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Having always been famous as an alarmist he put the right interpretation on the business, and settled down to what he half hoped, half feared, might be a great frontier war. The place was strong only on the north side, and the defence was as much a question of engineering as of war.
He sat down on the bed, and took her hand. She had never had but the one ring her wedding-ring. "When were you poorly?" he asked. "It was yesterday it began," she answered submissively. "Pains?" "Yes; but not more than I've often had at home. I believe Dr. Ansell is an alarmist." "You ought not to have travelled alone," he said, to himself more than to her.
"It was only by accident I learned you were on board," I explained, as I sat down. "You're getting better?" "I believe so; though this physician is what you call an alarmist most of them are, indeed; the more desperate the illness, the more renowned the cure! Is it not so? He has even forbidden me cigarettes, but I prefer to die than to do without them.
In the many difficulties connected with our world-wide Empire this must always be more or less the case. For instance, the late Sir H. Rawlinson, a few years before the second Afghan war, took a very alarmist view of the progress of Russia, not only in Central Asia but also in Asia Minor.
Sir Ghost, you are almost as dreadful an alarmist as our Cumberland cow, who is believed to have lately uttered this prophecy, delivering it with oracular propriety in verse: "Two winters, a wet spring, A bloody summer, and no king." Sir Thomas More.
No one spoke; but if any turned his head sharply to one side or other, all the rest wheeled, like one man, in the same direction and after staring at the tumbled sea would turn reproachful glances on the false alarmist. Suddenly, after a long wait, four men rushed without a word into the surf; their silent fury suggesting oddly the rush of hounds upon a fox.
And while all that is going on, comfortable gentlemen sit in armchairs and write alarmist articles about the falling birth-rate and the horrible amount of infant mortality. A Government calling itself Liberal goes pettifogging on about side issues, while women are debased and babies die.
Honey was an alarmist; the treasure of the moment might prove to be a Japanese print or a corkscrew. But as nobody stirred or spoke, he called, "The Wilmington 'Blue'!" These words carried their inevitable magic. His companions dropped everything; they swarmed about him.
"I've just had a talk with the health officer, Dr. Merritt." "Merritt's an alarmist." "He's alarmed this time, certainly." "What does he think it is?" "It?" said Hal, a trifle maliciously. "The epidemic?" "Epidemic's a big word. The sickness." "How can he tell? He's had no chance to see the cases. They still mysteriously disappear before he can get to them. By the way, your Dr.
Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur To this first number Sydney Smith contributed five articles. Four of these are reviews of sermons, and the fifth is a slashing attack on John Bowles, who had published an alarmist pamphlet on the designs of France. Jeffrey thought this attack too severe, but the author could not agree. He thought Bowles "a very stupid and a very contemptible fellow."
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