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And if Hicks and Hicks should sell out or go into bankruptcy the salesman will have won for his own house a steady customer of great value. In the Sleeping Car. The wise traveling man and our salesman is wise always engages sleeping accommodations on the train in advance. This time he has the lower berth in No. 9.
These contracts are generally drawn up at sea, and by virtue of them, the captain of the captor engages for the release and safe conduct of the taken ship, in consideration of a sum of money, which the master of the captured vessel, on behalf of himself and the owners of his ship and cargo, engages to pay, and for the payment of which he delivers a hostage as security.
My first acquaintance with caviar was at Nicolayevsk, and I soon learned to like it. It is generally eaten with bread, and forms an important ingredient in the Russian lunch. On the Volga its preparation engages a great many men, and the caviar from that river is found through the whole empire. Along the Amoor the business is in its infancy, the production thus far being for local consumption.
The descendants of the northern nations, long after they had plundered and repeopled the greatest part of Europe, retained nearly the same ideas of love, and practised the same methods in declaring it, that they had imbibed from their ancestors. "Love," says William of Montagnogout, "engages to the most amiable conduct. Love inspires the greatest actions.
"Everybody in Baltimore knows of them," declared Jim with full civic pride. "I shall take the two-thirty train," said Martin. "Maybe we shall travel together." "That's the one I take," said Jim. "Match you to see who engages berths for both of us." "I'll gladly engage one for you without matching," declared Martin, a proffer which Jim immediately accepted.
He that engages in trade, and does not resolve to work at it, is felo de se; it is downright murdering himself; that is to say, in his trading capacity, he murders his credit, he murders his stock, and he starves, which is as bad as murdering, his family.
In its own interest it engages to permit that nature in its service, placed under its dependence, shall still preserve its character of nature, and never act in a manner contrary to its anterior obligations.
The acquisition of knowledge seldom engages the attention of the nobles, who abhor the fatigue and disdain the advantages of study; and the only books they peruse are the 'Satires of Juvenal, or the fabulous histories of Marius Maximus.
The Honourable Company engages to serve you, and you the Honourable Company; both parties shall be thus served; that's just and reasonable." "And what must I do for the Company?" "Only go to India; that's all." "And what should I do in India?" "Fight, my brave boy! fight, my youthful hero!" "What kind of country is India?" "The finest country in the world! Rivers, bigger than the Ouse.
Therefore, when fears and terrors beset thee, think of thy Lord's love to thee, His power engages to preserve thee, and His promises to comfort thee. From the deeply interesting narrative of the experience of Mr.
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