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Or, "Would you like to see the museum, sir?" When a traveller intends to remain some days in a place, he has generally no occasion for a commissioner; since, in his rambles about the town, he usually finds all the places of interest himself, and in such a case the importunities of the commissioners seeking employment are sometimes annoying to him.
The complaints of Nushirvan were disregarded by the Byzantine court; Justin yielded to the importunities of the Turks, who offered an alliance against the common enemy; and the Persian monarchy was threatened at the same instant by the united forces of Europe, of Æthiopia, and of Scythia.
He would not be able to pursue her, for there was something about her which would prevent him from ever trying on her those ordinary compulsions which men are accustomed to apply to women; quiet, menacing devotion, or persistent roaring importunities, or those forcible embraces, of which he thought with the disgust he now felt for the sexual processes of everybody in the world except himself and Ellen, which induce the body to betray the reluctant mind.
But importunities kept coming that Savonarola should be silenced the power of the man had grown until Florence was absolutely under his subjection. Bonfires of pictures, books and statuary condemned by him had been made in the streets; and the idea was carried to Rome that there was danger of the palaces being pillaged.
Departure from Paris for the Loire Breakfast at Palaiseau A Peasant's Wife Rambouillet Magnificent Chateau French Curé Chartres Difference of Old French and English Towns Subterraneous Church Curious Preservation of the Dead Angers Arrival at Nantes. ON my first arrival at Paris, I had intended to remain there only till the following week; but the kind importunities of Mr.
The mistress of Godolphin Court showed him no favour and it was mainly that she might abstract herself from the importunities of his suit that she had sought and obtained Sir John Killigrew's permission to accompany the latter's sister to France when she went there with her husband, who was appointed English ambassador to the Louvre.
President Lincoln's duty, and inclination alike no less than the earnest importunities of the Abolitionists carried him in the opposite direction; but carried him no farther than he thought it safe, and wise, to go.
"You will be the belle of the evening," Katy said, as she kissed her sister good-night and then ran back to her baby, while Wilford, yielding to her importunities that he should not remain with her, followed Mrs. Banker's carriage in his own private conveyance, and was soon set down at Sybil Grandon's door.
President Lincoln's duty, and inclination alike no less than the earnest importunities of the Abolitionists carried him in the opposite direction; but carried him no farther than he thought it safe, and wise, to go.
No money was forthcoming, in spite of constant importunities and perpetual promises. Plenty of words were sent him; he complained, as if he possessed the art of extracting gold from them, or as if war could be carried on with words alone.
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