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"Impossible!" "Nonsense; I have done it for half-a-mile already. Come, mount! I am not going to have Jonathan's death laid at David's door." And so, masking command with a jest, he had his way. What strength supported him I cannot tell, but he certainly carried me with many rests between, and pauses, during which I walked a quarter of a mile or so the whole way to Norton Bury.
He muttered angrily at finding his wife's face uncovered; then after masking her carefully, he took her in his arms and laid her on the bed in her chamber. The terror of that apparition and hasty removal stopped for a moment the physical sufferings of the countess, and so enabled her to cast a furtive glance at the actors in this mysterious scene.
Merciful, merciful, merciful snow, Masking the ugliness hidden below. Herbert made me promise to do a poem for the January 'Pilot, but I mustn't take the snow as a subject; there has been too great competition among the older poets!"
The private must drink that he may be blind when he receives orders, but the general must not drink, that he may see to give orders. I shall drink something else when it is all over. Now look to the masking." They understood what that meant. Each one took off his sheepskin jacket, reversed it and put it on again.
Where the philosophers, as they scorn to delight, so must they be content little to move: saving wrangling, whether virtue be the chief, or the only good: whether the contemplative, or the active life do excel: which Plato and Boethius well knew, and therefore made Mistress Philosophy very often borrow the masking raiment of poesy.
"Upon what charge?" inquired Herbert, calmly, concealing the suspicion and indignation of his bosom. "Upon a rather bad one, Major sleeping on his post," replied the officer, masking his exultation with a show of respect. "Rather bad! The penalty is death," said Herbert, dryly. "Yes, sir martial law is rather severe." "Who charges him?" asked Herbert, curtly.
Masking his ambitious designs under the veil of religion and patriotism, he lamented, in his denunciatory report, the necessity under which he found himself, as a loyal subject and faithful Mussulman, of accusing a man who had been his benefactor, and thus at the same time gained the benefit of crime and the credit of virtue.
Keane was precluded from the alternative of masking the place and continuing his advance by the all but total exhaustion of his supplies, which the capture of Ghuznee would replenish, and he therefore resolved on an assault by the Cabul gate. During the 21st July the army circled round the place, and camped to the north of it on the Cabul road.
"A gambler has a certain way of masking his own face and looking at yours, as if he were dragging your thoughts out through your eyes; also, he's very cool; he belongs at a table with the cards on it and the stakes high." The door opened. "Here's young Rose. He'll tell us the truth of the matter. Has she come back, Rose?"
The whole period which extends up to the moment of her first disgrace was solely employed by her in establishing her power by masking it.
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