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  • As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag Mr. Harvey carried and spilling onto the concrete.†   (source)
  • Before prospective buyers could be allowed inside, though, the place had to be cleaned out.†   (source)
  • High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.†   (source)
  • The brochure he sent to prospective clients declared, So, you have a thirst for adventure!†   (source)
  • Vital for strong healthy teeth, a dwarf's most important attribute the first thing a prospective mate looked at.†   (source)
  • "Look, I've got a meeting this morning with prospective clients, I promised Ashley I'd go to her doctor's appointment and Echo's missing class.†   (source)
  • This was the sort of look we got from prospective employers, except not pleased.†   (source)
  • Just as Old Widow Lau had planned, my prospective mother-in-law accidentally passed by the shop promptly at five o'clock.†   (source)
  • My prospective client hesitated, rubbing his fingers against his chin.†   (source)
  • And I am currently talking to prospective student-athlete Michael Oher.†   (source)
  • Oker was impressed with this prospective tenant.†   (source)
  • She admires the workmen, comparing them favorably to the young men who come to Sunday supper, presumably as prospective beaux for one or another of the sisters, and later she finds the dead man beautiful—a response encompassing both sex and death.†   (source)
  • They send cultural anthropologists into homes, stores, fast food restaurants, and other places where kids like to gather, quietly and surreptitiously observing the behavior of prospective customers.†   (source)
  • I wasn't looking for love — no, I was far too eager to be a soldier for that; I thought of nothing but the idealized glory of the war that they were selling prospective draftees then — but if I had found …."†   (source)
  • One warm afternoon during that fair week, all four of us—Sonja and I and the two kids—were tending the booth, passing out brochures and chatting with prospective customers.†   (source)
  • She was of average height but with the unformed body of a girl and I thought that if she was planning to marry our father she must have been horrified to find herself with a nearly six-foot prospective stepdaughter who was not even pretty.†   (source)
  • It would have been great to be able to see some of the paintings up close, but she knew those seats should go to prospective buyers, and the last thing she wanted was for someone to tap her on the shoulder and ask her to move later.†   (source)
  • What will your prospective mates think when they hear of this?†   (source)
  • One company offered them immediate work on a tanker bound for Brazil, and, indeed, the two would now have been at sea if their prospective employer had not discovered that neither man possessed union papers or a passport.†   (source)
  • I also requested a list of the state's witnesses and summaries of their prospective testimony.†   (source)
  • Luma took down the names and ages of the prospective players, and with the help of the team manager, Tracy, wrote their names on strips of masking tape, which they plastered across the backs of the boys' T-shirts.†   (source)
  • I'd had a long day at the model home, stapling Welcome packets and listening to my mother give her sales spiel to six different prospective clients.†   (source)
  • She let me inside and called out, "The prospective's here.†   (source)
  • There are plenty of reasons someone might not post a photo—he's technically challenged or is ashamed of being spotted by friends or is just plain unattractive—but as in the case of a brand-new car with a For Sale sign, prospective customers will assume he's got something seriously wrong under the hood.†   (source)
  • Nick was taken for a prospective customer and was allowed to talk to a thirteen-year-old girl who had been sold to the brothel and was waiting in terror for the sale of her virginity.†   (source)
  • At 5:00 a.m. every morning, some 150 prospective SEALs would queue up outside on a slab of concrete the size of a basketball court, or in the gym if there was a blizzard, or at the pool on swim days.†   (source)
  • First, because the prospective employee came ten minutes early for the interview and Michael-Mary, who adhered to her schedule to the minute, was forced to answer the door in a print peignoir.†   (source)
  • …daughter, because after so many years of absence and barbarism, he knew of nowhere else to begin to keep his promise to his mother of giving her legitimate grandchildren, and he concluded that if Severo and Nivea had accepted him as a prospective son-in-law back in the days of Rosa the Beautiful, there was no reason they should refuse him, especially now that he was a rich man and no longer needed to scrape the earth for gold and had everything he needed on deposit at the bank.†   (source)
  • My small feet would be offered as proof to my prospective in-laws of my personal discipline and my ability to endure the pain of childbirth, as well as whatever misfortunes might lie ahead.†   (source)
