ineligibility

Updated: June 30, 2025

If Hudson Van Sweller, in policeman's uniform, has saved the life of palpitating beauty in the park where is Mounted Policeman O'Roon, in whose territory the deed is done? How quickly by a word can the hero reveal himself, thus discarding his masquerade of ineligibility and doubling the romance! But there is his friend! Van Sweller touches his cap.

O. Henry - Rolling Stones

A sense of honest dealing at the outset had plainly suggested the ineligibility of a Belgian subject to the third Commissionership, and suggested also the impropriety of leaving to the Austrian Ambassador in London the selection of the Commissioner. The narrative will show that the British Government had determined upon the one or the other, and in the end accomplished both. The reply of Mr.

James Gillespie Blaine - Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 : From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

Denial of the Trinity, or of the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, was punishable, for the first offense, by ineligibility to office, whether ecclesiastical, civil, or military, and, upon a second conviction, by disability to sue, to act as guardian or as administrator.

Maria Louise Greene - The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut

A bill to render the judges ineligible to sit in the Assembly passed the Assembly; but the Council amended the bill, by postponing the period at which the ineligibility was to have effect, to the expiration of the parliament then in being, and sent it back to the Assembly for concurrence.

Charles Roger - The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation: Volume 1

We will specify some of the things which are often confounded with slavery. Privation of the right of suffrage. Then minors are slaves. Ineligibility to office. Then females are slaves. Taxation without representation. Then three-fourths of the people of Rhode Island are slaves, and all in the District of Columbia. Privation of one's oath in law. Then the free colored people of Ohio are slaves.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

"Why?" Finding it difficult to explain his convictions of her ineligibility, Clarence thought it equally crushing not to give any. There was a long silence. It was very hot and dusty. The wagon scarcely seemed to move. Clarence gazed at the vignette of the track behind them formed by the hood of the rear. Presently he rose and walked past her to the tail-board.

Bret Harte - A Waif of the Plains