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  • I smiled at a few, paused to take photographs of others with proffered cameras.†   (source)
  • "I am comfortable with that," Vogel replied, taking the proffered breakfast.†   (source)
  • 'And you two are clearly Weasleys,' Mrs Longbottom continued, proffering her hand regally to Ron and Ginny in turn.†   (source)
  • He shuffled half sidewise, an injured crab, making his way toward where Ed Soames stood proffering the Holy Bible.†   (source)
  • The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon.†   (source)
  • The OVER-ATTENTIVE WIZARD proffers something for HARRY to sign—he signs it.†   (source)
  • A cartoon butler proffered a business card on a silver tray: BLINGEN AND TARKWELL, SINCE 1928.†   (source)
  • He proffered another photo, a close-up.†   (source)
  • He proffered the stone.†   (source)
  • Fortunately for Mack, it was Nan herself who proffered a solution.†   (source)
  • Eerily, the video included a biblical reference to human sacrifice ...."the submission of Abraham to the Supreme Being by proffering Isaac, his firstborn son."†   (source)
  • Scott appears at my side, proffering the towel.†   (source)
  • She hands her stuff-the plank and the aluminum case-up to the man with the glass eye, then vaults up into the back of the semi, ignoring his proffered hand.†   (source)
  • One of them was a woman in her forties who during the Q and A had taken the proffered microphone and then lowered her voice to a barely audible whisper.†   (source)
  • For Paul, she knew, she should take that spout and drink of the sack's contents, but as she bent to the proffered spout, her senses told her its peril.†   (source)
  • The Illustrated Man, in slow motion, proffered the bullet.†   (source)
  • She'd hoped for validation and he'd proffered only doubt, thrusting at her immediately the one issue she'd dared not confront.†   (source)
  • He keeps his eyes on the tile floor as he goes from one to the other, proffering refreshments, as if to reassure us there will be no witnesses.†   (source)
  • Still, with each step, he had to wait for a fraction of a second, or wave off the proffered instrument in favor of another.†   (source)
  • I'd chat with the girl behind the counter as I waited for my change, nod as the neighbor again threatened to call the super, ignored the proffered literature as I firmly shut the door in the Jehovah's faces.†   (source)
  • Gray Stoddard had gone directly to Lydia Sessions, with his proffers of books, and his suggestions for Johnnie.†   (source)
  • Paterson was the same British officer who, in July, had carried letters to Washington from Lord Howe proffering the possibility of peace.†   (source)
  • He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties.†   (source)
  • Ameh Bozorg's daughters Zohreh and Fereshteh bustled about, proffering trays full of cigarettes to the more important guests and serving tea to everyone.†   (source)
  • Some went eagerly, kneeling before Prusias to kiss the proffered cane, but others lost their courage in the end.†   (source)
  • "That would be me," John said, standing and proffering his hand.†   (source)
  • The next day, she said she felt well enough to take a turn in the garden, and she mocked the rector and me as I refused to let her walk unsupported and he hovered, proffering unwanted shawls one moment and contriving unneeded shade the next.†   (source)
  • If a name is proffered, well and good.†   (source)
  • Actually, most of them seemed to be generous with each other, even with him, proffering their bottles wrapped in paper bags, or whatever it was they were smoking.†   (source)
  • Theoden drank from the cup, and she then proffered it to the guests.†   (source)
  • 'These three men, these three who held all the hope which the gift of intelligence ever proffered, these three from whom we expected such a magnificent future-one of them was Francisco d'Anconia, who became a depraved playboy.†   (source)
  • "We met," Isabelle said coldly, ignoring his proffered hand.†   (source)
  • No husbands involved, Janis had said, proffering the idea as though it were an hors d'oeuvre.†   (source)
  • He proffers the remains of the carrot toVladimir.†   (source)
  • Had he chosen to betray humanity and accept the proffers of the gods, it is said by some that he might have dwelled forever as a Lord of the City and not have met his death beneath the claws of the phantom cats of Kaniburrha.†   (source)
  • At first it was wildly exciting, almost the first contact of its kind in my life, the feel of that little Baptist hand on my prodigiously straining shaft, and I capitulated immediately, drenching us both, which to my surprise (given her general squeamishness) she didn't seem to mind, blandly swabbing herself off with my proffered handkerchief But after three nights and nine separate orgasms (three each night, counted methodically) I have become very close to being desensitized, and I realize that there is something nearly insane about this activity.†   (source)
