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"With the captain's glass one can see the sea distinctly. I spent nearly all last Friday afternoon up there, keeping an eye on things. Do you like the garden? Do you think these old creepers ought to be torn down from the house?" "Certainly not," said Miss Drewitt, with emphasis. "Just what I said," remarked Mr. Tredgold. "Captain Bowers wanted to have them pulled down, but I dissuaded him.
This verifies the noble observation of Shakespear, that all heroes have a contempt of death; which he puts in the mouth of Julius Cæsar when his friends dissuaded him from going to the Senate-House. Sir Walter eat his breakfast that morning, smoaked his pipe, and made no more of death, than if he had been to take a journey.
The king, it was said, had but lately thought of sending for him as minister in the room of M. de Maurepas, he had been dissuaded by the advice of his aunts; the late comptroller-general listened gravely to his frivolous successor; the latter told the story of his conversation with the king.
A remonstrance against his getting out of bed brought out the fact that he contemplated riding to Grasshopper Falls! He was almost too weak to stand, a storm threatened, and thirty miles lay between him and father; yet he was not to be dissuaded from his undertaking. So Julia and Martha saddled Prince and helped the ague-racked courier to his saddle.
'It never but once came my way that I remember, but I'm free to own, he said, 'there's nothing that shakes my nerves like seeing a woman struggling and kicking in a policeman's arms. But Farnborough was not to be dissuaded from seeing humour in the situation. 'They say they swept up a peck of hairpins after the battle!
During the French revolution, the inhabitants of a village in Dauphiné had determined on sacrificing their lord to their revenge, and were only dissuaded from it by the eloquence of the curé, who thus addressed them: "My friends," said he, "the day of vengeance is arrived; the individual who has so long tyrannized over you must now suffer his merited punishment.
I regret the whole business; but most I regret that we were placed in collision. 'I am ready to cast all memory of it into oblivion; and, as I unintentionally offended, I indulge the hope that, in this conduct, you will bear me company. 'Surely, men like us are not to be dissuaded from following our inclinations by any fear of the opinion of the world.
I do not really know whether interested persons ever did, as was suspected, intercept the letters of the committee to the two presidents as now surmised; or whether they ever dissuaded them from introducing so important a question for discussion when the nation was in such a heated state; but certain it is that we had many, and I believe barbarous, enemies to encounter.
She declared she had dissuaded him from the crime, and, had any one interposed a word, she might have been spared. Mpololo exerted himself in every way to supply us with other canoes, and we left Shinte's with him. The Mambowe were well received, and departed with friendly messages to their chief Masiko.
Clapperton now tried every thing in his power to induce his guide to proceed, without waiting for the escort; but El Wordee and the shreef, who were the most pusillanimous rascals he ever met with, effectually dissuaded him from it. He was much amused with a conversation he overheard between the blind shreef and his servant, respecting himself and his intended journey.