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And so very anxious were those great powers to stop the effusion of blood, that they solemnly declared they would insist upon the pacification, should even the conflicting parties decline to consent to the proposed arrangements.
Roger of York contrived to retire; and as he passed through the hall, bade his clerks follow him, that they might not witness the effusion of blood. Next came the Bishop of Exeter, who threw himself at the feet of the Primate, and conjured him to have pity on himself and the episcopal order; for the King had threatened with death the first man who should speak in his favor.
But all I could say, all the earnest representations to be deduced from this critical crisis, could not prevail with her, even so far as to persuade her to temporise with Dumourier, as she had done with many others on similar occasions. She was deaf and inexorable. She treated all he had said as the effusion of an overheated imagination, and told him she had no faith in traitors.
She is one of the women who are dead shots with men. Whether it's in their tongues or their eyes, or it's an effusion and an atmosphere whatever it is, it's a spell, another fatality for you!" "Animal; not spiritual!" "Oh, she hasn't the head of Letty Dale." Sir Willoughby allowed Mrs. Mountstuart to pause and follow her thoughts. "Dear me!" she exclaimed.
It seemed obvious to the burgomaster, that the time for yielding had arrived. "I had maintained the city," he said, "for a long period, without any excessive tumult or great effusion of blood a city where there was such a multitude of inhabitants, mostly merchants or artisans deprived of all their traffic, stripped of their manufactures, destitute of all commodities and means of living.
Astrologers, who to a man reverence dignities, consider Great Britain fortunate in that the lady whom, with customary effusion, they term 'Our Most Gracious Queen, was born when Jupiter was riding high in the heavens near his culmination, this position promising a most fortunate and happy career.
As no soldiers were seen on the walls, and no other preparations for defence were visible, it was hoped that resistance would not be offered, and that thus all effusion of blood would be spared.
Wilson turned toward me, as I entered, without effusion, but without rudeness. His thick, dark moustache was chopped off square at the lower edge of the upper lip, which implied a decisive, if not a peremptory, style of character. I am Dr. So-and-So of Hubtown, looking after my wounded son. Dr. Wilson leaned on his elbow and looked up in my face, his features growing cordial.
What secret spell of magic may have lain hidden in our friendly coachman's announcement we never knew. But the "p'tit bateau" worked magically. The figure of Mere Mouchard materialized at once into such zeal, such effusion, such a zest of welcome, that we, our bags, and our coachman were on the instant toiling up a pair of spiral wooden stairs.
I am vexed with you, that you will not see with the clear, discerning eyes God gave you originally." "But I do see with them, and very discerningly, notwithstanding your comparison. Now there is that 'Skeleton in Armor, his last effusion, I believe, that you are all making such a work over fine-sounding thing enough, I grant you, ingenious rhyme, and all that.
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