1 Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have.
2 They all consulted together, and looked anxiously at the surgeon, as he asked some questions, and shook his head on receiving the replies.
3 Probably the same motives which induced Cedric to open his hall to this son of a rejected people, would have made him insist on his attendants receiving Isaac with more courtesy.
4 On the very verge of the thicket two men spoke to his conductors, and receiving an answer in a whisper, withdrew into the wood, and suffered them to pass unmolested.
5 Oswald, on receiving this intelligence, resolved to return to his master for farther instructions, carrying along with him Gurth, whom he considered in some sort as a deserter from the service of Cedric.
6 But his petty vanity was sufficiently gratified by receiving this homage at the hands of his immediate attendants, and of the Saxons who approached him.
7 She looked almost aghast under the new idea she was receiving.
8 In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
9 The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
10 You have an understanding which will prevent you from receiving things only in part, and judging partially by the event.
11 On receiving it, she could instantly decide on its containing little writing, and was persuaded of its having the air of a letter of haste and business.
12 Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.
13 An answer so different from the one he had expected to elicit, and was in the habit of receiving, staggered Mr. Bumble not a little.
14 Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
15 It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.