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  • If you don't express a preference, the company default is to withhold some of your paycheck to invest in your personal  Individual Retirement Account.
    default = automatic result (if no action is taken)
  • Like I said, at Williamson I'm cool by default because I'm black.   (source)
    default = automatic result (unless something changes it)
  • When Daddy isn't home, Seven acts like he's the man of the house by default.   (source)
    default = automatic result
  • The ironic thing is though, at Williamson I don't have to "play it cool" — I'm cool by default because I'm one of the only black kids there.   (source)
    default = an automatic result unless something changes it
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  • I defaulted on my loan, and they repossessed my car.
    defaulted = failed to pay money that was owed
  • In these times a good banker has to be able to walk away from dreamers and pleaders and potential defaulters.†   (source)
  • "And I can tell you that by then I felt myself lucky to be paid at all," he added, for he had had colleagues driven destitute by lordly defaulters.†   (source)
  • This has been represented as both an implied relinquishment of those debts and a wicked way to protect public defaulters.†   (source)
  • Labeled a traitor to his party and section and an ally of the Whigs and British, Benton openly lost the support of prominent candidates for the Missouri Legislature and was subject to all manner of personal attacks—as a nonresident, a defaulter in his debts, and one contemptuous of public opinion.†   (source)
  • With bitter exasperation, Washington exclaimed: "I would rather be in my grave than in the Presidency"; and to Jefferson he wrote: I am accused of being the enemy of America, and subject to the influence of a foreign country …. and every act of my administration is tortured, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.†   (source)
  • A large ledger lay open at the note of some wretched defaulter, William atte Lane, who had been condemned to be hanged, suspendatur, for looting.†   (source)
  • "Still, to have kept her grandmother's carriage at a defaulter's door!"†   (source)
  • He remembered instances in which defaulters had been captured.†   (source)
  • Woe to the defaulter whose appeal lay to the tribunal where those severe eyes presided.†   (source)
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  • 'I haven't got it, Mr Pancks,' Defaulter would reply.†   (source)
  • He could only bite his nails and puff away to the next Defaulter.†   (source)
  • No, believe me!' the Defaulter would proceed with a shake of the head.†   (source)
  • The Defaulter would make answer, 'Ah, Mr Pancks.†   (source)
  • Defaulter would admit, with a low-spirited 'No, sir,' having no such expectation.†   (source)
  • The wild youngsters seeking notoriety and reckless adventure; the cowboys with a notch on their guns, with boastful pride in the knowledge that they were marked by rangers; the crooked men from the North, defaulters, forgers, murderers, all pale-faced, flat-chested men not fit for that wilderness and not surviving; the dishonest cattlemen, hand and glove with outlaws, driven from their homes; the old grizzled, bow-legged genuine rustlers—all these Duane had come in contact with, had…†   (source)
  • If she had occasion to find fault, she did it coolly and with perfect politeness, which the defaulter felt to be a bigger insult than crassness.†   (source)
  • His name had been proclaimed as a defaulter on the Stock Exchange, and his bankruptcy and commercial extermination had followed.†   (source)
  • The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.†   (source)
  • I started, or rather (for like other defaulters, I like to lay half the blame on ill fortune and adverse circumstances) was thrust on to a wrong tack at the age of one-andtwenty, and have never recovered the right course since: but I might have been very different; I might have been as good as you — wiser — almost as stainless.†   (source)
  • Somebody broke down in a piece of knitting, and no one but Sophy was able to put the defaulter in the right direction.†   (source)
  • By the way, Master Osborne, you came a little late this morning, and have been a defaulter in this respect more than once.†   (source)
  • 'You'd be easier with us if you were Mr Merdle, sir,' the Defaulter would go on with rising spirits, 'and it would be better for all parties.†   (source)
  • 'No, sir,' the Defaulter would reply.†   (source)
  • 'I had hoped it might not be so bad,' he said: 'but I had feared a heavy loss there, knowing the connection between her husband and the defaulter.'†   (source)
  • They always received a reference of this kind with a low murmur of response, as if it were convincing; and the Defaulter, however black and discomfited before, always cheered up a little in making it.†   (source)
  • The responsive Bleeding Hearts would then gather round the Defaulter whom he had just abandoned, and the most extravagant rumours would circulate among them, to their great comfort, touching the amount of Mr Merdle's ready money.†   (source)
  • Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.†   (source)
  • Mr Pancks, who was always in a hurry, and who referred at intervals to a little dirty notebook which he kept beside him (perhaps containing the names of the defaulters he meant to look up by way of dessert), took in his victuals much as if he were coaling; with a good deal of noise, a good deal of dropping about, and a puff and a snort occasionally, as if he were nearly ready to steam away.†   (source)
  • Throughout the remainder of the day, Bleeding Heart Yard was in consternation, as the grim Pancks cruised in it; haranguing the inhabitants on their backslidings in respect of payment, demanding his bond, breathing notices to quit and executions, running down defaulters, sending a swell of terror on before him, and leaving it in his wake.†   (source)
  • Sometimes whole circles are defaulters; and then they increase the mischief which they were instituted to remedy.†   (source)
  • This has been represented as a tacit relinquishment of those debts, and as a wicked contrivance to screen public defaulters.†   (source)
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  • Our bus broke down, so we didn't get there on time and lost the game by default.
    default = by not showing up
  • There are only three companies in town that provide the service and ours is the only one that is bonded, so we got the contract by default.
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  • Myra, by default.†   (source)
  • Credit Default Indenturement.†   (source)
  • Her default setting seemed to be stuck on Disapprove.†   (source)
  • Joe had defaulted on his construction loan and had never bothered to transfer the deeds to the new owners.†   (source)
  • It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.†   (source)
  • By default, Bernini was the Illuminati's unknown master; nobody else had contributed artwork to this chapel!†   (source)
  • So is Cheddar, I think, but snoozing is his default setting, so I can't be sure.†   (source)
  • The islanders often made gloomy predictions about what Mother Nature had in store for Cairnholm—they were at the mercy of the elements, after all, and pessimistic by default—but this time their worst fears were confirmed.†   (source)
  • It's been a week since we've kissed, and we're dating now by default.†   (source)
  • Do you really want to get me by default?†   (source)
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  • Given my lack of choices, what if I've just chosen him by default?†   (source)
  • All of us had learned by default to treasure freedom and would do anything we could to get it and keep it.†   (source)
  • There was little choice, as Her Highness Rachel is above manual labor, and Ruth May beneath it so to speak, so Leah and I were considered by our mother, by default, disposed for her errands.†   (source)
  • Now, by default, he was.†   (source)
  • Ten percent of these franchise loans ended in default.†   (source)
  • Well … no. So you got the default portal for the U.S.—the largest single source of Egyptian power in North America.†   (source)
  • That default led to dire consequences.†   (source)
  • His interest rates were outrageous, and little by little he began amassing more land and property as people defaulted on their loans.†   (source)
  • The screen flashes back to the default picture: a boy and a girl, smiling at each other, with glimmering lights and a white-coated Official in the background.†   (source)
  • But his default setting was stuck on eternal incorrigibility.†   (source)
  • His peers were unwilling to examine the dead, and so the job had fallen to him, by default as it were.†   (source)
  • It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.†   (source)
  • But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me.†   (source)
  • The trial, by default, would put an even thicker wall between them.†   (source)
  • And then, of course, the economy tanked and the country defaulted on its debt.†   (source)
  • Monica, sitting on the bumper, offered what I now knew to be one of her three default phrases, "Mmm-hmmm."†   (source)
  • He crossed the old trace again and he must turn the pony up onto the plain and homeward but the warriors would ride on in that darkness they'd become, rattling past with their stone-age tools of war in default of all substance and singing softly in blood and longing south across the plains to Mexico.†   (source)
  • By default and necessity, it is a maximum-security facility that houses many prisoners during the course of their airlift experiences.†   (source)
  • I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too.†   (source)
  • But mostly the model depended on lending to a group of twenty-five women who would all be responsible if any one of them defaulted.†   (source)
  • My first friends became the ones I got to know by default: the honors students.†   (source)
  • Its taller and more elusive neighbor twenty kilometers to the northeast became K2 by default, based on the later date of its "discovery."†   (source)
  • General Dreedle was victorious by default.†   (source)
  • My cell phone went off; my default alarm clock, so Amma would only have to yell up the stairs three times to get me up.†   (source)
  • Despite the heat, there is a festiveness everywhere, with those who remain behind having now won the city by default.†   (source)
  • He might not be much of a leader any longer, but he was leading the way by default.†   (source)
  • When princes defaulted on their debts to lesser banks, ruined bankers sold their wives and children into slavery and opened their own veins.†   (source)
  • But you won't be the first man to default on that promise.†   (source)
  • It is free enough of denning features of North and South to be considered, in Labov's phrase, the "default system of North American English.†   (source)
  • Though Simon imagined that Jace ran the gamut of facial expressions when he was alone with Clary, his default one around other people was a fierce sort of blankness.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," she began, and thought those words appeared to be her default when she came to this house.†   (source)
  • Sometimes whole states default, increasing the problems they were established to remedy.†   (source)
  • The Confederates, by default, will win, making the chances of future reunification virtually nonexistent.†   (source)
  • And since she had been in default for so long, they could foreclose and sell the land far more quickly than normal.†   (source)
  • He was still human, and it was better to try to live than to accept death through default.†   (source)
  • It would be bold, he assured Hannah, boldness being the default response of a fonctionnaire when in reality he planned to do nothing at all.†   (source)
