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The King informed Caron that he had just received most satisfactory assurances from the Spanish ambassador in his last audience at Whitehall.
This was satisfactory enough, because, with all my admiration for the noble profession of arms, I cannot say that I quite enjoy being thrust as a traveller into an inn which happens to be thronged with some hundreds of soldiers on the march; but it was not the only treat that awaited us.
The Royal Government states that the I. and R. Government has made no protestation in this sense excepting in the case of a text book, in regard to which the I. and R. Government has received an entirely satisfactory explanation.
Of course, inasmuch as the consort of a Jewish monarch was not an incarnate prophecy as her husband was, the transference of the historical features of this wedding-song to a spiritual purpose is not so satisfactory, or easy, in the latter part as in the former.
Encouraged by the captain and Frobisher, both of whom worked as hard as, or harder than, any of the seamen, the men buckled-to again in earnest; and soon the chests and cases were leaping up out of the holds on to the decks, off the decks into the boats, and so ashore, at a very satisfactory rate of progress.
He had not long to wait. Up the road he soon saw the Whipper-in, riding leisurely along. Archie B. swelled with anger at sight of the complacent and satisfactory way he rode along. He even thought he saw a smile a kind of even-up smile light his face. When opposite his hiding place, Archie B. put his call to his mouth: Prut Prut P-R-U-T it rang out. Then Prut prut!
You must squeeze them, sir, or our connection will not continue to be as satisfactory as I could wish it to be to all parties. All parties. 'Don't I squeeze 'em? retorted Mr Pancks. 'What else am I made for? 'You are made for nothing else, Mr Pancks. You are made to do your duty, but you don't do your duty.
In the manufacture of felt it is of course of importance to have many very thin layers of fleece superposed over each other in order to equalize it, and if the same is applied to the manufacture of cloth it will no doubt give satisfactory results, but may be rather costly.
We have seen John of Luxemburg and his wife Elizabeth happily crowned on the Hradšany at Prague and the city relieved by this event from the prospect of prolonged internal disorder. Henry of Carinthia, who succeeded Rudolph, had not proved satisfactory.
From them I seemed to learn what would be the perennial sources of happiness, when all the greater evils of life shall have been removed. And I felt myself at once better and happier as I came under their influence." Words like these, proceeding from a mind so different from the poet's own, form perhaps as satisfactory a testimony to the value of his work as any writer can obtain.
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