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'Silence! roared the gaolers and the sbirri with one accord, all looking at the musician together. The spotted cat rose sleepily at the noise, arched its back and clawed the oak table, by way of stretching itself. 'The counterfeiter Bartolo is duly committed for trial and will be sent to Rome in chains with the next convoy of prisoners, said the Legate, dictating.
Shape has some direct relations to ornament, and these relations may be classified as follows: First, the contour of the vessel controls its ornament to a large extent, dictating the positions of design and setting its limits; figures are in stripes, zones, rays, circles, ovals, or rectangles according, in no slight measure, to the character of the spaces afforded by details of contour.
But she quickly resumed, more gayly, dictating to Georgette. "Adieu, my old friend. I am something like that commander of ancient days, whose heroic nose and conquering chin you have so often made me draw: I jest with the utmost freedom of spirit even in the moment of battle: yes, for within an hour I shall give battle, a pitched battle to my dear pew-dwelling aunt.
The invasion of Italy had been long prepared in the counsels of Louis XI. After spending his lifetime in the consolidation of the French monarchy, he constructed an inheritance of further empire for his successors by dictating to the old King Réné of Anjou and to the Count of Maine the two wills by which the pretensions of the House of Anjou to the Crown of Naples were transmitted to the royal family of France.
At bottom there was in Schulz not so much a firm belief as a passionate desire to believe an uncertain hope to which he clung as to a buoy. He sought the confirmation of it in Christophe's eyes. Christophe understood the appeal in the eyes of his friend, who clung to him with touching confidence, imploring him, and dictating his answer.
But I am dictating instead of receiving instruction. Tell me then whether you think these votes should have been taken separately? My motion, it is true, prevailed; nevertheless I am desirous to know whether you think I ought to have insisted upon this point, or have yielded as that member did who declared for capital punishment?
In the evening the Emperor, seated on a folding stool of red morocco in the midst of the bivouac fires, was dictating to the Prince of Neuchatel his orders for the night, when two commanders of artillery were presented to his Majesty, and gave him an account of the exhausted condition of the ammunition chests.
Count Saxe could, if he had wished, put the king's shirt on him every morning, but Count Saxe was not a perfect courtier, after the sort described by the Regent of Orleans, who defined a perfect courtier as a man without pride or temper. Count Saxe had both, and did not like the business of valeting, even for kings. He spent much time on his book, Mes Rêves, he dictating and I writing it.
I have more satisfaction in my own thoughts than in dictating them to others: words are necessary to explain the impression of certain things upon me to the reader, but they rather weaken and draw a veil over than strengthen it to myself.
Through one of these something like twenty of my men passed and were already concealed in the place when I entered. At another of the doors a motor-car waited for me. If I had chosen to lift my finger at any time, your men would have been overpowered, and I might have had the pleasure of dictating terms to you in my own office. Such a course did not appeal to me.
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