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Such was the end of the Turkish constitution, of the Turkish Parliament, and of their contriver . Even the dissolution of the Conference of the Powers did not bring about war at once. But, unless the Russians gave up all interest in the fate of her kinsmen and co-religionists in Turkey, war was now the more probable outcome of events.
He was by nature an artist; a shaper with the pencil or the chisel, a planner, a contriver capable of turning his hand to almost any work of eye and hand. It would not have been strange if he thought he could do everything, having gifts which were capable of various application, and being an American citizen.
But the reward should be proportionate." "Government wages!" Grim answered firmly. The old Arab smiled. "Under the Turks," he answered, "the officer pocketed the pay, and the men might help themselves." "D'you take me for a Turk?" asked Grim. "No, Jimgrim. I know you for a cunning contriver an upsetter of calculations but no Turk.
But if any one shall scruple the Matter of Fact as I have here related it, I freely give him leave to do as I did, and go up to the Moon for a Demonstration; and if upon his return he does not give ample Testimony to the Case in every part of it, as here related, I am content to pass for the Contriver of it my self, and be punish'd as the Law shall say I deserve.
It followed that Lush knew all the provisions of the will more exactly than they were known to the testator himself. Grandcourt did not doubt that Gwendolen, since she was a woman who could put two and two together, knew or suspected Lush to be the contriver of her interview with Lydia, and that this was the reason why her first request was for his banishment.
In fact, it is no bad exercise for an ordinary mind, to undertake to track the contriver of these plays, through all the latitudes which his art, as he understands it, gives him. It is as good for that purpose, as a problem in mathematics.
They want to go, and every one wants them to go, but just how to make the start, no one seems to know. Dr. Holmes and his "inclined plane" may have been successful with the private caller, but who will be the "contriver of a ceremonial," one sufficient to land the social company into its "native element, the great ocean of outdoors?"
Lady Hotham was kind enough to take me a drive, and we dined with them a very pleasant party. I picked up some anecdotes of the latter siege. Make another pilgrimage, escorted by Captain Pigot and several of his officers. See ante, vol. i. p. 253, note. Lasting from 21st June 1779 to 6th February 1783. Compare the reflection of the Chevalier d'Arcon, the contriver of the floating batteries.
Her great fear was lest a shot should fall into the reservoir and injure its bottom, but its contriver had taken care that, even without the protection of its watery armour, it should be indestructible. The marquis would not leave his own rooms and the supervision they gave him.
They hoped such a pledge of their truth would insure them credit. You know the tale they invented; and its success proves my lord to be no bad contriver." The Pentland Hills.
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