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While I hesitated, Mrs Dinkman, belligerency dancing like a sparkling aura about her, came out of her garage with a rusty, rattling lawnmower. I'm no authority on gardentools, but this creaking, rickety machine was clearly no match for the lusty growth. The audience felt so too, and there was a stir of sporting interest as they settled down to watch the contest.
S. Behrman hiccoughed slightly and passed a fat hand over his waistcoat. "Why, not very much, Mr. Annixter," he replied, ignoring the belligerency in the young ranchman's voice, "but I will have to lodge a protest against you, Mr. Annixter, in the matter of keeping your line fence in repair.
He knew from the manner of Numa's approach what neither Bertha Kircher nor Smith-Oldwick knew that there was more of curiosity than belligerency in it, and he wondered if in that great head there might not be a semblance of gratitude for the kindness that Tarzan had done him.
"I've allus said that if there was any man could run this town the way it ought to be run you was the man to do it." Cap'n Sproul was not the kind to disappoint the confident flattery of those who looked up to him. He buttoned his pea-jacket, and set his hat firmly on his head. Mr. Luce noted these signs of belligerency and braced his firedog legs.
Fighting, though fierce and protracted, does not alone constitute war; there must be military forces acting in accordance with the rules and customs of war flags of truce, cartels, exchange of prisoners, etc., and to justify belligerency there must be, above all, a de facto political organization of the insurgents sufficient in character and resources to constitute it, if left to itself, a state among nations capable of discharging the duties of a state, and of meeting the just responsibilities it may incur as such toward other powers in the discharge of its international duties.
I'll agree to let Scott alone if he'll let me alone and undertake that job." There was silence, Scott staring at Douglas with a mixture of contempt, belligerency and surprise in his face. "But," protested John, "that's no punishment, and it don't say a thing about Judith!" Douglas shifted his feet impatiently. "I'm not going to punish any guy for running after Jude. That's a fair fight.
Neither can it break the fateful continuity of Turkish history nor avert the defects of the destructive causes that have been operative here for generations." The negative aspect of Turkey's belligerency proved to be quite as irksome as the positive.
Momentarily his face abandoned its suavity and the lower jaw thrust itself forward with a marked hint of belligerency. "So?" he questioned. "Nonetheless there is business that can be done at the present time in this house. It's for you to say whether I do it with you or others."
Applying to the existing condition of affairs in Cuba the tests recognized by publicists and writers on international law, and which have been observed by nations of dignity, honesty, and power when free from sensitive or selfish and unworthy motives, I fail to find in the insurrection the existence of such a substantial political organization, real, palpable, and manifest to the world, having the forms and capable of the ordinary functions of government toward its own people and to other states, with courts for the administration of justice, with a local habitation, possessing such organization of force, such material, such occupation of territory, as to take the contest out of the category of a mere rebellious insurrection or occasional skirmishes and place it on the terrible footing of war, to which a recognition of belligerency would aim to elevate it.
Even for a Spanish Mexican his face was dark. Swart it was, the cheeks hollow; a tiny, tight mustache with ends truculently pointed and erect helped out the belligerency of the tight-shut lips. The eyes were black as bitumen, and flashed continually under heavy brows. "Perhaps," thought Felipe, "he is a toreador from Mexico."