  • ANNIE gasps, and moves to grip HELEN'S wrist; but KATE intervenes with a proffered sweet, and HELEN drops the card, crams the sweet into her mouth, and scrambles up to search her mother's hands for more.†   (source)
  • (Proffering a goblet) Here, drink this†   (source)
  • I learned later that Piedmont liked his subordinates to grovel a bit before they presented a proposal, shuffle a bit before they offered a suggestion, and lie prone on their faces before they dared proffer a bit of advice.†   (source)
  • His father proffered a Life Saver, courteously, man to man; he took it with a special sense of courtesy.†   (source)
  • Dazed, Church climbed to his feet and timidly took the proffered drink.†   (source)
  • What would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account?   (source)
  • Harry gripped Dumbledore's proffered forearm.†   (source)
  • He could choose one of her proffered young ladies, the richest one.†   (source)
  • She proffers her forearm with its ropey blue veins.†   (source)
  • I am sure she will be given a warm greeting and any help or aid we all can proffer.†   (source)
  • He proffered the last piece; the dragon considered it for a moment, then lazily snapped it up.†   (source)
  • "I envy your powers of recovery," said Peter, shaking the proffered hand appreciatively.†   (source)
  • As Max shook the proffered hand, he saw that the inside of Vilyak's wrist had some sort of tattoo.†   (source)
  • The merchant grabbed the proffered bills and shoved the T-shirts into a paper bag.†   (source)
  • Startled, Clary handed Jace back his stele and took the proffered garment.†   (source)
  • The professor stood and took John's proffered hand in both of his own, pumping it frenetically.†   (source)
  • "Hmph," said Mr. McDaniels, shaking the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • Ghosh took the proffered hand and while supporting it he felt for the radial artery.†   (source)
  • He took another leisurely bite of the oil stick before proffering it to her.†   (source)
  • Jason proffered a ten-franc note, his innocent eyes looking blankly at the highly suspicious woman.†   (source)
  • He looked at his proffered hand, then sheepishly withdrew it.†   (source)
  • Sauron had taken the proffered bait in jaws of steel.†   (source)
  • He proffers his handkerchief to Estragon.†   (source)
  • Eragon hastened to do the same for Arya, but she ignored the proffered chair and stood at a distance from the table.†   (source)
  • In the very first degree, Masons celebrated "the most august gift ever offered to God ....the submission of Abraham to the volitions of the supreme being by proffering Isaac, his firstborn ...."†   (source)
  • I took the card that she proffered regardless, a little stunned that this woman would have the slightest interest in what I did with my life.†   (source)
  • Enterprises such as yours are unfortunately much required at present, both in our own country and in yours, as, due to the increased anxieties of modern life and the consequent stresses upon the nerves, the rate of construction can scarcely keep pace with the numbers of applicants; and I beg to proffer any small assistance, which it may lie within my power to bestow.†   (source)
  • The wife of the accused man appeared, briefly, as if she might turn in his direction and go to him, but instead she proceeded without hurry toward Ed Soames, who stood in front of the witness stand proffering the Old Testament patiently.†   (source)
  • Slipping Zar'roc from its sheath, he placed the sword flat on his palms, then lifted it, as if to proffer it to Jormundur.†   (source)
  • There was a vast dim dining room with William Morris wallpaper, the Strawberry Thief design, and a chandelier entwined with bronze water-lilies, and three high stained-glass windows, shipped in from England, showing episodes from the story of Tristan and Iseult (the proffering of the love potion, in a ruby-red cup; the lovers, Tristan on one knee, Iseult yearning over him with her yellow hair cascading — hard to render in glass, a little too much like a melting broom; Iseult alone, dejected, in purple draperies, a harp nearby).†   (source)
  • Above us, on a glass-fronted balcony, men in suits proffered champagne glasses to women in wedding outfits.†   (source)
  • Even now, to honor the sacrifice made by Jesus, his followers proffered their own feeble gestures of personal sacrifice ....fasting, Lenten renunciation, tithing.†   (source)
  • Proffering confused thanks, Swayne walked swiftly back to the golf cart and climbed in beside his master sergeant.†   (source)
  • The agent had proffered his government identification and was shown the evening's records by the frightened employee.†   (source)
  • Her rhythmic snores soon proved that she slept, while Johnnie lay thinking of the various proffers she had that evening received of a lamp to her feet, a light on her path.†   (source)
