She artfully pricked his conscience, and de Montespan was sent away, but de Maintenon remained.
But this woman, whose friendship was artfully sought by the great Empress Maria Theresa, was superseded, and the fresher charms of Madame du Barri enslaved the King.
However their conduct may be artfullyvarnished over with fair pretences, they betray consummate folly.
What will be the consequence of such an opinion artfully propagated by France, and confirmed by appearances so likely to deceive, may easily be foreseen, and safely predicted.
The Court artfully intercepted the project; and deeming patriots of all nations equally corruptible, bestowed a pension of £1000 a year on the unheroic fugitive.
A robust young lady, with very artfully arranged hair, and pretty white teeth, sang, accompanied by the piano, a German song.
The dog was then artfullyled on from one accomplishment to another, much within the ordinary range which bounds the instruction of learned animals.
The Roman poet understands the use of contrast better, and upon that figure, artfully managed, all strength in the pathetic depends.
My wife artfully introduced it by observing, that one of the Miss Flamboroughs was like to have a very good match of it in Mr. Spanker.
So with these things occupying his brain Thomas Newcome artfully invited Barnes, his nephew, to dinner under pretence of talking of the affairs of the great B.
You are a very rebellious slave, monsieur," continues the lady, with a pretty moue, and a glance of the large eyes artfully brightened by her rouge.
When you treat a non-climbing plant in this way, your stakes should be rather shorter than the plant, and artfully hidden by its leaves.
Stones were artfully arranged so as to break the straight lines of the dish, and in the spring bulbs grown in very small pots were flowering near it.
Therefore you must plant as artfully as you can in places where other things will be growing up close by and attracting attention.
It was artfully given out that while the Jesuits were treated with severity, no indulgence could be shown to books nor the authors of them in which religion was attacked.
The Papal See, bitterly groaning under the jealous restraint which had been imposed on it by the secular authority, eagerly watched, and artfully intrigued for an opportunity to remove them.
Candidly acknowledging orartfully assuming that he had been the innocent victim of craft and misrepresentation, he succeeded in obtaining the king's pardon.
These misconceptions, artfully cultivated by the priesthood, extended the fame of the self-tormentors beyond the celebrity of heroes, poets and philosophers.
The mendicant orders, which assumed the vow of perpetual and absolute poverty, artfully labored to amass fortunes; and soon betrayed a secret design of acquiring hierachal importance and supremacy.
It had it in its power to flatter the prejudices and feelings of the aristocracy, and thus artfully and imperceptibly win them over to its plans, and through them subvert the edifice of national liberty.
They artfully persuaded their sovereign that his power in these countries would never be firmly established so long as he could not employ foreigners as his instruments.
Meanwhile the regent wandered on in a fond dream of power and activity, which the flattery of the nobles artfully knew how to foster.
To convey this moral there must be a FABLE, a narration artfully constructed, so as to excite curiosity and surprise expectation.
The versification is studied, the scenes are diligently displayed, and the images artfully amplified; but as it ends neither in joy nor sorrow, it will scarcely be read a second time.
In either case it sneaks along the ground for a considerable distance, threading the mazes of the grass so artfully that the human eye can follow with difficulty or not at all.
He artfully wrote to that gentleman, stating that he had abandoned the chase of Sidney in despair, and desiring to know if he had discovered him; and a bribe of L300.
I see that the spring's very artfully concealed," said that dense peer.
Those marble terraces and artfully serpentining gravel walks surely never had echoed to steps so strange.
To have been beaten by a Douglas was nothing, but to have been so artfully entrapped by a bauldy!
Carried forward by his disinterested enthusiasm, and pledged by the promise he, had somewhat artfully extorted from them, they rose, and with one voice repeated the oath proposed to, them.
After about two hours, during which Art had unconsciously drunk at least three glasses of whiskey, disguised in cordial, the topic artfully introduced by Toal was the Temperance Movement.
No more was the purity and inexperience of youth to be corrupted by evil society, artfully introduced for the sordid purpose of making him spend his money, at the expense of health, honesty, and good name.
