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Mr Elliston handed the missive to his niece: she perused it in silence; but her uncle told Mrs Smith, in strict confidence, that he felt almost sure a tear fell on the paper.
The tutor was, in fact, exceedingly strict, and inspired the greatest respect.
'And the flies in those dear little houses.... Faugh! 'Tell me, began Arkady, after a brief pause, 'were they strict with you when you were a child? 'You can see what my parents are like. They're not a severe sort. 'Are you fond of them, Yevgeny? 'I am, Arkady. 'How fond they are of you! Bazarov was silent for a little.
These were the final conditions for the Roman, whose power, sapped by long excesses, was even then trembling to its fall. Already the barbarians threatened them, and at various points had penetrated the Empire, showing to the amazed Romans morals absolutely opposed to their own. The German races contented themselves with one wife; and Tacitus wrote of them: "Their marriages are very strict.
Her husband grew more and more like his father, punctilious, rigid; a strict observant in religious matters, a pedant in little things, prejudiced against all change; too satisfied to desire improvement, too scrupulously conscientious to permit any retrogression from established rule, a model of the immutability of an ancient aristocracy, a living paradigm of what always had been and a stubborn barrier against all that might be.
As the best means for attaining this object it has occurred to them to bind the Electoral Prince to the German imperial house by marriage, and to receive him into the Hapsburg family. The Archduke Leopold, the future Emperor, has a very pretty daughter. She is intellectual, ardent, a strict Catholic, and has at heart the greatness of the Hapsburg house and the German Emperor.
You'd never think it, but some of those Highbinders could make our crack shots do their best to keep an even score. Well," he broke off, "here we are at Mott Street. Bob," he called to the policeman across the street, "here's a young fellow wants to go into Chinatown." "Sorry, sir," said the other, a great big burly fellow, coming forward to meet them, "but orders are strict.
So, "full freedom of association" is now guaranteed in Switzerland; and in Germany the trade guilds are largely recognized, but membership must not be compulsory. In Austria a strict governmental control is exercised, and the principle of obligatory guilds is unreservedly accepted.
And especially" here again the speaker hesitated a moment. But he resumed with a gentle seriousness "he helped us in all our attempts to make the people here live straight like Christians not like animals. My mother has very strict rules she won't allow any one in our cottages who has lost their character. I know it sounds harsh. It isn't so it's merciful.
Sam was late on his return. "Eight bells," his regular hour, had struck without his well-known voice being heard hailing us from the porch; and it was quite half-past twelve before the customary shout in the porch of the cottage told of his arrival, for I was keeping strict watch over the time, having been rendered extra hungry by my exertions in the garden our dinner being postponed till the missing mariner came.
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