  • "Fool!" she had said before boarding when he asked her yet again if she intended to see prospective bridegrooms.†   (source)
  • A few of their prospective jurors owed the county money for property taxes.†   (source)
  • He was her third prospective husband, and her last.†   (source)
  • Miss Schulhoff, a prospective art major, was also queen of the Columbia College rush last fall.†   (source)
  • To serve as a prospective slave.†   (source)
  • Probably one of Connor's mates or prospective lady friends, she thought.†   (source)
  • I gave him a big grin, even though I felt like I had gnats in my teeth, and told him that we could talk as long as we wanted because Mom was going to be in the city getting final papers signed with a prospective buyer, and I was going to sleep over at El's.†   (source)
  • The image Angel presented to the prospective female jurors was an even trickier issue.†   (source)
  • Prof was carried to office of President of Grand Assembly, me being pushed alongside, and there he attempted to present his credentials as Ambassador to F.N. and prospective Senator for Luna—was referred to Secretary General and at his offices we were granted ten minutes with assistant secretary who sucked teeth and said he could accept our credentials "without prejudice and without implied commitment."†   (source)
  • The situation was much on Tom's mind as they entered the restaurant and he saw his prospective father-in-law for the first time.†   (source)
  • In China, a person's character was believed written in her face; a prospective bride's picture was studied under good light.†   (source)
  • What usually happens is that prospective citizens stay here a few days, getting the feel of the place.†   (source)
  • …slightly in hue—due to an uneven paint job—from the tender rosé of fresh lox to a more aggressive bubble-gum coral, but everywhere there was pink, pink admitting rivalry from no other color, so that after only a few minutes contemplating my prospective room under the proud eye of Mrs. Zimmerman, I felt at first amused—it was a cupid's bower in which one could only barely restrain raucous laughter—and then really grimly trapped, as if I were in a Barricini candy store or the infants'…†   (source)
  • This was her prospective mother-in-law, whose plans for her son did not include marriage with an outsider she heartily disliked.†   (source)
  • I always knew that in me he saw the prospective husband of one of his daughters; but I had lived with this knowledge for so long that it didn't embarrass me.†   (source)
  • I can't have a prospective buyer seeing that.†   (source)
  • The prospective audience turned out in full oppression.†   (source)
  • But it was not with dislike or contempt he looked at Marston now; it was more the look a man gives a prospective partner who has yet to prove himself.†   (source)
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  • We can list the individual features for prospective buyers, then we can customize.†   (source)
  • Prospective parents arrived and mingled with the busloads of kids, who came with social workers.†   (source)
  • "What does my prospective husband think of this?" she asked the Green Grace.†   (source)
  • I haven't seen a prospective talent so promising since we found Jane and Alec.†   (source)
  • He also made the transition from horseman to auto driver as easy as possible for prospective buyers.†   (source)
  • The prospective jurors will be there at nine and we should get started soon after.†   (source)
  • A steep incline made the view from the back excellent, and this is where we prospective interns sat.†   (source)
  • I nodded and smiled at the group of prospective jurors when Judge Green introduced me.†   (source)
  • The prospective buyer took one look at the colt's crooked legs and passed.†   (source)
  • Appraise me as a prospective purchase, Mr. Cinque.†   (source)
  • One prospective juror replaced the next in a steady parade to Judge Atlee's chambers.†   (source)
  • After striking all of the black prospective jurors in a county that is 28 percent black, the prosecutor told the all-white jury in his closing argument that a conviction was appropriate because Herbert was "associated with Black Muslims from New York City" and deserved no mercy.†   (source)
  • When we interview prospective jurors, we're gonna ask 'em, 'Would you have a problem if you learned that a defendant was a homosexual?'†   (source)
  • The FTC now requires chains to provide lengthy disclosure statements that spell out their rules for prospective franchisees.†   (source)
  • Willie Tabb from Lamar County, Willie Williams from Houston County, Claude Raines from Jefferson County Gregory Acres from Montgomery County, and Neil Owens from Russell County were among the many black men on death row who had been tried by all-white juries after prosecutors struck all of the African American prospective jurors.†   (source)
