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The Russians were scurrying out like scared rabbits, but the British, not so easily intimidated, were asking, "What's the row?" One of the British, Walter Hurcum, was struck by a bayonet in the face, cutting a deep gash across his cheek and the lower part of his ear. Tom Morgan dodged a bayonet thrust by jumping behind the stove, and escaped without injury.
We have had so many cowards on the Ministerial benches, so many men who were brave when dealing with their subordinates, toadied to their superiors, and were intimidated by strong opposition, that a man like Tisza, who was such a contrast to these others, has a most refreshing and invigorating effect.
She broke off, intimidated, paralyzed by the strange fixed look of the old wizard before her his flowing hair, his skullcap, his white and sunken features. And yet mysteriously she recognized herself in him. She realized through every fibre that he was indeed her father. "You would have done better not to trouble me again!" said Melrose, with slow emphasis.
By faith Moses, after he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child singularly beautiful; and they were not intimidated by the command of the king.
And if we don't use those minutes with all the wisdom that's in us, the shame of our state will be on the wires of the world inside of an hour!" His vehemence intimidated them. His manner as the bearer of ill tidings won what his appeals had not secured an instant hearing. "What I say will be a matter of record, and the blame will be placed where it belongs.
Now, in the period termed animistic because inanimate things are supposed to be animated and actuated by spirits, it may be that many or most of such spirits are supposed to feel and think like a rather stupid man, and therefore to be capable of being cajoled, deluded, intimidated, and castigated by the human being who desires to make use of them.
His comrades were unarmed and intimidated. They rushed back to fetch weapons from the house of Deodatus, and there had been full time to take Columba safely home, Verronax and his dog stalking statelily in the rear as her guardians. "Thou shouldst have sought thine impregnable crag, my son," said the Senator sadly. "To bring the barbarian vengeance upon this house?" responded Verronax.
This ignorance so intimidated him, that he could scarcely open his mouth before strangers, or perform the most ordinary duties of his rank; he had persuaded himself that he was an ass and a fool; fit for nothing.
If the gentleman from South Carolina, by bringing forward this resolution of censure, thinks to frighten me from my purpose, he has mistaken his man. I am not to be intimidated by him, nor by all the Grand Juries of the universe." After a debate of excessive exacerbation, lasting for four days, only twenty votes could be found indirectly and remotely to censure.
"I am not to be intimidated from the discharge of my duty by the menaces of a murderer," said Cornet Grahame. "Hear me, good people; I proclaim, in the name of the King and of my commanding officer, full and free pardon to all, excepting" "I give thee fair warning," said Burley, presenting his piece.
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