  • The monthly shuttle from Glalkod, by default, communicated with the U.S. Space Command in Eglin Air Force Base because it was going to be setting down in U.S. territory.†   (source)
  • I wondered if she'd ever smile again without crying, or if this had become her default setting.†   (source)
  • They distributed literature, visited Branch members who had defaulted on their dues or lagged behind in their attendance at meetings, called in at District for a discussion on "Problems Connected with the Centralized Distribution of Agricultural Produce" at which all local Branch Secretaries were present, and attended a meeting of the Workers' Consultative Council of a machine tool factory on the outskirts of the town.†   (source)
  • During the same period, only 4 percent of the independent businesses receiving SBA loans defaulted.†   (source)
  • It meant they'd probably left everything else in the template at the default setting too.†   (source)
  • He won essentially by default, but sometimes that was how things played out.†   (source)
  • "When I'm stressed, I default to waterfowl.†   (source)
  • Like a skunk, the dwarf god activated his default defense.†   (source)
  • If he wasn't a messiah, then—by default—he was only a murderer.†   (source)
  • He sat at the head of the table, kind of by default.†   (source)
  • It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting.†   (source)
  • If I stayed in bed when the verdict was read, did that mean the plaintiff lost by default?†   (source)
  • I have done by plan and intention what had been done throughout history by silent default.†   (source)
  • Now when I lifted off, I was stuck in default poultry mode.†   (source)
  • I hated her for the fact that for my whole school career teachers insisted on telling me in hushed tones how bright she was, as if her brilliance wouldn't mean that by default I lived in a permanent shadow.†   (source)
  • Moroski had been with the 49ers for exactly two weeks before he became, by default, their starting quarterback.†   (source)
  • Within its walls there were half a dozen people who had still not recovered from the shock of having their apartments foreclosed (and then having to sue to get them back) when Joe defaulted on his construction loan.†   (source)
  • The pyramid had been ripped from its source of power, the desert, and in front us loomed the default gateway for North America, the tall white obelisk that was the most powerful focal point of Ma'at on the continent: the Washington Monument.†   (source)
  • My avatar was wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, one of the free default skins you could select when you created your account.†   (source)
  • Overnight he became, by default, the leading independent authority on the subject of U.S. high school football players.†   (source)
  • In New York City, the SBA backed thirteen loans to Burger King franchisees; eleven of them defaulted.†   (source)
  • When I reached the elevator, I punched in the default security code on the code pad and crossed my fingers.†   (source)
  • I looked down at my avatar and saw that I was now wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, the default outfit that appeared on every newly created avatar.†   (source)
  • They were all required to use the same hulking male avatar (regardless of the operator's true gender), with close-cropped dark hair and facial features left at the system default settings.†   (source)
  • I'd been sulking around the house all day, feeling alternately ignored and entirely too hassled, which was pretty much my default setting, even at eleven.†   (source)
  • He's going to default," Mikil said.†   (source)
  • Studying the record in more detail, she saw that there was one major default from a bank in Denver, four years earlier.†   (source)
  • Diamond was quite partial to the Scarecrow; Oz, of course, had to be thecowardly lion; and, by default, Lou was the heartless tin man.†   (source)
  • No one is quite sure where the name California came from, but the default theory is a Spanish novel about; an island with the qualities of paradise.†   (source)
  • Luke's winnings in the first three events had bought his mother and him another month or two before they defaulted, but at the end of the month his mother quietly began to approach their neighbors, exploring their interest in buying her out.†   (source)
  • This entire scenario was like the default talk-to-a-girl-at-a-bar script, and I was only playing along because I wasn't entirely sure I could get off my bar stool without stumbling.†   (source)
  • "They're still rebuilding the Capitol and the White House, only it's not going so well since, you know, they defaulted on all of their debt," Liam said.†   (source)
  • There were misfits, too-kids like Natalie and Angela Phlug, fringe friends by default, because nobody else would have them.†   (source)
  • Here, by default, he's actually an arbiter of the fashions, tastes, and habits of inner-city life that exert some sway over young blacks of any stripe.†   (source)
  • By default, she hung out with me at work—I was best buddies with Little Janet, and Little Janet was the only other black person in electric.†   (source)
  • And by the time I was called for dinner an hour later, whatever had happened was over, and we were back in default Greene family mode, pretending everything was just fine.†   (source)
  • Tonight, they'd made pizza-which Josie had counted as a success, until her mother had tried to slide the pizza out of the oven and it had folded, halfway, on the coils inside, which meant they had to make grilled cheese as a default dinner.†   (source)
