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"What!" said Randal, alarmed; "then, after all, I can hope for no support from you?" "I don't say that; but I have reason to think Lord L'Estrange will bestir himself actively in favour of Egerton.
Even now, perhaps, his tired old stupid body was lying hunched up, drenched with dew upon the little old seat under the mist-wreathed branches. Soon it would bestir itself and wake up and go off home home to Sheila, to the old deadly round that once had seemed so natural and inevitable, to the old dull Lawford eyes and brain and heart.
However, it was only a fugitive gleam of enlightenment; his suspicions faded; and he rose up shaking himself and accusing the gloomy twilight of being the sole cause of the shivering and the despondency of which he felt ashamed. In order to bestir himself, Pierre began to examine the two rooms.
However, as he tramped into London it seemed to him that they were making the flagstones ring on the road to the Acropolis, and that if Socrates saw them coming he would bestir himself and say "my fine fellows," for the whole sentiment of Athens was entirely after his heart; free, venturesome, high-spirited. ... She had called him Jacob without asking his leave. She had sat upon his knee.
The toilers, dissatisfied with 1789 complain of the aggravation of their misery, bestir themselves, seek happiness despairingly. On the other hand the new regimes have increased the international power of the Church; Catholic members are numerous in the parliaments of the republics and the constitutional monarchies.
Thus, these quadrumanes set themselves to watch, work, and suffer, to fast, sweat, and bestir them.
Orthodoxy and even democratic practice have hitherto taken it for granted in spite of the examples of highly socialized men, benefactors of society that the average citizen will bestir himself only for material gain. And it must be admitted that competition of some sort is necessary for self-realization, that human nature demands a prize.
The fact was that I was suffering from the reaction that was inevitable after so fierce and protracted a fight the battle having lasted for over an hour and I felt that I must bestir myself or I should become light-headed, or hysterical, or something equally foolish.
Why, even Nancy, who at least ate chocolates whenever she could get them, and read novels assiduously all day long and in bed too, might with justice be said to lead a busier life than she did. But, though Hilary often felt vaguely dissatisfied at the way in which she dawdled through the days, she had not strength of mind to bestir herself to pass them otherwise.
Not for two weeks more does he ascertain it to have been a march upon the Olmutz Country, and the intricate forks of the Morawa River; with a view to besieging Olmutz, by this wily Enemy! Upon which Daun did strive to bestir himself thitherward, at last; and, though very slow and hesitative, his measures otherwise were unexceptionable, and turned out luckier than had been expected by some people.
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