Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. afere, affere, OF. afaire, F. affaire, fr. a faire, to do; L.. ad, + facere, to do. See Fact, and cf. Ado
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. afaire (Fr. affaire)—à and faire—L. ad, and facĕre, to do. Cf. Ado.
In literature:
It was a silly affair.
"A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3" by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
I fear how this affair will end!
"The Comedies of Terence" by Publius Terentius Afer
Round; a family affair, as I may say.
"Orley Farm" by Anthony Trollope
It was an affair of mutual and understood love, beyond a doubt.
"The White Chief" by Mayne Reid
The fact was, her ideas of things in general were disarranged by the state of affairs in Merleville.
"Janet's Love and Service" by Margaret M Robertson
He had ceased to have part or lot in the affairs of living men.
"The History of Sir Richard Calmady" by Lucas Malet
The affair proceeded rapidly, as such affairs should do where there is no reason for delay.
"Deerbrook" by Harriet Martineau
But Choiseul, the minister of foreign affairs under Louis XV, would entertain no such visionary plan.
"The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" by William Milligan Sloane
They ought not to forget so soon in what state Lord Ellenborough found affairs in 1842.
"The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853" by Queen Victoria
But he promptly fell back into his usual mood when she came into his affairs.
"Blow The Man Down" by Holman Day
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In poetry:
If God, in such a small affair,
A miracle performs;
It shows his condescending care
Of poor unworthy worms.
"The Borrowed Axe" by John Newton
It almost ended in a fight
When they on path or stair
Met face to face. They made it quite
A personal affair.
"Damon vs. Pythias" by William Schwenck Gilbert
If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts to you to set them free,
Exactly as we were.
"The White Rabbit's Verses" by Lewis Carroll
Tell the people everywhere you go,
"The day is here again,"
The Ethiopian's God appears
To deal with all affairs.
"A Rallying Song" by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Gay streets display their shining wares
To every roving eye,
As eager in their own affairs,
The busy tribes go by.
"A Town" by Jane Taylor
But Mrs. Jones declined to see
Affairs in the same light as he,
And quietly got a decree
Divorcing her from that L. B.
"A Moral Vindicator" by Francis Bret Harte
In news:
Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger A Division of Consumer Affairs official inspects a boardwalk game in Point Pleasant in this 2011 file photo.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama came ready Monday for a fighting finish, deriding Mitt Romney as reckless and overmatched inn world affairs.
Next chapter in space shuttle program must come after we settle fiscal affairs.
Come Into My Kitchen Cooking calzones is a family affair.
The hot clip finds Kenny and his ex continuing to fuel the embers of their ill-fated love affair amidst a beachy background.
For those in publishing who have followed the DoJ price-fixing case, it has from the start seemed at times like a cartoonish affair.
Steven Fenberg, author of "Unprecedented Power" and Community Affairs Officer of Houston Endowment.
Newt and Callista's Affair 'Was Common Knowledge ' on the Hill.
Breeders' Cup 2011 is a much calmer affair for John Shirreffs.
Multi-instrumentalist Black—a player and composer of great note and the chargé d'affaires for the acclaimed ChamberLab project—has wearied of releasing CDs in tacky, easily broken jewel cases.
It was a Black Tie affair.
John Sepulveda, assistant secretary for human resource and administration, Veterans Affairs.
Pierzynski and Dunn continue love affair with Wrigley.
The Bureau of Consular Affairs has two main responsibilities - strengthening US border security and providing passports and visas to US citizens.
Tesco's recently appointed government affairs director is set to.
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In science:
The meeting was financially supported by the European Union Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses Contract: CT-2006046171, the Haute Savoie and Rh ˆone Alps regions, Universite Savoie, LAPP and LAPTH Annecy, CNRS and the Minist ´er ´e des Affaires ´Etrangers.
THE TOOLS AND MONTE CARLO WORKING GROUP Summary Report from the Les Houches 2009 Workshop on TeV Colliders
His result suggests that the discreteness is not a totally interior affair of the involved group and provides a new point of view to the discreteness problem.
Discreteness criterion in SL(2,$\bc$) by a test map
In order to improve on this state of affairs it appears natural to invoke the presence of further correction terms4 (to be added to (1)) of type, say, λ2 p2a−2 and with sign and magnitude adjusted in such a way to eliminate the unwanted features of the worldlines.
Testing quantum-spacetime relativity with gamma-ray telescopes
This state of affairs is comparable to the fairly detailed NOMA related viewpoint put forward by Stenmark in .
Informal Control code logic
P. Naur and B. Randell. Software Engineering: Report of a conf. spon. by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany. Scientific Affairs Division, NATO, 1969.
Improving the Technical Aspects of Software Testing in Enterprises
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