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"We might deduce it from the mere character of the one hand as compared with the other. But we have more assured reasons than that for supposing it. If you examine this scrap with attention you will come to the conclusion that the man with the stronger hand wrote all his words first, leaving blanks for the other to fill up.
The history of the English Constitution, as far as the world cares for it, is, in fact, the complex history of the popular element in this ancient polity, which was sometimes weaker and sometimes stronger, but which has never died out, has commonly possessed great though varying power, and is now entirely predominant.
The apprehension of an immediate drama which had possessed him, for the first time, after the conversation with Montfanon, for the second time, in a stronger manner, by proving the ignorance of Madame Gorka on the subject of the husband's return that frightful and irresistible evocation in a clandestine chamber, suddenly deluged with blood, was banished by the simplest event.
The officers claimed to have sufficient evidence but refused to divulge it, and the granting of the requisition papers by Governor Bradley of Kentucky, and the honoring of those papers of Governor Bushnell of Ohio, showed that there was certainly stronger evidence than had been given the public.
I believe in good and evil spirits as I believe in my Bible, and I know that, strong and terrible though they may be and gifted with capital powers against our flesh, yet the will of God is stronger than the strongest of them. These things, I say, have happened before. They are sent to try our faith.
Let us be women, rather than breeding machines." The women who thus cry out are pleading not only for themselves and their children, but for society itself. Their plea is for us and ours it is the plea for happier conditions, for higher ideals, for a stronger, more vigorous, more highly developed race.
If you have anything of that sort to say, you had better say it where she will not hear." "Daisy has eyes and a head," said Preston. As soon as I was able for it Preston took me out for short walks; and as I grew stronger he made the walks longer. The city was a strange place to me; very unlike New York; there was much to see and many a story to hear; and Preston and I enjoyed ourselves.
He hesitated for an answer, and in his embarrassment she felt that which began to ring a bell of warning in her heart. The impulse to spare her pain was stronger in him than the desire that she should know the truth. "Send her away," he urged. "Don't ask any questions. She has been sent to hurt you." A fawnlike fear flashed into the startled eyes. "To hurt me?" "I am afraid so." "But why?
That man was always terrible, but today he wanted to take me away!" "Once in my little boat and you will almost forget all those terrible things," said Cora. "I left it here!" Then she stopped in dismay, as she saw that the boat was gone! "The boat is gone!" Cora almost gasped. Then the girl, the sick frail creature, did a remarkable thing she came to the rescue of the stronger one.
The signs of discontent, he tells us, are stronger in England now than in France when the States-General met: and hence he would have us infer that a revolution like that of France may be at hand. Does he not know that the danger of states is to be estimated, not by what breaks out of the public mind, but by what stays in it?
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