Engage

When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.” “In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.” “But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.” “It is more than I engage for, I assure you.” “But consider your daughters.

And a clever man might question why your father would engage a hedge knight to train you in arms instead of simply sending you off to apprentice with one of the free companies.

“I engage,” Said Hum, “in duty, and in vassalage, To mention all the Berthas in the earth;— There’s Bertha Watson,—and Miss Bertha Page,— This famed for languid eyes, and that for mirth,— There’s Bertha Blount of York,—and Bertha Knox of Perth.” XLIII “You seem to know”—“I do know,” answer’d Hum, “Your Majesty’s in love with some fine girl Named Bertha; but her surname will not come, Without a little conjuring.” “ ’Tis Pearl, ’Tis Bertha Pearl!

Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken.

Hither and thither he dived that night: now working at the pumps, and now hurrying through the smoke and flame, but never ceasing to engage himself wherever noise and men were thickest.

This quality, fair ladies, know Prevails much more, you’ll find it so, T’engage and captivate a heart, Than a fine head dress’d up with art; ‘Tis the true gift of heaven and fate, Without it none in any state Effectual any thing can do; But with it all things well and true.

Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most weak.

Therefore, a prince, not being able to exercise this virtue of liberality in such a way that it is recognized, except to his cost, if he is wise he ought not to fear the reputation of being mean, for in time he will come to be more considered than if liberal, seeing that with his economy his revenues are enough, that he can defend himself against all attacks, and is able to engage in enterprises without burdening his people; thus it comes to pass that he exercises liberality towards all from whom he does not take, who are numberless, and meanness towards those to whom he does not give, who are few.

These are the crimes with which they load the name Of Turnus, and on him alone exclaim: “Let him who lords it o’er th’ Ausonian land Engage the Trojan hero hand to hand: His is the gain; our lot is but to serve; ’Tis just, the sway he seeks, he should deserve.” This Drancës aggravates; and adds, with spite: “His foe expects, and dares him to the fight.” Nor Turnus wants a party, to support His cause and credit in the Latian court.

I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.

But according to the Old Testament, the prophesying of the seer, and afterwards of the prophet, so far as the meaning of the word “seer” was incorporated into that of prophet, had reference only to things of the time then passing, or very closely connected with it; such as the event of a battle they were going to engage in, or of a journey, or of any enterprise they were going to undertake, or of any circumstance then pending, or of any difficulty they were then in; all of which had immediate reference to themselves (as in the case already mentioned of Ahaz and Isaiah with respect to the expression, “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son,”) and not to any distant future time.

“And will you engage not to do any harm to the sentry, except as a last resort?” “I promise on my honor.” “Then,” said the abbé, “we may hope to put our design into execution.” “And how long shall we be in accomplishing the necessary work?” “At least a year.” “And shall we begin at once?” “At once.” “We have lost a year to no purpose!” cried Dantès.

Jo saw a big redheaded youth approaching her corner, and fearing he meant to engage her, she slipped into a curtained recess, intending to peep and enjoy herself in peace.

He said to himself that his day had also come now, that his hour had struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast to bayonets, to shed his blood, to seek the enemy, to seek death, that he was about to wage war in his turn and descend to the field of battle, and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war!

Also he was fond of variety, and the sport that engrossed him one moment would suddenly cease to engage him, so there was always the possibility that the next time you fell he would let you go.

At doing something—I will not engage that my neighbors shall pronounce it good—I do not hesitate to say that I should be a capital fellow to hire; but what that is, it is for my employer to find out.

As a rule, Politics wasn't much of a conversational draw with the Old Crocks, who preferred a good bowel-cancer or stroke any day, but even out here the abortion issue exercised its singular ability to engage, inflame, and divide.

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days As I walk these broad majestic days of peace, (For the war, the struggle of blood finish’d, wherein, O terrific Ideal, Against vast odds erewhile having gloriously won, Now thou stridest on, yet perhaps in time toward denser wars, Perhaps to engage in time in still more dreadful contests, dangers, Longer campaigns and crises, labors beyond all others,) Around me I hear that éclat of the world, politics, produce, The announcements of recognized things, science, The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.

But there's always the larger question: If we engage in that type of war with the Capitol, would there be any human life left?"

This circumstance, added to his well-known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him.

―I’ll engage he did, Mr Dedalus said.

Always I grew to dominate those things into which I had drifted, but in none of them did I voluntarily engage.

Either we abandon the long-honored Theory of Relativity, or we cease to believe that we can engage in continued accurate prediction of the future.

“I now invite you all to eat, drink, and make yourselves at home!”He sat down, and Harry saw Karkaroff lean forward at once and engage him in conversation.The plates in front of them filled with food as usual.

While I was anxiously brooding on the bread problem, so troublesome to wanderers, and trying to believe that I might learn to live like the wild animals, gleaning nourishment here and there from seeds, berries, etc., sauntering and climbing in joyful independence of money or baggage, Mr. Delaney, a sheep-owner, for whom I had worked a few weeks, called on me, and offered to engage me to go with his shepherd and flock to the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers—the very region I had most in mind.

At last he looked straight at Raskolnikov, and said loudly and resolutely: “May I venture, honoured sir, to engage you in polite conversation?

Cease to provoke me, lest I make thee more The world's aversion, than their love before; Now the bright prize for which mankind engage, Than, the sad victim, of the public rage."

And a clever man might question why your father would engage a hedge knight to train you in arms instead of simply sending you off to apprentice with one of the free companies.

At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that there are on plain,115 and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, “Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God’s good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth.” “What giants?” said Sancho Panza.

‘What crimes will they charge me with?’ ‘Incompetence over Ferrara, insubordination, refusal to engage the enemy in combat when ordered to do so, and desertion.’ Yossarian sucked his cheeks in soberly.

Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered, how objectless was my life and how little there was to engage my attention.

Of all those expensive and uncertain projects, however, which bring bankruptcy upon the greater part of the people who engage in them, there is none perhaps more perfectly ruinous than the search after new silver and gold mines.