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'Didst thou beat these youths, as he describes? inquired the judge, turning towards the cook with like severity. 'No, O Excellency! came the bitter cry. 'I am an ill-used man, much slandered. I never set eyes upon those men until this minute. He also began weeping bitterly. 'Both parties tell me lies! exclaimed the judge, with anger. 'For thou, O cook, didst beat these youths.
Notwithstanding the multitude of petty offences for which a slave is severely punished, it is singular that one crime bigamy is visited upon a white with severity, while no slave has ever yet been tried for it. In fact, the man is allowed to form connections with as many women, and the women with as many men, as they please. At St. Louis, William was employed as coachman to Mr.
See here, you don't want Jack to grow up to be a member of that geranium-cheeked, leather-chair brigade that stare out of Fifth Avenue Club windows, their heaviest labor lifting a whiskey-and-soda all the way up to their mouths?" "I certainly do not propose to accept the alternative he proposed!" she retorted. "I assure you, such severity as I used was necessary.
And as they are chiefly the excesses of a sanguine disposition and looseness of thought, impatient of caution or control, you may, thus stimulated, watch over your own intemperance and infirmity with redoubled vigilance and consideration, and for the future profit by the severity of my reproof. These, however, are not the only motives that induce me to trouble you with this public application.
'My motto, when prompted by either, to perform an act of duty, is now; when we seek forgiveness from God, or from a friend, we should never defer it to the future, for the opportunity once neglected may never again be ours. "This was said with some severity. A sort of mental cowardice kept me back and hindered me effectually from profiting by her advice.
When they came to the Pollian tribe, in which was the name of Marcus Livius, and the herald hesitated to cite the censor himself, Nero said, "Cite Marcus Livius;" and whether it was that he was actuated by the remains of an old enmity, or that he felt a ridiculous pride in this ill-timed display of severity, he ordered Marcus Livius to sell his horse, because he had been condemned by the sentence of the people.
Temperance and activity, he added, would render them robust, enable them to bear the severity of different seasons and climates, to brave the fatigues of war, and to inspire the respect and obedience of the soldiers under their command. Thus reasoned Napoleon at the age of sixteen, and time showed that he never deviated from these principles.
There was not even a word in Bonaparte's talk which recalled the republican severity; as has been noted, the word virtue did not pass his lips, his language was that of chivalry.
Robert argued with the Owl, but he made no impression upon him. Meanwhile they continued to march north by west. The Owl, with his warriors and captive, descended in time into the low country in the northwest. They, too, had been on snowshoes, but now they discarded them, since they were entering a region in which little snow had fallen, the severity of the weather abating greatly.
The younger man made no reply. "Hear me?" the elder demanded again in rising tones of severity. "Ain't you got no tongue in yo' haid? Whar you gwine?" Shifting from one foot to the other the younger man finally broke away from Uncle Billy's eye and tried to pass him by. "Den I'll tell you whar you gwine," shouted Uncle Billy, furious at last.
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