English statesman

Usage examples of balfour.

Arthur Balfour, Sir John Gorst, and other eminent persons who had a hand in constructing the Education Acts of 1892 and 1893, to say how far the system now in existence owes any of its features to the influence of Matthew Arnold.

Although the Balfour Declaration gave Zionism the lukewarm support of the backers of the White Guardist pogromists, it did nothing to curb the pogroms.

Balfour made plain in an admirable speech, whether the great occasions of the peace and after the peace are to be handled by a grand council of all that is best and most leaderlike in the nation, or whether they are to be left to a few leaders, apparently leading, but really profoundly swayed by the obscure crowd of politicians and jobbers behind them.

The chandelier blazed and the wall sconces lit the sweeping staircase with its newly hung portrait of Horace Balfour.

The church lay on the edge of the Balfour land, adjacent to the village.

Catherine Balfour, stomping madly through their midst, face stony, eyes never seeing them, was a frequent and welcomed diversion.

But then the Balfour men could be charming devils when it suited them.

Here the equine inhabitants lived far more comfortably than any Balfour tenant in his leaky-roofed cottage.

The wagons travelled a discreet distance behind the Balfour family carriage.

Perhaps when you find yourself a husband, Miss Balfour, you can have yourself painted specially for him.

You have done a great deal to ensure that the Balfour name flourishes once more, and shall not fall into decline with ruin and bankruptcy, and all the rest.

The beadle, along with the local militia, descended upon Munsey Hall, demanding that Ralph Balfour be surrendered up to their custody.

Lady Balfour felt the oddest kind of pride at having thus asserted herself.

Sophie looked around thoroughly, noting how the excavations ran from Balfour into Lawley-Lovelock land.

Now he did an extra day and an extra morning a week for Balfour Cohen, and also took work home.