"Expiration" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... decease, she, the said Constance, should marry a man not below the rank of the son of a baron. But in case she, the said Constance, should not marry within the said twelve calendar months, or should marry any man below the rank of a baron, then and after the expiration of said twelve calendar months, the said fortune to go to his beloved wife, except an annuity of two hundred pounds a year, to be paid thereout to his daughter Constance." Mr. Gresham was appointed sole executor to his will. As soon as it was decently possible, after ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth
... been passed to extend the charters of the banking institutions so that financial disorder cannot take place, which would otherwise have come at the expiration ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... three hundred artisans of all trades, and within the space of fifteen years to transport four thousand colonists to New France. The colonists were to be wholly supported by the company for three years, and at the expiration of that period were to be assigned as much land as they needed for cultivation. The settlers were to be native-born Frenchmen, exclusively of the Catholic faith, and no foreigner or Huguenot was to be permitted to enter ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain
... priests were executed; several made their escape from the country. Besides the work before mentioned, De l'Ancre published a treatise under the title of 'L'Incredulite et Mescreance du Sortilege pleinement convaincue,' 1622. The expiration of the term of the Bordeaux commission brought the proceedings to a close, and fortunately saved a ...
— The Superstitions of Witchcraft • Howard Williams
... expiration of an hour Katie returned to her post. But Claudia did not therefore quit hers. She remained seated beside the wounded boy. All that day he lay quietly, under the influence of morphia. Once the judge looked in to inquire the state of ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
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