  • After four years of study I still felt like a dilettante, underqualified and unmotivated for a life in the theater, but neither did I have an alternate plan, for academic studies, a meaningful career, or the great default—law school.†   (source)
  • I wish it were possible not to see this happen, I would have preferred anything-except to see you stay here by default of the courage of your convictions.†   (source)
  • Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money.†   (source)
  • I had accepted, unwittingly and by default, the tenet that ideas were of no consequence to one's existence, to one's work, to reality, to this earth-as if ideas were not the province of reason, but of that mystic faith which I despised.†   (source)
  • But someone had to think to keep you alive; if you choose to default, you default on existence and you pass the deficit to some moral man, expecting him to sacrifice his good for the sake of letting you survive by your evil.†   (source)
  • It is not any crime you have ever committed that infects your soul with permanent guilt, it is none of your failures, errors or flaws, but the blank-out by which you attempt to evade them-it is not any sort of Original Sin or unknown prenatal deficiency, but the knowledge and fact of your basic default, of suspending your mind, of refusing to think.†   (source)
  • …to withhold your admiration from their virtues is an act of moral embezzlement-that to place any other concern higher than justice is to devaluate your moral currency and defraud the good in favor of the evil, since only the good can lose by a default of justice and only the evil can profit-and that the bottom of the pit at the end of that road, the act of moral bankruptcy, is to punish men for their virtues and reward them for their vices, that that is the collapse to full depravity,…†   (source)
  • At the one end, a defaulting clerk, at the other a vanishing cook.†   (source)
  • If by good luck there had been an ash-tray handy, if one had not knocked the ash out of the window in default, if things had been a little different from what they were, one would not have seen, presumably, a cat without a tail.†   (source)
  • When her boarders defaulted payments she seized their belongings triumphantly, delighting particularly in eleventh-hour captures at the railway station, with the aid of an obedient constabulary, and ringed by the attentive offal of the town.†   (source)
  • His eagerness over this uninteresting matter of a defaulting cook was extraordinary, but I realized that he considered it a point of honour to persevere until he finally succeeded.†   (source)
  • So the matter, which was a weighty one, was like to go against the English monarch by default.†   (source)
  • I assented to this proposal, in default of being able to suggest anything else.†   (source)
  • In default of his assistance, it was necessary to be assured of his neutrality.†   (source)
  • 'Nay,' said Nicholas, 'we do it in default of having anybody else to talk to.'†   (source)
  • "In default of a better my having promised will do," Isabel suggested.†   (source)
  • Mr Pancks would say, to a defaulting lodger.†   (source)
  • A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer one takes a lancer.†   (source)
  • The other lodgers had moved away or had died, or had been turned out in default of payment.†   (source)
  • She might if no lifelong penalty attached to it for the man, or, in his default, for herself; if the weakness of the moment could end with the moment, or even with the year.†   (source)
  • But, in default of that, it behoved her to do something; to be their Providence; for to Tess, as to not a few millions of others, there was ghastly satire in the poet's lines— Not in utter nakedness But trailing clouds of glory do we come.†   (source)
  • The coachman, who seemed little inclined for conversation, having barely acknowledged my remarks, I was obliged, in default of other society, to fall back on my own, and to attempt to recapture the vision of my steeples.†   (source)
  • Babbitt, revolving his hat like a defaulting poor tenant, winced so visibly that Maxwell condescended: "I don't like to hurt your feelings, but you see we both want to do our best for Riesling, and we mustn't consider any other factor.†   (source)
  • The Sunday papers printed separate editions as further news came to hand, some even in default of it.†   (source)
  • Another was a married man with two children, who had lost money through a defaulting solicitor; he had a bowed look as if the world were too much for him; he went about his work silently, and it was plain that he found it difficult at his age to commit facts to memory.†   (source)
  • He informed us that, with the exception of a certain entailed property of Lucy's father which now, in default of direct issue, went back to a distant branch of the family, the whole estate, real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood.†   (source)
  • …great deal, for people who lived in country houses, and would be so much afraid, when in their company, of incurring their displeasure that he would never dare to let them see that he numbered, as well, among his friends middle-class people, the families of solicitors and stockbrokers, preferring, if the truth must be known, that it should be revealed in his absence, when he was out of earshot, that judgment should go against him (if so it must) by default: in a word, he was a snob.†   (source)
