For a man to proclaim himself an anarchist in France, three years ago, was to proclaim himself a madman--he could not be in his right mind.
He did not make the choice, it was made FOR him by forces which he could not control.
Perhaps in her manner there were signs that she wished to see him--perhaps not--he could not read a woman.
He picked it up--surely it could not be one of the primroses he had planted?
He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
Even if I were a baby, I could not be so absurd as that.
The President replied that he quite concurred in my sentiment, and that I could not do better.
But if I could not convince my Grandson, how could I convince the highest and most developed Circles in the land?
And I imagin'd, in a sermon on such a text, we could not miss of having some morality.
There were allusions to some deeds--possibly the more valuable--which I could not find.
Because they were papers that he could not negotiate.
He could not fail to connect my sudden return with his crime, and to be terribly alarmed.
He therefore murdered Adair, who at the time was endeavouring to work out how much money he should himself return, since he could not profit by his partner's foul play.
But behold, it was not he, but it was the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not shut it.
If it were really the Kingdom of God, it could not be expected to remain an insignificant settlement on a distant and unimportant continent.
Washington, he felt that it could not afford to be as militant as was necessary.
Without this he could notenter a competitive society as an equal.
Lincoln's belief in the fact that the Union was indissoluble had been vindicated, and it was also evident that national unitycould not go hand in hand with sectional slavery.
At times what he now wished to do had seemed for ever impossible, and again it had seemed as if he could not wait a moment longer.
Often he could not make it appear right that he should merely please himself in what chiefly concerned himself.
There was a great deal of the talk that he could not follow; it was too quick for him; but here was something he was clear of.
No, he is not," said Catherine warmly, "for I am sure he could notafford it.
But all in vain; Catherine felt herself to be in the right, and though pained by such tender, such flattering supplication, could not allow it to influence her.
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
No; I had just engaged myself to walk with Miss Tilney before they told me of it; and therefore you know I could not go with them, could I?
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.
Mr. Moore tapped vigorously with his toe--he could not reply in any other way.
But the monkey only screamed his warning more lustily before he raced upward toward the safety of the high terrace where Mangani, the great ape, could not follow.
We could not smell it for its scent is being blown in the other direction, and so I bent my ears and eyes down wind where my nose cannot travel.
Indeed I declare (though it may seem improbable) if I sought to destroy all hope--if I wished to despair, I could not.
Our prison was suddenly lighted, that is to say, it became filled with a luminous matter, so strong that I could not bear it at first.
But no explanation was discernible; he remained under the cow long enough to have milked three, uttering a private ejaculation now and then, as if he could not get on.
She made him a sort of nest in front of the hives, in such a manner that he could not fall, and, taking the reins into her own hands, jogged on as before.
However, it could not be helped, and turning, and bending himself to a rapid walk, he dismissed the subject from his mind.
There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.
I offer'd to awaken his regard For's private friends; his answer to me was, He could not stay to pick them in a pile Of noisome musty chaff.
There had she not been long but she became A joyful mother of two goodly sons; And, which was strange, the one so like the other As could not be disdnguish'd but by names.
I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partizan I could not heave.
Many accidents of this kind had occurred in the British navy at manoeuvres, though it could not be shown that the vessel was defective, or that the crew was either untrained or negligent.
The conduct of David after the event was such as to show that he had no complicity in the act, though he could not venture to punish its perpetrators (2 Sam.
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