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"Then why don't the doctors take more of it themselves?" scowled Private Kelly. "Here you are," continued the steward, capping the capsule and passing it to the unwilling victim. Kelly dropped the capsule into his mouth, resolving to hold it there until he could get outside. "Here's a glass of water. Wash it down," ordered the hospital steward.
It is true that Marmaduke, by thus purchasing estates that had been wrested by violence from others, rendered himself obnoxious to the censures of that Sect which, at the same time that it discards its children from a full participation in the family union, seems ever unwilling to abandon them entirely to the world.
He quarrelled with parliament, because the parliament wished to perpetuate its existence unlawfully and meanly, and was moreover unwilling and unable to cope with many difficulties which constantly arose.
Aurelian was unwilling for the present to own himself to be really the Man he was; when a suddain thought came into his Head to take upon him the Name and Character of Hippolito, who he was sure was not known in Florence.
Knowing what we do of the Bāb, it is probable that he had the best of the argument, and that the doctors and functionaries who attended the meeting were unwilling to put upon record their own fiasco. The result, however, is known, and it is not precisely what might have been expected, i.e. it is not a capital sentence for this troublesome person.
Through her ports passed not only her own imports and products, but those of the adjacent parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts. This geographical situation of the State magnified her commercial interests, and made her unwilling to surrender them to the Union.
I can't describe the sensation, but perhaps you have felt it for yourself. Do tell me! Do you know what it is like to be shy? Did you ever feel it?" Peggy cudgelled her brains, unwilling to admit that any human experience was beyond her ken, but no! not one single instance of the kind could she remember. She had felt lonely at times, silent and unsociable, but never shy! She shook her head.
'Stand out of the way, Phyl, or you will feel how horses dance. Away he rode, while Phyllis turned with unwilling steps to the nursery, to be dressed for her first dancing lesson; Marianne Weston was to learn with her, and this was some consolation, but Phyllis could not share in the satisfaction Adeline felt in the arrival of Monsieur le Roi.
Everything combined to make Chrysostom the pride and the glory of the ancient Church, the doctrines which he did not hesitate to proclaim to unwilling ears, and the matchless manner in which he enforced them, perhaps the most remarkable preacher, on the whole, that ever swayed an audience; uniting all things, voice, language, figure, passion, learning, taste, art, piety, occasion, motive, prestige, and material to work upon.
The Pharisees, by inviting Jesus to dine, pretended to feel some sympathy for him as a prophet, while in their hearts they hated him; and the very man whose pious and sentimental remark about “the kingdom of God” occasioned the parable, was unwilling to accept the invitation to “eat bread in the kingdom of God” which Jesus was presenting.
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