  • The father of M. de Treville had served him so faithfully in his wars against the league that in default of money—a thing to which the Bearnais was accustomed all his life, and who constantly paid his debts with that of which he never stood in need of borrowing, that is to say, with ready wit—in default of money, we repeat, he authorized him, after the reduction of Paris, to assume for his arms a golden lion passant upon gules, with the motto FIDELIS ET FORTIS.†   (source)
  • If I served well thy father in life, and his memory afterwards, be not afraid of default to thee; yet must I say the exception cannot stand.†   (source)
  • Besides the cell on the Grève, there was one at Montfaucon, one at the Charnier des Innocents, another I hardly know where,—at the Clichon House, I think; others still at many spots where traces of them are found in traditions, in default of memorials.†   (source)
  • Leaving aside the degradation of an alliance with a nameless man, and the possible fact that his property, in default of heirs male, might pass into such a one's power, he had sense to comprehend Heathcliff's disposition: to know that, though his exterior was altered, his mind was unchangeable and unchanged.†   (source)
  • It would have given him extreme pleasure to be present in person at the modest little feast she had sketched; but in default of this he liked even being forbidden.†   (source)
  • "For its practical value it depends upon this," replied Dupin; "and the Prefect and his cohort fail so frequently, first, by default of this identification, and, secondly, by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admeasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged.†   (source)
  • I noticed both with these pretty girls and with everybody else we met, that in default of serious news, such as we had heard at Maple-Durham, they were eager to discuss all the little details of life: the weather, the hay-crop, the last new house, the plenty or lack of such and such birds, and so on; and they talked of these things not in a fatuous and conventional way, but as taking, I say, real interest in them.†   (source)
  • They have been in her family as servants; and, in default of any other school to receive them, she has, in many cases, had them instructed in a family school, with her own children.†   (source)
  • And the Grand Master appoints the appellant to appear there by her champion, on pain of doom, as a person convicted of sorcery or seduction; and also the defendant so to appear, under the penalty of being held and adjudged recreant in case of default; and the noble Lord and most reverend Father aforesaid appointed the battle to be done in his own presence, and according to all that is commendable and profitable in such a case.†   (source)
  • Chapter 7 Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.†   (source)
  • Possessing, however, in default of a competent knowledge of the principles of etiquette, a very downright sense of the "meanness" of certain actions, it seemed to him to belong to his position to keep on his guard; he was not going to put it into the power of these people to say that in their house he had done anything unpleasant.†   (source)
  • Then he began a long explanation of his conduct, excusing himself in vague terms, in default of being able to invent better.†   (source)
  • I made a proposal to Peepy, in default of being able to do anything better for him, that he should let me wash him and afterwards lay him down on my bed again.†   (source)
  • Mr Merdle's default left a Banquo's chair at the table; but, if he had been there, he would have merely made the difference of Banquo in it, and consequently he was no loss.†   (source)
  • In default of a better answer to this question, the little boy screwed a couple of knuckles into each of his eyes and began to cry, wherefore Mr Squeers knocked him off the trunk with a blow on one side of the face, and knocked him on again with a blow on the other.†   (source)
  • Kiouni—this was the name of the beast—could doubtless travel rapidly for a long time, and, in default of any other means of conveyance, Mr. Fogg resolved to hire him.†   (source)
  • Mr. Micawber then embraced Mrs. Micawber, and pressed my hand; leaving me to infer from this broken allusion that his domestic supply of water had been cut off that afternoon, in consequence of default in the payment of the company's rates.†   (source)
  • Here Mr. Smallweed, wrought up to the highest pitch by his own eloquence, actually throws Judy at her grandmother in default of anything else, by butting that young virgin at the old lady with such force as he can muster and then dropping into his chair in a heap.†   (source)
  • Then on her journey to town she picked up nick-nacks secondhand, that, in default of anyone else, Monsieur Lheureux would certainly take off her hands.†   (source)
  • 60 IN FRANCE The first fear of the King of England, Charles I, on learning of the death of the duke, was that such terrible news might discourage the Rochellais; he tried, says Richelieu in his Memoirs, to conceal it from them as long as possible, closing all the ports of his kingdom, and carefully keeping watch that no vessel should sail until the army which Buckingham was getting together had gone, taking upon himself, in default of Buckingham, to superintend the departure.†   (source)
  • They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.†   (source)
  • After some further conversation between the master and mistress relative to the success of Mr Squeers's trip and the people who had paid, and the people who had made default in payment, a young servant girl brought in a Yorkshire pie and some cold beef, which being set upon the table, the boy Smike appeared with a jug of ale.†   (source)
