This denunciation will injure Paris in the opinion of the departments because it has the appearance of dictating to them what sort of deputies they shall elect.
In 1787 she threatened France with war to prevent a connection between France and Hoi-land; and in all her propositions of peace to-day she is dictating separations.
The Three Hundred have assembled; 'all the Committees are in activity;' Lafayette is dictating despatches for Versailles, when a Deputation of the Centre Grenadiers introduces itself to him.
His ruling passion was strong in death, for he passed out of life dictating some translations of Norwegian and Danish poems.
The emphasis laid on the likeness in thus dictating to the old accustomed act of talking through the telephone, seemed to put all other differences into the background, and to allow of forming the new and desired habit very quickly.
Sam proceeded to the inner office, and found his father dictating into the attentive ear of Miss Milliken, his elderly and respectable stenographer, replies to his morning mail.
I mean the young lady out in the garden there, to whom you were dictating just now.
While Andreas Hofer was dictatinghis "open order" with a firm and thoughtful air, the peasants stood dumfounded with admiration, staring at him with a feeling of awe, and delighted with his sagacity and understanding.
The ceremony is over, and the council nearly so;" and he proceeded with what he was dictating to the clerk.
An interesting outgrowth of Edison's phonograph is the dictaphone, used in dictating business letters.
And heedless of innumerable warnings, he was at his desk day after day, writing and dictating by turns.
He was under opiates, more or less, when the 'Bride' was on the stocks, dictating nearly the whole of it to Laidlaw and John Ballantyne.
Then Mrs. Damon began dictating the message she and Tom had agreed upon.
But I am sure I see signs in the above article that you are either unaccustomed to dictating or are out of practice.
Dictating is nearly sure to unconcentrate the dictator's mind, when he is out of practice, confuse him, and betray him into using one set of literary rules when he ought to use a quite different set.
In this exception I include no more than the time during which he was actually in the bath; for all the while he was being rubbed and wiped, he was employed either in hearing some book read to him or in dictating himself.
But I am dictating instead of receiving instruction.
Cleveland made his cardinal mistake in dictating a tariff policy to Congress.
With the modern facility of dictating you can converse with me without restraint, and all letters passing between us can be returned to the writer.
During the balance of the month of September I remained in Washington engaged in writing letters, dictating interviews, and preparing for the gubernatorial contest in Ohio, then in active progress.
Not a person said a word; they listened to what I was dictating to the editor, and I observed that they all looked rather fierce; but whether this was a public meeting, or what was to be the end of it, I had no idea.
I felt surprised at what I thought an intrusion, as I had considered my room to be private; however, I appeared to take no notice of it, and continued dictating to the editor.
Thus the official history of St. Louis had been written by Guillaume de Nangis long before Joinville thought of dictating his personal recollections of the King.
The President was still dictating and was in the midst of a letter when the yellow envelope was handed him, but he stopped short and opened the telegram.
As I am dictating this letter I look up at the wall and discover there the head of a bull moose, and that bull moose makes me think of all the things you said four years ago about Roosevelt.
You'd better make a note that I'm never busy dictating or doing anything else when the Minister sends for me," he shot at her as he left the room.
I don't like him, you know; his manners are so funny and his dictating is so difficult; but I must say I did admire his pluck.
For composition he employed it almost altogether, seldom or never dictating to a scribe.
