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Then she set to work to bring the cats into their proper condition of sleekness, and, that done, to put them through a systematic course of training. They had been thoroughly demoralised, she declared, under Quast's maladministration, and had almost degenerated into the unhistrionic pussies of domestic life. As for Hephaestus, the great ferocious tom, he was more like an insane tiger than a cat.
In truth, the people have been somewhat demoralised by the conflicting claims of different occupations; hunting in the fall, lumbering in the winter and spring, and working for the American sportsmen in the brief angling season, are so much more attractive and offer so much larger returns of ready money, that the tedious toil of farming is neglected.
Such is the demoralised state of Texas at the present moment; what it may hereafter be is in the womb of Time.
It is very singular to witness the disgust with which the idea of drinking milk is received by most of these tribes when we remember that the Caffre nations on the south, and again, tribes more to the north, subsist principally on it. A lad will undergo punishment rather than milk a goat. Eggs are likewise steadily eschewed. To myself. Crosses Cape Maclear. The havildar demoralised.
A garden, even when it is not exasperated by intensive methods, is a thing as exacting as a baby, its moods have to be watched; it does not wait upon the cultivator's convenience, but has times of its own. Intensive culture greatly increases this disposition to trouble mankind; it makes a garden touchy and hysterical, a drugged and demoralised and over-irritated garden.
A voice behind me made me spring to my feet the leap of a mouse would have driven me wild. I was altogether demoralised. 'Monsieur le Maire, it is but I, said some one quite humble and frightened. 'Tiens! it is thou, Jacques! I said. I could have embraced him, though it is well known how little I approve of him. But he was living, he was a man like myself.
She knew that her slaves were demoralised, that men who had been friends of the Cæsar were now fugitives, and vaguely thought that the praetorian praefect and his friends had found their way into her house as into a likely haven of refuge, and would, the next moment, be kneeling at her feet begging for protection and shelter, just as their lord and Cæsar had done on this selfsame spot half an hour ago.
Behind us stretched the fields of broken troops, and we could see the red line of the British as they debouched upon the plain and drove the patriots before them. It was a wild scene of confusion and disorder, of demoralised retreat and rout; and then something happened. There was a stir in the pass in our front, a clatter of hoofs, and there appeared before us the General with his staff.
He had much reason to be dissatisfied with the commander, and the men were already demoralised. Troops unfit to march against the enemy were not the men to be trusted with the security of an important outpost, within thirty miles of the Federal camps at Cumberland, far from their supports, and surrounded by bleak and lonely mountains.
He's got a muzzle like a rose-leaf and the chest of a two-year-old. What's demoralised you? G. Funk. That's the long and the short of it. Funk! M. But what is there to funk? G. Everything. It's ghastly. M. Ah! I see. You don't want to fight, And by Jingo when we do, You've got the kid, you've got the Wife, You've got the money, too. That's about the case, eh? G. I suppose that's it.
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