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We, the wretched people, to whom that day was our last, hang the shrines of the gods with festal boughs throughout the city. Meanwhile the heavens wheel on, and night rises from the sea, wrapping in her vast shadow earth and sky and the wiles of the Myrmidons; about the town the Teucrians are stretched in silence; slumber laps their tired limbs.
Nothing more." Yuba Bill slowly descended. When he reached the ground, he plucked Thatcher aside by his coat sleeve: "Ye don't mean to say ye had nothing in that bag ye was trying to get away with?" "No," said the laughing Thatcher frankly. "And that Wiles warn't one o' them detectives?" "Not to my knowledge, certainly."
But it must be admitted that he would not have been so unanimously selected had all the peculiarities of his mind been known. It might be probable that he would run riot under the lash of his leader, as others have done both before and since, when he should come to see all the wiles of that strategy which he would be called upon to support.
A Japanese annalist* contends that Morinaga owed his fate as much to his own tactlessness as to the wiles of his enemies, and claims that in accusing Takauji to the throne, the prince forgot the Emperor's helplessness against such a military magnate as the Ashikaga chief. However that may have been, subsequent events clearly justified the prince's suspicions of Takauji's disloyalty.
Wiles had some beer and ale brought me, and a good piece of roast beef from somebody's table, and eat well at two, and after dinner into the garden to shew Creed, and I must confess it must needs be thought a sorrowful thing for a man that hath taken so much pains to make a place neat to lose it as Commissioner Pett must now this.
If she tried to soften those ferocious natures by innocent, coaxing wiles they accused her of doing it with an object. "Tell me at once what you want?" Rogron would say, brutally; "you are not coaxing me for nothing." Neither brother nor sister believed in affection, and Pierrette's whole being was affection.
Moreover, she read it in their eyes that they had heard every word of her confession. Without a word she dropped white and stricken into a chair, and covered her face with her hands. For once her brazen wiles were gone. It happened that Miss Myrtle Villers had not confined her affections to Mr. Bartram Laws.
Thou callest him great; but how can the man be truly great who has no strength to stand against a woman's wiles? Cæsar, with the world hanging on his word! Cæsar, at whose breath forty legions marched and changed the fate of peoples! Cæsar the cold! the far-seeing! the hero! Cæsar to fall like a ripe fruit into a false girl's lap!
Never look so cast down, Bradamante, but listen to my counsel and abide by it, and all will be well. Then Bradamante sprang up, grasping tightly her sword and shield. 'Whatever you tell me to do, I will do it, cried she; and Melissa went on: 'This time Atlantes will change his shape for that of Roger, that you also may fall a victim to his wiles.
Through feminine wiles I would learn the facts of Lanier guilt, and bring both to justice. Why longer fear any harm from either of these cruel foes? "Nerved by these sentiments, I became impatient for the test. Since through such strain, maidenly scruples had been stifled, I felt equal to any demands upon my dissembling arts.
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