The only possible deception would be a compromise with the truth and compromises of that sort are apt to be pretty unsatisfactory.
There had been no necessity for a compromise between romance and reality in her own case.
She caught up her skirts as he had told her to do, executed without compromise the stiff-legged skip and the wriggle, and finished with a horizontal sidewise kick that matched his own.
But in Rome we see from the first the astral mold so strong that the strongest party feelings, the differences of a conqueror and a conquered race, are shaped by it into compromise after compromise.
She had learned compromise and horse sense in her politics it home: if her citizens owed her a duty, --she assumed a responsibility towards them.
Whereas it does not seem feasible to explain the dolicho-blond as such a blend or compromise between any known racial types.
The adaptation to circumstances has not been altogether of the nature of compromise, although here and there the spirit of compromise and conciliation is visible enough.
The fact was Harry had got himself up in what he thought a proper costume for a new country, and was in appearance a sort of compromise between a dandy of Broadway and a backwoodsman.
The people of both Tennessee and Georgia were unalterably determined that the Indians should be removed from their States, and no compromise or temporary expedient of delay would satisfy their demands.
And therefore, if any one asks me, "How can I get rid of this compromise life?
We often hear about the compromise life and the question comes up What lies at the root of it?
Lady Newhaven was not, unless he chose to compromise her.
But she was tied down, and did not wish to compromise the position they had so laboriously attained.
As she was leaving, Felicite advised him not to compromise himself any further.
So there was yet another who would not compromise him.
A compromise was at last patched up; and it was agreed that the charters should be surrendered till the future abbot should confirm the liberties of the town.
The long negotiations with the Pope which went on at Bruges through 1375, and in which Wyclif took part as one of the royal commissioners, ended in a compromise by which Rome yielded nothing.
But a compromise was arranged between the Pope and the Crown in which both united in the spoliation and enslavement of the Church.
But no thoughts of compromise influenced the landowners in their reply.
I'm sure it is handsome of you to do so much for us, and I certainly hope no act of piracy or violence, of which we may have been guilty, will compromise you in the slightest degree.
It was plain, however, that it would be better for it to take place while he was away from England, and then it would not, could not in any way compromise him.
Suppose you make a compromise of matters and lecture him well.
But this compromise succeeded no better than the previous compromises.
The other nobles were also paid enormously, and on making a reckoning it was found that this compromise had cost the King four millions and the country twenty millions.
Among the eminent persons who had reconciled themselves to the course of compromise and postponement was Mr. John White, an important name, which at this point takes its place in New England history.
They even attacked the young King's train as he journeyed to Bordeaux, and another compromise had to be wearily built in the Treaty of Loudun.
On March 11th a compromise was patched up, known as the Treaty of Rueil.
The other nobles broke the compromise in ways wonderfully numerous and ingenious.
In her diary she writes: "Even Charles Sumner bends to the spirit of compromise and presents a constitutional amendment which concedes the right to disfranchise law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.
In 1854 the Missouri Compromise had been repealed, trouble in Kansas had reached its height, the Know Nothing party was at its zenith, the Whigs were demoralized and the Free Soilers were gaining the ascendency.
They gathered their forces and sent them throughout New England, New York and the Western States, bearing upon their banners the watchwords, "No Compromise with Slaveholders.
A spirit of compromisefinally prevailed and deferred the crisis for a decade, but the agitation and unrest continued to increase.
The result of the conference of December 1890 was a compromisebetween the conservatism of a majority of its members and the forward policy of the emperor.
The first was the indecision of the National Assembly, who wished to compromise between that which was right and that which was wrong on this subject.
One of these was a form of government proposed by Colonel Hamilton, which would have been in fact a compromise between the two parties of royalism and republicanism.
The minority, whichever section shall be the minority, will end in coalition with the federalists, and some compromise of principle; because these will not sell their aid for nothing.
The landholder, then, must give up his land, or the lender his debt, or they must compromise by giving up each one half.
A general rejoicing took place on the passage of "the compromise measures" of 1850.
The keystone to the arch of this grand union of the slavery party of the United States, is the compromise of 1850.
In that compromise we have all the objects of our slaveholding policy specified.
Lanier's ideas strike one as singularly balanced and sane, suggesting a compromisebetween the warring camps of recent years.
The result is a compromise shifting toward one extreme or another.
But this is the only thing that disquiets me; and it is impossible to praise too much De Vaux's ingenious compromise between tasteless asceticism and dangerous indulgence in the matter of 'Asia's willing maids.
No, that won't do; it would compromise Madame Isola-Bella, as biribi is strictly forbidden.
A feeling of charity will prevent your doing anything to compromise me, whatever may be the end of the affair.
When he dined out he had to drink nothing but water, so as not to compromise his reputation for temperance.
The New Zealander to-day is the exact replica of the Englishman as we knew him; the Australian is a compromise between an Englishman and an American.
But she was not forgetful of what is lovely in her own race, primitive as it is, and was preparing these children in something of a compromise between native and foreign dances.
This would more than cover the increase asked by the miners which is half of the Cleveland compromise scale or approximately 2-1/2 cents a ton.