  • He observed that the butchers stalls contained neither mutton, goat, nor pork; and, knowing also that it is a sacrilege to kill cattle, which are preserved solely for farming, he made up his mind that meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama—nor was he mistaken; and, in default of butcher's meat, he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar or deer, a partridge, or some quails, some game or fish, which, with rice, the Japanese eat almost exclusively.†   (source)
  • But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on all these counts, if need be, and to accept the assurance (on good authority) that nothing like them was ever known in this land.†   (source)
  • The district-attorney concluded by insisting, that in default of Javert, the three witnesses Brevet, Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly interrogated.†   (source)
  • So the dream increased in rapture when Mr Dorrit came out of the bank alone, and people looked at him in default of Mr Merdle, and when, with the ears of his mind, he heard the frequent exclamation as he rolled glibly along, 'A wonderful man to be Mr Merdle's friend!'†   (source)
  • Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • Impressed solely with the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the default of any other name.†   (source)
  • He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of work and an excess of punishment.†   (source)
  • So the damosel took up the glove all heavily for default of a champion.†   (source)
  • Alas, this is a great default of us Englishmen, for there may no thing please us no term.†   (source)
  • And then all the fellowship of the castle were overcome for the default of him.†   (source)
  • And they are many, and their charges against me are of ancient date, and they were made by them in the days when you were more impressible than you are now--in childhood, or it may have been in youth--and the cause when heard went by default, for there was none to answer.†   (source)
  • Then said the man in this black clothing: Then is it in thy default if Sir Launcelot, thy cousin, die.†   (source)
  • Then was the king and all the court full sore abashed and shamed that the queen should be brent in the default of Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • It is your own default, said the lady, for ye have done a passing foul deed in the slaying of the lady, the which will be great villainy unto you.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Bors, that were me loath, for wit ye well there is nothing in the world but I had liefer do it than to see my lord, Sir Launcelot du Lake, to die in my default.†   (source)
  • Now shall I never rest till I meet with those kings in a fair field, that I make mine avow; for my true liege people shall not be destroyed in my default, go with me who will, and abide who that will.†   (source)
  • But she had taken such cold for the default of help that deep draughts of death took her, that needs she must die and depart out of this world; there was none other bote.†   (source)
  • For God defend, said Sir Tristram, that through my default thou shouldst longer live thus a Saracen, for yonder is a knight that ye, Sir Palomides, have hurt and smitten down.†   (source)
  • God defend, said Sir Launcelot, that she should be brent in my default; and if it be so, said Sir Launcelot, that I may not be there, it shall be well understanded, both at the king and at the queen, and with all men of worship, that I am dead, sick, outher in prison.†   (source)
  • Alas, said King Lot, I am ashamed, for by my default there is many a worshipful man slain, for an we had been together there had been none host under the heaven that had been able for to have matched with us; this faiter with his prophecy hath mocked me.†   (source)
  • And all kings and estates may beware by our lord, for he was destroyed in his own default; for had he cherished them of his blood he had yet lived with great riches and rest: but all estates may beware by our king.†   (source)
  • Jesu defend me from shame, said Sir Launcelot, and keep and save my lady the queen from villainy and shameful death, and that she never be destroyed in my default; wherefore my fair lords, my kin, and my friends, said Sir Launcelot, what will ye do?†   (source)
  • Sir Launcelot, said she, ye are not wise, for ye may never out of this prison, but if ye have my help; and also your lady, Queen Guenever, shall be brent in your default, unless that ye be there at the day of battle.†   (source)
  • But the hermit might not find Sir Launcelot's sustenance, and so he impaired and waxed feeble, both of his body and of his wit: for the default of his sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforehand.†   (source)
  • Fair cousin, said Sir Launcelot, ye be right welcome; and wit ye well, overmuch ye say for to please me, the which pleaseth me not, for why I have the same I sought; for I would with pride have overcome you all, and there in my pride I was near slain, and that was in mine own default, for I might have given you warning of my being there.†   (source)
  • Sir Tristram, said Sir Bleoberis, ye are in the default, for I hear by this lady's words she before this day trusted you above all earthly knights, and, as she saith, ye have deceived her, therefore wit ye well, there may no man hold that will away; and rather than ye should be heartily displeased with me I would ye had her, an she would abide with you.†   (source)
