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By using the Black Hundreds to work among the electors bribing, cajoling, threatening, and coercing, as the occasion might require it might be possible to bring about the election of a Duma which would be a pliant and ready tool of the government.
These confectioners seem to give the distinction of art to the natural thoughts and feelings of cultivated people. Culture is far more dangerous than Philistinism because it is more intelligent and more pliant. It has a specious air of being on the side of the artist. It has the charm of its acquired taste, and it can corrupt because it can speak with an authority unknown in Philistia.
Thenceforward he was pliant in their hands, and with that day opened the dark epoch of his life.
Mrs Charlton, though old and infirm, preserved an understanding, which, whenever unbiassed by her affections, was sure to direct her unerringly; but the extreme softness of her temper frequently misled her judgment, by making it, at the pleasure either of misfortune or of artifice, always yield to compassion, and pliant to entreaty.
We have fought and wrought and sung for her and all we ask in return is that she should tend the sacred fire, so that the light of Beauty might not die out of the world. He was not ill-pleased with his period. 'But women' he leaned back, and illustrated with the pliant white hands that were ornamented with outlandish rings 'women are not content with their high and holy office.
Harley had contrived to lead a little bubbling brook through a green walk in the middle of the ground, upon which he had erected a mill in miniature for the diversion of Edwards's infant grandson, and made shift in its construction to introduce a pliant bit of wood that answered with its fairy clack to the murmuring of the rill that turned it.
Possessed of vitality enough to keep it uncorrupted and pliant, its only instinct was a blind hunger for the sole food which could keep its awful life persistent living human blood.
Come, let us flee in our chariot, or else at least touch his knees and entreat him that he have mercy on us." Thus spake he, and the old man was confounded, and he was dismayed exceedingly, and the hair on his pliant limbs stood up, and he stood still amazed.
For in some parts of the nation care had been timely taken, by some not of the lowest rank, to choose out some particular persons men of sharp wit, close countenances, pliant tempers, and deep dissimulation and send them forth among the sectaries, so called, with instructions to thrust themselves into all societies, conform to all or any sort of religious profession, Proteus-like change their shapes, and transform themselves from one religious appearance to another as occasion should require.
The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river. The Neckar is in many places so narrow that a person can throw a dog across it, if he has one; when it is also sharply curved in such places, the raftsman has to do some pretty nice snug piloting to make the turns.
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