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Updated: May 24, 2025
But the Parliament the organ of the land-holding tenant-ruling gentry did not keep its power long. The change had already come in the nineteenth century. The franchises had been broadened until it included masses of ignorant men, 'urban myriads, who went in their featureless thousands to vote together. And the natural consequence of a swarming constituency is the rule of the party organisation.
The cliff was honeycombed with small irregular caverns and rifts. Some were mere grottoes, but others went back into somber recesses deeper than I, with no means of lighting my steps, cared to explore. For my dwelling place I selected one that broadened from a twisted and narrow fissure to a crude chamber large enough for a wolf's den, or at need a man's refuge.
From our perch on that ridge the lofty peaks and massive ridges rose on every side. As little by little we gained higher and higher eminence the view broadened, and ever new peaks and ridges thrust themselves into view.
He had broadened and filled out in the past year, and his fair face was tanned, and blooming with health and excitement. "The best-looking young devil a woman's eye could light on!" Mark Grigsby said, as he and Sir Charles watched him descend the gangway to the boat, when the impatiently awaited signal had been given.
He had loved his work; it had broadened him, had provided him with exactly the proportion of mental exercise needed to keep him on edge and in a position to enjoy life. He had lived in the East really lived. Out here he would merely exist, though, he assured himself grimly, his enemies would have to pay dearly for his sacrifice.
But just as science, and history, and philosophy change with this ever-living and growing advance, so religion man's ideas of God and his own soul. "Within the last hundred years man's knowledge of the physical world has broadened beyond the utmost dreams of our fathers. But of far greater importance to man is his knowledge of himself.
"They are wicked critters, I can tell ye, an' they do a whole lot o' damage." "I suppose they live according to their nature," replied Dave, softly. In his mind's eye he could still see the tawny lioness licking the face of her dead mate. On they went again. The cave was narrow here but presently broadened out.
Newspapers and books are cheapened; political freedom has been extended and 'broadened slowly down, as is safe, 'from precedent to precedent, so that no party thinks now of reversing any of the changes, howsoever fiercely they were contested ere they were won.
And here is Bettina, the same Betty, broadened and enriched by the intervening years of gracious living; still almost hand in hand with her sister Barbara. Together they study and enjoy and sympathize; and together they are striving to bless as many lives as possible by a wise use of Howard's gift to Barbara.
He found that the block broadened at the base and was separate from the sheet of rock on which it stood. Among his supplies was a roll of reed matting, and with this cut into proper lengths, he carpeted a considerable space about the block. Precaution rather than luxury had prompted this procedure, since the chipped stone falling on the covering could be carried cleanly and at once from the spot.
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