Citations:appointment

English citations of appointment

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• 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxx, leaf 232r

  Soo whan the poyntement was made they departed in sonder and they came to gyders with alle the myght that their horses myghte renne.

  "So when the appointment was made, they departed in-sunder, and they came together with all the might that their horses might run."

• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  And if nothing happens without His knowledge, He knows that I am here, and am in this dreadful condition; and if nothing happens without His appointment, He has appointed all this to befall me.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.