signed

"Is it absolutely necessary," he asked "that this thing here, under your elbow, should be signed to-day?"

The second question, concerning the nature of the legal contract by which the money was to be obtained, and the degree of personal responsibility to which Laura might subject herself if she signed it in the dark, involved considerations which lay far beyond any knowledge and experience that either of us possessed.

Lecount, "there is the Will to be signed first; and there must be two persons found to witness your signature." She looked out of the front window, and saw the carriage waiting at the door.

He dipped the pen in the ink, and signed the Will without uttering a word.

At nine o'clock the contract is to be signed at my father-in-law's."

"This is the way such affairs are generally arranged when it is wished to do them stylishly: Your two solicitors appoint a meeting, when the contract is signed, for the next or the following day; then they exchange the two portions, for which they each give a receipt; then, when the marriage is celebrated, they place the amount at your disposal as the chief member of the alliance."

But you would not have signed if you had not taken that second goblet.

He was half drunk when he signed; and I should not have let him touch the paper if I had not convinced myself beforehand that he means well, and that my wine had only freed his natural generosity from his conventional cowardice and prejudice.

On the 12th of January, 1893, I was seventeen, and the 20th of January I signed before the shipping commissioner the articles of the Sophie Sutherland, a three topmast sealing schooner bound on a voyage to the coast of Japan.

I met the seal-hunter, Pete Holt, and agreed to be his boat-puller and to sign on any schooner he signed on.

He then signed it himself, and my Lady and the Chancellor added their names as witnesses.

"This is the one he read but didn't sign: and this is the one he signed but didn't read!