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As I drew nearer to them, trying to propitiate the tinker by my looks, I observed that the woman had a black eye. 'Where are you going? said the tinker, gripping the bosom of my shirt with his blackened hand. 'I am going to Dover, I said. 'Where do you come from? asked the tinker, giving his hand another turn in my shirt, to hold me more securely. 'I come from London, I said.
It was his duty to appeal to the gods, and not to men; to propitiate them with costly rites, to surround himself with mystery, to inspire awe, and excite superstitious feelings. The Christian minister had a loftier sphere.
He has no concern with these powers except the desire to propitiate them. He has no knowledge of their working excepting as respects their bearing upon his interests. Obeying a law of human nature which is as valid now as then, he seeks for remedies whose proof is the cure which they effect.
'The perfect commonwealth, says Mr. Zimmern, is a society of free men and women, each at once ruling and being ruled, It is also fair to argue that monarchies do not escape the worst evils of democracies. An autocracy is often obliged to oppress the educated classes and to propitiate the mob.
By this time Francis Wing, who was a most handsome, well-bred, and plausible villain, was desperately in love with her if one can use the word love for such a passion. He began to lend her money in small sums. She was induced to look upon him as her only friend, and forced by the mere terror of the situation in which she found herself to propitiate and play him as best she might.
Let me, therefore, explain how I felt when I fell out of a hansom cab for the first and, I am happy to believe, the last time. Polycrates threw one ring into the sea to propitiate the Fates. Though I am told they do not like to be told so.
He is come to be the associate of gentlemen; men high in office shower upon him their favors. It is all to propitiate the friendship of Bonard-I know it." Mr. Snivel concludes hurriedly, and departs into the street, as our scene changes. IT is night.
"That is what I get for taking your place!" "What is the matter?" "That impudent young villain wanted to kiss me." "Oh! is that all?" "Well! but, Jenny, that is no news, I could have told him that." "Then why did you never tell me?" "I thought by your manner you knew it." Having tried to propitiate the foe thus, Robinson lost no more time, but went upstairs and asked Mr.
The first speech was made by the candidate, Sir Hugh Davey; and in his anxiety to propitiate his hearers he began by addressing them as men whose ancestors had for centuries shown their devotion to free principles, and had especially given proof of this by hanging the last Abbot of Glastonbury at the old tower above the town.
The second clue to Seward's new policy of international brigandage was the need, as he conceived it, to propitiate those Southern expansionists who in the lower South at least formed so large a part of the political machine, who must somehow be lured back into the Union; to whom the Virginia Compromise, as well as every other scheme of readjustment yet suggested, offered no allurement.
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