Appointments
[ə'pɔintmənts]
Examples
- The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am much too delicate to make and keep such appointments in the winter season. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Very graceful was the lady's mien, choice her appointments, delicate and stately her whole aspect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Some men have a knack of keeping appointments; and other men have a knack of missing them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I know little of either, said Lydgate; but in general, appointments are apt to be made too much a question of personal liking. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have no ill-will towards him, but I think we owe something to the public, not to speak of anything higher, in these appointments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- People declared that she got money from various simply disposed persons, under pretence of getting them confidential appointments under Government. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Appointments of commissioned officers had then to be made; men had to be enlisted, the regiments equipped and the whole transported to Mexico. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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