping a watch, though I lived forward at my own request. We must have sailed about January, 1818, bound to Belfast. There were fourteen of us, altogether, on board, most of us down-easters.
And Love was lost to Helen Murray; the choice pearl had fallen in the vast gulf of Might- have-been, and not all the forces of Nature would ever restore to her that priceless gem.
There was Madge and the donkey basket-trap ahead on the road to the house, bearing proof of the veiled had-been: signification of a might- have-been. Why not a possible might-be? Still the might-be might be. Looking on this shaven earth and sky of March with the wrathful wind at work, we know that it is not the end: a day follows for the world.
Pasmer, at her lightest through the surrounding gravity, "that as all Americans marry for love, only Americans who have been very good ought to get married." "I'm not sure that the have-been goodness is enough either," said Mrs. Brinkley, willing to push it to the absurd. "You marry a man's future as well as his past." "Dear me! You are terribly exigeante, Mrs. Brinkley," said Mrs. Pasmer.
It was then easy to observe that he was more satisfied, more highly pleased with the supposed motives of his baulk of consummation, than he would have-been at the full attainment of it. It was on this foot that I solved to myself all the falsity I employed to procure him that blissful pleasure in it, which most certainly he would not have tasted in the truth of things.
And all the time she wondered a far-reaching, mazelike, elaborately intricate and wholly inconclusive wonder. Hers was a nature which suffered perpetual solicitation from possible alternatives, hearing warning voices from the vague, delusive regions of the might-be or might- have-been.
There was a strange insistency in the repeated question and a deep anxiety in his eyes, which passed as Kelham laughed. It was the genuine, honest laugh of the man who loves and is willing to shoulder the burdens, great and small, which love brings in her train. "You say there is no 'have-been' in love, Carden. I say there is no question of forgiveness in love.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking