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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prospect
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bleak future/prospect
▪ The company still hopes to find a buyer, but the future looks bleak.
a realistic chance/prospect
▪ We felt we had a realistic chance of beating England.
an exciting prospect (=an event in the future, about which you feel excited)
▪ For the team, there’s the exciting prospect of travelling to many major cities.
an exciting prospect (=a person who has a good chance of success in the future)
▪ His pace and skill mark him as one of the most exciting prospects in Super League.
an unlikely possibility/prospect
▪ The most unlikely possibility was that she might resign.
career prospects (=opportunities to get a good job or a better position)
▪ Good computer skills will improve your career prospects.
daunting prospect
▪ the daunting prospect of asking for a loan
dread the thought/prospect of (doing) sth
▪ He dreaded the prospect of being all alone in that house.
employment prospects (=someone’s chances of getting a job)
▪ Better qualifications will improve your employment prospects.
face the prospect of sth (=something in the future is going to affect you and you will have to deal with it)
▪ Many coastal cities face the prospect of disastrous flooding.
hold out the prospect/promise of sth
▪ alternative methods which hold out the promise of improved health
relish the prospect/thought/idea
▪ I don’t relish the thought of you walking home alone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bleak
▪ Myriad receptions and reunions could not disguise the bleak prospects for job hunters.
▪ It may well be this bleak prospect that has spawned the flurry of books about Yiddish in recent years.
▪ The bleak prospect of the labour camps, slavery in Siberia?
▪ I hope, too, that all the parties will adhere to it, however bleak the prospect may sometimes be.
economic
▪ The study concluded that the economic prospects for the Teifi Valley are very poor.
▪ Perceptions of Britain's economic performance and prospects were obviously influenced by objective economic factors and by government manipulation of economic statistics.
▪ At the same time ministers received the Treasury's best guess about the country's economic prospects.
▪ And finally there was laughter when he spoke about economic prospects and job creation.
▪ Overwhelmingly, improvements in roads and waterways happened in response to existing economic pressures and prospects.
▪ Nevertheless, it may be enough to keep the markets jittery about the country's economic prospects.
exciting
▪ The possibility of introducing anti-oncogenes into those with a predisposition to colon cancer is undoubtedly one of the most exciting prospects.
▪ This is an exciting prospect as future policy could depend on how the eight perform at Cologne and Essen.
▪ He has always looked a chaser and his unexpected achievements over flimsy flights of timber make him a most exciting prospect.
▪ Scientists agree this is an exciting prospect to pursue.
▪ Another exciting prospect for diesel economy in even smaller cars is the diesel two-stroke.
▪ The truly exciting prospect, though, is workwear taking it a stage beyond its booming club and hip hop customer base.
▪ I've just got into my college's riding team and am over the moon at this exciting prospect.
▪ An exciting new prospect of political transformation was opened up.
future
▪ The vast and easy background of Deer Forest gave hope to a future prospect of marriage.
▪ Employees are bound to be concerned about their future prospects should they decide to relocate.
▪ Leslie still had no degree, no money, no future prospects, and the war was far from over.
▪ Or would that too do damage to future matrimonial prospects?
▪ I sense a growing self-confidence in our mood and a more purposeful attitude towards clients and our future prospects.
▪ The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects.
▪ Often the trivial item is one on which a person's reputation, promotion or future prospects depend.
▪ He gleaned some satisfaction from that future prospect.
good
▪ Some do not offer good prospects.
▪ There are too many good prospects in each system, promising young players no organization wishes to lose.
▪ If you prove your ability there are good career prospects and, further promotion could soon take your salary up to £22,135.
▪ The players who were brought up were not usually the best prospects but simply the furthest along.
▪ Old women are the best prospects, he says.
▪ Job Outlook Qualified accountants and auditors are expected to have fairly good job prospects.
▪ Environmentalists stressed the importance of energy efficiency as offering the best prospect of limiting global warming.
▪ One must also be able to identify which firms offer the best prospects for increasing productivity, profitability, and expansion.
immediate
▪ Her tiredness fled before the immediate prospect of encountering her new employer.
▪ The immediate prospects are not promising for the child, at least in so far as primary schools are concerned.
▪ On the freight side, until the Charterail debacle, immediate prospects seemed more favourable.
▪ It's only the immediate, definite prospect of harm which will dissolve inhibition.
▪ You might have thought that, in the abstract, the immediate prospect was attractive.
little
▪ In truth there is now little prospect of Britain ever joining the euro.
▪ There was little prospect of containing this.
▪ In many ways their lot became much worse due to the effects of poor education and little prospect of work.
▪ The bilateral process has slowed down and there is little prospect of accelerating it or involving the smaller nuclear powers.
▪ It is sad that such destruction is being unleashed when there is so little prospect of finding anything of great worth.
▪ Unless you can find such a market, there is little prospect for small-scale poultry-keeping in competition with the huge multinational businesses.
▪ And there is little prospect of improvement.
▪ Bhuj has no water or electricity, and there seems little prospect of its getting much of either for weeks.
real
▪ With hopes of unity in the Western Cape there is a real prospect of international rugby once again this season.
▪ It faces several more years of economic self-restraint, with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s.
▪ After the text recapture Black has no real prospects of attack along the f-file while his central pawn structure becomes curiously inflexible.
▪ What then are the real prospects for multimedia having a serious impact on school education?
▪ Without action by government, donors and trade partners, collapse is a real prospect.
■ NOUN
career
▪ A course can increase confidence, career prospects or simply be enjoyable - all of which will never be regretted.
▪ How would you view your career prospects?
▪ The motivations of the middle-aged housewife or the young man with good career prospects who joined Militant, remained unexplored.
▪ If you prove your ability there are good career prospects and, further promotion could soon take your salary up to £22,135.
▪ Another problem to consider is that if the people identified for transfer do not go, what happens to their career prospects?
▪ The lack of career prospects would make it much more difficult for party whips to threaten or entice independently minded members.
▪ Good career prospects exist in agriculture, animal science, crop science, forestry and economics.
▪ Whether or not blacks' career prospects are blighted by covert racialist policies in the occupational sphere is not the question under consideration.
employment
▪ By mid-1983, more stable oil prices helped slow the rate of inflation, and employment prospects looked rather brighter.
▪ And with the recession, employment prospects are grim.
▪ The level of productivity went up slowly, but employment prospects did not.
▪ That study found no evidence that foreigners in high-tech fields have lowered the earnings or harmed employment prospects of native-born workers.
▪ Employment Prospects Employment prospects are excellent, as the industry is facing a long-term shortage of academically trained managers.
▪ It focused on improving training, employment prospects and housing, and on breaking up ghettos.
▪ Failure here will have no impact on employment prospects in his former job.
▪ Tomorrow's workers will have to be more adaptable, but their employment prospects should be brighter.
job
▪ Attractive subject combinations with psychology are pharmacology, physiology and behavioural neuroscience. Job prospects are good.
▪ Although several generations of Gunters have called Cannon County home, the lack of local job prospects has profoundly discouraged him.
▪ Check the comparative cost of living overseas as well as job prospects and wages.
▪ Job Outlook Qualified accountants and auditors are expected to have fairly good job prospects.
▪ He has meager job prospects and a dim future.
▪ Candidates who have the most formal education and who are willing to relocate should have the best job prospects.
▪ Local government organisations were the most negative about job prospects and banks also forecast further redundancies.
▪ Many students now choose to complete an apprenticeship and then pursue a university degree to improve their job prospects.
■ VERB
alarm
▪ They were all very alarmed by the prospect of substantial movements of people.
excite
▪ Sustainable development investments represented a variety of exciting prospects, but there were still relatively few practical opportunities for investment.
▪ He was very excited at the prospect of such unusual guests near his well and offered to help with everything.
▪ I was excited about the prospect, but quickly realised that this was not the time to share my jovial mood.
▪ Though excited at the prospect of moving to Washington, she was also nervous.
▪ As the months went by, I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday.
▪ Personally, I was excited at the prospect of participating in a real blood-and-guts battle against a prohibitive odds-on favorite.
▪ I was excited at the prospect of living in Seoul again and writing about my native place full-time.
▪ Another exciting prospect for future power generation is terrestrial fusion power.
face
▪ Britain faced the prospect of a winter without food and without energy, at the mercy of powerful unions and ineffective employers.
▪ They faced the prospect of even more problems tonight and tomorrow, when yet another storm will pass through the area.
▪ But now they face eviction and the prospect of unemployment.
▪ Some face the prospect of living on the margins for years because of U.S. visa limits and backlogs.
▪ But first we are faced with the prospect of a decently brisk run there, and in horribly wet and miserable conditions.
▪ But I could not face the prospect of this task.
▪ Pleasant though he was, Amelie couldn't face the prospect of making small talk with him and Madame.
