In the middle of last summer, another good friend, a director of the association responsible for preserving Stratford Hall, the historic Robert E. Lee birthplace and plantation, proffered an invitation: Would I like to use her cabin there as a place in which to start work on a book?
But, in any event, when Mr. Arnold, the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1996, proffered an invitation, she accepted -- for a fee (no dollar figure yet), travel expenses and an all-expenses-paid vacation in the North Carolina mountains for her, her husband, Steve, and their two children.
And, finally, it proffers an invitation to "do it again". This is where you will find the joy of being wrong.
Indeed, Hobba proffers an invitation in the album opener "Phoenix": "You can ride with us anytime you want/We can journey to the end of the night/We can look for treasures of our own delight".
At the DVD launch the director of national programs in the government proffered an open invitation to the members to visit him, and a number of programs did.
When Mr. Nuss said he had never been invited into an Indian home, Mr. Sheikh immediately proffered a dinner invitation.
Eugene de La Rochefoucauld had proffered a nasally invitation: would we be his guests next Saturday night, at the gala opening of the Evergreen Lodge?
The sparring factions have not even been able to sit down together, worried that accepting an invitation proffered by an opposing side could be read as a sign of weakness.
Rocco Landesman, who was confirmed this month as the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, has accepted an invitation to visit Peoria, Ill., an offer proffered in response to public comments he made about the city.
The royal commission earlier rejected an invitation to pick up that hot potato, but now the HRLC, Acoss and the Australian Council for International Development insist it should, and here's the legal advice they proffered.
