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But Liotir objected that he was meanwhile dying of hunger, and the monsieur of thirst which only milk or cream could assuage; he suggested that some one should be sent to look for the husband, and obtain his permission for us to be fed.
Several smaller dinners had been consumed already, by way of practice, both for the cooks and the waiters and the chairman, and Mr. John Prater, who always stood behind him, with a napkin in one hand and a corkscrew in the other, and his heart in the middle, ready either to assuage or stimulate. As for the guests, it was always found that no practice had been required. "But now, but now" as Mr.
He undertakes to prove "That among the various causes which tended to assuage the hardship and threaten the permanence of Slavery, the most powerful, the most active, and most successful was Christianity"; also "That when the barbarian conquests re-established slavery in a new form, the Church exerted all her energies on the side of freedom."
He started and reddened as his sister's eyes rested on him. He looked through the open window like a wild animal ready to spring out of it and escape. A raging thirst was on him, which Amelie sought to assuage by draughts of water, milk, and tea a sisterly attention which he more than once acknowledged by kissing the loving fingers which waited upon him so tenderly.
"Marshal," said I, with a laugh, "what use are the guns of Strelsau, if they can't assuage a little suspicion?" He smiled grimly, and took the paper. "Colonel Sapt and Fritz von Tarlenheim go with me," I continued. "You go to seek the duke?" he asked in a low tone. "Yes, the duke, and someone else of whom I have need, and who is at Zenda," I replied.
She clung, indeed, to the notion of their good blood; but as a thing that might assuage many of the pangs of adverse fortune, not increase or embitter them; and 'if we are ever to emerge, thought she, 'from this poor state, we shall meet our class without any of the shame of a mushroom origin.
There lived the woman he loved, and nothing but the sight of her could assuage the fire of passion that flamed in his heart. Giuseppe Mansana was in love with a woman whose temperament was not dissimilar to his own: a woman who must be conquered, and who had captivated hundreds without herself yielding to the spell of any lover.
He had vaguely thought of certain rather severe remarks, which were to overcome the old nobleman, and bring him to a sense of his position. But when he found himself in the presence of such a sincere repentance, his indignation changed to profound pity; and he began to wonder how he could assuage the count's grief.
Anne, attending with all the strength and zeal, and thought, which instinct supplied, to Henrietta, still tried, at intervals, to suggest comfort to the others, tried to quiet Mary, to animate Charles, to assuage the feelings of Captain Wentworth. Both seemed to look to her for directions. "Anne, Anne," cried Charles, "What is to be done next? What, in heaven's name, is to be done next?"
It was a tremendously long afternoon, one of the longest that Robert ever spent, and his position grew cramped and difficult. He found some relief now and then in stretching his muscles, but there was nothing to assuage the intense thirst that assailed all three. Robert's throat and mouth were dry and burning, and he looked longingly at the lake that shimmered and gleamed below them.
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