  • And when this Queen Elizabeth saw that there was none other bote, then she made great dole, and said unto her gentlewoman: When ye see my lord, King Meliodas, recommend me unto him, and tell him what pains I endure here for his love, and how I must die here for his sake for default of good help; and let him wit that I am full sorry to depart out of this world from him, therefore pray him to be friend to my soul.†   (source)
  • Also when I remember me how by my default, mine orgule and my pride, that they were both laid full low, that were peerless that ever was living of Christian people, wit you well, said Sir Launcelot, this remembered, of their kindness and mine unkindness, sank so to mine heart, that I might not sustain myself.†   (source)
  • , revived, intr. dawned, Deadly, mortal, human, Deal, part, portion, Debate, quarrel, strife, Debonair, courteous, Deceivable, deceitful, Defaded, faded, Default, fault, Defend, forbid,; defended,; forbidden, Defoiled, trodden down, fouled, deflowered, Degree (win the), rank, superiority, Delibered, determined, Deliverly, adroitly, Departed, divided, Departition, departure, Dere, harm, Descrive, describe, Despoiled, stripped, Detrenched, cut to pieces, Devised, looked carefully at,…†   (source)
  • All waits or goes by default till a strong being appears; A strong being is the proof of the race and of the ability of the universe, When he or she appears materials are overaw'd, The dispute on the soul stops, The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.†   (source)
  • So the damosel took up the glove all heavily for default of a champion.†   (source)
  • Alas, this is a great default of us Englishmen, for there may no thing please us no term.†   (source)
  • And then all the fellowship of the castle were overcome for the default of him.†   (source)
  • The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit; The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell— My mistress made it one upon my cheek: She is so hot because the meat is cold; The meat is cold because you come not home,; You come not home because you have no stomach; You have no stomach, having broke your fast; But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, Are penitent for your default to-day.†   (source)
  • Imputest thou that to my default, or will Of wandering, as thou callest it, which who knows But might as ill have happened thou being by, Or to thyself perhaps?†   (source)
  • I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the default, he is a man I know.†   (source)
  • …small plantation, as he called it, on York River, that is, where my mother lived, to me, with the stock of servants and cattle upon it, and given it in trust to this son of mine for my use, whenever he should hear of my being alive, and to my heirs, if I had any children, and in default of heirs, to whomsoever I should by will dispose of it; but gave the income of it, till I should be heard of, or found, to my said son; and if I should not be living, then it was to him, and his heirs.†   (source)
  • And as those from whom Nature, or Accident hath taken away the notice of all Lawes in generall; so also every man, from whom any accident, not proceeding from his own default, hath taken away the means to take notice of any particular Law, is excused, if he observe it not; And to speak properly, that Law is no Law to him.†   (source)
  • It is your own default, said the lady, for ye have done a passing foul deed in the slaying of the lady, the which will be great villainy unto you.†   (source)
  • Land of misease, because there be three manner of defaults against three things that folk of this world have in this present life; that is to say, honours, delights, and riches.†   (source)
  • Though her countenance did not denote much natural sweetness of temper, yet this was, perhaps, somewhat soured by a circumstance which generally poisons matrimonial felicity; for children are rightly called the pledges of love; and her husband, though they had been married nine years, had given her no such pledges; a default for which he had no excuse, either from age or health, being not yet thirty years old, and what they call a jolly brisk young man.†   (source)
  • But she had taken such cold for the default of help that deep draughts of death took her, that needs she must die and depart out of this world; there was none other bote.†   (source)
  • And furtherover, they shall have default of all manner delights; for certes delights be after the appetites of the five wits [senses]; as sight, hearing, smelling, savouring [tasting], and touching.†   (source)
  • Now shall I never rest till I meet with those kings in a fair field, that I make mine avow; for my true liege people shall not be destroyed in my default, go with me who will, and abide who that will.†   (source)
  • "Peace," quoth my lord; "the next time I will fand* *endeavour To bring our craft *all in another plight,* *to a different conclusion* And but I do, Sirs, let me have the wite;* *blame There was default in somewhat, well I wot."†   (source)
  • For, as saith Saint Gregory, "To wretched caitiffs shall be given death without death, and end without end, and default without failing; for their death shall always live, and their end shall evermore begin, and their default shall never fail."†   (source)
  • Then was the king and all the court full sore abashed and shamed that the queen should be brent in the default of Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • Alas, said King Lot, I am ashamed, for by my default there is many a worshipful man slain, for an we had been together there had been none host under the heaven that had been able for to have matched with us; this faiter with his prophecy hath mocked me.†   (source)
