Engagements

Examples

• Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Had Canby been in other engagements afterwards, he would, I have no doubt, have advanced without any fear arising from a sense of the responsibility. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Twice was his card found on the table, when they returned from their morning's engagements. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Ordinary people might have hesitated before setting aside their own engagements to suit the convenience of a stranger. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A better army, man for man, probably never faced an enemy than the one commanded by General Taylor in the earliest two engagements of the Mexican war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• At other times my engagements used to be with him to go over his business affairs at Menlo Park at night, if I was occupied in New York during the day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• While I can have my mornings to myself, said she, it is enough--I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Sherman's loss in these last engagements in killed, wounded, and missing, was about sixteen hundred. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Harriet, necessarily drawn away by her engagements with the Martins, was less and less at Hartfield; which was not to be regretted. Jane Austen. Emma.
• What engagements? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• All the engagements fought ought to have served to encourage the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I wasn't made for long engagements. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• His professional engagements did not allow of his being put off, but both father and daughter were disturbed by its happening so. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Their other engagements were few, as the style of living in the neighbourhood in general was beyond Mr. Collins's reach. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I don't know what Mr. Tulkinghorn's engagements may be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These amazing engagements of minewhat have they been? Jane Austen. Emma.
• I had been in all the engagements in Mexico that it was possible for one person to be in; but not in command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You forget, sir, previous engagements into which Captain Osborne had entered, the ambassador said, gravely. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I know your engagements, said he, and I know you are out of sorts, Mr. Pip. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I was in two engagements, and distinguished myself in each, Alvanly replied. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In Europe people don't understand our long American engagements; I suppose they are not as calm as we are. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• His own engagements had not allowed him leisure time to undertake the errand, and he had most kindly suggested that it should be transferred to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You're awfully good, dear, but I never interfere with Mr. Selden's engagements. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He was gallantly leading his brigade at the time, as he had been in the habit of doing in all the engagements in which he had previously been engaged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My engagements at present, replied Willoughby, confusedly, are of such a naturethatI dare not flatter myself He stopt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• What were Mr. Thornton's engagements? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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