"I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better, all you people at the South, prepare yourselves for a settlement of that question, that must come up for settlement sooner than your are prepared for it. The sooner you are prepared the better. You may dispose of me very easily. I am nearly disposed of now; but this question is still to be settled,--this negro question, I mean; the end of that is not yet."英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
Let me briefly speak of the first game of jackstraws, played at Paris in 1783. Our Revolution was over. The terms of peace had to be drawn. Franklin, Jay, Adams, and Laurens were our negotiators. The various important points were acknowledgment of our independence, settlement of boundaries, freedom of fishing in the neighborhood of the Canadian coast. We had agreed to reach no settlement with England separately from France and Spain. They were our recent friends. England, our recent enemy, sent Richard Oswald as her peace commissioner.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
{"settlements" = marriage settlements or pre-nuptial agreements; "Rockaway" = a fashionable sea-side resort on Long Island, near New York City}英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》
So that, in either event, he would be all right. Only-- how to introduce himself? He might pretend he was a newspaper man wanting a story. No, that wouldn't do! He must not represent that he was what he was not, in case he had afterwards to justify his actions publicly, always a difficult thing, if you were not careful! At that moment there came into his mind a question Bob Pillin had asked the other night. "By the way, you can't borrow on a settlement, can you? Isn't there generally some clause against it?" Had this woman been trying to borrow from him on that settlement?英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Ventnor. He saw the whole thing now so plainly, and really could not refrain from a certain admiration. The law had been properly diddled! There was nothing to prevent a man from settling money on a woman he had never seen; and so old Pillin's settlement could probably not be upset. But old Heythorp could. It was neat, though, oh! And that was a fine woman--remarkably! He had a sort of feeling that if only the settlement had been in danger, it might have been worth while to have made a bargain--a woman like that could have made it worth while!英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
His momentary emotion passed away, the pangs of hunger returned, and greedily seizing upon the piece of damper, he began to eat in silence. "Do you hear, man?" repeated Frere, at length. "What are you?"
"An escaped prisoner. You can give me up in the morning. I've done my best, and I'm beat."
The sentence struck Frere with dismay. The man did not know that the settlement had been abandoned! "I cannot give you up. There is no one but myself and a woman and child on the settlement." Rufus Dawes, pausing in his eating, stared at him in amazement.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
According to Bowmaster V. Whitely, if the party to a settlement is surprised by the repudiation of the settlement, then the court must provide a reasonable amount of time to prepare for the trial.美剧 · 《Suits》
Louis locks in the settlement terms while we tip the basis for the settlement.美剧 · 《Suits》
And isn't it also true that Mike Ross got your aunt a large settlement several months ago, and if he gets convicted, it's likely that that settlement gets overturned?美剧 · 《Suits》
Which represents a far more reasonable settlement than.美剧 · 《Billions》