It is much more likely, that the project of dividing South Britain among the houses of Glyndowr, Mortimer, and Percy, should have been entertained before the (p.
King's household, the King in his turn had entertained feelings of dissatisfaction towards his parliament; in consequence, no doubt, of the plain and unreserved manner in which they had given utterance to their sentiments.
She was charged with having entertainedmalicious and treasonable designs against the life of the King, her son-in-law.
The King had entertained suspicions in consequence of the Prince's excesses, and the great recourse of people unto him, of which his court (p.
Clark who took them to his home and entertained them as his guests.
Mrs. Gratiot, who was noted for her hospitality, took charge of the girls andentertained them lavishly at her home.
Has it not then become clear to you," resumed the doctor, "that Francesco entertained a criminal attachment towards the Italian Countess?
Would you believe, that after your imprisonment, Aurelia gave herself up to a mood of utter despondency, and became at last so ill, that we entertained serious apprehensions for her life?
I also believed her story that she had restored them to Sir Charles to be a falsehood, and I entertained no doubt whatever but that she would presently desert and leave me to my fate.
An instinct taught me that Sir Charles Venner entertained but small respect for women.
It says much for the estimate of patriotism entertained in Japan when the Constitution was promulgated that such a clause as this should have been considered necessary.
It can at least be said of Japan that it is the only nation in the world's history which has entertained such aspirations and has sought to give effect to them.
When the master was absent, Ciaran was deputed to take his place, which shows the high opinion then entertained by Finnian of his learning and holiness.
Moreover they entertained them cheerfully; and after that they had killed a ram of the flock, they set store of meat on the table.
You reject religion because Moses and Mahomet, Luther and Calvin entertained crude ideas of the plans and attributes of the Creator.
Maxwell are entertained by some very able medical men; but they violate the public understanding, and, as usual, the people are right and the specialists are wrong.
He did not condescend to ask the vicar whether he still entertained Miss Lake's proposal.
You have entertained the project of purchasing the Reverend William Wylder's reversion; and you have gone into electioneering business, and formed connections of that sort, without once doing me the honour to confer with me on the subject.
Rachel Lake, standing by the piano, turned over the leaves of the volume of 'Moore's Melodies' from which the artist in black whiskers and white waistcoat had just entertained his noble patroness and his audience.
The tenantry were afterwards handsomely entertained under the immediate direction of Josiah Larkin, Esq.
Haskalah itself was not impugned, and as theretofore translations and original works on science were encouraged, and the wish was entertained that "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Their disabilities were not removed, their condition was not improved, the hopes they entertained resolved themselves into pleasant dreams followed by a sad awakening.
Claudia was saying that one must assume all officers of either party to be gentlemen; but Lady Johnson entertained the proposition coldly, and seemed unwilling to invite Continental officers to a dish of tea.
It was plain that these troopers had no thought of precaution nor entertained any apprehension of danger on this road, which must lie in the rear of their army, and must also be their route of communication between the Lake and the Mohawk.
Mr. Craigie sometimesentertained a hundred guests at the Commencement festival, and had among his other guests the celebrated Talleyrand and the Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria's father, then Prince Edward.
He had to draw for this delineation not merely upon the Indians seen in books, but on those he had himself observed in Maine, the Sacs and Foxes he had watched on Boston Common, and an Ojibway chief whom he had entertained at his house.
He is entertained in every place, yet enters no farther than the door, to avoid suspicion.
For the Doctor she entertained so high a regard that nothing could exceed her indignation when any one save herself presumed to find fault with him.
In 1658 two young persons, son and daughter of Lawrence Smithwick of Salem, who had himself been imprisoned and deprived of nearly all his property for having entertained Quakers at his house, were fined for non-attendance at church.
But the fellow, not wishing to be so put off, bade him consider what the Scripture said touching the keeping of strangers, as some had thereby entertained angels unawares.
Among other schemes of reform he entertained the idea of converting all mankind to Christianity.
The woman who entertained us had lost her husband in the war, and having to see to the ordering of matters out of doors in this busy season of harvest, it was no marvel that she did neglect those within.
We landed on that called the Star, and were hospitably entertained through the day and night by Mr. Abbott, an old inhabitant of the islands, and largely employed in fisheries and trade, and with whom uncle had some business.
Sir Thomas entertained us by his lively account of things in Boston, and of a journey he had made to the Providence plantations.
The Countess du Bara, otherwise Corinne, entertained a few of the lesser lights of the Opera and two lean, hungry-looking critics she was cultivating against an hour of need.
This act of homage I did not decline any more than my companions, although I entertained great doubt whether the objects themselves are authentic.
Not less was the apprehension entertained by his son and successor, the reigning Emir, on his accession.
Without any interested motive, he had not only for a long time entertained me and five other pilgrims in his own {71} house, but had given me every explanation that I had required.
The Kassite aristocracy, however, appear to have entertained towards him a strong dislike, perhaps because he was so closely associated with their hereditary enemies the Assyrians.
I found he was still in life, but no hopes were entertained of his recovery.
Her husband said little, for heentertained some of his wife's scruples against giving a light at such a time.
This gentleman had entertained a different view in the previous volume; but after eight years’ experience, in Europe and America, he had the philosophical justice, boldly to amend his former opinions.
The object entertained is the influence of physical agents upon the changes which these animals pass through in their form and structure.
The quantities of chloride of sodium and chlorate of soda were not ascertained, no doubt being entertained that they were in the well-known proportions which occur when caustic soda is used.
Thinking it important to ascertain whether, by the removal of narcotine from opium, the unpleasant effects which, according to the opinions at present entertained upon that subject, are produced by that drug would be removed, Dr.
No doubt isentertained that, in the latter case, the common salt and sulphuric acid were not perfectly dry.
Then he was entertained at Amsterdam, and passed on to England as the guest of William III.
He entertained the guests of the Republic with magnificence, that they might be impressed by the security of his unlawful government.
They were royally entertained by the Catholic courtiers and lodged at night in fine apartments of the Louvre and other palaces.
Power, popularity, and praise quickly aroused all that was warped and excessive in his nature, and very soon, as he showed at the end of the year 37, he entertained an idea which must have seemed to the Romans a horrible impiety.
Consequently she entertained the idea of ruining the emperor herself in order to contribute to the elevation of his successor, and thus to preserve at his side the position which she had occupied in the court of Claudius.
He was an intelligent, active lad of whom all entertainedthe highest hopes.
Though retaining mere traces of organic structure, no doubt would be entertained as to their vegetable origin if they were found in fossiliferous limestones.
And all the jingling way home Michael tried to rescue from the labyrinth of his memory some definite conversational thread that would lead him to discover what he could have said that might conceivably have mildly entertained his host.
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