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They practised a thousand little artifices to intimidate the queen, to excite a jealousy of Louis, to blacken the characters of her ministers, to raise and keep up a dangerous ferment among the people, by which her life and government were endangered. She could not fail to resent these efforts, which greatly perplexed her measures, and obstructed her design.
A'drian had thoughts of contracting the limits of the empire, by giving up some of the most remote and least defensible provinces; in this, however, he was overruled by friends, who wrongly imagined that an extensive frontier would intimidate an invading enemy. 14.
"Then it isn't even a respectable calling!" she exclaimed. "It's eminently respectable to intimidate and to lie for one's country and to stoop to any means to attain an end." "And you enjoy it!" she marvelled. "I do. It's fascinating and I leave the disagreeable portion to others, when it has to do with those not of the profession." "And when it has to do with those of the profession?"
I don't care that" the lady snapped her jeweled fingers somewhat vulgarly "if I never see her again. It is as well to tell you the truth, my dear. One should have no secrets from one's husband, they say." She laughed lightly, and drew her opera-cloak up over her superb bare shoulders. Mr. Walraven's darkest scowl did not intimidate her in the least.
"I say, if I had my way, I would cure them," answered the youth. "How would you, pray?" Bly asked. "With a good whip about their shoulders." "Beware, Charles Stevens, how you speak so lightly of these afflictions, lest you bring on yourself the same condemnation of those on Witches' Hill." There are some spirits so bold, that they overawe and intimidate even an enraged populace.
The American republics have no standing armies to intimidate a discontented minority; but as no minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt. The state usually employs the officers of the township or the county, to deal with the citizens.
Her dislike of her father was instinctive, almost impersonal, being based, indeed, on his treatment of her mother rather than on any resentment of his neglect of herself. But Robert Turold had never been able to intimidate his daughter or tame her fearless spirit. She had inherited too much of his own nature for that.
This caused a sensation which grew as the papers took up the matter and commented editorially. A leading witness for the State finally told of an effort to intimidate him, and men began to ask if this was destined to prove as rotten as other Mafia cases in the past.
It is even said that she talked of hanging a few of the Counsellors from the windows to intimidate the mob; but Mademoiselle assured me that this was not true; though M. de Meilleraye actually proposed cutting off Broussel's head and throwing it out into the street.
In such spheres Chopin delighted. He once remarked to a friend, an artist who has since been frequently heard: "I am not suited for concert giving; the public intimidate me; their looks, only stimulated by curiosity, paralyze me; their strange faces oppress me; their breath stifles me: but you you are destined for it, for when you do not gain your public, you have the force to assault, to overwhelm, to control, to compel them."
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