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At length, yielding to the professor's entreaties and remonstrances, the baronet again sank to his knees and the stalk was resumed. Soon, however, it became apparent that, from some cause or other, the animals were growing restless and uneasy.
I have remonstrated against the seventies practiced on our prisoners. COLD WATER HAS BEEN THROWN ON MY REMONSTRANCES, and I shall therefore interfere no more." "That is the wise way to look at it, you may depend!" "We shall see which was in the right. I have discharged my conscience. But, Mr. Hawes, I am hurt you should say I preached a sermon against you."
Thus, amid a volley of roars, remonstrances, yells, yelps, and pistolry, Edith and her friends scoured over the frozen sea, and swept into the Esquimau camp like a whirlwind. The night that followed the day of which we have given an account in the last chapter was a night of rest to Edith, but not to the Esquimaux.
I pray God, that the protests and public appeals and remonstrances to Government of the Anti-Slavery Society may not end in barren results.
The President was in constant receipt of remonstrances and protests from the contesting parties, to one of which he made the following curt reply: Your despatch of to-day is just received. It is very painful to me that you, in Missouri cannot, or will not, settle your factional quarrel among yourselves. I have been tormented with it beyond endurance, for months, by both sides.
He examined with the utmost care all the remonstrances and addresses that were poured in upon him, and found few solid objections, and none that he had not already weighed and disposed of. On July 31 he wrote to Randolph that it was not to be inferred that he was disposed to quit his ground unless more imperious circumstances than had yet come to his knowledge should compel him to do so.
It is from Miss Tullis that we have learned the extent of your valorous achievements. Ah, my dear young friend, she has given you a fair name. She tells us of a miracle and we are convinced." Truxton stammered his remonstrances, but glowed with joy and pride. "Here is the situation in a nutshell," went on the Prime Minister. "We are doomed unless succor reaches us from the outside.
Why, he might have lived all his life this side the border, to judge by his tongue, confound him!" There could be no doubt of Cuthbert's attachment to Violet. No remonstrances of his mother and they were but mild, in spite of her objection to Violet, since she recognized the futility of opposing her son's determined will had the slightest effect with him.
The Dutch envoy declaring that he would sooner throw himself into the Bosphorus than remain to be treated with less consideration than that accorded to the ministers of all great powers, the remonstrances of envious colleagues were hushed, and Haga was received with all due honours.
I would kill him at his own hearth, did he break his word with me I would, by the great Being who made us both!" The look and attitude of the young soldier for a moment overawed Elspat; she was unused to see him express a deep and bitter mood, which reminded her so strongly of his father. But she resumed her remonstrances in the same taunting manner in which she had commenced them.
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