A single fiddler served for an orchestra, and also acted as master of ceremonies, calling out the figures of the dances.
Tom Malloy was the referee, and I acted as John's second.
Why the men should have acted as they had, was all a mystery, but thieves or outlaws they evidently were, and outlaws in this country he already well knew were men who would stop at nothing.
Dancing in the morning as he sat with his pipe regarding the intruder, who actedquite at home, with a critical eye.
A small dog barked furiously at the Stanley party as they came up, and acted as if he were ready to fight every trooper in the detail.
The fairy's gift now became her curse; for the power of seeing what was right, as she had acted contrary to her knowledge, only tormented her.
The law and the religion of the peopleacted and reacted upon one another, but the greater of these two elements was religion.
It is true of course that the nation as a whole never acted in accordance with this teaching.
Rouelle thought that the natrum was a fixed alkali, which actedafter the manner of quick-lime, despoiling the bodies of their lymphatic and greasy fluids, leaving only the fibrous and solid parts.
If an acid be added to alcohol, the bones are acted upon, and softened; colours are destroyed; the scalpels and other dissecting instruments are promptly oxidised, when it is desirable to dissect animals preserved in these liquors.
Was it possible that she had acted on her first letter to me, after all, and, while forcing freedom on me, taken it also for herself?
It was a light musical farce, well acted and sung, and I enjoyed it.
With whom, if we acted rightly, we should share this world in kindly fellowship and love.
She did not look very much as if she were asleep, nor acted as though she expected to get a chance to be very soon.
Was her profession a mockery, her life a miserably acted lie?
One of the preachers who gave that advice and actedin accordance with it was William Bridge, M.
As a fine specimen of the true English yeoman, I have met with few to equal, if any to surpass him, and he looked the character as well as he acted it, till within a few years, when the strong man was bowed by bodily infirmity.
I heard there were not less than six or seven thousand people there to welcome his return, and the request of the police, that the greatest order might be observed, was fully acted up to.
It is but my own desire, my own purpose, against which I acted so unthinkingly, which destiny is again bringing in my way?
I myself knew a young man who, in the midst of his impassioned love for an easily-won maiden, cried out, 'But would she not act to another as she has acted to me?
Romeo and Juliet is more faithful to tradition; yet he almost destroys its tragic content by the two comic figures, Mercutio and the nurse, probably presented by two popular actors--the nurse undoubtedly acted by a man.
Antigonus, one of his brothers, acted in his stead.
Manasseh, unwilling to obey the order of Nehemiah, together with many others who acted in concert with him, left Jerusalem with their wives, and settled themselves under the protection of Sanballat, the governor of Samaria.
But the men of the Mountain acted with extraordinary energy: they proclaimed the Girondins to be in league with the invaders, and blasted their opponents with the charge of conspiring to divide France into federal republics.
Whatever may have been Bernier's motives, he certainlyacted with some duplicity.
The latter in turnacted in similar capacities with the Irish-Norwegian chiefs, Irish tribes often forming part of the Scandinavian armies in Britain.
In Wexford, where the insurrection went farthest, the ablest leaders were priests, but they acted against the policy of their church.
Sometimes a chief acted as foster-father to a large number of children.
The early Belgic settlers constituted perhaps in the main trading states which acted as intermediaries of commerce between Ireland and Gaul.
A year later he joined the company of the newly-opened Queen's Theatre, where he acted with Charles Wyndham, J.
However, the invaders do not appear to have acted in concert until 830.
The rabbit then returned to his home, regretting he had acted so harshly and began to cry for his brother.
No one appeared, and she inquired of the girl who acted as nurse for her child if anyone had knocked at the door.
Early seems to have acted in the belief that all but Crook's command had gone to Petersburg.
Meade, however, acted persistently and conscientiously on his own judgment, formed in the light of the best knowledge he could obtain.
Notwithstanding this, he never lost his equipoise or acted upon impulse alone, and he never permitted mere appearances to move him.
He regarded the Confederate soldier in the field with more favor than the Confederate stay-at-home who acted as a spy, or who, as a guerilla, engaged in shooting from ambush passing soldiers or teamsters and cutting telegraph wires.
We exploit the partisan heroes of our Revolution, such as Francis Marion and others, yet they only acted with and against small bands, leaving our armies to meet the large organized forces of the British.
The Supreme Court of the United States for nearly seventy years had assumed and acted on the principle of the right of Congress to legislate for them.
Then he said to his petitioner: "You have acted quite correctly, Monsieur le Baron, in bringing this matter quietly to my attention.
Do you mean to say that I must give them up and throw my German overboard because these modern Potsdammers have acted like brutes?
Naples contained two-thirds of a mineral which was acted on by acids, whilst the surface consisted chiefly of a mineral unattackable by acids.
Proceedings" volume 3 page 422), that the sandstone in some parts is penetrated by granitic dikes: such dikes must belong to an epoch altogether subsequent to that when the molten granite acted on the clay-slate.
Hence the disturbing force seems to have acted under a point, rather than along a line.
Is it possible that rounded grains of quartz may have been acted on by a fluid corroding their surfaces, and depositing on them fresh silica?
The administration has acted wisely in its effort to secure for public service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, only those whose fitness has been determined by training and experience.
Deacon William Dunham, of the church, acted as Chairman of this meeting, and there was a full and free discussion of the situation and the best action to be taken.
It so happened that a set of Bhagavata Sevar, or strolling players, came to the city, and one night acted a play in the presence of Krishna Rayalu and his court.
For that purpose, he requested the players, when they acted another play, to dress themselves up in the habit of a female of the Vellal caste.
Consultations are held as to future events, and their advice is thankfully received and acted upon.
He published the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Scott, and acted as London agent for the Edinburgh Review, which was started in 1802.
There he actedthe accessible prince in the eyes of the people, for the last of the Plantagenets was another of the usurpers who found favour in the eyes of the men of London.
The mansa, who was a Mohammedan, acted in two capacities--as chief magistrate of the town, and schoolmaster to the children.
When Karfa departed from Kamalia he proposed to return in the course of a month, and during his absence I was left to the care of a good old bushreen, who acted as schoolmaster to the young people of Kamalia.
I attended at three different inaugurations of this sort, and heard with pleasure the distinct and intelligent answers which the scholars frequently gave to the bushreens, who assembled on those occasions and acted as examiners.
More than one before him, richer or poorer, has acted in similar fashion, if not worse.
From the Egyptian of the time of Pharaoh to the peasant of our own day, the bee-keeper has alwaysacted in opposition to the desires and advantages of the race.
I make that motion, and I want to say that I agree with our President in thinking we have acted shamefully.
As in the case of Milton, his daughter read for him, and acted as his secretary.
If the plants are acted on by various medicines and drugs like ourselves, then we can create an agent or a spokesman on which we can carry out all future investigations on the action of drugs.
He found further that the change of the metallic contact resistance when acted upon by electric waves, is a function of the atomic weight.
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