If there was anything she did not wish to grow into, it was an idiot of any sort, particularly a driveling one; and she resolved to punish herself every time she incurred what she considered to be the righteous displeasure of her virtuous relative.
" I was confounded, as the reader may suppose, yet not with an irrecoverable confusion; being conscious that it was from no emotion of incautious admiration, nor yet in a spirit of unjustifiable inquisitiveness, that I had incurred this reproof.
" In the excitement of getting into the other boat, unfastening it, and mastering an oar, Bob was not struck with the danger Maggie incurred.
His experience told him that intervention was too dubious a responsibility to be lightly incurred; the possible issue either of an endeavor to restore the former relations with Lucy and Philip, or of counselling submission to this irruption of a new feeling, was hidden in a darkness all the more impenetrable because each immediate step was clogged with evil.
—in order to pay your debts, incurred another debt which may harass you worse hereafter?
Two furnishing tradesmen at Brassing, whose bills had been incurred before his marriage, and whom uncalculated current expenses had ever since prevented him from paying, had repeatedly sent him unpleasant letters which had forced themselves on his attention.
But he had deliberately incurred the hindrance, having made up his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship, to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy, and to secure in this, his culminating age, the solace of female tendance for his declining years.
Protection of minority investors was strengthened by increasing shareholders' rights and role in major corporate decisions, clarifying ownership and control structures and requiring reimbursement of legal expenses incurred by shareholders.
" Wang said most medical expenses incurred by inmates will be covered by the national medical insurance fund.
Male workers incurred 92 percent of the 5,524 total reported fatal occupational injuries.
Failing to recognise that forgone cash effectively understates the cost the company has incurred in employing those individuals.
either because he had stolen wine orgave away the secrets of zeus,or because he had become so proud as to test the gods by serving up the flesh of his son pelopsto them,he incurred the wrath of zeus and was hurled down to the everlasting darkness of tartarus .
Besides, China's local debt, over 70% of which was incurred for infrastructure development, is backed by assets.
" In conclusion he said: "It is my opinion that, in all medical probability, the wound incurred by Van Gogh was not self-inflicted.
2 million injuries were incurred on Australian sporting fields and courts in the past 12 months requiring almost 25,000 hospital admissions and 250,000 emergency department presentations.
The Stuart kings incurred large debts and were forced either to depend on Parliament for taxes or to raise money by illegal means.
We dried her clothes as well as we were able, and remained on the water till they were dry; for we did not wish it to be known what a fright we had had, nor the danger which our little adopted sister had incurred, in whose life Aphtanides had now a part.