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These bright and untarnished spirits were equal to the hardest task and capable of carrying it through with energy, acumen, and success. And the sons of these men who had passed through no school were already well-fitted and invited to give new splendor to cities in their decline, and new life to the learning of the countries they had subdued.
If by the end of next month you have not introduced me to a lady fit to be, and willing to be, Mrs. John Ingerfield, I shall decline to renew it." John Ingerfield refills his own glass and hospitably pushes the bottle towards his guest who, however, contrary to his custom, takes no notice of it, but stares hard at his shoe-buckles. "Are you serious?" he says at length.
Farmer Jordan instinctively calculated how many "bunches o' shingle" would be required to rescue them from the decline into which they had fallen, indicated by these hectic green spots. "Wal, the Lord calls most of us to stay at home and look after things, such weather as this.
My servant took a letter to her the next day, with strict instructions to wait for an answer. The answer came back, literally in one sentence. "Miss Verinder begs to decline entering into any correspondence with Mr. Franklin Blake." Fond as I was of her, I felt indignantly the insult offered to me in that reply. Mr.
Men of rank and ability, with the spirit which ought to animate such men in a free state, while they decline the jurisdiction of dark cabal on their actions and their fortunes, will, for both, cheerfully put themselves upon their country. They will trust an inquisitive and distinguishing Parliament; because it does inquire, and does distinguish.
The best agencies absolutely decline to touch divorce and matrimonial cases of any sort. It does not do a detective agency any good to have its men constantly upon the witness stand subject to attack, with a consequent possible reflection upon their probity of character or truthfulness. Moreover, a good detective is too valuable a person to be wasting his time in the court-room.
We hear a good deal nowadays of the "decline of the drama," but perhaps in no civilised country has it declined so far as it had descended in Rome by the year A.D. 64. The regular and classical drama that is to say, literary tragedy and comedy was not likely to appeal to any ordinary Roman gathering.
She had minimized the importance of the offers she had declined so that he might not feel the meagreness of his proffered help; and he liked her way of doing it; but it was incredible that a young woman should decline an advantageous and promising position to accept a minor one. In the world he knew there were many hands on all the rounds of all the available ladders.
About forty miles from thence, a more severe contest awaited him. A numerous army of Italians was assembled under the lieutenants of Maxentius, in the plains of Turin. Its principal strength consisted in a species of heavy cavalry, which the Romans, since the decline of their discipline, had borrowed from the nations of the East.
They are more volatile than any European proletarian, for they have learned the lesson of migration, and they retain the socialistic and anarchistic philosophy of their European fellow-workers. There were several attempts to organize casual labor after the decline of the Knights of Labor.
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