  • In 1898 General Motors lacked the capital to hire salesmen for its new automobiles, so it sold franchises to prospective car dealers, giving them exclusive rights to certain territories.†   (source)
  • One prospective juror gave Sonny Seiler a reason to hope that the issue of homosexuality would not be as much a negative in Augusta as it had been in Savannah.†   (source)
  • The prospective debutantes were invited to a meeting at the Quality Inn, where they were welcomed by members of the Alphabette Debutante Committee and told what lay in store for them in the months preceding the ball.†   (source)
  • To test the commitment of prospective franchisees, he frequently offered them a restaurant far from their homes and forbade them from engaging in other businesses.†   (source)
  • "Both machines have been thoroughly perfected," the company assured prospective franchisees, "are of foolproof design — can be easily operated even by a moron:' The InstaBurger Stove was an elaborate contraption.†   (source)
  • Within weeks of returning to school, he met another prospective economics major, a girl named Lauren.†   (source)
  • It was not taught to prospective Riders-though we had them meditate as you do throughout their training-until we were convinced that they were mature enough to resist temptation.†   (source)
  • He was passing by the front windows of Clementine's as I took stuff out of the register, or standing in front of the shop, showing a bike to a prospective customer.†   (source)
  • The woman with the clipboard glanced around, looking for other prospective participants, and all of a sudden Sumner says in this loud, happy voice, "This is the best cheese I've ever eaten!†   (source)
  • So I was used to her cell phone joining us for dinner every night, sitting on the third place mat, accustomed to her being at the model home office late into the night, entirely unsurprised when I came home to find contractors, local business owners, or prospective home buyers sitting in our living room listening to a spiel about what makes Wildflower Ridge special.†   (source)
  • A caution to prospective parents who are shopping for a "smart" name: remember that such a name won't make your child smart; it will, however, give her the same name as other smart kids—at least for a while.†   (source)
  • The presence of a Tully Lord of Riverrun distresses him almost as much as the prospective birth of yet another.†   (source)
  • He often stopped to listen to the questioning of a prospective juror, or to stare at the faces around him-particularly, and with plain displeasure, the muscular face of the county attorney, Duane Wen, who was his own age, twenty-eight.†   (source)
  • In our culture, the father of the bride must interview the prospective groom and assess his prospects.†   (source)
  • I knew Angel would be attractive to the prospective male jurors, especially if I chose them carefully, and I hoped the attraction would cause them to be sympathetic toward her and want to help her.†   (source)
  • But these signs, coupled with newspaper advertisements, and advertisements on the radio, will be a constant reminder to every citizen in the community, among whom one hundred and fifty have been called as prospective jurors.†   (source)
  • Back in my day, I relished the challenge of reading the minds and body language of prospective jurors and picking just the right ones.†   (source)
  • If most of our prospective jurors know about the case, then it seems like moving the case might be the proper thing to do.†   (source)
  • Once we get the names in the pool, he'll do background research on all of the prospective jurors, at a safe distance of course.†   (source)
  • He said hello and good morning and thanked the prospective jurors for being there, as if they had a choice.†   (source)
  • Some of the lawyers had no connections at all, no reason to be there, but a courtroom filled with prospective jurors always attracted a few of the courthouse regulars.†   (source)
  • Basins of grubs and caterpillars; baskets of trussed-up hens, squawking when they were lifted by one wing by the vendor or a prospective buyer; dull-eyed goats on the bare, scuffed ground, chewing at rubbish and even paper; damp-haired young monkeys, full of misery, tethered tightly around their narrow waists and nibbling at peanuts and banana skin and mango skin, but nibbling without relish, as though they knew that they themselves were soon to be eaten.†   (source)
  • He went out every day on foot to call on Japanese Catholics and prospective converts.†   (source)
  • And I saw where a son-in-law--granted, only a prospective one--ranked with respect to her son.†   (source)
  • Probably the women had already cast about among the families of the men who might now be called his friends, for that prospective bride whose dowry might complete the shape and substance of that respectability Miss Coldfield anyway believed to be his aim.†   (source)
  • I have a right to speak, not only as Rebecca's cousin, but as her prospective husband, had she lived.†   (source)
  • "I thought I'd better make some inquiries about my prospective brother-in-law, as no one else seemed interested," said Brideshead.†   (source)
