intromissions

Kept in a form of modern concubinage in which they are periodically serviced with narcotic intromissions of salary, expenses, allowances and granted the odd chance to play with a few minor levers of power, our erstwhile Masters will have been reduced to the level of the pig-sty whose denizens they are so keen to emulate.

Archive 2008-01-20 2008

Kept in a form of modern concubinage in which they are periodically serviced with narcotic intromissions of salary, expenses, allowances and granted the odd chance to play with a few minor levers of power, our erstwhile Masters will have been reduced to the level of the pig-sty whose denizens they are so keen to emulate.

Where Are The Boyars Now? 2008

And although having rendered an account of my intromissions, which have been regularly approved of, not only by yourself (whom I could not prevail upon to look at more than the docket and sum total), but also by the worthy Mr. Samuel Griffiths of London, being the hand through whom the remittances were made, I may, in some sense, be considered as to you

Redgauntlet 2008

A king is in this respect like a merchant: he takes account from time to time of his own affairs, and the intromissions of his servants.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

Those who before invaded pastures and stormed houses, now begin to enrich themselves by unequal contracts and fraudulent intromissions.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

By the terms of this, my uncle bound himself to satisfy Rankeillor as to his intromissions, and to pay me two clear thirds of the yearly income of Shaws.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

You to advance stock-in-trade bearing interest, but having no claim on me for any part of that, further than my intromissions; the stock itself to be your security and property.

James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877

By the terms of this, my uncle bound himself to satisfy Rankeillor as to his intromissions, and to pay me two clear thirds of the yearly income of

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Translator, etc., ed. at Cambridge, was then successively schoolmaster at Sevenoaks, and Clerk of the Ordnance, in which position his intromissions appear to have been of more advantage to himself than to the public service.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

There were also intromissions with a certain company of players then resident in Dumfries, and writings of such prologues for their second-rate pieces, as many a penny-a-liner could have done to order as well.

Robert Burns John Campbell Shairp 1852