He may apprentice his son to a gamester or rum-seller, and thuscancel his debts of honor.
Mrs. Roe has no right to her children; they may be bound out to cancel a father's debts of honor.
Possess your soul with patience, and attend; A more auspicious planet may ascend; Good fortune may present some happier time, With means to cancel my unwilling crime.
Why then, give sin a passport to offend, And youth the dangerous reign of liberty: Blot out the strict forbidding of the law, And cancel every cannon that prescribes A shame for shame or penance for offence.
Some of the pressure, at least, was off; he had managed to cancel part of the Confederation's advantage.
Any person, deeming himself to be injured by the registration of a trade-mark in the Patent Office, may, at any time, make application to the Commissioner to cancel the registration thereof.
My intention is to annul the wager which was yesterday made between you and my kinsman Carwash, I beg of you to cancel this bet, for all that is uttered over cups and flagons is of no serious account, and ought to be forgotten.
He has made every effort to cancelthe bet, but Hadifah would by no means consent.
I have spent the last three days in trying to persuade him to cancel this wager.
Let me go to King Cais, and I will not leave him until he promises to come to you and cancel the contract.
The two negatives cancel each other and leave an affirmative.
Parenthesis Marks: a Uses; b With other marks; c Confirmatory symbols; d Not used to cancel words; e Brackets 96.
Do not use parenthesis marks to cancel a word or passage.
I heard from Luttichau that, scared by the failure of Tannhauser, he was holding himself in readiness to countermand the order for the promised scenery for the Hall of Song, or to cancel it altogether.
I offered to cancel everything, but that only embarrassed him the more.
They sent a committee of three men to the intruder and demanded that he should release and cancel his purchase, which he refused to do.
And this he gladly did in all such cases as he could not induce those who owned these obligations to cancel them themselves.
To my great regret I was obliged to cancel my Cincinnati engagement, and we started our train in the direction of New York.
In certain cases there were those who even had the effrontery to ask Congress to cancel their own laws.
Finally, in December, 1827, there came an innocent petition to Congress to cancel this bond.
In our greedy chase to make profit of the negro, let us beware lest we "cancel and tear in pieces" even the white man's charter of freedom.
The money has since been applied to the support of the school in its original design; and arrearages of interest remitted to the president to cancel the debts overwhelming the seminary.
Soon after the treasurer, making an estimate of the demands upon it, pronounced that all the property of the corporation, if sold at vendue, would not be sufficient to cancel its debts.
I willcancel his indentures willingly, my liege," the armorer answered, "and that without payment.
Where a codicil refers to the former of two inconsistent wills, by date, as the last will of the testator, it has the effect to cancel the intermediate will, and evidence of mistake cannot be admitted.
Secondly, it may be revoked by a certain deliberate act of the maker, intending to cancel a previous will, or with animo revocandi, as the legal phrase is.
Well," said Herzog, "I want to cancelthat part of the order.
Gents: Owing to the fact that the U-nited States bankruptcy laws don't go nowheres except in the U-nited States, we are obliged to cancel the order what you give us.
You may have no power to cancel such social outrage--but your Grace may.
Without charity, or patronage, or asking anything from the State, it puts into each man's hand the "means to cancel his captivity.
On the one hand, in accordance with the law of averages gains and losses tend to cancel out over a large series of transactions, when reasonable calculations have been made.
When an industry comprises a large number of separate concerns, and the decisions accordingly are taken by many men, acting independently of one another, the errors of calculation will tend to some extent to cancel one another out.
The risks arising from the element of pure chance are more likely, those arising from miscalculation are less likely, to cancel out.
The pope declares the divorce illegal, and commands Henry to cancel the process.
He had been required not only to undo his marriage, and cancel the sentence of divorce, but, as a condition of reconciliation with the Holy See, to undo also the Act of Appeals, and to restore the papal jurisdiction.
Refuse us that, and you cancelthe articles; cancel the articles, and you cancel our services with them.
If it be wholly so produced, then if the aggregate be taken of a sufficient number of instances, the effects of these different causes will cancel one another.
In a subsequent issue of his Logic, the Archbishop made a reply to the criticism, which induced me to cancel part of the note, incorporating the remainder in the text.
