General Gaines opened the council by stating that the great father at Washington desired only what was right, and closed by insisting that the Indians should remove peaceably.
The ferocious Sacs clamored louder each hour for scalps, and no doubt would have succeeded in taking them had not the Prophet seduced them away temporarily by promises until the desired opportunity should arrive.
Therefore, we have no doubt but your honor will better anticipate our condition than it is represented, and grant us immediate relief in the manner that to you may seem most likely to produce the desired effect.
At this point there were, besides the whites, a good many friendly Indians who needed or desired our protection.
They were scattered about in a manner to require unusual trouble in collecting them and upon putting the plan into practical operation Colonel Boyd almost despaired enlisting the desired 200.
He was marching with a front of over twenty men across a field when he desired to pass through a gateway into the next enclosure.
I proposed the India office as next, and as very near in weight, and perhaps the most difficult of all at this time, to Hartington, which he desired time to consider.
The Queen read the letter, and reread it, and then in despair desired a gentleman practised in dealing with parliamentary bills, happening at that time to be at Osborne, to supply her with a summary.
Again in 1857 the temper of the public mind had undergone a change which I failed to discern; and I attacked the government and the chancellor of the exchequer of that day for doing what the country desired though I did not.
But I see the immense difficulty of a change of front now, even if they desired it and you consented to it.
This, he said, is a question which I should not have put to you, except when desired by the Queen.
Yet if such aid should at any time be generally desired with a view to arresting some great evil or procuring for the nation some great good, my willingness to enter into counsel for the occasion would follow from all I have said.
I was not one of those who on the ground of British interests desired a division of the American Union.
The second of these despatches desired Lyons to come away within seven days if the demands are not complied with.
On the whole, he was persuaded that neither the party generally nor the country desired another period of active reforms, even if he were fit to conduct them.
The Queen continued to urge upon him the obligations arising out of his position, and desired him to ascertain whether he was right in his belief that I would not act in a ministry unless as first minister.
Mr. Bright was desired to interfere, but the pair remained inexorable.
I think it much to be desired that the commission should, if they will, proceed upon the affirmative or negative of that proposition, and should also make their choice for the former.
Lord Palmerston desiredthe severance as a diminution of a dangerous power, but prudently held his tongue.
They had jointly advised thereupon that I should be sent for with a view to the formation of a government, and her Majesty desired Lord Granville would convey to me the message.
The Mayor and Common Council, in return desired to know what force the Queen's Highness wished them to furnish.
He again desired to be remembered to his friends in the Council, mounted the scaffold with firmness, and gave the signal to the executioner.
That theydesired to obtain, by honest and constitutional means, the direction of affairs, they openly avowed.
Pitt desired power; and he desired it, we really believe, from high and generous motives.
Hampden turned away with contempt from the degrading honours with which his family desiredto see him invested, and attached himself to the party which was in opposition to the court.
The situation so long and ardently desired had been abolished.
Billy's distress at this turn of affairs indicated very plainly that it was not just a husband, but a certain one particular husband that shedesired for Alice Greggory.
I have also--But perhaps there was some one else you desired to inquire for," he broke off, turning upon his hostess a bland but unsmiling countenance.
The little wife now begged her father might have princely sons, knowing he had long desired an heir.
He was good, and therefore not jealous, and being free from jealousy he desired that all things should be like himself.
He was not 'a jealous God,' and therefore he desired that all other things should be equally good.
And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be.
This is in the truest sense the origin of creation and of the world, as we shall do well in believing on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all things should be good and nothing bad, so far as this was attainable.
Solon marvelled, and desired to be informed of the particulars.
Here the customer is surrounded by all that is desired from which to make his selection.
Bleaching tubs are near at hand, and large copper vats with all the required steam attachments for dyeing the many desired colors are here conveniently arranged.
In a word, she promised to exert herself more in conversation, since Lady Jane desired it.
The next morning he called upon me, and told me that he wasdesired to ask my advice for a sick partner of his, to whom, if I would accompany him, he would immediately introduce me.
The commissioner sat up in his bed, rubbed his eyes, read the direction of the note, many times turned and returned it, and desired to see the man who brought it.
Mrs. Panton, in her elegant language, desired he would leave his business with her.
Lady Spilsbury desired a consultation of physicians, but Dr.
And Lord William, who said you deserved it from him, desired me to speak as freely for him as for myself.
He rang, and desired his secretary, Mr. Temple, to be sent to him.
Lord Oldborough then explained the points on which he desired to inform himself before he should decide with regard to Cunningham.
In full view of all these considerations, the Executive has not hesitated to express to the Government of Mexico how deeply it deprecated a continuance of the war and how anxiously it desired to witness its termination.
The United States, actuated evermore by a spirit of justice, has desired by the stipulations of the treaty to render justice to all.
If these or any other public documents should be desired by the House, a specification of them will enable me to cause them to be furnished if it should be found proper.
It will appear by the report of the Postmaster-General that the great point which for several years has been so much desired has during the current year been fully accomplished.
Your attention to this is particularly desired to ascertain its truth or falsehood.
The thing itself was good, and Apollonius desired to support the ancient institution by setting the public example of seeking initiation therein; not that he had anything to gain personally.
From here as a center the work is expected to penetrate into every part of Scotland by means of the trained workers whose services will be available for all parts of the country when desired by the ministers and kirk sessions.
At a later period provision was made for teachers of girls' high schools, as also for those who desired to become teachers but were too young to enter the normal school.
Mr. and Mrs. Pennefather had long desired to do something in this direction, and their desire took this practical form.
Two or three times afterward, this same chief came to ask our fathers to send someone to his district to baptize his people, saying that they all desired to receive holy baptism.
