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"The misunderstanding lasted fully five minutes, before I finally comprehended that the secret police are known here as the 'railroads. As there are many Corsican police officials on the Continent, they make use of an honest euphemism to describe their degrading occupation in their family circle.
A patriotic philanthropist, destitute of the bowels of compassion and of every dictate of humanity, might have saved a great deal of undeserved suffering if he had made this donation towards his 'removal' a pretty euphemism of Land League coinage. Most of that generation are dead, in gaol, or have emigrated.
Tatler's humiliation, in which, with fulsome apology and not very credible assurances of respect and admiration, he disclaims the article in question, and advertises a new issue of No. XVI. with all objectionable matter omitted. This, with pleasing euphemism, he terms in a later advertisement, 'a new and improved edition. This was the only remarkable adventure of Mr.
The grim demand brought out a hasty protest from a timid soul: "To that, I would not agree." A sort of shuffle, a stir, a shifting in seats seemed to take place all about the table. "Very well, then," went on the clear voice, "let us employ euphemism in terms and softness in methods. If we may not again kidnap the lady, why may we not bribe her?"
The Koran resorts to no euphemism or circumlocution in declaring it. Thus, in Sura lxxiv. 3, 4, we read: "Thus doth God cause to err whom he pleases, and directeth whom he pleases." Again, Sura xx. 4, says: "The fate of every man have we bound round his neck." As is well known, fatalism as a practical doctrine of life has passed into all Mohammedan society.
Before dismissing us with his blessing to our "little rooms," which was his habitual euphemism for our cells, he remarked that he could not wish us a happy Christmas in our unhappy condition, but he would wish us a peaceful Christmas; and he ventured to promise us that boon if, after leaving chapel, we fell on our knees and besought pardon for our sins.
"It is a euphemism for die," said his companion a little impatiently. "This is a trivial matter, and hardly worth going into at any length. It shows our process, however, and the process reveals the true character of the organization. As I have already mentioned, the Society takes for its first principle the sanctity of human life.
It is as useless to contend against the purist fad as against the holiness fake. Like a plague of army worms or epidemic of epizootic, it must run its course. Preternicety of expression, an affectation of euphemism, has in every age and clime evidenced moral degeneration and mental decay.
"I have a fancy," he said over his coffee, "that something is going to happen to me to-day." He spoke as he moved and thought slowly. "Oh, don't say that!" said his housekeeper who was also his remote cousin. For "something happening" was a euphemism that meant only one thing to her. "You misunderstand me. I mean nothing unpleasant...though what I do mean I scarcely know.
I do not know what the men of Antioch said about it; but he speaks of it as unkempt and, in the Gibbonistic euphemism, populous; indeed, names the loathsome cootie outright, which Gibbon was much too Gibbonish to do. In the nature of things, this was a libel. I read lately an article, I think by an Irish writer, on the eccentricities of youthful genius.
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