Then this wretched old uncle took it suddenly into his head to be actively interested in the nephew's welfare.
The conscience-bearer was dimly arguing for departure; the shuffling second self, that had been actively dodging investigation all this while, was trying to invent counter-arguments for delay.
In 1298, he was actively engaged in the Scottish wars, and in November was appointed one of Edward’s Lieutenants in Scotland.
This warrior appears to have been most actively engaged in the battle of Roslin; and the renown which has in consequence attached itself to his name, will perhaps render the following notice of him acceptable.
I have also annexed a sort of history of the regiment for the last sixty years, supplied to me by an old and esteemed comrade, who was actively engaged throughout the suppression of the revolt.
While actively employed in many other fields of literature, he carried on the composition of his tragedies till the latest period of his life.
Naevius, the younger contemporary of Livius, and the first native poet, was actively engaged in the composition of his poems till the time of his death; about which period his greater successor first appeared at Rome.
During this period of about a century and a half, in which Roman oratory, history, and comedy, were also actively cultivated, we hear only of five or six names as eminent in different kinds of serious poetry.
In Italy the pope was now actively engaged as a temporal ruler, in building up a little state of his own.
What was still worse, Philip proposed that the Inquisition should carry on its work far more actively than hitherto and put an end to the heresy which appeared to him to defile his fair realms.
She has also been actively engaged in the Far East.
He summoned hither certain teachers of the Roman law from Bologna (where the revived study of the law was actively pursued), as well as representatives of the towns, to decide exactly what his rights as emperor were.
The English were actively employed in refitting their own ships, securing the prizes, and distributing the prisoners; the Danes, in carrying on shore and disposing of the wounded and the dead.
The boats of Sir Hyde's division were actively employed all night in bringing out the prizes, and in getting afloat the ships which were on shore.
Gustavus was now actively preparing to cross the river and to blockade the town on the land side, when the movements of Tilly in Franconia suddenly called him from the siege, and obtained for the Elector a short repose.
My recent conversations with you have put the whole store of my ideas in motion, for they related to a subject which has actively engaged my thoughts for some years past.
Most of the Protestant states, encouraged by their protector's success, were openly and actively declaring against the Emperor.
As the secretary knew what it contained, and had beenactively employed in the matter to which it referred, he had thought there could be no great sin of curiosity in reading it carefully while his master was at his toilet.
Who would not laugh at the scheme--who would not actively oppose it?
Nevertheless, in almost every period of coming fatherhood, there will be at least some months when bodily union is actively repugnant and consequently actively harmful, to the wife.
The date at which the troops would arrive at Constantinople wasactively discussed, and a Slavophil poet called on the Emperor to lie down in Constantinople, and rise up as Tsar of a Panslavonic Empire.
Some are simply obstructive, whilst others are actively prejudicial to the public welfare.
Every one of them, even France, where this peculiar "suicide" is supposed to be most actively at work, is yearly increasing in numbers.
Women themselves have actively asserted them, and they are all in process of realisation.
And so in each act of worship, and each step of growth, and each blessed experience of grace, all the Three Persons are actively engaged: the One is ever Three, the Three are ever One.
There is no holiness in God but what is most actively engaged in loving and saving and blessing.
Very soon the name of Boycott was given to the approved method of activelysending a man to Coventry, or threatening his life and property as well as refusing to permit him to be supplied with even the bare necessities of existence.
These Pulajans have fled from Gandara where they are being actively pursued by constabulary.
The Church of England has been actively engaged in missionary operations since the year 1698, when the “Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge” was formed.
After having for twelve months laboredactively and successfully to strengthen the Protestant cause in Scotland, he revisited Geneva, where he remained till 1559.
It was, however, no passion such as flames up in the brain of the destined discoverer, but a regulated inclination, kept well within the bounds of an actively pursued commercial career.
He does not dare appear actively himself in this business, for fear of affording me a clue to his haunts; and therefore he employs this Banks as his agent.
I have seen it actively flying about during August, as early as 7.
Butterflies that emerge in the morning spend their first day actively on the wing; but the nocturnal moths that emerge early in the day do not fly till evening twilight.
When a situation such as the one described occurs, I wonder whether the patient truly loves his "subjects"; a caring individual would still want his family to derive joy from living despite his inability to actively take part.
Life was not merely passing by; I possessed both the ability and the will to actively pursue the means toward a hopeful end.
Though I am no longer able to actively pursue many of those diversions which have so colored my memories, I yet possess their image in my mind.
They were only nine men beside the officer, and the Weccacoe Legion was brought forward to assist them, and General Brinton actively superintended the effort to drive the crowd out.
Can you form any idea as to how many were actively engaged?
I can only judge of the number actively engaged in the strike, from the number of persons that interfered with the first arrest that we made.
Actively engaged--that is, I want to distinguish between the persons standing around in crowds on the pavements looking on, and the parties actively engaged in the burning?
In the meantime, from the account of our Consul at Venice, the French agents are actively employed in intrigues against Austria in that town, and have asked him to assist, which he refused.
