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I was too young to make the most of my opportunities, but I succeeded in my attempts to master the modern language, and at the same time greatly improved my knowledge of ancient Greek." At these words my companion started impetuously from his chair, and strained me in a vehement embrace. "Oh! rare and fortunate incident!" he exclaimed; "you are the companion I have so long and vainly sought.
"I have a wife, Lucia, who is really my wife and whom I want to make my wife before the world. I ask you whether you will give me the opportunity to do this by dissolving our marriage." Then her Italian temperament revealed itself in all its intensity. She spoke with rage and animosity upon her face, and with vehement and dramatic gestures, as I had never seen her before. "Give you opportunity?
Zelma chose for her début the part of Zara in "The Mourning Bride," not out of any love for the character, which was too stormy, vicious, and revengeful to engage her sympathies, but because it was rapid, vehement, sharply defined, and, if realized at all, she said, would put her, by its very fierceness and wickedness, too far out of herself for failure, sweep her through the play like a whirlwind, and give her no time to droop.
Burnham's voice was vehement in protest. "Of course you don't. You are a married woman. I am not. I did not say always. I said generally, and I mean what I say. My dear" again Miss Gibbie leaned forward "I have been young and now am old, and I have watched many lives. With only occasional exceptions a woman has just about the kind of husband she makes the man she marries become."
Both Whig and Democratic leaders, with few exceptions, roundly denounced all attempts to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law. None was more vehement than Douglas. He could not regard this Boston rescue as a trivial incident. He believed that there was an organization in many States to evade the law. It was in the nature of a conspiracy against the government.
He insisted on being free, in the corroding fetters of resentment and scorn for men. Conrad sought balm for disappointment of spirit in vehement activity of body. Manfred represents the confusion common to the type, between thirst for the highest knowledge and proud violence of unbridled will.
Hence rents were by no means low, and the contest for houses was vehement. If the village had real beauties of its own a cluster of thatched and dormer-windowed cottages, properties valuable to the artist one was sure to come upon immediate evidence of the cockney invasion.
The Apostle in his fervid way strains language to express how far the possibility of the divine working extends. He is able, not only to do all things, but 'beyond all things' a vehement way of putting the boundless reach of that gracious power.
He had once heard it said, that sleep-walkers always threw themselves down when they heard their names spoken; this statement now recurred to his mind, and he forbore from calling out to her. Once more the unhappy woman waved him off; his very heart stopped beating, for her movements were wild and vehement, and he could see that the stone which she was holding on by shifted its place.
But Lincoln, evidently troubled by Douglas's vehement deductions from the house-divided-against-itself proposition, soon fell back upon the defensive, where he was at a great disadvantage. He was forced to explain that he did not favor a war by the North upon the South for the extinction of slavery; nor a war by the South upon the North for the nationalization of slavery.
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