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All this curious and indispensable mechanism of party government is compatible with a high and genuine sense of public duty, and unless such a sense at the last resort dominates over all other considerations, political life will inevitably decline. At the same time it is obvious that many things have to be done from which a very rigid and austere nature would recoil.
Common Sense looked so easy, genial, and serene, so frank and fearless, that do what he might he could not mistrust her; but as he was on the point of following her, he would be checked by the austere face of Duty, so grave, but yet so kindly; and it cut him to the heart that from time to time he should see her turn pitying away from him as he followed after her rival.
She was an austere dame, and the glance she cast at that empty whiskey bottle was more significant and accusatory than any words could have been; though all she said was: "I knocked before, sir, with your shaving water, but you didn't hear. It's cold now, but I'll put some fresh outside directly." I mumbled meek thanks, and, when she retreated, poured out some tea.
Ralph at once recognized him as a lawyer who had submitted to the Parliament six years before. The other judge was a man of austere countenance, and quite unknown to Ralph. It was the former of the two judges who had the principal management of the case. The latter sat with a paper before his face. The document sometimes concealed his eyes and sometimes dropped below his mouth.
Sharp, curving noses like the beaks of the giant condors; mouths thin, austere; long, powerful, pointed chins; the flesh of the faces white as the whitest marble; and wreathing up to them, covering all their bodies, the shimmering, curdled, misty fires of opalescence! Olaf stood rigid; my own heart leaped wildly. What what were these beings?
In silence they waited for Tom Pargeter, avoiding each other's eyes; and the Frenchwoman's fine austere face grew rigid this was the first time in her long life that she had been connected with an intrigue. She felt humiliated, horrified at the part she now found herself compelled to play.
We felt that we had just been in contact with a singular personal power combined with a moral atmosphere which had in it both the bracing and the charm that, physically, are the gift of the heights. The "austere" Radical, indeed, was there. With regard to certain vices and corruptions of our life and politics, my uncle might as well have used Mr. Morley's name as that of Mr.
"Somebody pulled the plug out of the bottom of the skiff and first he knew, he was going down." "It is a shame," agreed Ruth, looking at the victim of the joke curiously. He was a thin-featured, austere looking man, scrupulously shaven, but with rather long hair that had quite evidently been dyed. The shock of being dipped in the sea so unexpectedly was plainly no small one for the hermit.
And it was full of various gems, and was also infested by snakes bearing terrible poison and of glowing tongues. Such was the snowy hill where the king now found himself. And that most praiseworthy of men at that spot betook himself to an awful austere course of life. And for one thousand years his subsistence was nothing but water, fruit and roots. "Ganga said.
"She's got nothing up against her as I know of," said Jaggers in his austere way. "There's Moonlighter, the Irishman, of course." "He can't stay," said Chukkers briefly. "And Gee-Woa-There, the Doncaster horse." "He can't gallop." "And Kingfisher, the West country crack." "He beats himself jumpin'." "And that's about the lot only the Putnam horse," continued the trainer.
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