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For it is certain that sanitary conditions often as imperiously demand recreation as nourishment. Especially is this the case with persons given to sedentary pursuits, confined during the week to shops, factories and stores, and whose only opportunity this is to shake off the dull monotony of work and to give the bodies and minds necessary relaxation and distraction.
Has not Cicero said wisely, that we ought no more to subject too slavishly our affections, than to elevate them too imperiously into our masters? Neque se nimium erigere, nec subjacere serviliter." "Cicero loved philosophizing better than philosophy," said Aram, coldly; "but surely, my Lord, the affections give us pain as well as pleasure.
And now the report of a gun was heard, and a sportsman was seen, with his dogs and attendant, at the upper end of the glen. 'Shough, said Dugald Mahony, 'tat's ta Chief. 'It is not, said Evan, imperiously. 'Do you think he would come to meet a Sassenach duinhe-wassel in such a way as that?
Barbara saw her son for only a few more fleeting hours; the "Spanish fury" which destroyed the flower of Antwerp doubled his business cares, forbade any delay, and imperiously claimed his whole time and strength. The mother watched his honest labours sorrowfully.
Pericles in his bearskin was easily to be distinguished. His companion was Laura Tinley. The Greek moved at rapid strides, and coming near upon Emilia, raised his hands as in exclamation. At once he disencumbered his shoulders of the enormous wrapper, held it aloft imperiously, and by main force extinguished Emilia. Laura's shrill laugh resounded. "Oh! beastly bathos!" Tracy groaned in his heart.
Too often genius itself must submit to the silly presumption of its noisy and fatuous children, and it is the young fool who too often knocks imperiously at the door of wise and active middle age. That all this is inevitable makes it none the less sad.
When they strike her directly in a word, when she is full all shadow is imperiously banished from her disc, and observation is no longer possible. Galileo, after recognising the existence of the lunar mountains, was the first to employ the method of calculating their heights by the shadows they throw. He attributed to them, as it has already been shown, an average of 9,000 yards.
In the middle the girls tried to escape into the parlour. But she shouted imperiously after them. "Polly Laura what art tha aboot? Coom back at yance. I'll not ha sickly foak sittin wi'oot a fire!" They came back sheepishly.
It had happened that in my fury I did not even ask him what he wanted, but simply raised my head sharply and imperiously and began staring back at him. So we stared at one another for two minutes; at last he turned with deliberation and dignity and went back again for two hours.
This tickled the baby so much that the chuckle burst into a rollicking laugh, with a catch of the breath after each crescendo tone that made it absolutely individual and like none other save one. "What's his name?" Bud bullied the squaw, though his eyes were on the baby. "Don't know!" "Take Uvin Chal," the baby demanded imperiously. "Uh uh uh? Take!" "Uvin Chal?
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