Even though Esther is given preferential treatment by the eunuch in charge, including the promptest service, special cuisine, the finest perfumes, seven choice maids, not to mention his good advice (Add Esth 2: 9), she is wretchedly unhappy from the time of her arrival through the next five years of her marriage (Add Esth 2: 16, 3: 7). ❋ Unknown (2009)
‘Certainly not,’ says Peggotty, with the promptest decision. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If interested, you may wish to order directly from Prufrock Press for the promptest service. ❋ M-mv (2007)
Our only resource is in the promptest and most humiliating peace. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Their caravans are hailed at Shendy by the Sennaar and Kordofan people, as the promptest purchasers of their goods; but they create great jealousy among the Egyptians, whose rivals they are in various articles of import. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"We can have the windows screened if we are afraid of flies," she said as she folded away the unsightly shrouds, and Delia echoed, "Why, so we can!" in the promptest assent, and as though it had been her own idea all along. ❋ Julie Mathilde Lippmann (N/A)
"Oh! I'm the promptest grocery clerk you ever saw!" boasted Dock, perhaps to hide a little confusion, and bolster up his nerve. ❋ Frank V. Webster (N/A)
Ireland, would be the best and promptest way of employing its people upon reproductive works. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
It was so much to have actually started her ball rolling; and, at the moment, it seemed that Uncle Paul must send it bounding back in the promptest and most delightful of letters. ❋ Caroline E. Jacobs (N/A)
I called for Hays, but he, the promptest of men, and his splendid regiment, could not be found. ❋ Richard Taylor (N/A)
Forming a sort of procession, we walked slowly toward the centre of the town, preceded by the six cavasses, who shouted to the motley crowd to make way for their high lordships, and when the promptest obedience was not rendered whacked the offenders with their canes with great impartiality and no light hand. ❋ Various (N/A)
Gertrude McComas had had no desire to inherit memories of her predecessor; if she had not urged the promptest action her husband's plan might have given him a still more gratifying profit. ❋ Henry B. Fuller (N/A)
Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who said the idea and object of the modern daily newspaper are to collect and give news, with the promptest and best elucidation and discussion thereof, that is, the selling of these in the open market; primarily a "merchant of news." ❋ Various (N/A)
It is true that there are "catches" which can only be covered by long rods, with their undoubted advantages in sending out the fly, picking the line off the water, and settling a fish with the promptest dispatch. ❋ William Senior (N/A)
_Cato_ of any Senatour not onely the grauest but also the promptest and wittiest in any ciuill scoffe, misliking greatly the engrossing of offices in Rome that one should haue many at once, and a great number goe without that were as able men, said thus by _Counterchaunge_. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
If the time demanded anything, that demand was the promptest organization of an army, with an immediate basis of foreign credit, to arm, equip and clothe it. ❋ T. C. DeLeon (N/A)
I have already said that all the persons of the Emperor's household emulated each other in seeking the surest and promptest means of carrying out his wishes; and everywhere, whether in traveling or on the campaign, his table, his coffee, his bed, or even his bath could be prepared in five minutes. ❋ Various (N/A)
Certainly not, says Peggotty, with the promptest decision. ❋ Unknown (1917)
