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"Fair words are easily bought," said Rose, still rejecting the chain, "but they are seldom worth the purchase-money." "Do you scorn my proffer, damsel?" said De Lacy: "it has graced the neck of a Norman count." "Give it to a Norman countess then, my lord," said the damsel; "I am plain Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter.
Groot Schuurr was a rendezvous for people of all classes, denominations, and politics; they were all welcome, and they certainly all came. From morn till eve they passed in and out, very often to proffer a request, or, again, simply to pay their respects and have the pleasure of a few minutes' chat. After his morning ride, Mr.
I proffer myself as an example, since there is none other upon whom publicity may be thrust, and really in the spirit of performing an inevitable duty, such duty being comprehended in the fervent desire to proclaim from the lowly height of my housetop how health unbought and happiness unrealisable may be enjoyed in this delicately equable clime.
It was not for Annie to proffer a reason, and it did not seem to be the wish of Menelaws to ask one. In a short time afterwards they were married. The new-married couple, apparently happy in the enjoyment of an affection which had continued so long, and had survived the crossing of a new love, at least on one side, removed to a separate house farther up in the Lawnmarket.
Grile hastened to proffer a paper of tobacco, which disappeared like a wisp of oats drawn into a threshing machine. "I was one among the first who " Mr. Grile hit him on the head with a paving-stone by way of changing the topic. "Young man," continued he, "do you feel this bommy breeze? There isn't a climit in the world " This melancholy relic broke down in a fit of coughing.
This is the spectacle, and not a supercilious assumption on the part of the shop-girl. Her courteous refusal to take a seat, or courteous acceptance of it, is more familiar than the courteous proffer. Cato the younger suggests that it is a wrong that seats should not be provided, and holds that the company should be compelled to furnish the accommodation for which it is paid.
"And one must be wise indeed to know when 'one may grasp it by the hair' as thou hast the chance with this most gracious proffer of the Signoria before thee to reject."
Jerome, who had seen his uncle cram tobacco into old Peter's hand, used sometimes to leave the path on his way to school, when he saw the delving old figure in the ploughed field, and discovered, even at a distance, that his jaws were still and his brow knotted, run up to him, and proffer as a substitute for the beloved weed a generous piece of spruce-gum.
His native awkwardness became all the worse at this and, utterly unable to proffer any but the most confused excuses, he fled from the office of his chief leaving the latter in a high state of irritation. It should be added that this man was more than ordinarily intelligent and that his successor was by no means his equal.
Magua held out the wallet to the proffer of the other. He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying the least emotion, or varying his riveted attitude of attention.
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