▪ I refused to face the prospect of his return yet, since I seemed to have faced quite enough for one afternoon.
hold
▪ This amounts to compulsory purchase, but holds out the prospect that the shares will rise.
▪ Analysis had shown that, in spite of an extra pawn, he held no serious prospect of a win.
▪ It holds out worthwhile prospects in that lovely part of Shropshire.
▪ Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour, she none the less holds out the prospect of transformation.
improve
▪ As such it helped to improve the prospects of Kim's anticipated campaign for the presidency in late 1992 or early 1993.
▪ Many students now choose to complete an apprenticeship and then pursue a university degree to improve their job prospects.
▪ Available research suggests that changes in attitudes and practice could significantly improve their prospects.
▪ It focused on improving training, employment prospects and housing, and on breaking up ghettos.
▪ They greatly improve the prospects for beating the world recession.
▪ Attempts to improve the prospect of cure have been made by investigation of the advantages of adjuvant chemotherapy.
▪ All are agreed that laying down some ground rules now will improve the prospects for interoperable products in the future.
▪ Kinship can pay an individual to reduce its own chances if it improves the prospects of other members of its family.
offer
▪ Some do not offer good prospects.
▪ For example, President Clinton, as is his instinct, has occasionally offered the prospect of flexibility in the talks.
▪ Several new contracts are already being negotiated with Rentokil's financial backing and branch network offering further benefits to prospects.
▪ When properly managed, they offer the prospect of a tidy retirement nest egg.
▪ In a word, the life of reason offers the prospect of enlightenment.
▪ One must also be able to identify which firms offer the best prospects for increasing productivity, profitability, and expansion.
▪ Environmentalists stressed the importance of energy efficiency as offering the best prospect of limiting global warming.
▪ The authors conclude that a combination of the last two models offers the best prospect of a full explanation.
raise
▪ It represents a major setback for the Tories and raises the prospect of a hung Parliament with Labour the biggest party.
▪ These doubts will be considered more fully in Chapter 9 but they also raise the prospect of a radically different future.
▪ Raytheon executives raised the prospect that more aerospace layoffs may be coming in the aftermath of the Hughes purchase.
▪ Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes.
▪ The strategy raises the prospect of voters with mobile phones being bombarded with election slogans from all parties.
▪ Right-wing rumblings of rebellion over the reshuffle have raised the prospect of them mounting a challenger to Mr Major's leadership.
relish
▪ I did not relish the prospect.
▪ Western governments do not relish the prospect of Iliescu returning to power.
▪ Do you relish the prospect of the open road?
▪ She didn't relish the prospect.
▪ Friends' I would definitely relish the prospect of being drawn against Milan.
▪ Not relishing the prospect of a cold wet night solo on the beach, I had to follow!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
uninviting prospect
▪ This uninviting prospect was offered to a people who, in name at any rate, had tasted independence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Prospects for a peace settlement in the region are not very hopeful at the moment.
▪ a fine prospect of the valley below
▪ He had no job and no prospect of getting one.
▪ I had read a great deal about Professor Chomsky and I felt very excited at the prospect of meeting him.
▪ I hope I never have to have a brain operation - it must be an appalling prospect.
▪ Job prospects for college graduates this spring don't look good.
▪ The prospect of putting weapons in space is frightening to many people.
▪ The prospects for peace are improving.
▪ There is every prospect of an economic recovery next year.
▪ We are facing the prospect of a very hard winter.
▪ Wilder is considered a good prospect for the next election.
▪ You can't marry a man with no job and no prospects!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But that possibility is faint, and the prospects of another large employer ever using the site are even more remote.
▪ Even a few years earlier, the prospect of radical change in the Roman Catholic Church was virtually unimaginable.
▪ He now had some buildings to show prospects.
▪ How would you view your career prospects?
▪ In distant prospect I look forward to them greatly, as a break from the monotonous, lonely routine of writing.
▪ Ironically, the message of all this activity is that the market is intensely worried about Saatchi's prospects.
▪ These problems alone would not make the prospects for the straight forward treatment of deictic sentences within truth-conditional semantics look very hopeful.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Increased tin and gold metal prices from 1980 onwards encouraged prospecting for these commodities.
▪ It felt challenging and risky, like prospecting for gold.
▪ John St.Clair spent hours prospecting for gold, and was rewarded with some bright literary nuggets.
▪ Okioc has been forced to defend its prospecting by calling in experts to look at the seal deaths.
▪ They need your help about everything from prospecting to how to get along with their administrative assistant.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prospect

