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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Do not be too much alarmed on my account, my dearest Edith," said Henry, as he supported her in his arms; "Claverhouse, though stern and relentless, is, by all accounts, brave, fair, and honourable. I am a soldier's son, and will plead my cause like a soldier. He will perhaps listen more favourably to a blunt and unvarnished defence than a truckling and time-serving judge might do.
The old time-serving lord winced excessively under the requisition, protesting to God, that he saw no occasion the lad could have for the instant possession of the land, seeing he would doubtless now recover the bulk of his estate from Sir William Ashton, to which he was ready to contribute by every means in his power, as was just and reasonable; and finally declaring, that he was willing to settle the land on the young gentleman after his own natural demise.
It was a mere time-serving piece of fulsome adulation to the Prince Regent, totally unworthy the character of a meeting of freemen, and such as no sensible Englishman would have offered to the Prince, without expecting to be kicked by his Royal Highness, for its time-serving, barefaced, unmeaning flattery.
This is said in no spirit of time-serving or apology. The South has nothing for which to apologize. She believes that the late struggle between the States was war and not rebellion, revolution and not conspiracy, and that her convictions were as honest as yours. I should be unjust to the dauntless spirit of the South and to my own convictions if I did not make this plain in this presence.
His defence of that great poet against the illiberal attacks upon him, as if his embracing the Roman Catholick communion had been a time-serving measure, is a piece of reasoning at once able and candid.
Many are now found to say and among them some of the most bitter of the advocates of universal peace, who are among the bitterest of modern disputants that when the Czar Nicholas proposed to move the quiet things, half a century ago, and to reconstruct the political map of southeastern Europe in the interest of well-founded quiet, it was he that showed the idealism of rational statesmanship, the only truly practical statesmanship, while the defenders of the status quo evinced the crude instincts of the mere time-serving politician.
Hark! those huzzas! what is the burden of that chorus? Oh, grateful and never time-serving Britons, have ye modified already for another the song ye made so solely in honour of Gentleman George: and must we, lest we lose the custom of the public and the good things of the tap-room, roust we roar with throats yet hoarse with our fervour for the old words, our ardour for the new
I will group with this charge several others of the same class. They are regardless of the "deficiency of the powers of the General Government, and of the acknowledged and incontestable powers of the States." Are these charges any thing more than the imagery of your own fancy, or selections from the numberless slanders of a time-serving and corrupt press?
With the Elden kitchen still photographed in her mind she called up the picture of her own city home; the green lawn, faultlessly trimmed by a time-serving gardener; the floral borders, the hedges; the two stately trees; the neat walk, the wide verandah, the dim, mysterious hall; the rooms, heavily shaded to save the rich carpets; the order, the precision, the fixedness, the this-sits-here and that-stands-thereness the flatness and emptiness and formality of it all, and she turned again to the Elden kitchen and laughed a soft, rippling, irrepressible laugh, as irrepressible as the laughter of the mountain stream amid the evergreens.
They sacrifice taste and comfort, time and money, health and happiness, character and life, on this graceless and godless altar, What shopping what trimming what sewing and stuffing and padding what bowing and scraping what simpering and oiling and scenting what cooking and spicing and preserving what eating and sipping and drinking what wasting and lying and cheating what gossiping, slandering, and abusing what forging, straining, and overreaching what miserable time-serving and eye-serving at the expense of all that is pure and noble in the human heart and life, are resorted to keep pace with the changing moods of Fashion!
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