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She has, by general consent, beauty; she must, seeing that she counts influential friends, have witchery. Those who have seen her riding and driving beside her lord, speak of Andalusian grace, Oriental lustre, fit qualification for the fair slave of a notoriously susceptible old warrior. She won a party in the widening gossip world; and enough of a party in the regent world to make a stream.
"I fancy our friend over there is a French privateer," the doctor remarked to him; "and I should not be surprised if we found ourselves exchanging shots with her, before many hours are over." "But she's a little bit of a thing," Charlie said. "Surely she would never venture to attack a ship like ours." "It's the size of the guns, not the size of the ship, that counts, my boy.
He liked most things continental; he found his social pleasures in that polite Bohemia which indulges in midnight suppers and permits ladies to smoke cigarettes after dinner, which dines at rich men's tables and is hob-a- nob with Russian Counts, Persian Ministers, and German Barons.
To my mind, the comparative silence of revelation in regard to it, counts for almost nothing in our estimate of its probability I might almost say of its necessity. There is one consideration of prime importance in this connection, which ought not to be overlooked. It is this: that in regard even to the future world of final blessedness, we have very meagre details.
They were not seasoned veterans like most of the Marshall fellows; and in such a long and bitterly fought battle on the gridiron experience counts in the last round. And yet they were still pushing ahead. It was wonderful, grand!
He was a puritan and a politician, and it was on these two counts that he fought the Papacy. Landucci, op. cit. p. 176.
And since then I've lost track." "I wonder if we could count them up," mused Peggy, wrinkling her forehead. "Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont " "What's the use?" protested Amy. "Who counts the stars on the flag, anyway? We'll crowd in forty or fifty, enough to pretty well cover the blue, and it will look all right." Ruth had a suggestion to offer.
The abettors of the league had not scrupled at the artifice of counterfeiting the signature and seals of the Prince of Orange, Counts Egmont, Horn, Mcgen, and others, a trick which won them hundreds of adherents. This was done especially with a view of influencing the officers of the army, in order to be safe in this quarter, if matters should come at last to violence.
In this narrow compass, he was possessed of wealth and jurisdiction; but in the rest of France, Hugh and his first descendants were no more than the feudal lords of about sixty dukes and counts, of independent and hereditary power, who disdained the control of laws and legal assemblies, and whose disregard of their sovereign was revenged by the disobedience of their inferior vassals.
This object he accomplished most satisfactorily by changing the dukes or local lords into counts or king's men, by appointing a Count of the Palace for Italy, and by extending to that kingdom the perfectly organized system of central control by means of the Missi Dominici, with the workings of which in the other parts of his great empire the student of history is too well acquainted to need any description here.
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