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I looked at the publisher with some surprise, I had not been accustomed to be spoken to so magisterially; his countenance was dressed in a portentous frown, and his eye looked more sinister than ever; at that moment he put me in mind of some of those despots of whom I had read in the history of Morocco, whose word was law.
Then the circumstances were explained, and the papa declared magisterially that Flo must not play any more with her ball near the river, an order to which it was not probable that much close attention would ever be paid. "I suppose Miss Lowther will have gone to bed?" said Gilmore. "On the contrary, I expect her every moment.
One was the collector of something or other, I forget what; the other, we were told, was the principal notary of the place. So it happened that we all five more or less followed the law. At this rate, the talk was pretty certain to become technical. The Cigarette expounded the Poor Laws very magisterially.
I'll let you know if the hounds get away below. You needn't be afraid I won't! Open the gate!" Thus, magisterially, the Master, standing at the gate into the wood, with the hounds crushing round his horse's heels, "Leu in there!" With a squeal or two of excitement from Dido and her brethren-puppies, the hounds squeezed through the narrow gateway, and were swallowed up by the wood.
But there are subjects upon which the great talker could speak magisterially in his time and at his club, upon which so wise a man would express himself guardedly at the meeting where I have supposed him a guest.
And those who listen are content with having heard them. So it sometimes happens that a life may in the end be made up of a few well-turned speeches, a few fine books, and a few great plays. As for practicing what is so magisterially set forth, that is the last thing thought of.
"Really, dear? I wonder why." Violet made a futile effort to recapture her book. "You might let me have it. I must know what became of those unlucky girls when the convent was taken. They mutilated most of the nuns with their scimitars. But the pupils Allegro, let me have it, dear! I shan't sleep a wink to-night till I know the worst." "You won't sleep if you do," said Olga magisterially.
'That will do, Unity, said Elfride magisterially; and the two maids passed on. 'Elfride, do you forgive me? said Stephen with a faint smile. 'No man is fair in love; and he took her fingers lightly in his own. With her head thrown sideways in the Greuze attitude, she looked a tender reproach at his doubt and pressed his hand.
For a few moments she listened to Fraülein Adelmann's veiled unmanageable contralto; then she turned magisterially to Robert standing behind her 'The art of singing has gone out, she declared 'since the Germans have been allowed to meddle in it. By the way, Mr. Elsmere how do you manage to be here? Are you taking a holiday? Robert looked at her with a start.
The judges, without assuming to themselves a legislative power, cannot put a new sense upon them, other than according to their genuine, common meaning. They cannot magisterially impose their opinions upon the jury, and make them forsake the direct words of their oath, to pursue their glosses.
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