Lacking money and patronage, known only as an able officer and facile intriguer of the bankrupt Jacobinical party, he might well have despaired.
Her facile fondnesses certainly welled forth far too widely to carve out a single channel of love and mingle with the deep torrent of Bonaparte's early passion.
The revolutionary motto, "La carrière ouverte aux talents," was never more conspicuously illustrated than in the facile condoning of his offences and in this rapid promotion.
Stones which easily melt in hot furnaces and sand which is made from them" (lapides qui in ardentibus fornacibus facile liquescunt arenae ab eis resolutae).
A light and facile humour, a power of giving a pleasant little sparkle even to sufficiently commonplace sayings, is in this country the rule and not the exception.
Messer Andrea could say things with a certain facile grace that kept them from rankling, and at the moment the utterance of this truth was of consequence.
Had this disbanding been deftly suggested to the facile King by his friend, the arch-schemer of Naples?
The only passage in which the knowledge of God is described as the immediate prize of man's own pursuit is that prayer of the people on whose facile religiousness Hosea pours his scorn.
This too facile repentance is expressed in a prayer which the Christian Church has paraphrased into one of its most beautiful hymns of conversion.
And yet, after the scene between Arthur and himself, he saw cause to fear that he might not be able to exercise a sufficient authority over his son, however naturally facile and obedient, to prevent his return to the house of death.
It was clear, even to his experience, that he was not likely to find another employer as facile as Mr. Stubmore; and wherever he went, he felt as if his Destiny stalked at his back.
Since Adam, and hisfacile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me.
This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway.
Ready; quick; expert; as, he isfacile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.
Such are the childish excesses to which a playwright will presently descend when once he begins to dally with facile convention.
Unfortunately, owing to the author's over-facile and over-hasty method of work, they are now and then a little out of drawing.
What is here required, from the point of view of craftsmanship, is not so much a glorification of the tragic ending, as a warning against its facile misuse.
That is one of the facile axioms of psychological incompetence.
Tragedy soon fell back upon the fatally facile unrhymed iambic, and a reign of stilted, stodgy mediocrity set in.
So to speak, the discharge begins in darkness, and the light is a mere consequence of the quantity which, after discharge has commenced, flows to that spot and there finds its most facile passage (1418.
The emotional appeal of journalism, even more than that of the stage, isfacile because it is pure, and transitory because it is second-hand.
His facile talent adapted itself to every style in turn.
Goldoni, on the other hand, suited the temper of the growing age by his simplicity, his truth to nature, his realism, and the freshness of eternal youth which lends charm to the facile productions of his amiable genius.
Some of my seniors, on whom a career of facile pleasure had left its inevitable stigma, used to twit me with being a reserved young simpleton.
He had talked so much, had listened to so much talk from others, that the dream of a restored monarchy had at last been raised to those far realms of the barely possible in which the Gallic fancy wanders in moments of facile digestion.
The remark was made with the cynical honesty of dishonesty which had so lately been introduced into France by him who was now Dictator of that facile people.
To Mr. Dormer Colville they gave the upward lift of the chin as to a person too facile in speech to be desirable.
She laughed appreciatively at his facile jests and gave him provoking glances of her bright eyes.
He could not help wondering whether those frank blue eyes and that facile smile did not conceal a nature as shallow as Fred Allerton's.
All through his boyhood Peter had been drawing, with a facile hand, caricatures, fleeting hints of homely life, but always likenesses.
Rose had answered with a touch of harshness strangely contrasted with her facile ways.
For, after all, he concluded she had not moved hisfacile imagination very much more than had other girls of various sorts, whose souvenirs lay now in cinders on his hearth, and long since had turned to ashes in his heart.
So he started to pick up his hat, thinking as fast as he could all the while; and his facilewits saved him at the last moment.
