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In a stall of the single livery, a pair of half-wild bronchos, fed and harnessed according to directions, were passively waiting. An old surrey, recently oiled and tightened in all its senile joints, was drawn up conveniently to the door.
At the door of the room in which she was to sleep, and which was on the first story, Madame Strahlberg kissed her with one of those equivocal smiles which so long had imposed on her simplicity. "Till eight o'clock, then." "Till eight o'clock," repeated Jacqueline, passively. But when eight o'clock came she sent word that she had a severe headache, and would try to sleep it off.
Every good sentiment was not extinct in Florine's heart; she obeyed passively the orders she received, but she felt painfully how horrible and infamous was her conduct.
To increase or abate its rigors when, how, and as the same are modified by those states. In a word, Congressional action in the District is to float passively in the wake of legislative action on the subject in those states. But here comes a dilemma. Suppose the legislation of those states should steer different courses then there would be two wakes! Can Congress float in both? Yea, verily!
Alone among all the living things this globe has borne, man reckons with destiny. All other living things obey the forces that created them; and when the mood of the power changes, submit themselves passively to extinction Man only looks upon those forces in the face, anticipates the exhaustion of Nature's kindliness, seeks weapons to defend himself.
The state of being carried passively onward postponed action and dulled thought; and after twelve hours of furious mental activity that was exactly what he wanted. He fell into a doze again, waking now and then to haggard intervals of more thinking, and then dropping off to the clank and rattle of the train.
The Beverleys would have us suppose, not only that the great body of the students are a licentious crew, acknowledging no discipline or restraints, but that the grave elders of the university, and those who wield the nominal authority of the place, passively resign the very shows of power, and connive at general excesses, even when they do not absolutely authorize them in their personal examples.
She evidently trusted me with it. "Abraham, I'm sick," she said; and she laid her head upon his shoulder, passively as an infant might have done. Her strength was gone; she could no longer support herself, and the day was breaking. Mr. Axtell, strong, vigorous, full-souled man as I knew him to be, looked at me, and his look said, "What am I to do with her?"
She stood passively with the tears running down her face while Avery hastily dressed her again and set her rumpled hair to rights. Then again for a few seconds they held each other very tightly. "Bless you, my own brave darling!" Avery whispered. To which Gracie made tearful reply: "Whatever should we do without you, dear dear Avery?"
I reached the age when the strongest of all the passions seizes on the senses, and asserts its mastery over mind and body alike. I had hitherto passively endured the wreck of my earliest and dearest hopes: I had lived patiently, and lived innocently, for Mary's sake. Now my patience left me; my innocence was numbered among the lost things of the past.
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