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He jerked up his shoulders as if to dislodge her hand, then recollected himself and put his arm about her. "I never intend to write another poem," he said. "That is nonsense. A poem must be much like a baby. If it is conceived it must be born. Do you deny it is there?" tapping his forehead. "When the devil takes possession it is better to stifle him before he grows to his full strength."
Once more I tell you, I am sorry, from the bottom of my heart, that you ever felt for me a passion which I can not requite, and that you did not stifle it from the beginning; as, Heaven knows, my bearing toward you, for a whole year, seemed to me to convey sufficient warning." "It should have done so! I can now very easily understand it, Margaret. Indeed, Mr.
"I do trust things will go right," thought Bertha to herself; "it is extremely dangerous. Florence certainly was mad when she came to this part of the country." There was no help for it, however. Bertha was learning once more that the way of the transgressors is hard. She had to stifle all her feelings of anxiety, help Mrs. Aylmer into her pretty pony carriage, and take the reins.
This enthusiastic veneration of talent is I confess, my lord, one of the first motives of my attachment to this country. We do not find here that blasée imagination, that discouraging temper of mind, that despotic mediocrity, which in other countries so effectually torment and stifle natural genius. A happy idea, sentiment, or expression, sets an audience on fire, if I may say so.
"Can't help it." "I can," retorted Goodwin, as he leaped out on the floor. "What are you going to do?" "I am going to inform Mr. Lowington what you are doing." "Are you such a fellow as that?" asked Pelham, indignantly. "I am, if you are such a fellow as to attempt to stifle me with cigar smoke in my own room. It would make me as sick as a horse in five minutes."
A bureaucracy, ruling without proper external control, becomes a prey to the demons of red tape, routine, officialdom and place-hunting; it tends to stifle individual initiative and the sense of moral responsibility, since it forgets the real object of its existence the good government of the country in its passion for self-preservation and its desire to secure the smooth-working of the machine; it becomes inhuman, intensely conservative and corrupt.
What a contrast between this pale figure, clad in simplest mourning, and the rich costumes which in the days of her happiness had heightened her beauty; those days which seemed to lie so far, far away from the bitter present The empress laid her hand upon her heart, as if to stifle a cry of anguish; then approaching the black marble table, she took up some of the dresses that lay upon it.
A joke dies hard, and I am not sure that the life is yet quite out of the kindly ridicule that was cast for a whole generation upon the people who left their comfortable houses in town to starve upon farm-board or stifle in the narrow rooms of mountain and seaside hotels.
"More than anything else in nature. I love great plains too, but I like them best because they are like the sea when they billow under the breeze." "You don't like the mountains at all?" asked Genevieve. "Oh! no, I stifle there. I dream at night that they are pressing in to strangle me. I went to Cauterets with mama after she had bronchitis.
The Frenchman turned aside to wipe his eyes, and stifle the rising at his heart; and again he sat, and again he sought to soothe. At length Cesarini, seemingly more calm, gave him leave to depart. "Go," said he, "go; tell Teresa I am better, that I love her tenderly, that I shall live to tell her children not to be poets.
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