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At the present moment his great designs were not yet openly traversed by a strong Protestant party within the very republic which he administered. "Look to it with earnestness and grave deliberation," he said to Langerac, "that they do not pursue us there with vain importunity to accept something so notoriously inadmissible and detrimental to the common weal.
At a London dinner-party even a peeress, even an American lady who has married a peer, dare not commit herself to an adverse literary judgement except in the case of notoriously disaffected writers for the very good reason that she does not know where to go for a literary judgement that shall be above reproach. We have as little confidence in our critics as in our ministers.
They have used trading here for six or seven and twenty years; but have begun to plant of later time; and now have reduced their trade to some order, and confined it only to their company, which, heretofore, was spoiled by their seamen and interlopers, as ours is, this year most notoriously.
"But is it not very humiliating to you to have to be friends with such men?" said Mrs. D'Alloi. "You know Mr. Drewitt?" asked Peter. "Yes," said all but madame. "Do you take pleasure in knowing him?" "Of course," said Watts. "He's very amusing and a regular parlor pet." "That is the reason I took him. For ten years that man was notoriously one of the worst influences in New York State politics.
I have had young men present themselves to me who turned out to be notoriously unfit, either from giddiness, from being profane or intemperate, or from some bad quality or other. But I never remember a case which equalled the cool culpability of this.
In this letter, Dinwiddie complained of the intrusion of French forces into the Ohio country, erecting forts and making settlements in the western parts of the colony of Virginia, so notoriously known to be the property of the crown of Great Britain.
He said it was a cracker-jaw, and he wondered how one so notoriously ivory-skulled as the other could have had such an idea. The Bear-Cat said modestly that he had 'em sometimes.
I purchased the entire set at once and read them carefully, in order to make sure that I was perfectly justified in warning my working-girls' classes against them. I wish to misjudge no man not even a member of a nation notoriously devoted to absinthe and illicit relations." She breathed heavily, and looked at Mr. Woods as if, somehow, he was responsible.
Of course Harry paid over the eight thousand pounds. Huggo took, "to start with," as he said, a tiny furnished flat in Bayswater. Rosalie installed him and his bride therein and left him, on their first night there, ever so gay, so confident, so happy. Her Huggo! In two months it all came out. Lawyers are notoriously lax in making their own wills.
But aside from these three cities, which are notoriously so overgrown that no decent white man, nobody who loves his wife and kiddies and God's good out-o'doors and likes to shake the hand of his neighbor in greeting, would want to live in them and let me tell you right here and now, I wouldn't trade a high-class Zenith acreage development for the whole length and breadth of Broadway or State Street! aside from these three, it's evident to any one with a head for facts that Zenith is the finest example of American life and prosperity to be found anywhere.
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