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Trigger, had been merely introduced as a pleasant commencing fiction common in Parliamentary petitions. There had been nothing of the kind, and nobody supposed that there had, and it did not signify. Of undue influence, what purists choose to call undue influence, there had of course been plenty.
Your husband and I have arrived at an understanding or perhaps I should say a misunderstanding which renders the acceptance of any further hospitality on my part impossible." She held out the tips of her fingers. "I had no idea," she observed, with gentle sarcasm, "that you barristers were such purists morally. I thought you were rather proud of being the last hope of the criminal classes."
This kind of Bonus share is chiefly known on the other side of the Atlantic, and is usually damned with bell, book and candle by purists among English financial critics. We say on this side of the water that every pound of an English well-financed company represents a pound which has actually been spent and put into tangible assets which help the company to earn profits.
The modern idea of chastity, especially in reference to woman, its greatest victim, is but the sensuous exaggeration of our natural impulses. "Chastity varies with the amount of clothing," and hence Christians and purists forever hasten to cover the "heathen" with tatters, and thus convert him to goodness and chastity.
Time has refuted the purblind purists, the chilly "wet-blankets"; and the Lincoln stories, bright, penetrative, piquant, and pertinent are our classics. Hand in hand with "Father Abraham," the President next to Washington in greatness, walks "Old Abe, the Story-teller." Abraham Lincoln, born February 12, 1809, Hardin County, Kentucky. "Lincoln Day."
It was a happy moment for the little Clerk of the Court when he could, in such an impromptu way, coin a phrase, or a set of adjectives, which would bear inspection of purists of the language. He loved to talk, though he did not talk a great deal, but he made innumerable conversations in his mind, and that gave him facility when he did speak.
This again was one of the worst features of the transaction: martial power had usurped the functions of the civil authorities: and the constitutional jealousy of all purists upon matters of Magna Charta was, he conceived, summoned to the case.
Persons to whom my style is not entirely distasteful, sometimes ask: "Why use the short sentence when it deprives the period of eloquence and rotundity?" "Because I do not desire eloquence or rotundity," I reply. "Furthermore, I avoid them." The vast majority of Spanish purists are convinced that the only possible rhetoric is the rhetoric of the major key.
It was the success with which Plautus fulfilled these conditions that makes him pre-eminently the comic poet of Rome; and which, though purists affected to depreciate him, excited the admiration of such men as Cicero, Varro, and Sisenna, and secured the uninterrupted representation of his plays until the fourth century of the Empire.
And as if that were not more than enough in the pavilion beyond the clock? Come, come! Mysterious!" "You are living in Lombardy, you are living at Castel Sant' Alessina, yourself," said Annunziata. "I hardly think so," said John. "You can scarcely with precision call this living this is rather what purists call sojourning.
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