Commissions
[kə'mɪʃns]
Examples
- But we were nominated at the same time for the United States service, and both our commissions bore date May 17th, 1861. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His son began to supersede Mrs Bangham, and to execute commissions in a knowing manner, and to be of the prison prisonous, of the streets streety. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- St. Clare had just been entrusting Tom with some money, and various commissions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You never charge me, Miss Wilfer,' said the Secretary, encountering her by chance alone in the great drawing-room, 'with commissions for home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Laurence has commissions for me in Washington, and it will give me real satisfaction to be of service to her there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Conceivably the Governor might be induced to appoint a Commission on Moral Commissions in Cities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He gave me a commission, with full powers, and a parcel of blank commissions for officers, to be given to whom I thought fit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And my new honour proved not much less brittle; for all our commissions were soon after broken by a repeal of the law in England. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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