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All the world stood gazing at this spectacle, considering the countenance of those dogs, who, leaping up, got about her neck and spoiled all her gorgeous accoutrements, for the which she could find no remedy but to retire unto her house, which was a palace. Thither she went, and the dogs after her; she ran to hide herself, but the chambermaids could not abstain from laughing.
He seized them, kissed them one after the other several times; then, lifting up his head, he gazed at the woman he had loved. Yes, it was an old lady, an old lady whom he did not recognize, and who, while she smiled, seemed ready to weep. He could not abstain from murmuring: "Is it you, Lise?" She replied: "Yes, it is I; it is I, indeed. You would not have known me, would you?
"As willingly as I disclaim Hell and Satan," said Louis. "Ample security will be required, by hostages, or occupation of fortresses, or otherwise, that France shall in future abstain from stirring up rebellion among the Flemings." "It is something new," answered the King, "that a vassal should demand pledges from his Sovereign; but let that pass too."
The immediate, in the sense which concerns us, is not at all, or at least is no longer for us the passive experience, the indefinable something which we should inevitably receive, provided we opened our eyes and abstained from reflection. As a matter of fact, we cannot abstain from reflection: reflection is today part of our very vision; it comes into play as soon as we open our eyes.
As it was, two or three men could barely keep the boat clear, working incessantly, and much of the time with a foot or two of water in her. Josh and Simon had taken their seats, side by side, with that sort of dependence and submission that causes the American black to abstain from mingling with the whites more than might appear seemly.
I will abstain from forming any opinion of my own until we meet." I handed Oscar back the letter. "There is no very warm approval there of the course you are taking," I said. "The only difference between your brother and me is, that he suspends his opinion, and that I express mine." "I have no fear of my brother," Oscar answered.
He advanced no accusations which he could not justify by examples chosen from among themselves, from among residents in this parish. He would be false to his duty both to them his present audience and to his and their Creator, were he to abstain from giving those examples out of respect of persons.
So what I banished from life I will also remove from art, and model nothing which might not meet me to-day or to-morrow." "Then, as an honest man, abstain altogether from making statues of the gods," interrupted his friend. "That was my intention long ago, as you are aware," the other answered. "You could not commit a worse robbery upon yourself," cried Myrtilus.
If they have been well treated, there is often a certain gracious, condescending suavity in their demeanour at first, even towards a total stranger; but if that stranger is ill disposed toward them, they seem instinctively to read his soul, and they are in arms directly. Yet they dissemble their fears in a cold indifference and reserve. They do not take action: they merely abstain from action.
Moreover, since man cannot imagine that of which he has no experience in any way whatever, and since he has experience only of human perfections and of the powers and properties of inferior existences; if he be required to deny human perfections and to abstain from making use of such conceptions, he is thereby necessarily reduced to others of an inferior order. Mr.
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