United States or Andorra ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Supposing Mistress Affery to have any power of election at the moment, her choice was decidedly to be choked; for she answered not a syllable to this adjuration, but, with her bare head wagging violently backwards and forwards, resigned herself to her punishment. The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed.
But the need for this answer had been foreseen, and the nun unhesitatingly returned This answer raised Asmodee somewhat in the opinion of those present; but when the bailiff adjured the superior to repeat in Greek what she had just said in Latin she made no reply, and on the adjuration being renewed she immediately recovered her senses.
There was a pause, to give opportunity for reply, if any reply was to be made a mere form, as the adjuration itself was. Yet the bride shuddered throughout her frame. Many noticed it, but not the bridegroom. The ceremony went on. "'Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?"
The Earl of Gloucester at last rose indignantly, and in energetic and respectful terms, called on Sir William Wallace, by the reverence in which he held the tribunal of future ages, to answer for himself! "'On this adjuration, brave earl! replied he, 'I will speak! O! men of Scotland, what a voice was that!
Deacon Fish has gone West and has prospered. Content in his heart to put the wonderful wheat crops in place of school and meeting, he yet deplores aloud, and in doleful terms enough, the want of these, and never ends a letter to a Merleville crony without an earnest adjuration to "come over and help us."
You never picked up the duchess, and you're trying to palm this tale off on me to save yourselves." Barnes was moved to adjuration: "I'll take my Bible oath, your grace, that the duchess got into the carriage outside Cane and Wilson's." Moysey seconded his colleague. "I will swear to that, your grace. She got into that carriage, and I shut the door, and she said, 'Home, Moysey!"
Tell me now or lemme go forever!" She was suddenly trembling from head to foot. Pale she was always. Now she was ghastly. "Rufe Kinnicutt," she said with the solemnity of an adjuration, "ye don't keer fur sech ez this, fur nuthin'. An' I promised!" He noted her agitation. He felt the clue in his grasp. He sought to wield his power, "Choose a-twixt us!
Else how could we stand the smothered moan of Desdemona, or the fiendish adjuration of Lady Macbeth, more frightful even than the after-deed of her husband, or look upon the agony of the wretched Judas, in the terrible picture of Rembrandt, when he returns the purchase of blood to the impenetrable Sanhedrim?
On one of these occasions, when he had laid me under a similar adjuration, I asked him whether he had ever heard of the man who made his son take off his hat whenever he met a pig on the ground that his father had made his money in pork. He stared at me very hard for a moment with his little twinkling eyes and then suddenly and without any preliminary symptoms exploded in a cackle of laughter.
You're a wicked one! 'There, go along! retorted Merry, pushing him away. 'I'm sure I don't know what I shall ever do, if I have to see much of you. Go along, for gracious' sake! Mr Pecksniff striking in here, with a request that Mr Jonas would immediately walk upstairs, he so far complied with the young lady's adjuration as to go at once.
Word Of The Day