"Superintend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a great extent her property, and at this time she identified herself completely with Balzac in all the arrangements to do with it. Though he kept on his rooms in the Rue Basse and left his effects there, he moved in April 1847 to the Rue Fortunee, that he might be better able to superintend the building and decorating, and might himself keep watch over his treasures, which must gradually be unpacked and bestowed to the best advantage. About the middle of April he conducted Madame Hanska to Forbach on her way back to Wierzchownia, ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars
... good beginning this method of what I may call, in technical language, 'seisin,' unless we go the whole hog. Well, if you two Juniors will attend to our—em—clients upstairs—(laughter)—I and our Chancery friend will superintend the temporary removal of Lord ESHER from the Court that he so much adorns. (Noise heard.) Ah, that sounds like Sir JAMES HANNEN banging on the ceiling! He must be stopped, as it would be so very ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 23, 1890. • Various
... other Roman Catholic countries, large profits being made. In 1749, however, a British Fishery Society was established, and a bounty of L50 offered on every ton of herrings caught. In 1803 an expert Dutchman was employed to superintend the growing industry, and from 1830 Wick took the lead in the herring industry, which in a few years' time extended all round the coasts, the piles of herring-barrels along the quay at Wick ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... the apparatus and instruments of torture; and on the other side of it sat the three examiners, as dreadful and formidable as the terrible three of Venice. At the upper end of the room was a chair of state for the Vice-Chancellor, whenever he deigned to personally superintend the torture; to the right and left of which accommodation was provided for other victims. On the right hand of the room was a small open gallery of two seats (like those seen in infant schools); and here, from 10 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, with ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... the grave priest, Hardin at once sends orders for his prospectors. A new man appears to superintend the grant. ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
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