  • A figure would appear — shadow, penumbra; and Ralph like a priest would proffer up through the unearthly shaft, through the snow of sun-spangled dust, his mute communication to the outside world — placing carefully in the hands of another human being, stooped down to receive them, these — his chickens, his doing.†   (source)
  • "You must be sure to always use prophylactics, Dr. Ghosh," he said and immediately turned sheepish, because W.W. was hardly one to proffer such advice.†   (source)
  • When Stoddard's presence and help had been proffered to herself, Johnnie had not failed to find a gracious way of declining or avoiding; but you cannot reprove a sick man—a dying man.†   (source)
  • Reluctantly, Jack took the ring from his pocket and proffered it to a hesitant Artus, who finally took it and placed it on his finger.†   (source)
  • With a sudden, impulsive movement, and somewhat to Cassy's surprise, Johnnie followed into the pantry, seized the proffered cap and apron and proceeded to put them on.†   (source)
  • In response, the little man rooted around inside his thread-bare cloak for a moment before locating a crumpled note, which he proffered to John.†   (source)
  • "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Tummeler," said Jack, who, to the badger's delight, shook his proffered paw.†   (source)
  • It makes no difference to me whether you take it," he finished, proffering the ring in his open claw.†   (source)
  • John again unwrapped the Geographica and proffered it to Nemo, who accepted it as if he were holding a fragile parchment that would crumble if he breathed on it the wrong way.†   (source)
  • (Indicating CRANMER) CRANMER (Proffering Bible) I do solemnly swear ....RICH I do solemnly swear that the evidence I shall give before the Court shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth†   (source)
  • HELEN is enough interested in and puzzled by this spelling that she proffers her hand again; so ANNIE spells and impassively dunks it back in the spillage.†   (source)
  • It is said by his detractors, though, that he did accept these proffers, but was later betrayed himself, so giving his sympathies back to suffering mankind for the rest of his days, which were few...Then, as so often in the past, her snowy fur was sleeked by the wind.†   (source)
  • But all he did was to say, "No, thank you," and fend off the proffered tube of tablets.†   (source)
  • To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.†   (source)
  • She sank into the proffered chair, glaring at the discomfited fat captain, and gave her name.†   (source)
  • "Out West," I said, with elaborate casualness, taking the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • "I wonder if this would be any use to the poor man," she proffered condescendingly.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Tony leaped away from the proffered cut of meat as if it were a rattlesnake.†   (source)
  • Poirot proffered a sheet of paper and pencil, but the Princess waved them aside.†   (source)
  • Bernard pushed away the proffered glass impatiently.†   (source)
  • It is my duty to the Queen to make this proffer.†   (source)
  • Poirot proffered one, which he accepted.†   (source)
  • Mallinson proffered no information, but Conway knew roughly how he was situated.†   (source)
  • He at once proffered me another box, handing me the cigarettes too, at the same time.†   (source)
  • The attendant proffered the glass again.†   (source)
  • The Holy Father bids us to accept your proffer, Lancelot.†   (source)
  • I ha' heard Sir Lancelot's speech and his great proffers, but he hath slain my brothers.†   (source)
  • Or the blonde princess in the fabulous Balkans, the empress of gabled Toyland, and the Doll Hussars—he would renounce, in a great scene upon the frontiers, her proffered renunciation, drinking eternal farewell on her red mouth, but wedding her to himself and to the citizenship of freedom when revolution had levelled her fortune to his own.†   (source)
  • Only a few yards off, a tall, lean stranger approached, stooping slightly and bearing close to his dark coat, a white parcel, high, as though he meant to proffer it to the two boys before him.†   (source)
  • She raised herself then in her bed and stared at him again and she said wondering, "My son—it is my son—" and she looked at him for a long time and at last as though she did not know what else to do she proffered him her opium pipe, as if she could think of no greater good than this, and she said to the slave that tended her, "Prepare some for him."†   (source)
  • Because before the act was completed the man, without changing his indolent and contemptuous attitude, turned his face and looked once at the proffered pail through the drooping smoke of the cigarette.†   (source)
  • I don't plead material necessity: the fact that, an orphan a woman and a pauper, I turned naturally not for protection but for actual food to my only kin: my dead sister's family: though I defy anyone to blame me, an orphan of twenty, a young woman without resources, who should desire not only to justify her situation but to vindicate the honor of a family the good name of whose women has never been impugned, by accepting the honorable proffer of marriage from the man whose food she was forced to subsist on.†   (source)
