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For the present purpose, the indirect as well as the direct effects of this consumption are of the nature of a curtailment of the community's economic efficiency. In economic theory, then, and considered in its proximate consequences, the consumption of goods and effort in the service of an anthropomorphic divinity means a lowering of the vitality of the community.
The syndic was her tenant, and bowed down to her, and the rest of the illiterate officials followed his lead. It was natural enough; for they all benefited by the lowering of the rents, and they were quick to see that she meant to spend money in the place, which would be to the advantage of every one before long. It was she who made the revolution, and not they.
Now! let me try and see if my knowledge of the Arabian tongue is good enough to be understood by the camel." Lowering her voice a tone, she suddenly cried "Get up!" Whereupon the animal rose clumsily to its feet, as the girl, laughing aloud, clung to the man's arm. "Oh," she cried, "did you ever know anything so funny, though why, I am sure I can't say fancy a camel obeying me."
For you do not lessen or weaken the man's body by lowering his mind; he still retains his strength and his passions, the passions leading to self-indulgence, the strength which enables him to feed them by continued gratification.
Witness my poor cane, though, indeed, a better illustration would be the cane that Louis XIV. broke on a footman because his Majesty was out of humor with the prince, whose shoulders were too sacred for royal indignation." "So you see," concluded Lord Castleton, lowering his voice, "that your uncle, amongst all his other causes of sorrow, may think at least that his name is spared in his son's.
It all seemed that last half hour a dream to Henry and Paul. They had moved in a kind of mist, now red, now black. They had seen the black hills lowering above them, and the innumerable flashes of fire. They had heard the roar of the tempest and the unbroken crackle of hundreds of rifles, and they had fired in reply almost mechanically.
The skies hung lowering and gloomy; the usually quiet street was more than deserted, it was dismal. Titee leaned against one of the brown freight cars for protection against the shrill norther, and warmed his little chapped hands at a blaze of chips and dry grass. "Maybe it'll snow," he muttered, casting a glance at the sky that would have done credit to a practised seaman. "Then won't I have fun!
Here her escort joined her, and they passed on; and Hemstead stood lowering at the man, the pitch of whose character began to stain the beautiful girl who, knowing him somewhat, could willingly and encouragingly remain at his side.
For instance, Egbert, under circumstances similar to those recited above in respect to the sickness of the boy, and the kind attentions of his sister came to his mother one afternoon for permission to go a-fishing with some other boys who had called for him. He was full of excitement and enthusiasm at the idea. But his mother was not willing to allow him to go. The weather was lowering.
I reflected that his influence was certainly a baneful one. "Ah! I see you are one of his friends, Mrs. Cullerton!" I said, laughing. "Yes I confess I am." "Then would you be surprised if I told you in strictest confidence that he is not your friend, but one of your bitterest enemies!" I said, lowering my voice, and looking straight into her wide-open blue eyes. "I don't understand you, Mr.
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