appointments

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Manicamp wishes for the appointment of a second maid of honor.

Of course you understand that after your breaking your appointment I am never going to speak to you again.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

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Finding the name on the narrow wooden gate, however, and seeing by his watch that the hour of the "Thinker's" appointment had just struck, he went in and knocked at the front door.

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It would really have been a matter of total indifference to him--that is to say, he would have taken the more convenient side, and given his vote for the appointment of Tyke without any hesitation--if he had not cared personally for Mr.

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I really have rather an important appointment this afternoon.

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I held a high office," the Convict humbly replied, "and sold subordinate appointments.

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The persons present thought important matters were being talked over, and the solicitors for favors and appointments kept at a little distance.

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Folding the letter and smoothing it with a massive ivory knife, and putting it in an envelope with the money, he rang the bell with the gratification it always afforded him to use the well arranged appointments of his writing-table.

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The COMMON COUNCIL had the appointment of all the judges and magistrates of the respective CITIES.

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Without substantially accomplishing this part of their undertaking, they would have very imperfectly fulfilled the object of their appointment, or the expectation of the public; yet that it could not be easily accomplished, will be denied by no one who is unwilling to betray his ignorance of the subject.

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Then the idea seized him that he had read incorrectly, and that the appointment was for eleven o'clock.