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The Hanover Imminency, which we likened to a tropical waterspout, or sudden thunderous blotting-out of the sky to the astonished Gazetteers, seems rather to have passed away as waterspouts do, leaving the earth and air, if anything, a little REFRESHED by such crisis.
"Thus far, at least, are we safe; for which may Heaven alone be praised, since no art of mine could avail us a feather." The females had buried their faces in the folds of the vestments and clothes on which they were sitting; nor did even the governess raise her countenance until twice assured by her companion that the imminency of the risk was past.
Seeing the imminency of the danger, and that money, well applied, is often more efficacious than the conqueror's sword, the King's Ministers were anxious that he should devote a part of his savings to the carrying on of the war.
Having barely escaped this danger, our attention was now directed to the dreadful imminency of another that of absolute starvation.
The silent gentlemen in the rear, who had not anticipated this suspense in their promenade, almost foundered on the heels of their royal master; and, frightened at the imminency of the profanation, forgot their stiff pomp in a precipitate retreat of half a yard. "Baron," said his Highness, "why have I not seen you at the New House?"
In a moment he would call Tana and they would pour into themselves a gay and delicate poison which would restore them momentarily to the pleasurable excitement of childhood, when every face in a crowd had carried its suggestion of splendid and significant transactions taking place somewhere to some magnificent and illimitable purpose.... Life was no more than this summer afternoon; a faint wind stirring the lace collar of Gloria's dress; the slow baking drowsiness of the veranda.... Intolerably unmoved they all seemed, removed from any romantic imminency of action.
Nothing more from Friedrich till 4th September, when matters are well cooled again. WALDAU, 4th SEPTEMBER. "I think Berlin is now in safety; you may return thither. The imminency of danger is past; but there will still be many bad moments to get through, before reaching the end of the Campaign. These, however, only regard myself; never mind these.
Calhoun, in a set speech, opposed the renomination of Governor Clinton, on the ground that in the imminency of a war with England the Republican party ought to present an unbroken front. He suggested the nomination of John Langdon of New Hampshire for the second office. At this late day we cannot determine whether this suggestion was original with Mr. Calhoun.
This is in the Wusterhausen time, Hanover Imminency only two months gone. DECEMBER 10th 1729. "His Prussian Majesty cannot bear the sight of either the Prince or Princess Royal: The other day, he asked the Prince: 'Kalkstein makes you English; does not he? Kalkstein, your old Tutor, Borck, Knyphausen, Finkenstein, they are all of that vile clique!"
That he had felt all the dangers of the difficult situations he had been in," sheer destruction yawning all round him, in huge imminency, more than once, and no friend heeding; "that, weary of playing always double-or-quits, he had determined to end it, and get into a state of tranquillity, which both himself and his People had such need of.
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