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Awaiting his comment perhaps expecting a counter-proposition she leaned against the tree beside which he stood. And after a while, as his absent-minded preoccupation continued: "Do you think the leaves are dry enough to sit on?" He slipped off his shooting-coat and placed it at the base of the tree.
Fessenden gave notice that unless something should occur to render that course unwise, he would ask that the consideration of the proposed constitutional amendment should be taken up on the following Monday, February 5th. On the second of February, Mr. Sumner gave notice of his intention to move a joint resolution as a counter-proposition to the proposed constitutional amendment. Mr.
Ponder this: put on the screw; make them come to terms which I can do them the honour to accept; meanwhile, I will trouble you for my four sovereigns." Poole had the chagrin to report to the Colonel, Jasper's refusal of the terms proposed, and to state the counter-proposition he was commissioned to make.
Summer's "counter-proposition" in the following language: "It is a noble declaration, but a simple declaration, a paper bullet that kills no one, and fixes and maintains the rights of no one." Of Mr.
It may be that an honest man more commonly gets on in the world than a knave, though there is also much to be said on behalf of the counter-proposition, that 'The children of darkness are wiser in their generation than the children of light; but, at any rate, there is no doubt that a man may be honest without being prosperous, and that he is often all the poorer for his probity.
Already his eyes had narrowed and over them had come a kind of film. They searched every dark spot on the road. "Let's go to Tolleson's," he proposed abruptly. There was a moment of silence before Billie made a counter-proposition. "No, let's go back to the hotel." "All right. You fellows go to the hotel. Meet you there later." The eyes of Prince and Roubideau met. Not another word was spoken.
Tempestuous debates among the noblesse, the clergy, and the tiers état, upon the question of the verification of their powers, separately and together, were followed by proposition and counter-proposition, by commissions of conciliation which did not conciliate, by royal letters commanding a fusion of the three orders, by secessions from the nobility and clergy to the grimly determined and united tiers, by courtly intrigues at Marly for the King's favor in behalf of the nobles, by royal séances and ruses which, instead of postponing, only hastened the evil hour, by the famous oath of the Tennis Court, and by the triumph of the third estate.
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