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"I acknowledge at least the courage of your pride, and your defiance of all authority. You speak of audacity yours is indeed great." "I am at least decided to do that which others in their weakness dare not but which I dare. This, I hope, is clear and precise." "Very clear, very precise," said the princess, exchanging a glance of satisfaction with the other actors in this scene.
Here the Prefect paused, from sheer weakness and want of breath. His oration, however, was not concluded. He had disheartened the people by his narrative of what had occurred to the ambassadors; he now proceeded to console them by his relation of what had occurred to himself, when, after an interval, he thus resumed: 'But even yet, O citizens of Rome, it is not time to despair!
We may be permitted, then, to believe that this sense of moral obligation was one reason why the spirit of the Southerners rose superior to human weakness, and that the old adage, which declares that one volunteer is better than three pressed men, is not yet out of date.
Palma, you never loved any one or anything so very dearly, that it seemed holy in your eyes; much too sacred for others to look at." "Certainly not. I am pleased to say that is a mild stage of lunacy, with which I have as yet never been threatened. Idolatry is a phase of human weakness I have been unable to tolerate."
'To be weak, we need not the great archangel's voice to tell us, 'is to be miserable. All weakness is suffering and humiliation, no matter for its mode or its subject.
She was rude to foolish people, and she instinctively kept out of the way of all disease and weakness, so that in this respect she was far below the commonplace tradesman's wife, who visited the sick, sat up with them, and, in fact, never seemed so completely in her element as when she could be with anybody who was ill in bed. Miss Leroy's father was republican, and so was my grandfather.
Philip could not see when he turned his face to the light of the office. For the first time the grief which he had choked back escaped in a gasping break in his voice, and he wiped his eyes with his pocket-handkerchief. He knew that MacDougall was looking upon his weakness, but he did not at first see that there was another person in the room besides the engineer.
The bitterness passed from my heart long ago." "And from mine," said Mr. Emerson. They were silent for a few moments, and each showed embarrassment. "Nearly twenty years! That is a long, long time, Irene." His voice showed signs of weakness. "Yes, it is a long time." It was a mere echo of his words, yet full of meaning. "Twenty years!" he repeated.
Acute lobar pneumonia may kill a patient in twenty-four or forty- eight hours; lie may live for a week and die of heart failure or toxemia, or he may live for several weeks and die of cardiac weakness. If he has double pneumonia be may die almost of suffocation.
The message merely said: Mullins recovering and quite rational, though very weak. He says two women were his assailants. Courier with dispatches at once. "It was not so much his wounds as his weakness," Dr. Graham was saying, later still that autumn night, "that led to my declaring Blakely unfit to take the field. He would have gone in spite of me, but for the general's order.
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