  • Somehow she would manage to introduce herself, and before her victim had scented danger she had proffered an invitation to her suite.†   (source)
  • Schloime, who held them in his lap, had risen with alacrity as he approached and proffered them to him.†   (source)
  • alien leavening from it and look not on my brother's face whom I did not know I possessed and hence never missed, but my father's, out of the shadow of whose absence my spirit's posthumeity has never escaped; —at what moment thinking, watching the eagerness which was without abjectness, the humility which surrendered no pride—the entire proffering of the spirit of which the unconscious aping of clothes and speech and mannerisms was but the shell—thinking what cannot I do with this willing flesh and bone if I wish; this flesh and bone and spirit which stemmed from the same source that mine did, but which sprang in quiet peace and contentment and ran in steady even though monotonous sunlight†   (source)
  • Plantations don't amount to anything when—" She was going to say "when you haven't the man you want," but Gerald, incensed by the cavalier way in which she treated his proffered gift, the thing which, next to Ellen, he loved best in the whole world uttered a roar.†   (source)
  • Their pure eyes turned up to him in everlasting close-ups: he feasted virtuously upon their proffered lips and, conflict over, murder sanctified, and virtue crowned, walked away with his siren into the convenient blaze of a constantly setting sun.†   (source)
  • Leo ignored the proffered fruit.†   (source)
  • And went into the house: and maybe somebody looking at him would have seen on his face an expression a good deal like the one—that proffering with humility yet with pride too, of complete surrender—which he had used to see on Henry's face, and maybe he telling himself I not only don't know what it is I want but apparently I am a good deal younger than I thought also: and saw face to face the man who might be his father, and nothing happened—no shock, no hot communicated flesh that speech would have been too slow even to impede—nothing.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later she was sitting up, sipping cognac from a glass proffered by the attendant, and talking once more.†   (source)
  • Poirot proffered his cigarette case.†   (source)
  • "I am so glad," said Mrs. Honeychurch, while Freddy proffered a hand that was yellow with chemicals.†   (source)
  • [He approaches her and shakes her proffered hand]†   (source)
  • Duane took her proffered hand and remarked frankly that he was glad to meet her.†   (source)
  • Miriam would have gladly proffered, but was afraid.†   (source)
  • "Good-bye," she answered, taking his proffered hand.†   (source)
  • "Thanks, Al," replied Dale, with his fleeting smile, and he met the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • "I never fall in love in August or September," he proffered.†   (source)
  • But he did not respond to her hint, and, a little affronted, she accepted the proffered chair.†   (source)
  • [One of the ACTORS brings a chair, the OTHERS proffer assistance†   (source)
  • Shefford repeated it as he met the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • Same to you," replied Cleve, and he met the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • He took something out of his pocket and proffered it.†   (source)
  • Don't thank me!" replied MacNelly, crushing the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • The big man produced three big cigars, and proffered them on his huge palm.†   (source)
  • Lawrence Selden was among those who had yielded to the proffered inducements.†   (source)
  • Beauty Smith put his hands behind his back, refusing to touch the proffered money.†   (source)
  • He kept it in his hand and steadfastly proffered it.†   (source)
  • "A goodly security!" said the Knight Templar; "and what do you proffer as a pledge?"†   (source)
  • 'Take care,' cried Mrs Squeers, as her husband proffered his assistance.†   (source)
  • [She proffers her hand and takes his with a resolute and hearty grip†   (source)
  • Magua held out the wallet to the proffer of the other.†   (source)
  • Surely for his soul's sake full many a prayer I'll proffer.†   (source)
  • 'You are on the scent, are you, Nancy?' inquired Sikes, proffering the glass.†   (source)
  • While speaking, he stopped, and stood with his arm again proffered to her assistance.†   (source)
  • For the rest, with little or no sharpness of faculty or any trace of the wisdom of the serpent, nor yet quite a dove, he possessed that kind and degree of intelligence going along with the unconventional rectitude of a sound human creature, one to whom not yet has been proffered the questionable apple of knowledge.†   (source)
  • Obviously he lacked the courage yet to follow up the proffer of her favors, was the way she explained it to herself.†   (source)
