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Therefore, I say, that the great public meetings have done a great deal of good; and those who promoted them have rendered very considerable service to the country, although they have themselves been the victims of that system of tyranny and oppression, which, in these two instances alone, has had its plunder curtailed in more than sixty thousand pounds a year.
As Dick had predicted, she had come to lean upon Juliet, and her dependence became every day more pronounced. At times she was even childishly exacting, and though Juliet still maintained her right to direct her own movements, she found her liberty considerably curtailed.
Immediately public opinion was inflamed against the monks, and Parliament voted, one after the other, a dozen laws which restrained, diminished, limited, prescribed, suppressed, determined, and curtailed, their rights, immunities, exemptions, privileges, and benefits, and created many invalidating disqualifications against them.
It was impossible to sow the seeds of revolution so long as a man's dinner-pail was full, his rent paid, and his family contented. But a long strike, with bank accounts becoming exhausted and credit curtailed, would pave the way for revolution. Old Anthony had had a drastic remedy for strikes.
And what shall be said of their dependents, the small fry, earners of salaries, young men of the professions, who saw incomes curtailed or cut off; to whom frank poverty would have been almost a relief but who must, as habit and the custom, of their kind decreed, keep up their sham and shabby gentility? Business was at a standstill. The city ceased to expand. There was no building.
I am curious to inquire at this time if education such as this does, as a matter of fact, educate, and how far it my be relied upon as a corrective for present defects in society; or rather, first of all, whether education of this, or of any sort, may be looked on as a sufficient saving force, and whether general education, instead of being extended should not be curtailed, or rather safeguarded and restricted.
His fur was really beautiful, a sort of tortoiseshell red, the lighter stripes repeating exactly the different golden tints of a fashionable chignon. In early youth, though it is difficult to imagine Sandy ever a playful kitten, his tail had been curtailed to the length of three inches, and this short, flexible stump gave an air of great decision to Sandy's movements.
You must treat people as they want to be treated. She was panting for praise, and she got it, and anyhow it's too late to argue. They had stayed to the end so that Henrietta's pleasure should not be curtailed, and now she was leaning back, very white and still. 'I believe the child's asleep, Sophia whispered. 'No, I'm not. I'm wide awake. 'Did you enjoy it, dear? 'Very much, said Henrietta.
Seeing a sentry-box outside a palatial edifice on the right, I tacked across the road and looked for the sentry. A lurid thing in gendarmes advanced upon me, and I let off one of my curtailed French sentences at him: "Pour Bléville, Monsieur?"
Programmes with dangling pencils were lavished on us, on which regular dances were set down quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, and lancers. The usual cercle was curtailed, in view of the ball. The chamberlains, to facilitate matters, had arranged the boxes of music for the mechanical piano very methodically on a table, so there should be no mistakes or fumbling with the slides.
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