Offices

Examples

• In 1792 Murdoch erected a gas distilling apparatus, and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service pipes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In dancing attendance at the various offices, I was always treated, more or less, as if it was a very bad offence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, performing the offices of slaves? Plato. The Republic.
• Practically all small railroad stations and local telegraph offices use these cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Yawler recommended me to one or two other offices, however--Mr. Waterbrook's for one--and I got a good many jobs. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Among the five or six buildings supplied with the new lighting were the _Herald_ offices and the Drexel Building, at the time one of New York City’s show places. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My young friends Dale and Spiggot do all my business for me now, until my new offices are ready; for I'm only here temporarily, you know, Captain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She thanked him for a thousand thousand kind offices and proofs of steadfast friendship to her in her affliction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Inquiry at the servants' offices informed me that Rosanna had retired to her own room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Even the foreign offices felt the fear of war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There will be more and better light in homes; there will be more and better light in offices and factories, thus greatly lessening the chances for injury or eye-strain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Gould was up-town in the Erie offices in the Grand Opera House. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nor was Eva less zealous in kind offices, in return. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• These are the company's offices into which he has gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Willingly, and a small return for your good offices. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• In fact, in the leading telegraph offices the storage battery has practically superseded the old voltaic cells. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The calculations of various life assurance and annuity offices, among other figures which cannot go wrong, have established the fact. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Business men, generally, were now taking a real interest in mechanical addressing and the saving which the addressograph made possible in their offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The instruments in the handsome new offices were fastened in their proper places, and operators were strictly forbidden to remove them, or to use the batteries except on regular work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And Lucy perhaps at first might think only of procuring his good offices in my favour. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In the discharge of gentle offices and kind filial duties, this simple creature shone most especially. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Other big users are railroads, banks, mail-order houses, and city, state and government offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His foreign birth, and he refused to throw off his allegiance to his native country, alone prevented him from filling the first offices in the state. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• With many gentle and womanly offices, which none knew better how to render than Mrs. Bird, the poor woman was, in time, rendered more calm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A lawyer in High Street, Knowlesbury--the old offices that his father had before him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And so much time was saved on this one application that customers soon began applying it to other kinds of work in their offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She was busily engaged in the little offices of the table. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He also visited the offices of the large public service and insurance companies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Underground conduits are built, central offices located and cables provided with an eye to the future, and if these plans are carried out important economies are obtained. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Editor: Margaret