By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years.

The check had been mailed from Chicago, the envelope bore no return address, and the check was not signed.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

But Papa's death had further complicated the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for the weeks following it Tom did not know whether his return to Harvard could be arranged.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

Since he had gross income of $600 or more, he must file a return in which he may claim an exemption deduction of $600.

Barco, his state of apprehension gone, never to return, had assumed a matter-of-factness which remained his principal attitude from that time on.

One had taken a flight into uncharted space, in the service of science, to return as a living hero.

He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.

Yet Maude had suggested that Sarah return to New York.

Kitti had come into the office, on somebody's recommendation, because she needed help in preparing her income tax return.

Stanley had filled out the return and because, when he was finished, it was close to the lunch hour, he had politely asked Kitti to join him, never expecting her to accept.

That 4 per cent yield is well below the return to be had on good corporation bonds.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

But when Miss Jen went over right away to return the call, Miss Kiz couldn't have been very cordial, for she'd come back before she hardly had time to get there.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

Transferring each contingent into Asia, Alexios promised to supply them with provisions in return for their oaths of homage.

In any case, Marlborough had promised to return to the Netherlands if a French attack developed there, transferring his troops down the Rhine on barges at a rate of a day.

" God tells Moses to return to Egypt and lead the Hebrews into Canaan, the land promised to Abraham.

Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Heracles knew that he had to return the hind, as he had promised, to Artemis, so he agreed to hand it over on the condition that Eurystheus himself come out and take it from him.

Ōjin was born ( in 200 according to the traditional, but untrustworthy TC date, timetable ; realistically sometime in the late 4th century ) in Tsukushi on the return of his mother from the invasion of the promised land and named him Prince Hondawake.

Under a one-year standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in January 1979, the government promised to undertake economic reforms, including a reduction of the budget deficit, in return for a $ 68 million IMF support program and $ 27 million in IMF Trust Fund loans.

Raymond Brown contends that " The Johannine picture of a savior who came from an alien world above, who said that neither he nor those who accepted him were of this world, and who promised to return to take them to a heavenly dwelling could be fitted into the gnostic world picture ( even if God's love for the world in could not ).

When reelected in 2000, President Aristide promised to remedy this situation but instead introduced a non-sustainable plan of " cooperatives " that guaranteed investors a 10 percent rate of return.

His sometime rival Severus promised him the title of Caesar in return for Albinus ' support against Pescennius Niger in the east.

In this secret ' Engagement ', the Scots promised military aid in return for the King's agreement to implement Presbyterianism in England on a three-year trial basis.

The authorities agreed to release Brown on the condition that he would get a job and not return to Augusta or Richmond County and also under the condition he find a decent job and sing for the Lord as he had promised in his parole letter.

In return, John promised not to visit England for the next three years, thereby in theory giving Richard adequate time to conduct a successful crusade and return from the Levant without fear of John seizing power.

Pharaoh asked Moses to remove the frogs and promised to let the Israelites go observe their feast in the wilderness in return.

Islamic tradition holds the view that Isa, son of Maryam ( aka Jesus, son of Mary ), was the promised nabi ( Prophet ) and masih ( Messiah ) sent to the Israelites, and that he will again return to Earth in the end times, along with al-Mahdi, and they will defeat Masih ad-Dajjal ( lit.

When the British governor of Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston, discovered some pygmy inhabitants of the Congo being abducted by a showman for exhibition, he rescued them and promised to return them to their homes.

In return, Otto promised to support the pope's interests in Italy.

He lifted the state of siege, allowed opposition exiles to return, ended press censorship, freed political prisoners, and promised to rewrite the 1940 constitution.

In 878 the sentence of excommunication was withdrawn after he promised never to return to Rome or exercise his priestly functions.

In return, the British promised to protect Qatar from all aggression by sea and to lend their good offices in case of a land attack.

Jeroboam and the people promised their loyalty in return for lesser burdens.

In 1824, the Classical scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne promised to prepare a new literal translation of the Greek text for Champollion's use ; Champollion promised in return an analysis of all the points at which the three texts seemed to differ.