  • But no, you had to come jingling your earbobs and pouting and frisking like a prostitute with a prospective client.†   (source)
  • I've spoken to many of our future members and you'd be flattered by what they said about you as our prospective chairman.†   (source)
  • Tabulating the information I had collected about my prospective victims, I was able to concoct a suitable bait for each.†   (source)
  • Prospective house slaves from the shacks got the same kind of going-over, I suppose, or girls brought to an old cocotte by their mothers for training.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this was due to the same tedious and unremitting husbandry which had enabled him to support mother and sister and marry and raise a family on the proceeds of that store which ten years ago had fitted into a single wagon; or perhaps it was some innate sense of delicacy and fitness (which his sister and daughter did not seem to possess, by the way) regarding the prospective son-in-law whom just two months ago he had been instrumental in getting out of jail.†   (source)
  • You say you were Mrs de Winter's prospective husband, and that you held clandestine meetings with her in that cottage on the beach.†   (source)
  • With every appearance of reluctance at disclosing the unpleasant truth, she would sigh and tell prospective customers that her competitors' lumber was far too high in price, rotten, full of knot holes and in general of deplorably poor quality.†   (source)
  • You have a small following of your own, but no prospective employer can withstand the kind of pressure I am in a position to exert.†   (source)
  • I haven't the highest opinion of you as a prospective son-in-law, Floyd.†   (source)
  • Early the next morning my prospective customer appeared.†   (source)
  • At the hotel his prospective subjects slept late in darkened rooms upon their recent opiate of dawn.†   (source)
  • Her conception of her prospective wealth was as yet very indefinite.†   (source)
  • So far as the prospective territory was concerned, he unquestionably died too soon.†   (source)
  • "No, because I don't take an 'intellectual pleasure' in her prospective adventures.†   (source)
  • Madeline's friends were hugely amused over the prospective match; but, except for Dorothy and Castleton, they disclaimed any ambition for active participation.†   (source)
  • Early next morning Tom and Stronghurl were besieged by prospective buffalo-hunters, intensely eager to hear news from the buffalo fields.†   (source)
  • In view of your prospective alliance with the family I should like to consult you—to consider the case with you—before taking any farther steps.†   (source)
  • His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces.†   (source)
  • This person proved, on her presenting herself, for judgment, at a house in Harley Street, that impressed her as vast and imposing—this prospective patron proved a gentleman, a bachelor in the prime of life, such a figure as had never risen, save in a dream or an old novel, before a fluttered, anxious girl out of a Hampshire vicarage.†   (source)
  • It was a common error, by the way, an error that could even bring about failure, to believe one had to concentrate one's will and thoughts on the prospective phenomenon.†   (source)
  • To her, and indeed to all the world, he was a nice, good-hearted, as in the matter of her prospective salary, she had got beyond, in her desires, twice the purchasing power of her bills.†   (source)
  • And he did "tackle it again"—and under the double pressure of curiosity and prospective gain he did it with such spirit that he accomplished a shining success.†   (source)
  • And diagonally opposite to these, lengthwise of a prospective sidewalk, had been laid a pile of lumber for a house.†   (source)
  • I was delighted, for my mind was full of the prospective joys and of the wonderful stories I had heard about the sea.†   (source)
  • New-looking baggage went past him; presently prospective passengers, with dark little bodies, were calling: "Jew-uls-Hoo-oo!" in dark piercing voices.†   (source)
  • This comment could have caused all possible rage to break out between them, but K. also bore in mind that this was a prospective court official speaking to a disfavoured defendant, and he might well have been taking pride in speaking in this way.†   (source)
  • An indescribable lightness of heel served to lift him along; and Jude, the incipient scholar, prospective D.D., professor, bishop, or what not, felt himself honoured and glorified by the condescension of this handsome country wench in agreeing to take a walk with him in her Sunday frock and ribbons.†   (source)
  • And Belknap, after an inquiring glance from the Judge, nodding his agreement, at which the prospective juror was excused.†   (source)
  • Indeed, as she sat in her rocking-chair these several evenings before going to bed and looked out upon the pleasantly lighted street, this money cleared for its prospective possessor the way to every joy and every bauble which the heart of woman may desire.†   (source)
