And the Clerk triumphed after his wont: freedom jingled in his pocket; he doled out comfort, even life, to the oppressed; and he extorted a comfortable fortune in return for privileges which were never in his gift.
Instead, he groomed Zora with his own hands, and, having eaten as plain and scanty a meal as he had doled out for the mare, he withdrew at once to a common bed in the hospice.
The tradefolk had cause to rejoice in a surfeit of custom; and many a year passed before the beggars and slaves forgot the royal bounty doled out to them at the gate of every church and cloister in the burg.
The precious coin, which was doled out homoeopathically to merchants, was supplied to foreign officials in liberal measure.
Such stores as could be landed were placed in a guarded tent, and doled out carefully.
Supplies were hoarded, and doled out at famine prices to the famine-stricken community; not supplies of luxuries, but of the commonest necessaries of life.
Coffee and sugar were doled out as a luxury, now and then only; and the microscopic ration became a jest to those who looked at it.
To the high-salaried officials the new Reichstag doled out the increase with spades, to the poorly paid humble employees with spoons.
These favourite nooks are well known to the herdsmen, who build up stacks of hay and straw, which are doled out to them in times of snow.
He was doing his duty on the fortifications; she was keeping the home together on the meagre pittance allowed to her husband by the Government, and the rations doled out to her every morning.
That astute prince thought that a weak and divided England was the best security for the safety of France, and doled out occasional help to the queen in consideration of a promise to surrender Calais.
My father interrupted the narrative I doled out, anxious for his, and he began, and I interrupted him.
The money would be doled out and counted with the greatest good humour, there would be another proffer of parched wheat and rotten eggs, and you would depart with the head lama's blessing.
A few hundredweight of jam and pickles would be doled out for the asking, or, in the case of native troops, similar quantities of tea and ghi and goor.
The result was that we had the trouble each day to see that a share of food even was doled out to them, as they would have voluntarily starved rather than cut down the plantains above their heads.
Of course, all that the parish authorities had doled out to these poor-rich men was duly repaid by their executors.
Grazing grounds are not divided, nor is fodder doled out, unless there is scarcity.
Say, in a word, that if this or that article of consumption runs short, and has to be doled out, to those who have most need most should be given.
An expedition would be sent up here, and they would dole out to me the fate your father doled out to mine.
On what punishment would be doled out to her for her attempt to get away, she next brooded.
Once a day a small ration wasdoled out--pitifully small--enough to tantalise appetite, but not to still hunger.
The small portion of dried caribou meat doled out to each was far from satisfying.
Should they be fortunate and encounter no storms, the food, sparinglydoled out, might serve to sustain them.
It was a lean, scrawny wolf, and the meat tough and stringy, but to the famished travellers it meant life, and Shad thought the half-cooked piece which Mookoomahn doled to him as his share the sweetest morsel he had ever eaten.
I have not the figures at hand, though I have seen them; and it is hardly too much to say, that, where the society has doled out a penny, the Government has lavished a pound.
Yes--when they are doled forth by ministers who have neither talent nor eloquence to make a profound impression," said Cecilia, artfully conveying a compliment without appearing to mean one at the moment.
Our provisions were sometimes reduced to a few little cubes of sugar doled out to each from the officers' stores.
The meagre bit of mule meat doled out sparingly when there was enough of this luxury to be given out, eaten now without salt, was our only food.
Oh, food for the gods was that portion of stewed plums carefully doled out to each of us.
He doled out more of the sticky stuff, and then propped his face upon his hands and proceeded.
For the British there is a paper in English which is quite as bad, to which I have already referred, called the Continental Times, doled out three times a week.
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