All right, so far--except our business with the small foreign firms. Bills to meet from those quarters,
Every one of these minor firms claimed and received the privilege of drawing bills on Pizzituti, Turlington & Branca for amounts varying from four to six thousand pounds--on no better security than a verbal understanding that the money to pay the bills should be forwarded before they fell due.
They are opposed to the Countess's idea; but she is
firm, and insists on a legal opinion."
I shall have to give the professor a polite but
firm refusal."
And if it should ever suit your views to buy it for the
firm, I should have a better chance of fulfilling my father's wish.
You and I were in here, discussing certain legal minutiae in the interests of the
firm, when it suddenly fell.
One morning when I went into the parlour with my books, I found my mother looking anxious, Miss Murdstone looking
firm, and Mr.
He was, however, the same Cocles, good, patient, devoted, but inflexible on the subject of arithmetic, the only point on which he would have stood
firm against the world, even against M.
His
firm lips met like the lips of a vice; the Delta of his forehead's veins swelled like overladen brooks; in his very sleep, his ringing cry ran through the vaulted hull, Stern all!
"However, at last it came to an end, and we were hauled up, and swung over again to the land; we were very glad, and snorted and neighed for joy, when we once more felt
firm ground under our feet.
Behind him, pale indeed, but marching with a
firm step, was Charles Stuart, who advanced between two priests, followed by a few superior officers appointed to preside at the execution and attended by two files of partisans who took their places on opposite sides of the scaffold.
But the spirit of Mazarin was a strong one, or rather his mind was a
firm one.