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The year 1688 indeed had hardly opened when it was found necessary to adjourn the elections which had been fixed for February, and to make a fresh attempt to win a warmer support from the dissidents and from the country. For James clung with a desperate tenacity to the hope of finding a compliant Parliament. He knew, what was as yet unknown to the world, the fact that his Queen was with child.
"You mean he's not compliant? What else?" "I haven't known him very long and would sooner reserve my judgment." Bernard gave him an ironical smile. "You don't want to prejudice me against him? Well, you're always tactful and it's comforting to feel you're sometimes just. However, I want to form an opinion. Write and ask him to come." "He has friends at Langrigg. Perhaps you know?" "I do know.
To these considerations I was lead, though not for the first time, by that which Pampinea told us a while ago of Talano's froward wife, upon whom God sent that chastisement which her husband had not known to give her; wherefore, as I have already said, all those women who depart from being loving, compliant and amenable, as nature, usance and law will it, are, in my judgment, worthy of stern and severe chastisement.
Winifred was watching from her distance. She was as if amused, but rather unsure as yet what this new person was like. She saw so many new persons, and so few who became real to her. Mademoiselle was of no count whatever, the child merely put up with her, calmly and easily, accepting her little authority with faint scorn, compliant out of childish arrogance of indifference.
I pity him, and relax my clutch. "No," whispers Crene; "as long as you have your check, you as good as have your trunk; but when you give that up, you have nothing. Keep that till you see your trunk." My clutch re-tightens. "At any rate, you can wait till the next train, and see if it doesn't come back. You'll get to your journey's end just as soon." "Shall I? Well, I will," compliant as usual.
There are the mysterious tree, with its wonderful fruit, the beautiful, but inquisitive woman, the thoughtful, but too compliant man, and the insinuating reptile. One speaks, the other rejoins, and the third fills up the chasm of interest. The plot thickens, the passions are displayed, and the tragedy hastens to its end.
Tell me, dearest, whether I could refuse that singular request to the man who was shewing me such compliant kindness? I consented, and it was natural for me not to let you know it.
'And you've never seen Venice, Beauchamp said to Jenny. 'Everything is new to me, said she, penetrating and gladly joining the conspiracy to have him out of England. Dr. Shrapnel was not so compliant as the young husband.
Hist. vol. vi. p. 353 Journ. 7th July 1625. Charles gave them a gracious and a compliant answer to all their remonstrances. He was, however, in his heart, extremely averse to these furious measures.
Apart from the tricks which memory plays upon the solitary individual, inviting him by scents and sounds to scenes of the past, I find that the moist unadulterated atmosphere is a most compliant medium for the transmission of certain sorts of sound waves.
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