  • At almost any other moment of her life she would have refused such proffered aid and company, as she had refused them several times before; and now the loneliness would not of itself have forced her to do otherwise.†   (source)
  • She came, but refused to kiss them; it was such hard luck on the little things, she said, and though Dolly proffered Chorly-worly and Porgly-woggles in turn, she was obdurate.†   (source)
  • Hare met the proffered hand with his own, and as he had recoiled from Snap Naab so now he received another shock, different indeed but impelling in its power, instinctive of some great portent.†   (source)
  • Impulses of sympathy came naturally to her, and it was instinctive to proffer her help to Mrs. Fisher.†   (source)
  • Such are the visions which proffer great cornucopias full of fruit to the solitary traveller, or murmur in his ear like sirens lolloping away on the green sea waves, or are dashed in his face like bunches of roses, or rise to the surface like pale faces which fishermen flounder through floods to embrace.†   (source)
  • The industrial school springing to notice in this decade, but coming to full recognition in the decade beginning with 1895, was the proffered answer to this combined educational and economic crisis, and an answer of singular wisdom and timeliness.†   (source)
  • Mr. van der Luyden greeted Mrs. Archer with cousinly affability, proffered to Newland low-voiced congratulations couched in the same language as his wife's, and seated himself in one of the brocade armchairs with the simplicity of a reigning sovereign.†   (source)
  • [She takes his proffered arm]†   (source)
  • As it was, he cowered down in a paralysis of fear, already half proffering the submission that his kind had proffered from the first time a wolf came in to sit by man's fire and be made warm.†   (source)
  • For a moment she winced and trembled, quite faint under the strain, although previous to this she had entered many a jail and larger prison—in Kansas City, Chicago, Denver—and delivered tracts and exhortations and proffered her services in connection with anything she might do.†   (source)
  • The Chaplain coming to see him and finding him thus, and perceiving no sign that he was conscious of his presence, attentively regarded him for a space, then slipping aside, withdrew for the time, peradventure feeling that even he the minister of Christ, tho' receiving his stipend from Mars, had no consolation to proffer which could result in a peace transcending that which he beheld.†   (source)
  • The girl refused to take food proffered her by Riggs, but she ate and drank a little that Wilson brought her, then she disappeared in the spruce lean-to.†   (source)
  • The sergeant-major shook hands, and taking the proffered seat by the fire, watched contentedly while his host got out whiskey and tumblers and stood a small copper kettle on the fire.†   (source)
  • Archer was alone in his office, and the young man, before accepting the seat he proffered, began abruptly: "I believe I saw you, sir, yesterday in Boston."†   (source)
  • Now while Billy Budd was down in the forecastle getting his kit together, the Indomitable's Lieutenant, burly and bluff, nowise disconcerted by Captain Graveling's omitting to proffer the customary hospitalities on an occasion so unwelcome to him, an omission simply caused by preoccupation of thought, unceremoniously invited himself into the cabin, and also to a flask from the spirit-locker, a receptacle which his experienced eye instantly discovered.†   (source)
  • Duane took the proffered hand.†   (source)
  • He stood bareheaded, lean and tall, with neither his clear eyes nor his still face, nor the proffered hand expressing anything of the proven quality of fidelity, of achievement, that Helen sensed in him.†   (source)
  • The few relatives who had stayed on, or returned, for the reading of Mrs. Peniston's will, had taken flight again that afternoon to Newport or Long Island; and not one of them had made any proffer of hospitality to Lily.†   (source)
  • Still White Fang suspected; and though the meat was proffered to him with short inviting thrusts of the hand, he refused to touch it.†   (source)
  • He lit Selden's proffered cigarette, and continued, in his high-pitched drawling tone: "None of my business, of course, but I didn't introduce her to the Duchess.†   (source)
  • As it was, he cowered down in a paralysis of fear, already half proffering the submission that his kind had proffered from the first time a wolf came in to sit by man's fire and be made warm.†   (source)
  • She looked so plaintively lovely as she proffered the request, so trustfully sure of his sympathy and understanding, that Trenor felt himself wishing that his wife could see how other women treated him—not battered wire-pullers like Mrs. Fisher, but a girl that most men would have given their boots to get such a look from.†   (source)
