Again Mary felt goaded to irritation as she wondered how Elizabeth would have brooked a similar discussion, but she commanded herself with a strong effort, and shifted her ground for a new attack.
His voice and manner brooked no delay, and her ladyship thinking that even now Katherine was Cantemir's wife, spoke out with a semblance of injured dignity that melted under Sir Julian's scathing contempt to silly simpering.
How in youth your wild minstrelsy ravished my soul Till I became daily to musings inclined, And strong, gushing impulse that scarce brooked control.
Yet well thy soul hath brooked the turning tide With that untaught innate philosophy, Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, Is gall and wormwood to an enemy.
Shortly before their departure the troops received a reminder that their leader brooked no trifling with orders.
Jackson's action when Loring's regiments were ordered back by the Secretary of War is sufficient proof that he would have brooked no meddling with his designs when once they had received the sanction of the Cabinet.
Barnes was surprised at his master's patience on both occasions, knowing by experience how little he brooked neglect or delay; but the Dominie was in every respect a privileged person.
The Canon and Mark, the only persons who could have given her the slightest aid, were both at a distance, even if her loyal heart could have brooked confession to them, and she only hoped that Nuttie would never know of it.
Louise's presents were to be delivered, and that was a matter which brooked no unseemly delay.
A soldier threw up his arms, another pitched headlong into the sand, and the Americans swept up the slope in a charge which brooked no obstacles.
Steady and stern had indeed been the rule of the son of Brander, and he had brooked no gainsaying, but he had been a prudent captain from the first, and there were a full third of the men now to stand by him in his peril.
Nevertheless, the younger men laughed scornfully, for they liked not well the hard discipline of the jarl, and he brooked no manner of disobedience, as was his right.
Good night," repeated the tall man with a finality which brookedno question.
Personally I have the utmost confidence in him," said Judith with a shortness which brooked no further discussion of the topic.
There is nothing to discuss," said Imrie with a shortness which brooked no further opening.
Such treatment would not be tolerated by any civilized ruler of the nineteenth century, much less was it brooked by an irresponsible conqueror, whose will was his sole law, in the thirteenth.
But such temporizing measures as these, involving the endurance of Tungan indifference, could not be brooked by the Athalik Ghazi.
She thought she was in the right when she abandoned herself without resistance to a passion, which indeed would seem to have brooked no resistance.
XCI Rodomont brooked no more aboard to stay, But bade them land him, and by Lyons hied; By Vienne and Valence next took his way, And the rich bridge in Avignon descried.
Rebuke like this Saul brooked it ill to hear; With filial sweet resentment he replied: "And cherish other dreams, I pray thee, father!
For fifty years her firm hand had brooked no slightest interference with the family steering-wheel, and now that it was removed the household machinery came to a standstill.
The old lady was evidently in one of her truculent moods that brooked no interference.
He bent closer to his companion, and spoke with a fierce intensity that brooked no denial.
She spoke with an emphasis that brooked no evasion.
Elizabeth devoted herself to fashion in a frank, whole-hearted way that brooked no half-measures, and amongst her terrors of death must have been parting with her gowns, for she died possessed of no fewer than three thousand dresses.
She ill brooked Harriet's plain speech, but remembrances of past affection checked the severe rebuke which more than once rose to her lips.
Beulah felt the blood come into her cheeks, and she ill brooked the cold, searching look bent upon her.
They were not common links, that formed the chain That bound to Lara Kaled's heart and brain; But that wild tale she brooked not to unfold, And sealed is now each lip that could have told.
My appetite and my reach in respect to the more full-bodied Uncle Tom might havebrooked certainly any comparison; I must have partaken thoroughly of the feast to have left the various aftertastes so separate and so strong.
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