profered

When faced with choice of killing someone without reward pr penalty being profered (I.e. no impact on success), many users will choose the most convenient or entertaining route.

The Kills SVGL 2009

Realizing this is a "GUN NUT" blog subjective, .. none the less as to profered information and or fact,.

A Brief History of Wildcatting 2008

Suffice to say no retraction will be profered and no correction needed.

Sound Politics: Reichert-Burner KING 5 debate 2006

I really, really have tried to find some ancient, gnarled caligrapher to inscribe in adequate yet truthful Chinese characters the simple phrase - "Well yes really I should have smoked the profered weed at that Kinks' concert so long ago, and had I done so my life would have been so wonderfully enhanced if not utterly changed" - but I have failed as the language has failed.

"Crisis = opportunity + danger." Ann Althouse 2007

When the lady of the castle hints that he should have asked for a kiss, Gawain says he couldn't possibly, "For that durst I do not, lest I devayed were:/If I were werned, I were wrang, iwysse, yif I profered."

A Fable of the Round Table Tom Shippey 2007

He overthrows, ruins, rips open; it is vain to make him a thousand offers, to say "be seated, pray, and drink this cup, profered in all friendship"; he burns our vine-stocks and brutally spills on the ground the wine from our vineyards.

The Acharnians 2000

_Offa king of Mercia, his manhood and victories against the Kentishmen and Westsaxons, he killeth Egilbert king of Eastangles by a policie or subtill deuise of profered curtesie, he inuadeth his kingdome, and possesseth it, the archbishops see of Canturburie remoued to

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

And as _Alphonso_ king of Naples, said to one that profered to take his ring when he washt before dinner, this wil serue another well: meaning that the Gentlemen had another time taken them, & becaufe the king forgot to aske for them, neuer restored his ring againe.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

A sausie courtier profered him selfe to be the man, and had a good reward giuen him: for the Emperour him self was not only learned, but of much munificence toward all learned men: whereupon _Virgill_ seing him self by his ouermuch modestie defrauded of the reward, that an impudent had gotten by abuse of his merit, came the next night, and fastened vpon the same place this halfe metre, foure times iterated.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Which when shee had done, shee tooke a cup of wine and delaied it with hot water, and profered it me to drinke; and before I had drunk it all off she pulled it from my mouth, and then gave it me againe, and in this manner we emptied the pot twice or thrice together.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius