affair

• Both Mr. White and Mr. Morton came, serious young men who danced little, and looked on more as if the affair were a problem in sociology than an entertainment. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
• "But you won't claim that the circumstances of this affair are anything but extraordinary No," agreed the policeman, "I think they are very extraordinary Something significant in his tones caused Ainley to look at him questioningly. —  A Mating in the Wilds
• But notwithstanding all this, the affair was attended with no better success than that the pilot celebrated the receipt of the large sum of money by getting thoroughly intoxicated, and while in that state he broke one of the bones of the fore-arm. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• The four brothers Bradlee, and a brother-in-law, were prepared for the occasion at their house opposite Perhaps the best contemporaneous account of the affair is the following, from the "Massachusetts Gazette," of December 23 Just before the dissolution of the meeting," says the Gazette,' a number of brave and resolute men, dressed in the Indian manner, approached near the door of the assembly and gave a war-whoop, which rang through the house, and was answered by some in the galleries, but silence was commanded, and a peaceable deportment enjoined until the dissolution. —  Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
• This affair was a very troublesome one for a young man of twenty-three to manage, as there was a tremendous pressure brought to bear upon him by Samuel Adams, and other influential patriots, to return the teas to England. —  Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

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