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- Votes upon motions, whether carried or defeated, could make endless delay, and postpone the Ausgleich to next century. [5]
- How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
- That I can voluntarily postpone my pretensions, when they are no more than equal to those to which they are postponed, you have yourself seen. [7]
- It is a very delicate matter to postpone the draft in one State, because of the argument it furnishes others to have postponement also. [7]
- Give them money to fight with; and the ghost of an excuse, and they: would manage to postpone anything in this world, unless it might be the millennium or something like that. [5]
- Rich people were timid and suspicious; and as the Emperor had lately promulgated fresh and more stringent edicts against the magic arts, Posidonius had thought it prudent to postpone the meeting. [10]
- But their leader thought it well to postpone the attack till after sunrise, lest any of the fugitives should escape. [10]
- If we postpone the first number till February I might get a little paper into that. [8]
- Hadrian had requested the Alexandrians to postpone the theatrical displays and processions that they had prepared for him, as his observations as to the course of destiny during the coming year were not yet complete. [10]
- Was it possible that a lingering doubt remained in her mind that to postpone her happiness would perhaps be to lose it? [9]
- People, to be sure, have different conceptions of happiness, but whatever they are, it is the custom, almost universal, to postpone the thing itself. [4]
- We must postpone our symposium and your drinking-speech. [10]
- I gave my opinion that we, as Republicans, would ultimately beat them as Democrats, but that they could postpone that result longer by nominating Senator Douglas for the Presidency than they could by any other way. [7]
- If he hit one of the former, he concluded that his father--who was gone to Osiris--concurred in his design; in the contrary case he was careful to postpone it. [10]
- The swift power of the reptile over life and death, was an emblem to the votaries of the power of the god to postpone the death of man or to shorten his days. [10]
- The point I make is that we should not habitually postpone that season of happiness to the future. [4]
- It might be he, and March was glad to postpone the impending question to his curiosity concerning the immediate business Fulkerson might have with him. [8]
- We cannot have free government without elections; and if the election could force us to forego or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. [7]
- Please postpone the execution till further order. [7]
- If the doctors did not keep me here at the spas I should be back in Russia, but as it is I have to postpone my return for three months. [2]
- Aurelia thought to break off the engagement at first, but pity for her unfortunate lover caused her to postpone the marriage-day for a season, and give him another trial. [5]
- Even now citizens are telegraphing me to postpone the election to a later day than either that fixed by the convention or by me. [7]
- It had been a matter of life and death with her lover, while disturbing Caracalla would only postpone his recovery a few hours at the utmost. [10]
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