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The squire was pleased that she manifested none of the stupid shyness of new young-ladyhood, though in the presence of one of the most formidable of county magnates. Elizabeth did not know that Lady Angleby was formidable, but she saw that she was immense, and her sense of humor was stirred by the instant perception that her self-consequence was as enormous as her bulk.
It was natural, therefore, that the artist should, in those early days, have indicated the powers of a deity by forms borrowed from the strongest, the most beautiful, or the most formidable of animals.
Sir Henry had arrived at Southampton, Lucy turned pale with agitation. It seemed a formidable thing, now it had come so close, to meet her father, whom she had not seen for so many years. "When is he coming here?" she breathlessly asked. "To-morrow," replied Lady Verner; not speaking until she had glanced over the whole contents of the letter.
But you have taken some pains to bore the head of it and pour melted lead into the hole so as to make it a formidable weapon. I argued that you would not take such precautions unless you had some danger to fear. "'Anything else? he asked, smiling. "'You have boxed a good deal in your youth. "'Right again. How did you know it? Is my nose knocked a little out of the straight?
Writing at an epoch when the great results of English emancipation had not yet been produced, he was led to frame that formidable judgment of which so much advantage has been taken: "Hitherto, wherever the whites have been the more powerful, they have held the negroes in degradation and slavery; wherever the negroes have been the more powerful, they have destroyed the whites.
Patience patience; that is what he says. I ah have probably only caught a little chill. I believe in Cyrus, Andrew, I believe in him." Andrew received the explanation with outward respect. His father's eye had become formidable; but in silence his own expressed his opinion of this paltry defense. Presently he inquired "Would you like people to know who you're going to?" Mr. Walkingshaw started.
He laughed, wild with joy, pressing closer and closer his formidable embrace, crying in a delirium of joy, "Look, Jean, look!" All resistance ceased; the body of the wolf became limp. He was dead. Franqois took him up in his arms and carried him to the feet of the elder brother, where he laid him, repeating, in a tender voice: "There, there, there, my little Jean, see him!"
"Faith, Major Hone, and I'm not at all sure that it isn't yourself I want to run away from!" Hone was securing the boat, and made no immediate response. But as he straightened himself, he laughed also. "Am I so formidable, then?" She flashed a swift glance at him. "I haven't quite decided." "You have known me long enough," he protested. She shrugged her shoulders lightly.
To be twenty-four years her senior was, for the husband of a youthful princess so excelling in wit and beauty, certainly a formidable inequality, and so Mdlle. de Bourbon seems to have thought.
It is difficult to say what would have been the fate of the Reformation, and the liberties of the Empire, had not the formidable power of Austria declared against them. This, however, appears certain, that nothing so completely damped the Austrian hopes of universal monarchy, as the obstinate war which they had to wage against the new religious opinions.
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