They were next asked if they desired to receive the sacrament of confirmation; and they answered aloud that they desired it, in order that our Lord might pardon their sins and strengthen them in the faith.
I had occasion to make other and shorter trips among the plantations in the vicinity of Silang, as they contained sick persons who were in need; I also desired to ascertain what houses and persons were in those country districts.
He again answered that it should not be delayed, as hedesired baptism immediately; but, at last, the ceremony was deferred.
When I undertook to make a list of those who sought baptism, they asked me not to do so, since all those who were not converted (who were very few) desired to become Christians; so I did as they wished.
Another chief prevented his wife from hearing the divine word and becoming a Christian, which she desired most heartily to be.
For this purpose she sent for the father, and, when the latter asked the sick man if he desired baptism or instruction, she helped him to make his answers.
A sick man said that day and night he thought of the father, who was absent, and desired him for confession, adding that what most aggravated his sickness was to know that he did not have the father at hand for that purpose.
If a better view of the animal is desired it is only necessary to agitate the web slightly and the spider runs forward to investigate.
Frantic at this sight, he desired instant admission, in order to ascertain the safety of her sister.
Tell me, did you think then that I desired father’s death or not?
Almost from the first minute at Mokroe he saw that his invincible rival was perhaps by no means so invincible, that the toast to their new-found happiness was not desired and would not be acceptable.
Mephistopheles declared to Faust that he desired evil, but did only good.
Could he, had he been plotting the murder, have desired to attract the attention of the household by having a fit just before?
This woman, this love of his, had been till the last moment, till the very instant of his arrest, a being unattainable, passionately desired by him but unattainable.
But though Smerdyakov always talked of that with great excitement, it was impossible to discover what he desired to come of it.
When the pagan Roman Empire desired to become Christian, it inevitably happened that, by becoming Christian, it included the Church but remained a pagan State in very many of its departments.
After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of every one.
The deathlike silence in the court was not broken—all seemed petrified: those who desired his conviction as well as those who had been eager for his acquittal.
Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, “I do not believe till I see.
Then he desired to confess and take the sacrament at once.
But she desired that he should want her madly, and that he should have all--everything.
Chapter 2 Siegmund's violin, desired of Helena, lay in its case beside Siegmund's lean portmanteau in the white dust of the lumber-room in Highgate.
Will the desired result be attained through its instrumentality?
Such a measure has long been desired by all who wish for the improvement of the natives.
At any rate, there are many things touching upon this very subject, which as an old acquaintance, and one who has learned through long intimacy to take great interest in all that concerns you, I have for some time desired to say.
This arbor, into which Hero desired Margaret to entice Beatrice, was the very same pleasant arbor where Benedick had so lately been an attentive listener.
The names of all persons present who desired to take part in these exercises were then enrolled and arranged in order by the manager, who appoints six or seven readers at each meeting.
The friar promised them an explanation of this seeming miracle, after the ceremony was ended; and was proceeding to marry them when he was interrupted by Benedick, who desired to be married at the same time to Beatrice.
It is earnestlydesired by the Counselors of the C.
Hero then told her, that she was to be married to Claudio the next day, and desired she would go in with her, and look at some new attire, as she wished to consult with her on what she should wear on the morrow.
Supplied with copious rain fall over a vast territory, the soil yields throughout the different latitudes such variety of products that nothing seems left to be desired in this line.
I told him that I wanted a license for the circus to camp for one night; that I also desired permission to pitch camp somewhere in the vicinity.
Yet the Emperor desired it, doubtless for the same reasons which always led him to suppress any affair which might give the public an idea that the opposition to the government was worthy of the government's attention.
It was to this house that I desired to come before--my exile.
But now it was too late; if the error could be wiped out at all, the only way to erase it was by telling him everything and giving him his chance to misinterpret me if he desired it.
The arrest of one man could not break up the conspiracy; I desired to trap the leaders; and to that end I deliberately liberated this man Buckhurst as a stool-pigeon.
As for me, I was an accident, which warned you in time that all the world was not as good and true as you desired to believe it.
That is what I want to know; what for so long I have earnestlydesired to understand.
I will do so very willingly, but may I ask you to finish what you were beginning to say about ambition, which I have long desired to hear?
What is most to be desiredby such a change is, that the country should be supplied with better ministers.
This gentleman, who now resides in America in a publick character of considerable dignity, desired that his name might not be transcribed at full length.
He soon grew weary, and paid frequent visits to his old shop, where he desired they might let him know their melting-days, and he would come and assist them; which he accordingly did.
She desired to be absent from the body, that she might be present with the Lord.
Throwing her emaciated arms around her, she embraced her with great affection, and desired that the babe of six months old might be brought her once more.
Ladies, who visited the garden, sometimes desired to see this singular favourite.
As she became more emaciated and feeble, she desired to be carried every day at a certain hour, into an unoccupied room, and left for a while, by herself.
As the close of her last day on earth approached, she desired to hear once more the voice of prayer.
Titus Antoninus Pius desiredto live in peace with every one.
During infancy, when the texture of character slowly, yet surely discovers itself, he displayed a mild, loving disposition, with no propensity to anger when what he desired was withheld.
In the indispositions to which he was occasionally subject, he would cheerfully take the most unpleasant medicines, and submit to the most irksome regulations, if simply told that his father had desired it.
It would seem as if she wished to testify her approbation of the home selected for her child, and desired only to nurture it until it should be old enough to fill it properly.
So great was his generosity, that whatever was given him he desired to share with another.
Once, while playing with some infantine companions, hedesired to reach an article that was considerably above their heads.
The artist may take this point of view where he pleases, provided that the desiredeffect be perceptibly produced, that there be likeness in the difference, difference in the likeness, and a reconcilement of both in one.