Prospect \Pros"pect\, n. [L. prospectus, fr. prospicere, prospectum, to look forward; pro before, forward + specere, spicere, look, to see: cf. OF. prospect. See Spy, v., and cf. Prospectus.]

  1. That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

    His eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land.
    --Milton.

  2. Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

    I went to Putney . . . to take prospects in crayon.
    --Evelyn.

  3. A position affording a fine view; a lookout. [R.]

    Him God beholding from his prospect high.
    --Milton.

  4. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

    And their prospect was toward the south.
    --Ezek. xl. 44.

  5. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
    --Locke.

    Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life ?
    --Tillotson.

  6. That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success. ``To brighter prospects born.''
    --Cowper.

    These swell their prospectsd exalt their pride, When offers are disdain'd, and love deny'd.
    --Pope.

Prospect

Prospect \Pros"pect\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prospected; p. pr. & vb. n. Prospecting.] To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.

Prospect

Prospect \Pros"pect\, v. i. To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prospect

early 15c., "act of looking into the distance," from Latin prospectus "distant view, look out; sight, faculty of sight," noun use of past participle of prospicere "look out on, look forward," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "extensive view of the landscape" is from 1530s; transferred sense of "mental view or survey" is from 1620s. Sense of "person or thing considered promising" is from 1922. Prospects "expectations, things looked forward to" is from 1660s.

prospect

"explore for gold, examine land with a view to a mining claim," 1841, from prospect (n.) in specialized sense of "spot giving prospects of ore" (1832). Earlier in a sense "look forth, look out over" (1550s), from Latin prospectare. Related: Prospected; prospecting.

Wiktionary
prospect

n. 1 The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook. 2 A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. 3 A position affording a fine view; a lookout. 4 Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect. 5 The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation. 6 The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable. vb. (context intransitive English) To search, as for gold.

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WordNet
prospect

  1. v. search for something desirable; "prospect a job"

  2. explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

prospect

  1. n. the possibility of future success; "his prospects as a writer are excellent"

  2. belief about (or mental picture of) the future [syn: expectation, outlook]

  3. someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) [syn: candidate]

  4. the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, scene, vista, panorama]

  5. a prediction of the course of a disease [syn: prognosis, medical prognosis]

Gazetteer
Prospect, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 330
Housing Units (2000): 138
Land area (2000): 0.203553 sq. miles (0.527200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.203553 sq. miles (0.527200 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59883
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.303671 N, 75.152190 W
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Prospect
Prospect, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
Population (2000): 690
Housing Units (2000): 248
Land area (2000): 2.697494 sq. miles (6.986476 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.697494 sq. miles (6.986476 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53950
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 34.729295 N, 79.220714 W
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Prospect, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 1191
Housing Units (2000): 490
Land area (2000): 0.724938 sq. miles (1.877580 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.724938 sq. miles (1.877580 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64780
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.451346 N, 83.186521 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43342
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Prospect, OH
Prospect
Prospect, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1234
Housing Units (2000): 518
Land area (2000): 4.776167 sq. miles (12.370215 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000786 sq. miles (0.002035 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.776953 sq. miles (12.372250 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62752
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.904113 N, 80.046430 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16052
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Prospect, PA
Prospect
Prospect, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 4657
Housing Units (2000): 1847
Land area (2000): 4.020251 sq. miles (10.412402 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004028 sq. miles (0.010432 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.024279 sq. miles (10.422834 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63264
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.340126 N, 85.605627 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40059
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Prospect

Prospect may refer to:

  • Prospect (marketing), a marketing term describing a potential customer
  • Prospect (sports), any player whose rights are owned by a professional team, but who has yet to play a game for the team
  • Prospect, a probationary member of a motorcycle club or an outlaw motorcycle club
Prospect (magazine)

Prospect is a monthly British general interest magazine, specialising in politics, economics and current affairs. Topics include British, European, and US politics, social issues, art, literature, cinema, science, the media, history, philosophy, and psychology. It features a mixture of lengthy analytic articles, first-person reportage, one-page columns, and shorter, quirky items.

Notable features of the magazine include head-to-head debates between two writers with opposing views on a subject; roundtable discussions, in which a series of experts with varying views on a given topic meet for a discussion, an edited transcript of which is published in the magazine; and interviews with major political and cultural figures (recent examples include Orhan Pamuk, Paul Wolfowitz, and Hilary Mantel).

