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England, the last and most tenacious of her enemies, was disarming; not only did she accept the aggrandizement of France, the acquisition of Belgium and the left bank of the Rhine, the avowed as well as the disguised annexations, the great Republic as patron and the smaller ones as clients, Holland, Genoa, and the Cis-Alpine country, but, again, she restored all her own conquests, all the French colonies, all the Dutch colonies, except the Cape of Good Hope, and all the Spanish colonies except Trinidad.
Her patience, her magnanimity, her undiscriminating benevolence, far from disarming the hostility of that perverse generation, served only to inflame their rancour, to excite their jealousy, to intensify their fears.
"You are Father Pelletier, I believe," said John with his disarming smile. "These are unusual times, but I wish to go up into the lantern. I am an American, though, as you can see by my uniform, I am a soldier of France." "But your companion, sir? He has a bad reputation in the quarter. When he should come to the church he does not, and now when he should not he does."
"I can't help dreading you, nice and amiable as you look," said Nancy candidly to Tom Hamilton; "I am so afraid you'll fall in love with the Yellow House and want it back again. Are you engaged to be married to a little-footed China doll, or anything like that?" she asked with a teasing, upward look and a disarming smile that robbed the question of any rudeness.
I think every woman should know how to make biscuits. It sounds so utterly disarming. A woman who can make biscuits can surely do no " "You'll have to come out here and live," said Jeffrey. "Get a place out in the country like us, for you and Kitty." "You don't know Kitty. She hates the country. She's got to have her theatres and vaudevilles." "Bring her out," repeated Jeffrey.
And then, to his horror, just as he was recording this sagacious resolution in his mind, he heard himself demanding: "But why after a rainy thaw?" It was out before he could choke it back. There was nothing for him to do but stick to it and gaze at his uncle with disarming innocence. Uncle Andy turned upon him a glance of slow contumely.
"What are you going to wear?" she asked, putting the direct question with disarming boldness. "Blue serge Sunday-go-to-meetings," he answered carelessly, as if it were a matter to be dismissed with the statement. "Let's see say them over again white dress, pink parasol, rose hat, how did they go?" "Once, not long ago, I was in your room with Mrs.
In connection with the plan of a campaign we shall hereafter examine more closely into the meaning of disarming a nation, but here we must at once draw a distinction between three things, which, as three general objects, comprise everything else within them. The military power must be destroyed, that is, reduced to such a state as not to be able to prosecute the War.
Momma's patriotism has always to be considered in connection with the state of her nerves. The state of all our nerves was healed in a quarter of an hour. The Senator showed his coupons somewhat truculently, but they were received as things of price with disarming bows and real gladness.
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