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There was an air of ruminant resignation, of habitual accommodation in him; but you would have guessed that he was enjoying a holiday rather than aching for a truce, and he was not so enfeebled but that he was able to get up from time to time and stroll through the porte cochere to have a look at the street.
The D.s were leaving Brussels; so, henceforth, her weekly holiday would have to be passed in the Rue d'Isabelle, or so she thought. "Mary" was gone off on her own independent course; Martha alone remained still and quiet for ever, in the cemetery beyond the Porte de Louvain.
When in February, 1793, the King of Naples was obliged, for his own safety, to join the league against France, Acton concluded a treaty with your country, and informed the Sublime Porte of the machinations of our Committee of Public Safety in sending De Semonville as an Ambassador to Constantinople, which, perhaps, prevented the Divan from attacking Austria, and occasioned the capture and imprisonment of our emissary.
Living with his wife and daughter in a modest house in a quiet street near the Porte d'Auteuil in Paris, Bergson is now working as keenly and vigorously as ever. Fundamental in Bergson's philosophy. We are surrounded by changes we ourselves change Belief in change Simplicity of change Immobility is composite and relative All movement is indivisible.
'Why, then, said Fakredeen, 'I am by another agent working upon Riza Pasha to this effect, that of all the princes of the great house of Shehaab, there is none so well adapted to support the interests of the Porte as the Emir Fakredeen, and for these three principal reasons: in the first place, because he is a prince of great qualities
The jealousies of the Powers now stood fully revealed. Russia entered a vigorous protest against England's action at Alexandria; Italy evinced great annoyance, and at once repelled a British proposal for her co-operation; Germany also showed much resentment, and turned the situation to profitable account by substituting her influence for that of Britain in the counsels of the Porte.
And, anyway, it doesn't help me out a mite. I've got to tell Uncle Dick before he notices that I don't display his pretty present any more. Oh, dear!" "It's a shame," groaned Bobby, holding her chum's hand tightly. "Guess there are worse things than measles in this world," observed Bob, as he stopped the small car under the porte cochère at Fairfields.
The Pharaoh derived his title from the Per-âa or "Great House" in which he lived, and where he dispensed justice. The title thus resembles that of the "Sublime Porte."
Let me rest a little; figure to yourselves, I have known no night of rest, nor eaten a morsel of bread for did you say it was but three days? We re-entered by the door for foot-passengers which is by the side of the great Porte St. Lambert. I will not deny that my heart was, as one may say, in my throat.
The Porte therefore had very soon reason to reproach us for the war which was renewed between it and Russia.
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