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It is the fortune of war, and must be submitted to; so open the door, pretty Mabel, forthwith, and confide yourself to the care of those who know how to treat beauty and virtue in distress. There's no courtier in Scotland more complaisant than this chief, or who is more familiar with the laws of decorum."
Tell me frankly whether you are really in love with the pretty Jewess." "I am really in love with her, but as she will not make me happy I have signed my own dismissal." "You were quite right. All Leah thinks of is duping those who are captivated by her charms." "Do not your charming apprentices follow your maxims?" "No; but they are only complaisant when I give them leave."
We have all tried hard to respect them; but there is something in their conduct so much like swindling, that I hardly know what to say of them. When they knew that we had received money for the work we had been allowed to perform, they were very attentive, and complaisant, and flattering. Some had been, or pretended to have been, in America. They would come round and say, "ah!
He knew, moreover, that when Parliament should meet he must expect trouble from Fox and the dissatisfied Whigs, as well as the Tories, and he was anxious to secure a treaty as soon as possible. So yielding, on September 27, he gave Oswald the required commission, but, suspecting that he was rather too complaisant, sent Henry Strachey to assist him.
Do you mind walking on into the bush?" Ida was not in a very complaisant mood, and she glanced at him coldly. "If my presence annoys you, I can, of course, go on," she said. She felt that it was a little paltry when she walked on into the bush, but her action had been dictated at least as much by curiosity as by petulance.
For as Xenophon says, that Clearchus's rustic and morose humor in a battle, by reason of his bravery and heat, seemed pleasant and surprising; thus one that is not of a very sour nature, but grave and severe, being softened by a chirping cup becomes more pleasant and complaisant.
"But, faith, I fear I have been too complaisant with them, though these two children are really interesting in their love. I fear for him more than for her; I doubt not he is acting very foolishly, judging from the disturbance this morning. We must consult together about it." "But," said De Thou, very gravely, "upon my honor, I do not know what you mean. Who is acting foolishly?"
This abandoned woman, not content with her complaisant husband and her royal keeper, lavished her fondness on a crowd of paramours of all ranks, from dukes to rope-dancers. In the time of the commonwealth she commenced her career of gallantry, and terminated it under Anne, by marrying, when a great-grandmother, that worthless fop, Beau Fielding.
I thought it best to conceal my anger, and went up to my brother who was in a corner of the room. "What do you mean by pestering Marcoline at the theatre yesterday?" "I went to remind her of her duty, and to warn her that I would not be her complaisant lover." "You have insulted me and her too, fool that you are!
And the day when the foolish Pius IX presumed to proclaim and define, to the great joy of free-thinkers and the enemies of Catholicism, the ridiculous dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the presence of two hundred dumb complaisant prelates, on that day he experienced profound grief.
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