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Walden; no doubt the work gave you much personal pleasure!" "It certainly did so," replied John, "and I'm afraid I am arrogant enough to be satisfied with the general result so far as it goes, with the exception of the eastern window, of course!"
The craving for the supernatural, a very ancient and deeply rooted thought-habit, had been suppressed and driven underground by the arrogant dominance of a materialistic philosophy, and by the absorption of society in the pursuit of gain and pleasure. Modern miracles were laughed out of court. But materialism has supernaturalism for its nemesis.
Sotillo snatched it, and pushed the clenched fist from which it dangled close to Captain Mitchell's face. "Now then! You arrogant Englishman! You dare to call the soldiers of the army thieves! Behold your watch." He flourished his fist as if aiming blows at the prisoner's nose.
It was the cudgel that the one-time proud and arrogant Germany held menacingly over the head of the unhappy neutral, and extorted special privilege. At the moment I write, coal is the storm center of controversy that ranges from the Ruhr Valley of Germany to the Welsh fields of Britain and affects the destinies of statesmen and of countries.
It was by means of these frequent conversations that, seizing the favourable moment, the Duchess and the Ambassador succeeded in obtaining an order which suddenly changed the face of Europe, by bringing about the signature of the Treaty of Niméguen, and more than once it fell to her lot to obtain a success of the same kind, to which neither her arrogant Grace of Cleveland nor the piquant Nelly could ever pretend.
He raised his head to listen, while the marquise dropped her work, and applied her ear to the opening in the curtains. "Your majesty has acted toward this arrogant Austrian with a forbearance that is more than human.
Indeed, one overruns the line of tautology in distinguishing between wealth and power. The two were then identical not less than now. Wealth was the real power. None knew or boasted of this more than old Vanderbilt when, with advancing age, he became more arrogant and choleric and less and less inclined to smooth down the storms he provoked by his contemptuous flings at the great pliable public.
The whole battalion shouted, "Vive l'Empereur." The general raised his hand, and all were silent. "Soldiers! at Jena, we were as one to three against these Prussians who are so arrogant to-day; at Montmirail we were as one against six! Let those among you who have been prisoners of the English tell the tale of their frightful sufferings in their prison ships.
What was hard and arrogant in her, and she was not without something of the kind at times, was like her mother; but even she, poor soul, had her good points, as I have attempted to suggest.
He covets a ducal coronet for his sister. He wants to give her to me to wife; for as soon as our poor father dies, I wear his coronet! The arrogant upstarts! For the sister's escutcheon, my coronet; for the brother's, your coronet. Never, say I, shall that be!" The duchess had become pale, and a tremor ran through her proud form.
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