  • At last, when he rose to return to his hotel, and was a little doubtful whether he knew the way by night, the whelp immediately proffered his services as guide, and turned out with him to escort him thither.†   (source)
  • I proffered my services and money.†   (source)
  • Then, to conceal his disappointment, he was profuse in apologies and proffers of service, all of which Emma declined; then she remained a few moments fingering in the pocket of her apron the two five-franc pieces that he had given her in change.†   (source)
  • To the latter therefore, the assistance, or rather connection that was proffered to him, seemed to produce a mutual advantage.†   (source)
  • And again, for anything I knew, the proffered information might have some important bearing on the flight itself.†   (source)
  • Dorothea wondered a little, but felt that it would be indelicate just then to ask for any information which Mr. Casaubon did not proffer, and she turned to the window to admire the view.†   (source)
  • They ask for beauties, self-proffered and easily enjoyed; above all, they must have what is unexpected and new.†   (source)
  • "I have come sir, at your bidding, to know my fortune," said the Quartermaster, in a strong Scotch accent, as soon as he had taken the seat which was proffered to him.†   (source)
  • Miss Sharp only folded her own hands with a very frigid smile and bow, and quite declined to accept the proffered honour; on which Semiramis tossed up her turban more indignantly than ever.†   (source)
  • Already, before these words are written, her Convention has undoubtedly ratified the acceptance, by her Congress, of our proffered invitation into the Union; and made the requisite changes in her already republican form of constitution to adapt it to its future federal relations.†   (source)
  • It is difficult to describe the rapacity with which the American rushes forward to secure the immense booty which fortune proffers to him.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.†   (source)
  • I find that I am not much to you; you do not need me; you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors, though you proffer me house and lands.†   (source)
  • No one had thought of denying Mr. Casson's testimony to the fact that he had seen the stranger; nevertheless, he proffered various corroborating circumstances.†   (source)
  • Tears of shame and indignation stood in the little monarch's eyes; and the thought in his heart was, "Had I offered them a deep wrong they could not be more cruel—yet have I proffered nought but to do them a kindness —and it is thus they use me for it!"†   (source)
  • His papers were in a little confusion, in consequence of Mr. Jack Maldon having lately proffered his occasional services as an amanuensis, and not being accustomed to that occupation; but we should soon put right what was amiss, and go on swimmingly.†   (source)
  • One moment porters ran up to her proffering their services, then young men, clacking their heels on the planks of the platform and talking loudly, stared at her; people meeting her dodged past on the wrong side.†   (source)
  • But as he would on no account accept this offer, she took a graceful leave of Ada—none of me—and put her hand upon his proffered arm, and got into the carriage, which was a little, low, park carriage with a hood.†   (source)
  • As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent. on the sum that might be recovered.†   (source)
  • She still responded, mechanically, to the frequent summons of the shop-bell, and, at the demand of her customers, went prying with vague eyes about the shop, proffering them one article after another, and thrusting aside—perversely, as most of them supposed—the identical thing they asked for.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dodge concluded that "half a loaf was better than no bread," and he agreed to the proffered terms.†   (source)
  • The youthful warrior listened to the words, which came from the lips of the other with a force and simplicity that established their truth, and he bowed his head on his naked bosom, in testimony of the respect with which he met the proffer.†   (source)
  • Also, when he said to Clennam, seating himself in the proffered chair, 'And you are in a new business, Mr Clennam?†   (source)
  • He came to proffer me his good offices in the language of Horace, and I felt that we were made to understand each other.†   (source)
  • And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer the passer-by their tapering upright cones of congregated blossoms.†   (source)
  • Why, yes, he is actually insolent over the matter—has already offered me his patronage, as if he were a grand personage, and proffered me a loan of money, as though he were a banker.†   (source)
  • These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.†   (source)
  • "I cannot precisely agree with you," said Clifford, courteously bowing to the old gentleman, and at once taking up the clew of conversation which the latter had proffered.†   (source)
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