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They had decided that in spite of the peace, the price of wheat must be kept up to 80s. a quarter. They would no longer be complimented as Adam Smith had complimented them on their superior liberality, and were now creating a barrier only to be stormed after a long struggle. Meanwhile the principle was making rapid way among their rivals.
"You do not mean, Everett, that you wish to gain my consent that Fledra and Floyd should go back to Ithaca?" Brimbecomb also rose. "Fledra and Floyd!" he mimicked smilingly. "What a farce it all is! And how foolish to give them such names! I should think the governor and his wife would feel complimented that those kids were called for them! They are but paupers, after all!"
He has been put in the school of Richardson, but it is certain that Richardson would have been shocked at the supposed scholar: and it is not certain that Bage would or need have felt complimented by the assignment of the master.
She had heard the report of our guns, and hastened to the scene of action, just in the very nick of time to save us. The lieutenant complimented the captain and crew on their gallant defence, and hastened on board the sloop again, to make his report. The boat soon returned, with a gang of hands to assist in repairing our damages; and on the evening of the next day, we were safely at anchor.
Jed found it hard to recognize the stoop-shouldered son of the hardware dealer in the spruce young soldier before him. When he complimented Leander upon the improvement the latter disclaimed any credit. "Thank the drill master second and yourself first, Jed," he said. "They'll make a man of a fellow up there at Ayer if he'll give 'em half a chance.
Eighteen of the Spaniards being killed and several wounded, we succeeded in taking their commander." In his report he complimented this Spanish officer, Don Miguel Tyrason, upon his gallantry. Near a hundred Spaniards were made prisoners in this sharp skirmish. Not even the insult of bombardment was sufficient to attain the designed end of forcing the enemy's fleet out to fight.
The Tiger felt complimented by an association with the animal who had gained his voice from the thunder, and shortly they entered the wood. The animals all fled when they saw them coming not from the Donkey, but from the Tiger. Even the Raven dared not speak, and the Lion slunk back among the rocks; because a Tiger and a Donkey, together, might more than equal his terrifying roar.
"How do you feel when a beau comes?" "We feel important." "You don't feel grateful, then; only complimented." "No; we feel that on one of two occasions we have the advantage over a man. We can play him like a big fish on a little angle." "When is the other occasion?" "Some women," wrote Podge, "play just the same with the man they marry!" Duff Salter looked up surprised.
I laughed, and so did he, at which I laughed the louder. 'He laughs, I suppose, because his party's got a majority in the House, said the squire. 'We gave you a handsome surplus this year, sir. 'Sweated out of the country's skin and bone, ay! 'You were complimented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.!
So she had not expected to find him "Au Printemps" at one o'clock in the morning, till that very moment had believed him as dead as any of those poor souls who had perished with the Assyrian! Therefore that note had not come from her, therefore Lanyard had complimented Crane without warrant, crediting him with another's cleverness. Then whose...?
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