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He was taken prisoner, and sent with the keys of the Eternal City to Justinian. Belisarius established himself upon the Pincian Hill, and his first act after his occupation of the City is significant both of his profound knowledge of the barbarians and of the immutable characteristics of a Latin people.
Hitherto she had not known that anything peculiar lodged in her tongue, and with no other person did she think of using it to produce a desired effect; but now the scenes in Brookfield became hideous to the ladies, and not wanting in their trials to the facial muscles of the gentlemen. A significant sign of what the ladies were enduring was, that they ceased to speak of it in their consultations.
After a significant glance down upon the slope of the deck caused by the vessel being on the ground, he added with a slight nod at Lingard "And without knowledge?" "You should not have come here, O Hassim," said Lingard, testily. "Here no one understands. They take a rajah for a fisherman " "Ya-wa!
It seemed to have been her good fortune that every significant move she had made around this stallion had been to mitigate his pain. Lucy believed he knew this as well as she knew it. Her theory, an often disputed one, was that horses were as intelligent as human beings and had just the same fears, likes, and dislikes.
He realised that a few leagues farther away from the seat of a Justiciary-General it might have gone ill with the man who had brought Simon MacTaggart to this condition, for menacing looks were thrown at him, and more than once there was a significant gesture that made plain the animosity with which he was regarded.
And even in England and America there are not wanting some significant tokens of a disposition to cherish a kind of speculation which, if it be not formally and avowedly Pantheistic, has much of the same dreamy and mystic character, and little, if any, harmony with definite views of God, or of the relations which He bears to man.
For the good of the cause it is written to serve, and for help to those who need help in the most sacred and significant affairs of their lives, may the book go on its way, if not rejoicing in itself, yet causing rejoicing in the lives and hearts of all who read what its pages contain. A pious Christian once said to me: "I find it hard to reconcile sex with the purity of Providence."
"Certainly, sir, without hesitation." "Because if he does, Hourigan, I shall be obliged, according to Act of Parliament, sir " Hourigan interrupted him by a groan, and a rather significant shrug. "What do you shrug and groan for, sir?" asked the man of law, who felt both acts incompatible with the respect due to the court.
We are all sun worshipers; and when we meet we invoke the sky a good day to you; a good night to you. It is a highly significant fact that all conversation begins with the weather. The weather is the most important fact in any one day, and, therefore, the most important fact in the sum of our days.
This sign, intended for those that might follow, was observed by one of her conductors, who restored the glove, broke the remaining branches of the bush in such a manner that it appeared to proceed from the struggling of some beast in its branches, and then laid his hand on his tomahawk, with a look so significant, that it put an effectual end to these stolen memorials of their passage.
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