Cobham gave chase, easily captured her in the Bay of Biscay, and discovered there were forty Inquisition prisoners aboard.
No one has taken up the challenge except in sweeping generalities of slander, which are easily made but less easy to substantiate.
Then there is Lord Fisher, who easily heads everybody connected with the Navy, as a great Admiral who can never be deprived of the merit of being the creator of our modern fleet.
The Admiral pointed out that a battle might easily be lost by the absence of a line-of-battle ship.
A sly seaman had told him that this kind of fish was easily caught, so when they arrived on the Bank the fishing commenced, and the turbot was caught.
After the action I shifted my flag to her, so that I might the more easilycommunicate my orders to, and collect the ships, and towed the Royal Sovereign out to seaward.
Before daylight on the 11th you directed me to accompany you for a personal inspection of the ground to your front, which we made on foot, going so far forward that we could easily hear the enemy at work and moving about.
The new line, while it would be nearer the river, was yet too far away from the Tennessee, or even from the creeks, to be easily supplied with water, and in case of attack these creeks would be in the hands of the enemy.
They had seen a part of the country over which the army had passed, and could easily apply its measure of desolation to the remainder of the State, if necessity should compel us to go ahead.
This is an excellent form, easily admitting of subdivision as well as union into larger masses.
They are educated, wealthy, and easily approached.
Perhaps the troops sent to Jackson and Humbolt can reach Paris by land as easily as to return to the transports.
Lookout Valley, I think, will be easily held by Geary's division and what troops you may still have there belonging to the old Army of the Cumberland.
I could easily get possession of this, but hardly deem it worth the risk of making a detachment, which would be in danger by its isolation from the main army.
I thought the nomination of Cox at the proper juncture would have been wise as a peace-offering, but perhaps it would have let off the Senate too easily from the effect of their arbitrary act.
A fine divided sand is a common constituent, which is easily obtained in a separate state.
A great many of the essential oils obtained from the more expensive spices, are frequently so much adulterated, that it is not easy to meet with such as are at all fit for use: nor are these adulterations easily discoverable.
The effects of hard and soft water may be easily shown in the following manner.
If I were a better and a worthier man, I might not so easily give others credit for being evil and unworthy.
That however is easily rectified, and I shall see to it at once.
One can easily see how the place would appear a very suitable one to any presumptuous scribe who wished to settle the question of where it should stand.
George had easily persuaded Helen, more easily than he expected, to wait their return in the carriage, and the two men were shown into the library, where the magistrate presently joined them.
If you will let your sister know your wish, you may easily have it," said the curate.
Poor Poldie was so easily led by any show of nobility--anything that looked grand or self-sacrificing!
Helen was not easily frightened, and had stopped her needle only that she might listen the better.
At Uppingham in Rutland, their water is said to come off an Allum-rock, and so tints their Beer with its saline Quality, that it is easily tasted at the first Draught.
Woman is more tender and less selfish than man, whose ambition "passes too easily into selfishness," which latter qualities "seem to be his natural and unfortunate birthright.
The eminent German naturalist, Semper, in 1863, criticised the general theory in consequence of his own careful examination of the Pelew Islands; but Darwin easily answered him by pointing to the cumulative evidence in favour of his own views.
He expressed himself in English easily understood by a foreigner, more like that of Bulwer or Macaulay, than that of Dickens or Carlyle.
It was said that he showed good taste in not following Mrs. Darche from place to place, as he might easily have done, and as most men in his position undoubtedly would have done, for it was quite clear that he was seriously in love.
Society is the better for most of its conventionalities, a fact of which one may easily assure oneself by spending a little time in circles that make bold to laugh at appearances.
He became much more grave than he had ever been before, and those who knew him well were struck by an alteration in his appearance, noteasily defined at first, but soon visible to any one.
They are not easily surprised by anything, but they sometimes do not remember to which particular social set an idea, a story, or a prejudice belongs, especially if they are somewhat preoccupied at the time.
And indeed, she began, and the pen ran easily across the paper for a few moments.
We can easily arrange our lives differently, if you prefer it.
Antoinette instantly made up her mind to change her room, and easilytransformed one of the attics.
And after all, life was more easilybearable in Laon than in the country.
It might perhaps be thought that we were too easily resigned to fate, that we yielded too readily to the enemy's orders.
In a physical sense, you can easilypicture to yourself those revellers.
She would be glad, in time, to have crushed it for Elfrida, though it did seem that it would be more easily done for a stranger, somebody she wouldn't have to know afterward.
If Elfrida stamped herself less importantly upon the surface of Kendal's mind than he did upon hers, it may be easily enough accounted for by the multiplicity of images there before her.
She thinks you could easily get taken on to teach it.
Or perhaps not indefinitely--for two or three days--it was just possible that Frida might have had bad news and started suddenly for America by the early tram to Liverpool, in which case she might easily not have had time to write.
Englishmen pride themselves on the lack of logic which characterizes their slowly evolved institutions, but they mayeasily carry that pride to preposterous extremes.
The log-rolling and illicit pressure which this state of things would encourage may be easily imagined.
It is worth while to note that, even under a sane and normal Federal system, the Irish Constitution would be less easily alterable in either direction than under the plan of treating her as a self-governing Colony.
The material would have been rich and easily accessible.
The Ministers of the respective countries will be so easily accessible to one another that there would seem to be no need for the frequent attendance of a powerful personnel at joint meetings.
The tree is so large, and its branches so thick, that one hundred men may easily sit under its shade.
With her mind dwelling upon Zeke's supposed theft, however, she was more easily frightened than usual, and immediately jumped to the conclusion that there were burglars outside, trying to get in.
She was not, however, easily appalled by distinguished people, and she chatted lightly to the stranger.
