At this Congress Talleyrand would have to meet a formidable effort on the part of the diplomatists he had just discomfited, and skilfully to evade the inflated directions that the courtiers were pressing upon the King.
No doubt these also were forbidden by the September decree, but in regard to these at least it was possible to evade the measure.
It seems that the English merchants endeavoured to evade the custom duties in the Danish ports, particularly on their skins, woollen goods, and tin; on which they were siezed.
I tried to evade her questioning, but she pressed for an answer.
And did the other think to throw dust in his eyes with such mawkish sentimentalism--to evade this old tacit obligation by a flimsy pretence of moral scruple?
Rather it roused contempt--not for the son, whom he considered a brainless weakling, but for what seemed to him an arrant attempt to evade the issue that stood so sharply and insistently in his own mind.
And there was but one other road by which he could evade the issue.
While some deny the authority of these principles altogether, and of the very book which contains them, others are content to evade their force by certain ingenious devices of their own.
Wayland chooses to overlook or evade the bearing of that case upon his fundamental position; and the means by which he seeks to evade its force is one of the grossest fallacies ever invented by the brain of man.
But when he comes to reason about these words, which he finds it so impossible for any one to misunderstand, he is not without a very ingenious method to evade their plain import and to escape from their influence.
It would ill become this court to sanction such an attempt to evade the law, or to exercise an appellate power in this circuitous way, which it is forbidden to exercise in the direct and regular and invariable forms of judicial proceedings.
But Lucile felt more than ever like a bird who is vainly trying toevade the clutches of a fowler.
These people are all friends together, and will always help each other to evade justice.
He saw the boy's eyes glance furtively towards an alley that ran beside the blacksmith's shop a few rods ahead, and was convinced that he intended to evade him there.
Players should keep moving as much as possible all the time, and try to evade being captured.
In trying to evade a tagger the successive players may run in any direction, either left or right, outside the circle, but not pass in front of any one rank to another rank in such a manner as to induce wrong starts.
If these sheets could be taxed their distribution might become difficult, and when any one attempted to evadethe tax he could be punished, not as a libeller, but as a smuggler.
The man could not evade them, and in a moment he was knocked down.
It was too late toevade them: indeed he heard the hostess exclaim, "Well, I never!
Contriving to evade capture, he had wandered from village to village, and, reaching Weissembourg, had been sheltered there by a cottager until all his money was gone.
Neander makes a noticeable attempt to evade the difficulty caused by the changes in Christianity from 'various outward causes:' see his History of the Church, vol.
Why do men make so many shifts to evade a public trial of the doctrines, but a consciousness of being in an error which their pride does not suffer to be publicly exposed?
They issued licenses to fish, at low rates, for several years, only to find eventually that American fishermen did not think it worth while to buy these permits when they could evade the regulations with little difficulty.
Even Girod showed courage and ended his own life when he found that he could not evade the law.
One way to evade the serving was to sport the oak and remain in voluntary confinement.
He certainly knew what the Canadian law was, but perhaps hoped to evade it by means of some appeal to the courts or by exercising political pressure.
Christians own the establishments which pay us starvation wages; profit by politics, and take toll from our very vice; evade the laws and reap millions, while we are sent to jail.
It was in vain that man had tried to evade this, the supreme revelation of Jesus Christ, had sought to substitute ceremonies and sacrifices for spiritual rebirth.
This is the inexorable law of fate, and though they may be able for a time to evade its penalties, they are only enjoying a respite--their days are numbered, and the number is never large.
A queer combination--the same fast train hurrying one individual off that he might mete out justice and another that he might evade justice.
He at first seemed destined to evade them, as their human victim had done, but, like Wall, had at last faltered and so slowed up as to permit himself to be overtaken.
Knowing the lay of the land better than the officers did, he was able to evade them for a long time, and at the end of a week of as hard work as often falls to the lot of detectives, they overtook and captured him.
It was plain to every one that its purpose was to evade the Fifteenth Amendment, and disfranchise the illiterate voters of one race without disfranchising those of the other.
What is true of Mississippi in this respect is equally true of the other States in which schemes of various sorts have been invented and adopted to evade the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
They all said the dogs were the worst part of the outfit, that you might possibly evade the others, but that when the dogs got on your trail they were sure to find you.
And yet," said Amasis, "Death has for us too his terrors, and we do all in our power to evade his grasp.
They found it easy enough to evade the importunities of impudent fishsellers, and the friendly invitations of butchers, bakers, sausage and vegetable-sellers, and potters.
Womanlike, Alice attempted toevade what she most desired.
