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In the result, I was asked whether I would go with them quietly to the queen's house or be taken thither, nolens volens. On answering that I would go quietly, I was unbound and allowed to mount my horse. I do not think I am a coward, and in helping Señora de la Vega to escape and sending her off with Gahra, I knew that I had done the right thing.
Hahlström and Achleitner obediently withdrew, and Frederick nolens volens had to seat himself on the camp-chair. "How can I be of service?" he asked. She put one of those inconsequential requests with which she liked to busy everybody about her. She did this, she explained, because if many people were not doing something for her, she felt neglected.
While descending a very steep part of the road, my saddle suddenly slipped over the pony's round little carcase on to his neck, and, NOLENS VOLENS, I came to the ground, the pony remaining in a position very nearly perpendicular, with his tail towards the heavens and his head between my legs, in which predicament he luckily remained perfectly quiet, until the bhistie, coming up behind, set us both on our proper extremities once more.
At length he hit upon an expedient. 'Boys, he said to the young Airys, 'take Miss Mitchell on a walk! "I was a little surprised to find myself on a walk, 'nolens volens; so as soon as we were out of sight of the master of Trinity, I said, 'Now, young gentlemen, as I do not want to go to walk, we won't go! "It was hard for me to become accustomed to English ideas of caste.
Though I fancied my paper was only a calm judicial statement of things seen, and I carefully avoided saying whether I was convinced or not, I found myself nolens volens enrolled among the initiated, and expected to devote about five evenings out of the seven to séances.
He was not rude or blustering, like the robin, nor did he make offensive remarks, after the manner of a blackbird; he simply signified his intention of having his neighbor go, and go he did, nolens volens. It was droll to see how this "meek and gentle" fellow met blackbird impudence.
If, then, he has a right to withdraw, it clearly follows that we have no right to tax him, which is only one mode of inflicting a fine or penalty for an act, the right to do which we have acceded. In the strong language of the Committee of Correspondence of Maryland: "The object of Masonry never was to extort, nolens volens, money from its votaries. Such are not its principles or teaching.
"So you really expect that your friend, Mr. Keen, is going to marry me to somebody, nolens volens?" asked Kerns. "I do. That's what I dream of, Tommy." "My poor friend, dream on!" "I am. Tommy, you're lost! I mean you're as good as married now!" "You think so?" "I know it!
Thus, as he writes to a friend, he sat up aloft, in the region of the birds, as a curious prisoner, nolens volens, whether he willed or no; willing, because God would have it so, not willing, because he would far rather have stood up for the Word of God in public, but of such an honour God had not yet found him worthy.
The prelate then proceeded to disrobe the victims, saying to each one as he did so, "Eximo tibi vestem justitiae, quem volens abjecisti;" to which the oldest pastor, Arent Dirkzoon, stoutly replied, "imo vestem injustitiae." The bishop having thus completed the solemn farce of desecration, delivered the prisoners to the Blood Council, begging that they might be handled very gently.
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