Not that the Arabs were at all disposed to abate their pretensions.
Trust not in fortune, nay, though she be soft and gay; for she will spit one day her venom, if thou dote; Abate thy haughty pride!
The methods they pursued on the first attack of that malignant disorder, to abate the fever attending it, rendered it fatal.
Every legal invasion of rights, forming a precedent and source of infinite series of resultant wrongs, makes it the duty of woman to persist in demanding the right, that she may abate the wrong--and first her own enfranchisement.
But, while I detach myself from the mere machinery of the society, I do not withdraw from the cause, nor abate my hopes of its success and my conviction of the justice of its aims.
Wanted"--something to abate the anxiety in which those two had lived during the sixty hours since Jon had brought Fleur down.
If the excitement does not abate you must add, night and morning, to one of his drinks, 2 grains of extract of belladonna, or a half ounce of powdered belladonna leaves.
But thou wilt abate somewhat of the sum thou hast determined upon, out of love to thy kind.
If the place should decline, he was to abate the tax of individuals, if desired by them personally, so far as he should judge their petition to that effect reasonable.
While the power thus incautiously conceded to householders was duly noted, the apparently formidable action of the Court did not in the least alarm the opposition, or in the slightest degree abate their zeal.
Much may be done to abate the annoyance by diligent sniffing up the nostrils some weak disinfectant; or by regularly irrigating the nostrils by means of a simple apparatus, to be obtained from any instrument-maker.
If the irritation is very distressing, a weak spirit lotion with a little carbolic acid may sometimes be sponged over the surface, and the powder renewed immediately; or other forms of soothing lotions may be used to abate the irritation.
This rebellious temper has translated itself into warlike action which has already forced the European Powers to abate some of their extreme pretensions and which will undoubtedly make them abate others in the near future.
I cannot abate a doit: on the rest of the bill, if you mean to offer ready, I mean, without any negotiation, to abate thirty per cent.
But conjectural criticism has always something to abate its confidence.
Mahommed was far from rising to the moral heights of the ancient sages: he did nothing to abate the egotism of Christianity; he even exaggerated the pleasures of its Heaven and the horrors of its Hell.
FN#355] The local press has often proposed toabate this nuisance of erotic publication which is most debasing to public morals already perverted enough.
Grosse Vérole began to abate its violence, under the effects of mercury it is said; and became endemic, a stage still shown at Scherlievo near Fiume, where legend says it was implanted by the Napoleonic soldiery.
If they indulged their hospitable feasts in the face of danger and death, did these feasts abate the vigor of their enterprise?
It was beginning slightly to abate when they traversed the further end of the moor, about two miles beyond the spot where the affray had taken place in the morning.
However, the people did not abate their rage, but, ceasing to take any further interest in the statue-breakers, they turned savagely against Alkibiades.
In truth, by losing the odium of absolute power, the King of Sparta escaped all danger of being dethroned, as those of Argos and Messene were by their subjects, because they would abate nothing of their despotic power.
Nor did the warlike mood abate until he reached home and looked his wife in the eyes.
Nor did the shock of the disappearance of Florimel with Malcolm abate her desire to be taught by Malcolm's friend.
By zealously serving every body, Carre was taught to abate the envy which might attend his sudden elevation: by showing a preference for the English, he learned to escape the prejudices which prevailed against his country.
He strove to abate the acrimony of his own subjects against the religion of their fathers: he became himself the object of their diffidence and aversion.
And if you abate euen portions from things that are equal, those partes that remain shall be equall also.
If you abate equalle partes from vnequal thinges, the remainers shall be vnequall.
In the case of a defeat one single man turning his face to the enemy and barring the way of the enemy's forces, will sometimes abate the pride and haughtiness of the victors by the unexpectedness of his heroic valour.
Before venturing with great essential measures, Lomenie will see this singular 'swell of the public mind' abate somewhat.
Be mercifull great Duke to men of Mould: abatethy Rage, abate thy manly Rage; abate thy Rage, great Duke.
This brought Him obloquy while He lived in the world, and in the end a shameful death; but these things did not abate His hatred of sin, nor lessen His love for sinners.
When Christians shall be found among those who abide by the law of the lands wherein they dwell, even should their faith not be accepted by their rulers, their good citizenship will hardly fail to disarm hatred and abate persecution.
While he warns the elders against the assumption of lordship over their charges, the Apostle adds a precept which, if it be followed, will abate all tendency to seek such lordship.
Long and ceremonious generally were the meals of our forefathers; nor did they abate one jot from their courtesies when travelling on “urgent business.
