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Usage examples of formal.

She was clearly the only one at court with any formal training, but his impression of her was one of a minor degree of talent, enough to teach children the rudiments of control, diagnose threshold sickness, ease a fever, or cast truthspell.

ON FINE SPRING DAYS Adams could walk among the lilacs and allies of linden trees in the formal gardens of the Hotel de Valentinois.

On Monday, April 22, at the Huis ten Bosch Palace at The Hague, Adams was received by His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, William V, and his wife Princess Wilhelmina in a ceremony of formal recognition.

IN LATE SEPTEMBER, John Jay dispatched an urgent note to John Adams from Paris to report that the British emissary Richard Oswald had received a formal commission to treat with the United States on the matter of peace.

More common was the opinion that a formal declaration of war could not come too soon, a view most strongly held by those nearest Adams, including his wife.

But when on Friday, June 30, Whitney and a small delegation of town leaders made a formal call on Adams, he received them in his upstairs library seated in his favorite armchair.

The Aedile had dismissed all of these allegations as fantasies, but then a boy had died after bloodletting, and the parents, mid-caste chandlers, had lodged a formal protest.

And then the formal summons had arrived, which the Aedile had had to read out to Dr.

Indeed, Metternich himself in his own Memoirs often follows a good deal in the line of Bourrienne: among many formal attacks, every now and then he lapses into half involuntary and indirect praise of his great antagonist, especially where he compares the men he had to deal with in aftertimes with his former rapid and talented interlocutor.

Salem would work as an asset of the Foreign Counter Intelligence Branch, with Nancy Floyd as his salary contact and Napoli and Anticev as the formal case agents who would process his intel.

I do not have a formal academic background in archaeology or anthropology, I daresay that I am quite a recognized expert on the Anasazi and that the two scientists currently working up there depend on me for the answers to certain mysteries.

For good measure, waiting until Andi would be on her way home, phoned Tyson to set up a formal one with him as well.

Little Arcady Heaven had meant to be consummated under more formal auspices.

Since Auris has not yet reached the age where her formal consent to this action would be required, the matter is settled.

He gave up, ordered a formal report filed with central battle headquarters on Nilea, sought under his backstrap for a persistent nibbler that had been pestering him all day.