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Seizures of wines and other merchandise imported from thence into England, were made in all the northern parts with an affectation of severity and disdain: so that the generality of the Scottish nation loudly exclaimed against the union and the government. The Jacobites were again in commotion. They held conferences: they maintained a correspondence with the court of St.

These indecent advances were received, however, with coldness and disdain; and the king of the Huns continued to multiply the number of his wives, till his love was awakened by the more forcible passions of ambition and avarice. The invasion of Gaul was preceded, and justified, by a formal demand of the princess Honoria, with a just and equal share of the Imperial patrimony.

If good, she needs all the tenderness, support, and chivalrous guidance of her master, man if bad, she merits what she receives, his pitiless disdain and measureless contempt. From all dangers and griefs of the kind my Stella had escaped for her, sorrow no longer existed.

In her younger days Miss Susan performed upon the melodeon with much discretion, and at one time I indulged the delusive hope that eventually she would not disdain to join me in the vocal performance of the best ditties of D'Urfey and his ilk.

Epochs of upheaval, when thought is rife, progress rapid, and tradition, political or religious, boldly examined, turn, as if by necessity, to ancient Greece for inspiration. The Church of the second and third centuries, when Christian thought claimed and won its place among the intellectual revolutions of the world, did not disdain the analogies of Greek philosophy.

There was something grand in Dionysia's gesture and the admirable accent of her voice, as she said, "Why don't you say at once, my mother, that Jacques is an incendiary and an assassin?" Raising her head with an air of dauntless energy, with trembling lips, and fierce glances full of wrath and disdain, she added,

We've got hard work ahead of us, at Genoa and we've got only till Friday to get there!" He did not notice her look, her momentary look of mingled reproof and weariness and disdain. "Now, quick!" she merely said, as she flung the door open and stepped out into the hall. Luckily, it was empty, from end to end. Durkin, with assumed nonchalance, walked quietly away.

To Joseph Hewes: "There are characters among the thirteen on the list who are truly contemptible with such, as a private gentleman, I would disdain to sit down I would disdain to be acquainted.... Until they give proof of their superior ability, I never shall acknowledge them as my senior officers I never will act under their command."

Was it not the fashion of the day for the actresses to take lovers, or for the fops to have an opera girl or a comedienne? Did your most popular performers disdain such diversions?" he sneered. "Pardie, the world has suddenly become moral! A gentleman can no longer, it would seem, indulge in gentlemanly follies."

And the cockpit was at the Valla de Gallo. There were other suggestions as well, put mostly in the form of ribald inquiry; but toward them Charles Abbott persisted in an attitude of uncommunicative disdain. His mind, his whole determination, had been singularly purified; he had a sensation of remoteness from the flesh; his purpose killed earthly desire.