It was worth the scolding," she declared afterwards, when Miss Frazer had administered a due homily on the danger of practical jokes.
There were loud and deep murmurs among the villagers at the many exactions and tyrannies of Sir Mervyn Stamford, the then occupant of the Manor, the estates of which he administered on behalf of his ward, Catharine Mowbray.
In the old Consulate at the gates of the city an English, or at least a Maltese, judge administered justice under the red ensign daily.
This fact, perhaps, explains my entire approval of the snubbing which that distinguished man administeredto me.
He was lying on a couch in a little green room at the back of the stage of the circus, panting, and fanning himself furiously with his pocket-handkerchief, whilst one of his friends administered to him copious draughts of champagne.
They chafed her temples, and administered every little remedy which they could command, while I stood gazing on her in inactive alarm.
His wife having administered to him without effect all the remedies that were ordered, took him, stretched upon a cart, to Seville.
The territory administered by the Hudson's Bay Company, reaching as it does from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the coasts of Labrador on the N.
For it contains in solution the true philosophy; and the simple, unsophisticated Christian intellect will take it up and absorb it naturally without needing to have it administered in a separate state.
His opinion was that deceased had died from the effects of strychnine administered in bitter ale; that the quantity administered had been about one grain, not more--it might be less.
Mr. Atherton is arrested on suspicion of having administered the poison to his uncle.
He said in this case the principal facts they had to deal with were, that it was proved on evidence that poison had been administered to deceased in the bitter ale, which he had taken before going to bed.
One instance of a lesson prepared and administered for my good, when I was still little more than a baby, stands out very distinctly.
Here my grandfather, while still in his twenties, administered the estate for the owner, who appears to have held him in high esteem.
She set it down beside the tea-tray while she administered breakfast.
Those who advocated the right of secession alleged in their own justification that we had no regard for law and that their rights of property, life, and liberty would not be safe under the Constitution as administered by us.
It was this poison that was administered to the horses.
He states to me that some kind of chemical poison was administered to all his horses after his men had fed them In the evening.
It was, as might be expected: "Death from the effects of prussic acid, administered by some hand unknown.
In New Brunswick, the department was administered on the same plan until 1855, when the postmaster general was made a member of the government.
Unlike Canada and the United States, but as in the mother country and most other countries, the telegraphs are under the control of the government, and administered by the postmaster general.
The postmaster general of Nova Scotia was never a member of the council, but administered the department as a subordinate official.
On the 18th of September, the board of trade, which administered the affairs of the colonies, approached the treasury on the subject.
The conclusion of peace in 1783 and the recognition of the independence of the United States was immediately followed by the dissolution of the old establishment which administered the postal system of the northern district of North America.
The Howes, father and son, had administered the post office for nearly forty years.
By the act of confederation the postal service was incorporated into the Federal system which was administered by the post office department at Ottawa.
The struggle of members for local advantages would heighten the feeling with which the department administered from England would be regarded.
The physical and moral solution of this evil, and its painful influence on the mind, till the cure is administered by an almighty Physician, are beautifully and affectingly described.
In this state religion found him, and administered the happy cure.
When I came to visit you in London, and found you in that deep distress, I would have given the universe to have administered some comfort to you.
Poison frequently took the place of the knife, and was often administered wrapped in a leaf of the British Bible.
Could he haveadministered the poison with his own hands?
Clearly but one man--he that administered the poison.
For weeks he had been working out this strange case, guided by the fact that the chloroform administered to Constance was scientifically meted out.
Sybil was sleeping under the influence of powerful opiates, administered to insure her against the possibility of being overheard in her ravings, or of waking to a realization of the events taking place below stairs.
They administered the deadly chloroform with nicest calculation; ergo, they must have known Miss Wardour.
The rest is evident; one of them, skilled in his profession, and in the exigencies that must arise in the practice of it, administered to Miss Wardour the chloroform.
They then used a skeleton key, entered, and knowing just the proportion of chloroform Miss Wardour could bear, they administered it carefully, secured the booty without further trouble, and made their escape without detection.
What seems most strange is, that it was administered with so much care; I am affected by the smallest quantity of the drug, and an ordinary dose would have put me under medical treatment.
First the king took the customary royal oath, which was administeredby the archbishop.
The charge against her was that she administered poison to the duchess in a cup of ale.
Oaths were administered here too, in cases where it was required to administer oaths to large numbers of people.
The universal belief was that Richard had formed the plan of making the Princess Elizabeth his wife, and that the decline and subsequent death of Anne were owing to a slow poison which he caused to be administered to her.
The Theodosian creed provided that the actors were not to have the sacraments administered to them save when death was imminent, and then only that, in case of recovery, their calling should be renounced.
Homer alludes to the priestesses as doves, and that they administered to Zeuth (Noah).
Old Jackson seemed to have nothing further to say, and the two ex-soldiers were still under the influence of the rebuke administered to them.
Coming immediately upon the thoughts with which his mind had been full, they gave him an unpleasant shock, the effect of which he could not entirely hide from the man who had administered it to him.
Our stopping place was a decent little fonda, administeredby an old Spaniard.
In the latter case a man somewhat advanced in years, kneels to receive baptism, which is administered by affusion only.
Had Augustine been at that time a bishop, he would now have administered to the king the Sacrament of Confirmation, but he was not consecrated bishop of the English till a few months afterwards.
It has indeed been objected that the ceremony could not have taken place in St. Martin's Church, because at that time baptism was administered by immersion.
She gave homely, well-meant advice; occasionally administered a little dose of pain in what was intended for a sedative or stimulant; but was always ready with sympathy, even when she failed to supply consolation and encouragement.
But may I make one request--that when I am unfortunate enough to deserve reproof, it may be administered privately and not in public?
The chloroform was administered in the same way in which the ether had been given the previous day.
I administered thirty grains of the bromide of potassium at six o'clock in the evening, and repeated the dose at ten, directing him to go to bed half an hour subsequently.
To the dogs two and three I administered on the following day, as before, one and two grains of opium respectively.
Perhaps no one medicine is so uniformly successful in the ordinary forms of nightmare as the bromide of potassium, administered in doses of from twenty to forty grains, three times a day.
I administeredthe whisky upon the same principle that governs us when we apply stimulating lotions to an inflamed eye, or give alcoholic liquors in passive congestions of other parts of the body.
The ether was administered by applying to the muzzle of the animal a towel folded into the shape of a funnel, and containing a small sponge saturated with the agent.
The next night one dose was administered at about bedtime, which was also followed by a sound and invigorating sleep.
Miss Forbes was a pronounced disciplinarian, and administered one form of punishment which left a lasting impression upon my memory.
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