Every instant that the remedy is delayed will bring on more surely the wrath of God by delivering us into the hands of Japon and other worse enemies or scourges.
Hickes in 1715 delayed matters by depriving Miss Elstob of able advocates and counselors.
But a few years ago, when the Turkish soldiers mutinied about arrears of pay (often delayed for years) the governing Pasha would set fire to the town and allow the men to loot what they pleased during a stated time.
Thereupon out came the slain man's brother, a fierce and furious Knight, and rushed upon Sharrkan, who delayed not, but smote him also with the shoulder cut and the sword came out glittering from his vitals.
The declaration of hostility seemed now sufficiently clear on both sides; but again new considerationsdelayed the final outburst.
Payne delayed his answers to these questions; and Sigismund found the matter still unsettled on his arrival.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
And, delayedto the last endurable moment, that final terrible anguish when the drop of my full weight pulled shoulder and wrist and elbow joints with that bone-shattering jerk.
If I delayedpast Evarin's deadline, and did nothing, the other bird in his keeping would hunt down Juli and give her a swift and not too painless death.
She delayed quitting the place, however, and reverted instead to Owen's ultimatum, about which she asked another question or two; in particular whether it had struck Fleda that he really believed she would comply with such a summons.
So she repeatedly reasoned, but she as repeatedly delayed performance: if her general plan had been to be as still as a mouse, an interview like the interview at Ricks would be an odd contribution to that ideal.
Well, the lady was delayed at Lyons for some law business, and thus it came about, that her husband's testament and the sharp paving stones in the streets determined we should be acquainted.
Immediately," replied I, "and the more so as this letter is dated three days back; how it has been delayed I do not know.
Misfortune after misfortune overtook him, however, and he wasdelayed again and again.
He experienced varying road conditions, and was twice delayed by punctures.
When he failed to arrive, they decided that some unforeseen event had delayed him, and were not much worried.
What with telling the news for the public good and driving bargains for his own, Dominicus was so much delayed on the road that he chose to put up at a tavern about five miles short of Parker's Falls.
I have long enough delayed to pay the ceremonies of a host to these departing guests; the next that takes his leave shall receive due courtesy.
Death seemed to draw near the door, and often to lift the latch, and sometimes to thrust his ugly skull into the chamber, nodding to Rose and pointing at her husband, but still delayed to enter.
The packet has been delayed by head-winds, but now that they are fair she will have a quick passage; at least such I wish it.
On Sunday se'nnight (I think the 26th) I shall, unless baffled or delayed by ice or weather, be with you at Richmond Hill.
To-day I was delayed by an event,--the return of young Atheling after his election.
She had hastened rather than delayed her dressing; and when Mrs. Atheling came downstairs in her afternoon black silk dress, she found Kate already in the parlour.
It was not until the twelfth of July that the Bill got into Committee; and there it was harassed and delayed night after night by debates on every one of its clauses.
The lunch that was nearly finished was delayed for another hour.
The latter in passing through a little market-town had seen the hungry people take the wheat from the grain-market by force, and said he had been delayed a little by the circumstance.
She purchased a paper of the boy who stationed himself daily at the southeast corner of the campus, but purposely delayed opening it until she reached her room.
I received your letter, but, deciding you deserved a certain amount of punishment for your rashness, purposelydelayed answering you.
She dropped on her knees and silently prayed, With anguished hands and tears delayed To a painful slowness.
On account of one single word he delayed to speak, did this languishment come upon me.
She smiled at him, nodded, and purposely delayedgetting in.
This time the aviator was more cautious, but as he delayed the light winked angrily.
I went out very much crestfallen, thinking I would be delayed and harassed in the work which I was anxious to finish, and was doing night and day.
I will not attempt to follow their warpath, for it is too long; besides, we would be continually delayed by arriving at the innumerable bloody spots where one or more of the brave pioneers fell at the hands of the redskins.
The delayed passenger-train from the west had arrived, and the agent was obliged to break off and attend to his duties.
Two men broke a rail-joint on Little Butte side-cutting for my special--and caught the delayed passenger instead.
If, however, the arrest took place during the night, or the carrying out of the sentence had to be delayed for some hours, the criminal was imprisoned in an enclosure of stakes.
He delayed answering our letter until he felt certain that our patience was exhausted, and that we should have started on our return journey for the north coast.
Officers who had orders from Butler to march were, in some instances, delayed nearly a week before they received the necessary provisions with which to do so.
The construction of a bridge at Camp Beaver Swamp seventy yards in length delayed the army one day but enabled the road-cutters to hew a way through to the St. Mary River.
In the hope that the Indians would come to reason, Scott's raid was delayed a week at the start.
But let us not linger over such depravity, or we shall be delayed in our preparations for the Presidential canvass in 1865.
The Mackerel Brigade grows hoary with antiquity, and the capture of the Southern Confederacy is still delayed for the want of pontoons.
However, their work had, unfortunately for us, been accomplished, and trains could only run as far as the destroyed bridges, so men on their way to join their respective corps were greatly delayed in consequence.
Yet I remember that you yourself said that our ends should not be far apart, so I think you have but delayed my death a little while.
To go out in the same way he knew would excite suspicion; if he delayed too long, search would be made for Helgi; and there sat Thorar facing him.
