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If Sir Philip Derval could be believed, Margrave was possessed of powers, derived from fragmentary recollections of a knowledge acquired in a former state of being, which would render his remorseless intelligence infinitely dire and frustrate the endeavours of a reason, unassisted by similar powers, to thwart his designs or bring the law against his crimes.
We were impressed with the fundamental necessity of promptly opening up lines of land communication in a country which almost completely lacked them, and there were many poor people in dire need of employment who would be relieved by the opportunity to earn an honest living which the inauguration of road construction would afford them.
Our fair friends come in generally by some royal road to knowledge, which saves them the dire necessity of real work, a sort of feminine hop-skip-and-jump into science or mechanical skill, nothing like the uncompromising hard labor to which the boy is put who would be a mechanic or farmer, a lawyer or physician. "I admit freely that we men are to blame for most of the faults of our fair nobility.
It would not be fair to compare the Age of Han with the Augustan; the morning glory of the East Asian, with the late afternoon of the European manvantara; and yet we cannot but see, if we look at both dispassionately and with a decent amount of knowledge, how beneficently, the Eastern Teachers had affected their peoples, and what a dire thing it was for Europe that the work of the Western Teacher had failed.
But what avail'd, that twice thou daredst to try The frost-bound sea, and twice the burning sky, That by winds, waves, and every realm revered, Safe, only safe, thy sacred vessel steer'd; That war for thee forgot its dire commands The world's great friend, ah! bleeds by savage hands."
Amongst these was not the counsellor whom Valentine Hawkehurst needed in this dire hour of difficulty. "There are some very good fellows among the Ragamuffins," he said to himself, as he thought of the only literary and artistic club of which he was a member; "fellows who stuck by me when I was down in the world, and who would do anything to serve me now they know me for an honest worker.
The winter, prematurely cold, threatened to make an ice-bridge over the stream in ten days, and within about the same time the terms of most of General Washington's troops would expire, and he might be left without even the semblance of an army. "Dire necessity," as he said, compelled a movement of some kind. Christmas had come. It was a cold, freezing day.
"I confess, my dear Countess, that I like you for breakfast," I said gallantly. "That is a real tribute," she said demurely, and took her place beside me. Together we crossed the courtyard. On the steps Colingraft Titus was standing. I uttered an audible groan and winced as if in dire pain. "What is it?" she cried quickly.
It is a phrase that recurs at intervals in his sketchy "Confessions." Constantly is he reminding you that he is a man of mental and not physical activities, and apologizing when dire necessity drives him into acts of violence. I suspect this insistence upon his philosophic detachment for which I confess he had justification enough to betray his besetting vanity.
I'm sending my resignation in to Farrell Kennedy today and I'm going to strike out for new country." "Not till I get married, John," said Laramie, when John repeated the dire threat. "And Kate wants a new foreman up at the ranch. You know her father's turned everything over to her." "What'll she pay?" "More than you're worth, John. Don't worry about that!"
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