The magazine prizes independence over ideology and its articles and authors span the political spectrum. In recent years the magazine's founding editor, David Goodhart, has stirred controversy with a series of articles arguing that the increasing diversity of the United Kingdom may weaken the bonds of solidarity on which the welfare state depends. The debate fed into the broader discussions of " Britishness" that have become increasingly common in the public sphere.

Contributors include Lionel Shriver, A. C. Grayling, Gordon Brown, Mohamed ElBaradei, Michael Lind, Michael Ignatieff, Geoff Dyer, Francis Fukuyama, Roger Scruton, Andrew Marr, John Kay, and J. M. Coetzee.

Prospect received worldwide attention in October 2005 when it published its list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, which included Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Christopher Hitchens. The magazine asked readers to vote for their top intellectual from the longlist; Chomsky was the eventual winner. Subsequent lists have continued to attract attention. Dawkins claimed the top spot in 2013.

In August 2009 in a roundtable interview in Prospect, Adair Turner supported the idea of new global taxes on financial transactions, warning that a “swollen” financial sector paying excessive salaries has grown too big for society. Lord Turner’s suggestion that a " Tobin tax" - named after the economist James Tobin – should be considered for financial transactions reverberated around the world.

Prospect has also attempted to revitalise the art of the short story in Britain, by publishing the winning story of the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize since 2009.

Prospect (trade union)

Prospect is a United Kingdom trade union which represents engineers, managers, scientists and other specialists in both the public and private sectors.

Prospect (sports)

In sports, a prospect is any player whose rights are owned by a professional team, but who has yet to play a game for the team, or is not established with the team yet. Prospects can sometimes be assigned to farm teams, or loaned to lower ranked teams. Also, they may decide to go back to college to play.

Major-league professional sports teams also trade prospects, by themselves, with draft picks, or with current major-leaguers, in order to acquire another prospect or an established major league player. Teams that trade away several of their star players for other teams' prospects are sometimes said to be having a fire sale.

Prospect (Slovenian band)

Prospect is a Slovenian progressive metal band from Ljubljana founded in 1991. Their influences include Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, Dream Theater and Iron Maiden. To be directed at the international market, the band writes all their lyrics in English.

Prospect (Topping, Virginia)

Prospect is a historic plantation house located near Topping, Middlesex County, Virginia. The house was constructed between 1820 and 1850, and is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a gable roof in the Federal style. Two 38-foot chimneys abut each end of the house and the front and rear facades have identical gable-roofed porticos. Also on the property are the contributing a 19th-century carriage house, an early 1900s farm shed, and the original brick-lined well.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

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Usage examples of "prospect".

He never stopped alluding to their fate, determined to undermine any prospect of relief.

The prospect of immediate relief and of future protection allured into its hospitable bosom many of those unhappy persons whom the neglect of the world would have abandoned to the miseries of want, of sickness, and of old age.

Such was the style of discontent, brooding over the dark prospect of approaching poverty.

Every tide might float down the Elbe whole fleets of canoes, filled with hardy and intrepid associates, who aspired to behold the unbounded prospect of the ocean, and to taste the wealth and luxury of unknown worlds.

I must say that I myself am not overjoyed at the prospect of my tightrope artiste being out of action for several months.

A bleak and unlovely prospect after even these few days of luxury, and how empty it would be without Assh and Frey.

By the strained silence he shared from his seat, she assumed he was as worried asshe about the prospect.

With this prospect, Angie had tried for, and to the happiness of both of them, got, a teaching assistantship in the English Department.

Then she moved gracefully away, leaving me staring at the banyan tree but seeing nothing but the ayah coming to the house, taking over the care of Louise, growing to love the child, being excited at the prospect of another child, and in due course giving the same devotion to Alan.

Considering she had managed to conquer an initial squeamishness at the sight of blood, she felt oddly disturbed at the prospect of some wild creature dying, impaled on one of those barbless, sharpened shafts.

Wonderingly he contemplated the prospect of a Barnacle improved, a comfortable Barnacle, owning, among other things, a smaller, more ignorant Barnacle, who would fetch his food and beer.

The prospect of an afternoon spent with a warm, good-humored admirer, a sound basting or two and a nice, fat lygol to take home afterwards, was by no means unpleasant.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

After this, of her own movement, she never spoke of Gordon, and Bernard made up his mind that she had promised her mother to accept him if he should repeat his proposal, and that as her heart was not in the matter she preferred to drop a veil over the prospect.

The Tuscan who betrayed his country to the Celtic nations, attracted them into Italy by the prospect of the rich fruits and delicious wines, the productions of a happier climate.