They had postponed their breakfast on my account, and we sat down to table together.
'It's very important and pressing business, which can't be postponed on any account.
This was approved of, but postponed for a day or two to allow for preparations and invitations.
"I was unfortunate enough," she continued, "to inspire him with love, and he postponed his departure.
"Yes, sir; but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so her departure was postponed till to-morrow."
The honor might be postponed or, if necessary, foregone; the opportunity to earn a dollar was the chance of a lifetime and must not be allowed to slip.
Now this end can be nothing but the subject of all possible ends, since this is also the subject of a possible absolutely good will; for such a will cannot without contradiction be postponed to any other object.
But when he went to look at the princess, she was such a figure that he agreed that it would be unfitting for her position to be seen in such a gown, and he ordered the ceremony and the banquet to be postponed for a few hours, so that the tailors might take the dress to pieces and make it fit.
I went through half-a-dozen others, and recurred to it, and puzzled over its exterior again, and again postponed what I fancied would prove a disagreeable discovery; and this happened every now and again, until I had quite exhausted my budget, and then I did open it, and looked straight to the signature.