Buckingham, instead of benefiting by the counsels of this experienced officer, reprimanded him with a sternness which silenced more compliant men.
Henry now repealed the late act of settlement, and passed a new one through the compliant Parliament, entailing the crown on the issue by Jane Seymour, whom he married on the morning after Anne's execution.
When they met they were in a far less compliant humour than when they separated.
When I was dressed, I thought I ought to pay my compliments to the compliant mother.
I foresaw that her success would be insured by her beauty even more than by her talent, and, with my nature, I knew that I could never assume the character of an easy-going lover or of a compliant husband.
As soon as I had become his mistress, he insisted upon my being compliant with all the men he wanted to make his dupes, and at last he took up his quarters at my lodgings.
Or perhaps it may have proceeded from a too compliant regard to a provincial pronunciation.
But on now renewing it, they found the Arcadians more compliant than the Spartans had been.
The churches are everywhere the same, and if the Catholic, the Anglican, or the Lutheran Church has not at hand a government ascompliant as the Russian, it is not due to any indisposition to profit by such a government.
The compliant Wragge retired to the front room; looked out of the window; and whistled under his breath.
And Powis succeeded him, who was a compliant young aspiring lawyer, though in himself he was no ill natured man.
For this pretended offence his bishopric was put under sequestration for three months; and as he then appeared no more compliant than before, a commission was appointed to try, or, more properly speaking, to condemn him.
The king found his ecclesiastical subjects as compliant as the laity.
Then the compliant Khan bestowed upon his faithful vassal the triple crown of Vladimir, Moscow, and Novgorod, to which were soon to be added many others.
The parliament was adjourned to the fifteenth day of April, because it was not yet compliant enough to be assembled with safety; and the episcopal clergy were admitted to a share of the church government.
In this interval means were used to mollify their non-compliant tempers, but all endeavours proved ineffectual.
The parliament were as eager and compliant as ever.
Tell me, dearest, whether I could refuse that singular request to the man who was shewing me suchcompliant kindness?
I was morecompliant because his plans met my views, and he paid for my education, but when he died we found Helen had got her share and mine.
Festing was doubtful, but they found Norton, the contractor's engineer, more compliant than he hoped.
Let him be compliant on that point, and the youngster had his grandsire's permission to be as wilful as he pleased on all other matters.
He was not the mild and compliant youth to be led into wedlock against his will, because a rather mature maiden told him it would be good for him.
It was the lavish expenditure to meet a compliant list of placemen that brought the country to its present state.
Lord Ellenborough, who presided at the trial, delivered a charge which was even more virulent and more marked by political spite than was his wont, and the too compliant jury brought in a verdict of "guilty.
But Johannes was not, for the time being, in a very compliant mood.
To have failed to secure that those who to the last resisted all its most strenuous efforts to obtain confession and reconciliation must expect a worse fate than those who proved compliant would have stultified its very existence.
She had been weak, compliant and submissive, but never reconciled to her shame; and at that moment began her revolt.
But then, strictly speaking, she should have left it long before; and the same compliant spirit that had once yielded, could yield again.
Never wast thou desirous of tears or sighs; still wast thou compliant unto prayers and amenable unto amorous desires!
Women are not suchcompliant instruments as Sostrata and Lucrezia.
Charles gave them a gracious and a compliant answer to all their remonstrances.
The unmannerly and mulish fellow is still on the way to form himself according to his own will; the prematurely knowing and compliant one is determined by the "species," the general demands, etc.
Better--if the talk is to be of better at all--better an unmannerly child than an old head on young shoulders, better a mulish man than a man compliant in everything.
Not too sure of instrumentalism, oft the note was hesitating, soliciting a compliant ear as became a modest wooer of the muses, polishing his unceremonious serenade to some, shy mermaid, or hooting at shyer silence.
