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There is always a feeling of pride and pleasure engendered by the thought that we are in any way instrumental to the extension of man's influence over the world which has been given him to subdue.
'Curse you for a roundhead! cried Scudamore, in the wrath engendered of a fierce twinge, as Heywood sought to help his lamed leg over the saddle. 'Dismount on this side then, said Richard, regardless of the insult. But the warder had caught the word. 'Roundhead! he exclaimed. Scudamore did not answer until he found himself safe on his feet, and by that time he had recovered his good manners.
As usual, bitterness had begot bitterness; intolerance engendered intolerance. On the 28th of May, 1579, as the Catholics of Antwerp were celebrating the Ommegang the same festival which had been the exciting cause of the memorable tumults of the year sixty-five the irritation of the populace could not be repressed.
The men resented this bitterly for a time. Fierce hatreds of officers and N.C.O.s were engendered and there was much talk of revenge when we should get to the front. I used to look forward with misgiving to that day. It seemed probable that one night in the trenches would suffice for a wholesale slaughtering of officers.
He had to answer many singular questions; privation engendered in the most fantastic ideas, which revealed the fact that their quiet, controlled bearing was the product of the observation and the energy of the many. "Shall we deprive the rich of all their wealth and power?" asked one man, after long pondering and gazing at Pelle.
Mr Dombey's habitual silence and reserve yielding readily to this usurpation, the Major felt that he was coming out and shining: and in the flow of spirits thus engendered, rang such an infinite number of new changes on his own name that he quite astonished himself. In a word, they were all very well pleased.
We were encountering the accustomed uncertainties of a period of revolutionary transition, intensified by prejudices engendered through centuries of national isolation, with all the narrowing and deepening of prepossession which accompanies entire absence of intercourse with other people.
The perpetual wars they had maintained with each other came to an end; the miseries their conflicts had engendered were exchanged for universal peace. Not only as a token of the conquest she had made but also as a gratification to her pride, the conquering republic brought the gods of the vanquished peoples to Rome. With disdainful toleration, she permitted the worship of them all.
As I got older my terror was less, but my melancholy greater, until I would be only half conscious of what I was allowing myself to do. I seemed to have engendered within myself a hob-goblin. Once it was only last winter I saw a nasty word written on a fence, and it sent a shudder through me, for I knew it would follow me and make me think of other things like it.
Thus, by artfully inflaming the populace of Paris, and through his organized bands of confederates that of all the large towns of France, against the Huguenots and their chief, by appeals to the religious sentiment; and at the same time by stimulating the disgust and indignation of the tax-payers everywhere at the imposts and heavy burthens which the boundless extravagance of the court engendered, Guise paved the way for the advancement of the great League which he represented.
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