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Here we staid talking till eleven at night, Sir R. Ford breaking to my Lord our business of our patent to be Justices of the Peace in the City, which he stuck at mightily; but, however, Sir R. Ford knows him to be a fool, and so in his discourse he made him appear, and cajoled him into a consent to it: but so as I believe when he comes to his right mind to-morrow he will be of another opinion; and though Sir R. Ford moved it very weightily and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared now.

It is possible the match would have done tolerably well, assuming you to be equal in birth and fortune. But even then 'twas a risk; 'twas a risk, my dear sir! And now 'It is not to be thought of, I suppose? Sir George said; and he looked at the other interrogatively. 'Good Lord, no! the physician answered. 'No, no, no! he added weightily.

And when, with the years settling down more weightily upon him, his early faith should be modified by inevitable experience, it would be with no harsh and sudden revolution of his sentiments.

And put thus solemnly before me, the idea of the marriage state seems to me, hardly less weightily oppressive than the idea of eternity. "And do you think," say I, with a flash of indignation, "that even if you had done it, I should come and tell you?"

Caesar therefore recommended that the estates of the conspirators should be confiscated, that they themselves should be kept in strict and solitary confinement dispersed in various places, and that a resolution should be passed forbidding an application for their pardon either to Senate or people. The speech was weighty in substance and weightily delivered, and it produced its effect.

The murmuring noise of the vast expectant New Year multitude died off gradually, like the retreating surge of a distant sea, and the hot motionless atmosphere in my room, with eleven people stepping on one another's toes in the cramped area, became more and more weightily intensified.

He recovered his self-confidence, and after puffing out a sufficient cloud of smoke, talked weightily and didactically. "I am desirous not to exaggerate; but I would like to state that I was well impressed by my experience of your ritual if that is the correct term. I seemed to find what I had not found elsewhere.

But he thought maybe it was the letter that made him so, for when he looked at it, he wrinkled up his forehead, and coughed behind his hand, and seemed to be considering it very weightily. At last he spoke. "This here letter's very important," Dan said, "an' I don't wonder Bill wouldn't trust none o' them fool punchers with it.

Not in my most wildly optimistic moments did I think Hiordis, the chief female character a primitive, fighting, free, open-air person suited to me, but I saw a way of playing her more brilliantly and less weightily than the text suggested, and anyhow I was not thinking so much of the play for me as for my son. He had just produced Mr.

Thence with Creed to Westminster Hall, and there met with cozen Roger, who tells me of the great conference this day between the Lords and Commons, about the business of the East India Company, as being one of the weightiest conferences that hath been, and managed as weightily.