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Alva immediately wrote to communicate this opinion to Philip, adding, with great satisfaction, that he should immediately make it known to the brethren of the Order, a step which was the more necessary because Egmont's advocate had been making great trouble with these privileges, and had been protesting at every step of the proceedings.
Once or twice she began to speak, and the words died away again. At last she said, bending towards him: "I have done very ill very, very ill. I have been thinking all through of my personal want of personal victory." He shook his head, protesting. And she hardly knew how to go on. But suddenly the word of nature, of truth, came; though in the speaking it startled them both.
Timothy’s met with misfortune. Dennison was laid out by a hard tackle; when at last he got to his feet, he limped badly. Louis Collingwood took him by the arm and walked round with him; Dennison was arguing, protesting. But Collingwood led him towards the side-line, patting him on the back, and called “Westby!”
Beginning in the Eighteenth Century with its struggle for the rights of man, this movement has gone on to our own day, setting free the slaves, reforming our prisons, protesting against war and cruelty, protecting women and children from economic exploitation, and devoting itself to all that renders human beings healthier and happier.
"If we're to be photographed, I suppose we shall want a bit more light on the subject." Joseph sprang to the switches. "Please!" Carlo Trent raised a protesting hand. The switches were not turned. In the beautiful dimness the greatest tragic actress in the world and the greatest dramatic poet in the world gazed at each other, seeking and finding solace in mutual esteem.
Ah, no I could not have borne much longer the horrible discomfort and stuffiness of that dreadful little Neptune of yours!" Protesting voices rose on every side. The Neptune was not uncomfortable! The Neptune was not stuffy! "And I understand" again she made a little grimace "that it is quite an exceptional thing for the crew to be consoled, as I was to-day, by an ice-pail!"
She was not a commonplace child; but even if she had been, she would have been as charming a study as a kitten; and she had all the four of us at her feet, though her mother was constantly protesting against our spoiling her, and really kept up so much wholesome discipline that the little maid never exceeded the bounds of being charming to us.
He was observed to be protesting against something, and finally the prosecutor went back to his seat at the table opposite the one where Darcy sat with his counsel. "Have you any cases to move this morning, Mr. Prosecutor?" asked the court in formal tones. "May it please your Honor," began Mr.
There are, I imagine, numbers of cases in which the accused, being found guilty on circumstantial evidence, have died protesting their innocence. I shall never approve again of a death-sentence imposed in a case decided upon such evidence. 'I never have done so, for my part, said Trent.
It was unthinkable that he should be so near to her Majesty and not hasten to cast himself at her feet; and whilst gladdening the eyes of his body with the sight of her matchless perfection, the image of which was ever before the eyes of his soul, allow himself the only felicity life now held for him that of protesting himself her utter slave.
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