To lead in the valentine distribution is to be acknowledged the belle of the room until the June examinations break up the little, pupil cliques and send their members to the different higher-grade rooms.
The clan spirit among the different boyish cliques at school revived again.
Even before leaving school, boys often frequent them; soon some of them join little cliques and gangs formed by the criminal element.
Their membership lists are made up of cliques or gangs of young boys and men who come together because of some mutual interest, sometimes for worthy motives, but very often as a cover for disorderly and even criminal purposes.
He will not withstand the cliques and the underground intrigues of craving, selfish and unsatisfied ambitions.
Several minor cliques exist, but deserve not to be mentioned.
Cliques a, b, and c, generated and fostered Copperheads, and facilitated their expansion.
Beyond my guessing there were cliques and cliques within cliquesthat made a labyrinth of the palace and extended to all the Seven Coasts.
Of course it has become, as such cliques always must become, somewhat of a Mutual Admiration Society; and it is certain that a place in that brotherhood secures a man against much disparaging criticism.
There are indeed literary cliques in London, of a somewhat lower range than this, where the influence of personal friendships does operate in a manner that closely borders upon a sort of literary corruption.
It merely encourages the formation of cliques and sections; any slight split would be accentuated and rendered permanent.
Now, clubs are not usually, nor should they be, divided into cliques or parties; indeed, if a serious split does take place it generally results in the resignation of part of the club and the formation of a separate organization.
Now the little cliques and sets among the young people of my friends are made up when she goes among them, and she feels out of it.
And in the mean season, in the face of this discouragement from the cliques and sets, don't go back on our Adele.
It is a remarkable thing how little gossip there is in these cliques of Stamboul and this is a relief and a great difference from the cliques of Pera.
But in practice the conservative cliques had things their own way.
The Creole aristocracy came to a working understanding with the generals, and little cliques in each city supported the central government as long as they were recognised as dominant in their own localities.
It is the financial and commercial classes in the modern States who have the sway; and unless these classes desire it the military cliques may plot for war in vain.
But a nation divided against itself by parasitic and self-exalting cliques and sections could never stand.
It can so easily be engineered by ruling cliques and classes for their own purposes--to persuade and compel the people to fight their battles.
Though Elizabeth Inchbald lived in the same cliques as Mary Wollstonecraft, her pages are innocent of the 'plain speaking' that revolts the reader of The Rights of Woman and the Letters to Imlay.
But even in the enchantment of retrospect they somehow or other explain why so many fellows choose to live, for the most part, in small cliques in one another's rooms and cultivate the deadly chafing-dish.
As a rule a man may sit wherever he chooses; this is one of the admirable arrangements for breaking up suchcliques as inevitably form in a college.
When all is said and done, the mob and the cliques remain mob and cliques; with discord within and exclusive without, there is small hope of organized efficiency.
Those who, like myself, have had an active and intimate association with the caucus and the Federation know that in practice the new system, so far from destroying the rule of cliques, merely substituted one set of cliques for another.
They further professed to wish to put an end to the influence exercised by cliques and privileged classes or persons in the party.
The forty-five years of his reign were filled in home affairs with intrigues between the cliques at court, with growing distress in the country, and with revolts on a larger and larger scale.
Struggles between cliques under the Eastern Chin dynasty (A.
The chief influence of thecliques lay, however, in the selection of officials.
Under the new conditions cliques or individuals among the gentry could only ally themselves with the possessors of military power, the generals or governors.
In the past, politics had been carried on by cliques of gentry families, with the emperor at their head as an unchangeable institution.
In the first decades of his rule the dangerous cliques of gentry had formed again, and were engaged in mutual struggles.
This edifice had now lost its summit; the struggles between cliques still went on, but entirely without the control which the emperor's power had after all exercised, as a sort of regulative element in the play of forces among the gentry.
Gentry cliques now extended into the provinces and it often became possible to identify a clique with a geographical area, which, however, usually did not indicate particularistic tendencies.
Once more cliques and rival pretenders were at work and prevented any sort of constructive home policy.
Liu Chin succeeded within a year in getting rid of the eunuchs at court who belonged to other cliques and were working against him.
The struggle between cliquessoon became a struggle between eunuchs and literati, in much the same way as at the end of the second Han dynasty.
After the destruction of the arena, the field of play lost its boundaries: the struggles between cliques no longer had a definite objective; the only objective left was the maintenance or securing of any and every hold on power.
The various cliques at court cared little, however, about their ruler.
Most of them were merchants, and I presume the students who flock to Peking in such number form little cliques of their own.
This resolve incensed the Irish, on whom the Government's majority depended, while the English Radicals were so much split up intocliques with different ideals, that it was hard to keep them together.
Not only the old family cliques that represented the corrupt and selfish Whigs of an earlier day, but many of the younger men, who called themselves the friends of liberty and reform, took this suicidal step.
These cliques did not differ from each other in principles, but were divided merely by personal grudges that their leaders bore against each other.
The two cliques comprehended these maneuvers and joined battle.
His elders treated him with consideration, while the younger men envied him, for there were also cliques among them.
It is not on the national and Mohammedan spirit that England in Egypt leans, but on Franco-Levantine cliques and Graeco-Armenian cliques sold to French finance.
On the first evening, as soon as the ladies have left the dining-room for the drawing-room, these little cliques are tacitly formed, and continue unbroken until the close of the visit.
There are many reasons which call these cliques into existence--old intimacies revived, new acquaintanceships to be strengthened, unwelcome acquaintanceships to be avoided, and so on.
Cliques defining the difference, not in culture or refinement, but in wealth, have developed.
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