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He was uplifted as 'The heroical Commander Beauchamp, of the Royal Navy, and 'Commander Beauchamp, R.N., a gentleman of the highest connections': he was 'that illustrious Commander Beauchamp, of our matchless, navy, who proved on every field of the last glorious war of this country that the traditional valour of the noble and indomitable blood transmitted to his veins had lost none of its edge and weight since the battle-axes of the Lords de Romfrey, ever to the fore, clove the skulls of our national enemy on the wide and fertile campaigns of France. This was pageantry.
Furber, the sender of the telegram, a citizen of Chicago, who had scarcely attained the prime of life, but was gifted with that indomitable spirit of enterprise which characterizes the metropolis of the West.
The swarthy newcomer, who seemed to be in command, swore sourly. "Y'u put a knot in your tongue, Mr. Foreman." "Ce'tainly, if y'u prefer," returned the indomitable McWilliams. "Shut up or I'll pump lead into you!" "I'm padlocked, seh." Nora Darling interrupted the dialogue by quietly fainting. The foreman caught her as she fell. "See what y'u done, y'u blamed chump!" he snapped.
All her pleasures had oozed down from our house in old times to her; and her gratitude was indomitable, and stood all imaginable rebuffs that courtesy permitted me. I believe she only pitied and loved me the more, and persevered in the dreadful kindness that has no tact.
He had to be content with his knowledge that for some mysterious reason she had married this man so much older than herself and so unlike to her in character. Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
His indomitable pride led him to feel that he would rather work for this honest, implacable foe than for any man in the city, because their relations would be so purely those of business, and to bring him to terms now would be a triumph over which he could inwardly rejoice. "Mr. Houghton," he said, gravely, "we have wandered far from the topic which I at first introduced.
There were intestine disturbances which needed to be quelled, and then the army of the reformers was led beyond the boundaries of the country and assailed the imperial dominions, but the emperor held aloof. He had had enough of the blind terror of Bohemia, the indomitable Ziska and his iron-flailed peasants. New outbreaks disturbed Bohemia.
Did He ordain that the crop and tail-feathers of the pigeon should vary, in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds? Did He cause the frame and mental qualities of the dog to vary, in order that a breed might be formed of indomitable ferocity, with jaws fitted to pin down the bull for man's brutal sport?
That indomitable old Scotch hero and Indian fighter, Bernard who had risen from a government blacksmith to the rank of Colonel of cavalry who believed that the best way to subdue Indians was to fight and kill them and not to run them to death was following with four companies of cavalry, numbering 136 men. Behind him was Gen.
The gentle, patient painter, contented with his own estimation of his endowments, and resigned to be misjudged and neglected by the world, had his own indomitable doggedness.
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