  • Then said the man in this black clothing: Then is it in thy default if Sir Launcelot, thy cousin, die.†   (source)
  • *is capable of* And therefore hath this worthy wise knight (To live in ease) sufferance her behight;* *promised And she to him full wisly* gan to swear *surely That never should there be default in her.†   (source)
  • And when this Queen Elizabeth saw that there was none other bote, then she made great dole, and said unto her gentlewoman: When ye see my lord, King Meliodas, recommend me unto him, and tell him what pains I endure here for his love, and how I must die here for his sake for default of good help; and let him wit that I am full sorry to depart out of this world from him, therefore pray him to be friend to my soul.†   (source)
  • For God defend, said Sir Tristram, that through my default thou shouldst longer live thus a Saracen, for yonder is a knight that ye, Sir Palomides, have hurt and smitten down.†   (source)
  • Sir Tristram, said Sir Bleoberis, ye are in the default, for I hear by this lady's words she before this day trusted you above all earthly knights, and, as she saith, ye have deceived her, therefore wit ye well, there may no man hold that will away; and rather than ye should be heartily displeased with me I would ye had her, an she would abide with you.†   (source)
  • And furthermore, their misease shall be in default of clothing, for they shall be naked in body, as of clothing, save the fire in which they burn, and other filths; and naked shall they be in soul, of all manner virtues, which that is the clothing of the soul.†   (source)
  • And furthermore, their misease shall be in default of friends, for he is not poor that hath good friends: but there is no friend; for neither God nor any good creature shall be friend to them, and evereach of them shall hate other with deadly hate.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Bors, that were me loath, for wit ye well there is nothing in the world but I had liefer do it than to see my lord, Sir Launcelot du Lake, to die in my default.†   (source)
  • *expecteth The people rose upon him on a night, For his default; and when he it espied, Out of his doors anon he hath him dight* *betaken himself Alone, and where he ween'd t'have been allied,* *regarded with He knocked fast, and aye the more he cried friendship The faster shutte they their doores all; Then wist he well he had himself misgied,* *misled And went his way, no longer durst he call.†   (source)
  • Sir Launcelot, said she, ye are not wise, for ye may never out of this prison, but if ye have my help; and also your lady, Queen Guenever, shall be brent in your default, unless that ye be there at the day of battle.†   (source)
  • Now be there three manner of almsdeed: contrition of heart, where a man offereth himself to God; the second is, to have pity of the default of his neighbour; the third is, in giving of good counsel and comfort, ghostly and bodily, where men have need, and namely [specially] sustenance of man's food.†   (source)
  • And all kings and estates may beware by our lord, for he was destroyed in his own default; for had he cherished them of his blood he had yet lived with great riches and rest: but all estates may beware by our king.†   (source)
  • Against the riches of this world shall they have misease [trouble, torment] of poverty, and this poverty shall be in four things: in default [want] of treasure; of which David saith, "The rich folk that embraced and oned [united] all their heart to treasure of this world, shall sleep in the sleeping of death, and nothing shall they find in their hands of all their treasure."†   (source)
  • But the hermit might not find Sir Launcelot's sustenance, and so he impaired and waxed feeble, both of his body and of his wit: for the default of his sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforehand.†   (source)
  • God defend, said Sir Launcelot, that she should be brent in my default; and if it be so, said Sir Launcelot, that I may not be there, it shall be well understanded, both at the king and at the queen, and with all men of worship, that I am dead, sick, outher in prison.†   (source)
  • But, considering his own defaults and demerits, — remembering the patience of Christ and the undeserved tribulations of the saints, the brevity of this life with all its trouble and sorrow, the discredit thrown on the wisdom and training of a man who cannot bear wrong with patience — he should refrain wholly from taking vengeance.†   (source)
  • Jesu defend me from shame, said Sir Launcelot, and keep and save my lady the queen from villainy and shameful death, and that she never be destroyed in my default; wherefore my fair lords, my kin, and my friends, said Sir Launcelot, what will ye do?†   (source)
  • Fair cousin, said Sir Launcelot, ye be right welcome; and wit ye well, overmuch ye say for to please me, the which pleaseth me not, for why I have the same I sought; for I would with pride have overcome you all, and there in my pride I was near slain, and that was in mine own default, for I might have given you warning of my being there.†   (source)
  • Also when I remember me how by my default, mine orgule and my pride, that they were both laid full low, that were peerless that ever was living of Christian people, wit you well, said Sir Launcelot, this remembered, of their kindness and mine unkindness, sank so to mine heart, that I might not sustain myself.†   (source)
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