  • I beg your pardon, sir; but just because of the prospective relationship, I should prefer your consulting Mr. Skipworth or Mr. Redwood.†   (source)
  • Nicole waited silently till he had passed; then she went on through lines of prospective salads to a little menagerie where pigeons and rabbits and a parrot made a medley of insolent noises at her.†   (source)
  • But this behest of old Mrs. Mingott's roused him to a sense of what the clan thought they had the right to exact from a prospective son-in-law; and he chafed at the role.†   (source)
  • And then he announced: "Don't forget, gentlemen, that although he had previously indicated to Roberta that this was to be their wedding journey, he did not want anybody to know that he was with his prospective bride—no, not even after they had reached Big Bittern.†   (source)
  • All three would be slightly embarrassed by Newland's presence, now that his prospective relation to the Mingott clan had been made known; and the young man waited with an amused curiosity to see how they would turn the difficulty.†   (source)
  • And she, realizing that his indifference to her had reached the point where he could thus dispose of her and their prospective baby in this casual and really heartless manner, was not only angered in part, but at the same time frightened by the meaning of it all.†   (source)
  • However, as interesting as the idea was to her at the time, nothing definite might have come of it, had it not been that subsequent to this conversation and several others held with Bertine Cranston, Jill Trumbull, Patricia Anthony, and Arabella Stark, the news of this adventure, together with some comments as to himself, finally came to the ears of Gilbert Griffiths, yet only via Constance Wynant to whom, as local gossips would have it, he was prospectively engaged.†   (source)
  • I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil — if evil existent or prospective there was — seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.†   (source)
  • In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.†   (source)
  • …undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.†   (source)
  • For it is at such periods that the sense of our lives having visible and invisible relations, beyond any of which either our present or prospective self is the centre, grows like a muscle that we are obliged to lean on and exert.†   (source)
  • When that was done, a moment's whisper despatched Maggy to despatch somebody else to fill the basket again; which soon came back replenished with new stores, from which a present provision of cooling drink and jelly, and a prospective supply of roast chicken and wine and water, were the first extracts.†   (source)
  • On Friday the Rostovs were to return to the country, but on Wednesday the count went with the prospective purchaser to his estate near Moscow.†   (source)
  • Yes, Nell,' he added, when they had departed, 'my son is prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor.†   (source)
  • When I had taken this commission on myself prospectively, Mr. Barkis relapsed into perfect silence; and I, feeling quite worn out by all that had happened lately, lay down on a sack in the cart and fell asleep.†   (source)
  • …animal may be supposed to feel when he sits on a table in an easy attitude smoking a pipe, swinging one leg carelessly to and fro, and having his boots cleaned all the time, without even the past trouble of having taken them off, or the prospective misery of putting them on, to disturb his reflections; or whether it was the goodness of the tobacco that soothed the feelings of the Dodger, or the mildness of the beer that mollified his thoughts; he was evidently tinctured, for the…†   (source)
  • He had not the least doubt of it himself, but he had already begun to value the world's admiration of Madame de Cintre, as adding to the prospective glory of possession.†   (source)
  • Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.†   (source)
  • John always said what was his was hers, but would he think it right to spend not only the prospective five-and-twenty, but another five-and-twenty out of the household fund?†   (source)
  • Mr. Brooke again winced inwardly, for Dorothea's engagement had no sooner been decided, than he had thought of Mrs. Cadwallader's prospective taunts.†   (source)
  • Yes, as before I had prospectively assumed that Bartleby would depart, so now I might retrospectively assume that departed he was.†   (source)
  • But we must guard against a too liberal use of the conventional declaration that a great sensation was caused by the prospective event, that all the gossips' tongues were set wagging thereby, and so-on, even though such a declaration might lend some eclat to the career of our poor only heroine.†   (source)
  • I know all the ins and outs of your affairs now, my dear boy—it's not for nothing that you were so open with Pashenka when you were her prospective son-in-law, and I say all this as a friend….†   (source)
