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The alien Government also gives greater security, without raising the standard of living among the natives, since the dominant race usually monopolises the lucrative careers.
Your Grace monopolises the fun. 'I think you may safely attack them, said Miss Dacre. 'I do not think you will be recognised. People entertain in this barbarous country, such vulgar, old-fashioned notions of a Duke of St. James, that I have not the least doubt your Grace might have a good deal of fun without being found out.
A house in the Himalayas is, from an avian point of view, a maze of nesting sites, a hotel in which unfurnished rooms are always available. The sparrow usually monopolises these nesting sites. He is a regular dog-in-the-manger, for he keeps other birds out of the holes he himself cannot utilise. However, the sparrow is not quite ubiquitous.
If that peculiarly transatlantic article, a moral sense for, if native statesmen, orators, and pamphleteers, are to be believed, America quite monopolises the commodity if that peculiarly transatlantic article be supposed to include a benevolent love of all mankind, certainly Martin's would have borne, just then, a deal of waking.
The death of his mother by starvation has turned his head, poor fellow, but turned it to good purpose: "Faith and Love" is the greatest modern picture in Europe. To be sure, he has the advantage of painting from the finest model ever seen, the lovely, if rather stupid, Miss Gudgeon, of Primrose Court, whom he monopolises.
It is like going out into the country on a spring morning. And there is very real beauty too " "Yes, Kencroft monopolises all the good looks of the family. What a fine fellow the dear old Friar has grown." "If you bring out those two girls this year, you will take the shine out of all the other chaperons!" "I wonder whether your aunt would like it."
"You would not dare to say that if Elizabeth were in the room," but Dinah spoke quite innocently and had no arriere pensee. "I know that Betty monopolises him to any extent," retorted Cedric, "and it is a shame when that poor little Tina " Then Dinah quite flushed up and said quickly, "Hush, how can you be so silly, Cedric. Tina is a perfect baby.
He made them clean his cottage out, and cook his meals, and when he was tired of having them about the house, he set them to work in the garden. "They grumbled a good deal, and there was a talk at one time of a sort of a strike, but what could they do? He was the only pauper for miles round, and knew it. He had the monopoly, and, like all monopolises, he abused his position.
Eclipses in China are foretold by the Government almanac published annually in Peking by a bureau of astrology attached to the Board of Rites. The almanac is a Government monopoly, and any infraction of its copyright is a penal offence. "It monopolises the management of the superstitions of the people, in regard to the fortunate or unlucky conjunctions of each day and hour.
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority protects the tranquillity of my pleasures, and constantly averts all danger from my path, without my care or my concern, if the same authority is the absolute mistress of my liberty and of my life, and if it so monopolises all the energy of existence, that when it languishes everything languishes around it, that when it sleeps everything must sleep, that when it dies the state itself must perish.
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