The other girl moved smoothly and easily with the swinging gait of a strong young animal and held her head high to the cold wind that came over the open valley from the hills in the west.
Though she lived so near, she found little pleasure in going out to Bryn Mawr nowadays, for everything seemed changed and she felt nothing but resentment that the past should have been so easily forgotten, its ways so quickly superseded.
With all the races of man the expression of good spirit appears to be the same, and is easily recognized.
They have to learn to perform these acts, yet they are performed by us, when a little older, almost as easily as reflex actions.
With Europeans hardly anything excites laughter so easily as mimicry; and it is rather curious to find the same fact with the savages of Australia, who constitute one of the most distinct races in the world.
Browne also informs me of the case of an epileptic idiot, incapable of independent movements, and who spends the whole day in playing with some toys; but his temper is morose and easily roused into fierceness.
Forster says that "you may easily distinguish a spreading blush" on the cheeks of the fairest women in Tahiti.
The Anubis baboon (Cynocephalus anubis) was first insulted and put into a furious rage, as was easily done, by his keeper, who then made friends with him and shook hands.
Certain other gestures, which seem to us so natural that we might easily imagine that they were innate, apparently have been learnt like the words of a language.
He who is modest, and blushes easily at acts of this nature, does so because they are breaches of a firmly and wisely established etiquette.
There are also a great many wild buffaloes, which, if caught when young, can be easily tamed.
The negro is easily led; he is always inclined to follow the advice of those he trusts.
It is easily understood that, under such circumstances, Unionists of the consistent, uncompromising kind do not play an enviable part.
The animosities inflamed by a four years' war, and its distressing incidents, cannot be easily overcome.
As the most difficult of the pending questions are intimately connected with the status of the negro in southern society, it is obvious that a correct solution can be more easily obtained if he has a voice in the matter.
I have discovered that many object to the negro women's being educated lest they should be led to respect themselves, and not so easily be made the instruments of the white man's lust.
His own dead, amounting to no more than fifteen, were to be buried at the foot of the rock, a prisoner in the castle having described steps in the cliff by which the solemnity could easily be performed.
His strength was so great that he could easily have overcome any mortal man of his time, save one--Sir William Wallace!
Lord Buchan was easily persuaded to the seizure of the earl's person, as De Valence flattered him that the king would endow him with the Mar estates, which must now be confiscated.
He observed, that the woman who could be induced to betray her daughter to one man, would easily be bribed to repeat the crime to another, and under this impression, he accused the English nobleman of treachery.
Secure in his right, and averse to plunging his country in blood, Bruce easily fell in with a proposal insidiously hinted to him by one of Edward's creatures-'to require that monarch to be umpire between him and Baliol.
Wallace proposed sending to Rouen for a litter to carry him the more easily thither.
Scotland; and if we break them there, every minor link will easily give way.
Each opposing duty seemed only a vapor through which she could easilypass to the goal of her desire.
The Scottish chiefs easily understood that De Valence had given her the opposite intelligence, to impress her with an idea that she was friendless, and so precipitate her into the determination of becoming his wife.
The Raccoon is of a dark-gray Colour; if taken young, is easily made tame, but is the drunkenest Creature living, if he can get any Liquor that is sweet and strong.
We have a great many sorts of this Fruit, which all thrive to Admiration, Peach-Trees coming to Perfection (with us) as easily as the Weeds.
A Man near Sapona may more easily clear 10 Acres of Ground, than in some places he can one; there being much loose Stone upon the Land, lying very convenient for making of dry Walls, or any other sort of durable Fence.
By this cruel Method, the Indian Captive is hinder'd from making his Escape, for he can neither run fast or go any where, but his Feet are more easily traced and discover'd.
The Cranes are easily bred up tame, and are excellent in a Garden to destroy Frogs, Worms, and other Vermine.
His fine figure made him easilydistinguishable from the others; she, however, distinguished even more easily the figure of the Duc de Guise.
But somebody else--a wandering beggar--came, and easily bent the bow and sent an arrow through the steel.
You will easily believe that Midas lost no time in snatching up a great earthen pitcher (but, alas me!
Euryalus, who had still kept the third place, now sprang forward, and was easily victorious amid the applause of the crowd.
My limbs are no longer sound, nor do my arms move easily from my shoulders; and I must make way for younger men.
Burr said that he could easily answer these charges, and sent a message to Blennerhassett, telling him not to be disturbed.
A New York paper printed reports which stated that men were picking gold out of the earth as easily as hogs could root up groundnuts in a forest.
It was very strong, and yet could be carriedeasily by five men.
Eating such quantities of tallow is a great benefit in this climate, and we can easily see the effects of it in the comfort with which we meet the cold.
He knew that the gunners of the American fleet were good shots, and figured that they could easily demolish all that part of the Morro in which his cell was situated.
There was no bitterness in it, and no harm that he could not hope would easily be forgiven him.
The lot finally fell to a young yellow dog belonging to one of the boys, and the owner at once ran home to get him, and easily lured him back to the other boys with flatteries and caresses.
Love grows from it, a tender sapling, beautiful to look upon, but wondrous frail, easily broken, easily trampled on during those first years of wedded life.
Is Charity lending to the Lord something we can so easilydo without?
She is easily deceived, is wishful to be deceived.
They were among the few books she had ever read, and talking about them came easily to her.
But in the lonely passes of the Tyrol one man, set upon by three, might easily be robbed of his papers, and his body thrown over a precipice.
This armament of the windows could be effected all the more easily since the firing of grape-shot had ceased.
Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the willows.
One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom were over sixty years of age.
They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm them up, easily become monstrous.
The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her loins.
His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty.
This old man, who was so firm and so brave in the presence of such a danger, seemed to possess one of those natures which are as courageous as they are kind, both easily and simply.
Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thenardier's part.
The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.