  • They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no prospective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.†   (source)
  • The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own end, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.†   (source)
  • Even a prospective brother-in-law may be an oppression if he will always be presupposing too good an understanding with you, and agreeing with you even when you contradict him.†   (source)
  • The tone of Stephen's letter, which he had read, and the actual relations of all the persons concerned, forced upon him powerfully the idea of an ultimate marriage between Stephen and Maggie as the least evil; and the impossibility of their proximity in St. Ogg's on any other supposition, until after years of separation, threw an insurmountable prospective difficulty over Maggie's stay there.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Quinion, calling in Tipp the carman, who was a married man, and had a room to let, quartered me prospectively on him — by our mutual consent, as he had every reason to think; for I said nothing, though my resolution was now taken.†   (source)
  • Your mind has taken up its residence with your prospective husband, and you might quite as well be lodged under the conjugal roof, for all the benefit we get from your society.†   (source)
  • It formed a prospective epitome of the day's history; only that affairs had not turned out altogether in accordance with the programme.†   (source)
  • The accepted lover spent most of his evenings in Lowick Gate, and a love-making not at all dependent on money-advances from fathers-in-law, or prospective income from a profession, went on flourishingly under Mr. Vincy's own eyes.†   (source)
  • He saw Madame de Cintre every day, and never saw either old Madame de Bellegarde or the elder of his prospective brothers-in-law.†   (source)
  • And Tom was very unhappy; he felt the humiliation as well as the prospective hardships of his lot with all the keenness of a proud nature; and with all his resolute dutifulness toward his father there mingled an irrepressible indignation against him which gave misfortune the less endurable aspect of a wrong.†   (source)
  • M. de Bellegarde then presented his prospective brother-in-law to some twenty other persons of both sexes, selected apparently for their typically august character.†   (source)
  • Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—"Such as I am, she will shortly be."†   (source)
  • And certainly Mr. Standish was surprised, but not at all sorry; on the contrary, he rather enjoyed the zest of a little curiosity in his own mind, which the discovery of a second will added to the prospective amazement on the part of the Featherstone family.†   (source)
  • She said this with a certain soft emphasis; but then, changing her tone, "I could never have gone through the sufferings of the beautiful Florabella," she added, not even for her prospective rewards.†   (source)
  • …lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of "Female Scripture Characters," unfolding the private experience of Sara under the Old Dispensation, and Dorcas under the New, and the care of her soul over her embroidery in her own boudoir—with a background of prospective marriage to a man who, if less strict than herself, as being involved in affairs religiously inexplicable, might be prayed for and seasonably exhorted.†   (source)
  • The old lady was a little sharp in her tone, having a prospective reference to Mary's becoming her daughter-in-law; for there was this inconvenience in Mary's position with regard to Fred, that it was not suitable to be made public, and hence the three ladies at Lowick Parsonage were still hoping that Camden would choose Miss Garth.†   (source)
  • She and Jane would have been altogether cheered (in a tearful manner) by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been prospectively fond of their presence when he should have become a testator, if the sign had not been made equivocal by being extended to Mrs. Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation, but of that…†   (source)
  • Alexander the Sixth, in wishing to aggrandize the duke, his son, had many immediate and prospective difficulties.†   (source)
  • In 1886 occasionally with casual acquaintances and prospective purchasers on doorsteps, in front parlours, in third class railway carriages of suburban lines.†   (source)
  • For all men are by nature provided of notable multiplying glasses, (that is their Passions and Self-love,) through which, every little payment appeareth a great grievance; but are destitute of those prospective glasses, (namely Morall and Civill Science,) to see a farre off the miseries that hang over them, and cannot without such payments be avoyded.†   (source)
  • They speak of Alhazen and Vitellon,<16> And Aristotle, that wrote in their lives Of quainte* mirrors, and of prospectives, *curious As knowe they that have their bookes heard.†   (source)
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