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The peculation and venality by which the official men of that age were in the habit of enriching themselves had excited in the public mind a feeling such as could not but vent itself, sooner or later, in some formidable explosion.
She looked so altogether formidable as she stood over him that his first impulse was to duck his head under the covers.
The plea of Jeffreys, even if it be true in fact, is utterly worthless. The slaughter in the West was over. The slaughter in London was about to begin. The government was peculiarly desirous to find victims among the great Whig merchants of the City. They had, in the last reign, been a formidable part of the strength of the opposition.
Such was the treatment which a prince of the Empire was compelled to submit to from a servant of the Emperor. But these extravagant demands acquired a formidable weight from the power which supported them; and the dreadful fate of Magdeburg, still fresh in the memory of the Landgrave, tended still farther to enforce them.
This apparently peaceful state of things must not deceive us; we are facing a hidden, but none the less formidable, crisis perhaps the most momentous crisis in the history of the German nation.
One was sealed with his seal as Deemster; the other was written on the official paper of Government House. He was instructing the messenger to register these letters when, through the open door, he heard a formidable voice in the hall. It was Pete's voice. A moment afterwards Jem-y-Lord came up with a startled face. "He's here himself, your Excellency. Whatever am I to do with him?"
Satisfied, thus far, of the perfect security of her position in the house, she profited next by a second chance in her favor, which before the fortnight was at an end relieved her mind of all doubt on the formidable subject of Mrs. Lecount.
Stepping back, so as to shield himself as much as he could behind the nearest tree, he began reloading his weapon with the utmost haste. Meantime Terry, by desperate running, reached the tree at which he aimed a few steps in advance of his formidable foe.
Caesar declared his consent at once to Curio's proposal and offered to resign his governorship and command at any moment on the summons of the senate, provided Pompeius would do the same; he might safely do so, for Pompeius without his Italo-Spanish command was no longer formidable.
In every narrative of the Scottish war of independence, a considerable space is devoted to those years of perilous adventure and suffering which were spent by the illustrious friend of Bruce, in harassing the English detachments successively occupying his paternal territory, and in repeated and successful attempts to wrest the formidable fortress of Douglas Castle itself from their possession.
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