Then, throwing away her stick, she sat down again, and fell to weeping in the very abandonment of woe, for the savage woman of the woods loved her grim warrior-brother greatly.
The inexpressible abandonment in which he was, in the midst of the Court, guaranteed him at least from all remarks upon the will.
The King of Spain did not yield until he was threatened with abandonment by France.
Madame des Ursins, and of the abandonment of the country by France; that he had treated with Stanhope, commander of the English troops in Spain, and with whom he was known to be on friendly terms, in order to be protected by the Archduke.
It was, then, in this abandonment and this contempt that Pere Tellier remained at La Fleche, although he had from the Regent four thousand livres pension.
The poor Prince felt thus the abandonment into which he had cast himself, and, by this abandonment, the power of the Cardinal, and the eclipse of his own power.
The abandonment of Ghent by our troop, after a short and miserable defence, made him more than ever anxious to carry out this scheme.
The abandonment of that idea upon the part of our fathers was a great stride in the path of civilization.
In some others are large herds of buffaloes and other cattle, originally brought thither by the Danes, but which have run wild in the woods, since the abandonment of the colony.
Thus the difficulties attending the support of the settlement increasing, this and other causes, mentioned in the course of the following letters, occasioned the final abandonment of the mission in 1787.
Thus also a direct consequence of the southern expedition was the hasty abandonment of Narragansett Bay, when D'Estaing appeared on the coast in 1779, because Clinton had not force enough to defend both it and New York.
The abandonment of the attack upon Jamaica, after the defeat of the French fleet, shows conclusively that the true way to secure ulterior objects is to defeat the force which threatens them.
The recall of Dupleix and the entireabandonment of his policy, which resulted in placing the two East India companies on equal terms, have already been told.
Lucia prescribed the abandonment of the other small islands by garrisons as soon as the fleet was fairly outnumbered, if not before.
The allies refused; they demanded the abandonment of the whole Spanish Empire without exception by the Duke of Anjou, refusing to call him king, and added thereto ruinous conditions for France herself.
Military considerations would have ordered the abandonment of the colonies; but if the national pride could not stoop to this, the right course was to blockade the hostile arsenals.
The abandonment of the contest in North America would have strengthened England very much more than the allies.
The British government had decided upon the abandonment of all posts in America with the exception of New York.
The difficulty of communication between the two forces led to the abandonment of all idea of co-operation.
This event led to the abandonment of the southern fort and the establishment of one on the Island.
The coming of the railway, and the consequent practical abandonment of the waterway, wrought a profound change in the fortunes of the Western towns.
Had the question of emancipation been almost equally poised in the British Parliament it would have been patriotic to turn the scale by a temporary abandonment of the contested objects and the election of antislavery members.
The unfortunate and severe illness of Mr. Corey necessitated the abandonment of the "sermons.
It had been characteristic of Eileen even in small childhood that in moments of apparently greatest abandonment she had never kissed but always turned her cheek to be kissed.
Modern science finds no evidence of any such abandonment of the universe to man's jurisdiction.
Thus I clung to her, in the abandonment of despair, while words rushed unhidden from my lips.
I was overwhelmed with grief at the thought of his leaving me; my nerves were still weak, and I wept in all the abandonment of sorrow.
Neither of us had spoken, for tears choked our words; but our arms were still entwined, and my head rested on his bosom, in all the abandonment of nature's holiest feelings.
And from that abandonment and that failure he had dimly foreseen the rise and upspringing of new and indescribable joy.
The tendency to the abandonment of the older States is now probably greater than it has ever been, because their people have ceased to build mills or furnaces, and every thing looks to a yet more perfect exhaustion of the soil.
The consequences are seen in the extensive abandonment of land and the decline of its value.
Little effort would seem to be required to bring about the abandonment of England, as well as of Ireland.
Such is the history of the origin of the present abandonment of Ireland by its inhabitants.
The incident of his own abandonment did not happen then, but later, and somewhat differently.
It has in its relaxed self-abandonment something underbred and ignoble, as of a youth ill brought up, without the training which teaches us that we must put some constraint upon our feelings and upon the expression of them.
Keats was dogged by a curious vulgarity (which produced occasional comic effects in his work), but his self-abandonment was not vulgar.
The most outstanding sign of this was the abandonment of restrictions on the minting of copper coin, in order to prevent deflation through insufficiency of payment media.
This abandonment of agriculture brought them into a precarious situation: if for any reason the Chinese stopped supplying or demanded excessive barter payment, the nomads had to go hungry.
Even as she spoke her own words startled her--the confidence, the abandonment of them.
They clung to each other, she in a passion of tears--tears of such self-abandonment as neither Robert nor any other living soul had ever seen Catherine Elsmere shed before.
Of course, if the death occurred in the spring or summer such abandonment was simple; during these seasons the Washo usually lived in simple brush shelters.
Sorcery was used to explain the abandonment of an ancient campsite at Dangberg's Hot Springs.
