Like mushrooms grow, whilst hapless we are forced To be content, nay, happy thought, with one.
The other day A mighty deluge swam into our hall, As if it meant to wash away the law: Lawyers were forced to ride on porters' shoulders: One, O prodigious omen!
How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate, And be forced to write hackney for bread!
The originators of the Retirement Association were forced to abandon their experimental fraternity scheme and to formulate a plan based more upon business principles.
The Association was forced by the defalcations of its treasurer to disband, and a new organization, the Switchmen's Union, was formed.
Similarly, the Conductors were forced to incorporate by the pressure of the state laws.
A local union was usually forced to impose certain restrictions upon claimants of benefits, either an initiation fee or a requisite term of membership, in order to protect its funds.
Members removing from one local union to another and drawing more sick benefits than they are allowed by the rules are thus detected and forced to make restitution.
There was something uncanny in the persistence with which that ruthless despoiler of peace forced his way into his dreams, to the absolute exclusion of all else.
Yet he had often recalled since then the night--that breathless night in August four years ago--when he and his dearest ambition had had their last battle, and he had forced it to cover.
Being entirely unable to compete with him in a war of words, he is usually forced to betake himself to dancing; which, compared with oratory, is frivolous.
I am forced to do more than I can and to bear all manner of ill-treatment from night to night; after which they take me back with my sides torn, my neck flayed, my legs aching and mine eyelids sored with tears.
We are revelling in the peace of the country, and have no drawback to our delight except the cold winds, which have forced us to put on winter clothing for the last four or five days.
People who write many letters without being forced to do so are fathomless wonders to me, but you have a special faculty for writing such letters as one cares to read, so it is a pity that the accomplishment should lie quite unused.
I am a very poor reader of advertisements, but even I am forced to get them unpleasantly by heart at the stations.
I trust you will not be forced to omit anything about his scientific and philosophical work, because that is the part of his life's labor which he most valued.
As to health, I am not quite so prosperous as I was at first, but to make amends, Mr. Lewes is in a good average condition, and only now and then has a morning in which he is forced to wander about instead of going to his beloved work.
He then stated the nature of his acquaintance with Stafford--his having forced his way into his house to request payment of a part of the debt which he owed him.
His cogitations had gone for nothing; and again the painful duty of pondering and devising, was forced upon the thick intestines of his gigantic head.
He was genuinely shocked to find himself feeling the repulsion which her lack of womanliness forced upon him.
Alvarado," John Stanley said, in so low a tone that she barely heard, thus forcedhimself to utter the name of the Spaniard for the first time since it had become to him an unspeakable thing.
She even forced herself to make some gruffly civil response when Lynn came back to dinner at noon, and hastened away again as soon as he could, with a few hurried, happy words and another gay smile and careless wave of his hand.
If the worst came to the worst, she could get the doctor to buy a new garment; he would know what to get and where to get it,--he would even loan her the money if she were forced to borrow.
And yet, although this was the case, she saw no reason for talking about a disagreeable thing which she was thus forced to put up with.
Desertion is the bitter hemlock of defeat that the vanquished are always forced to drink.
A good many men were banished and forced to leave the country, but they were of that class we could well spare.
We were forced to resort to all manner of shifts to live.
Smith that, in the event of a severance of the relations hitherto existing between the Confederated States of this Union, I would be forced to choose the old Union.
All this time our horses had nothing to eat but the sparse grass in that region, and we were forced to work our way down toward the Sacramento Valley, or to see our animals perish.
By the time the regulars hadforced the pigskin for the third time over their opponent's goal-line, the scrub seemed actually to be waking up.
Pushed hard and forcedto fight for a slender victory, they might have realized something of their weakness.
Vaguely he realized that they had been forced back again and again almost against their own goal-posts, and there had rallied, tearing formations to shreds and hurling back the enemy with the strength of despair.
The ball seemed to be dropping with the speed of a cannon-shot, but he forced himself to meet it without shrinking.
The stronger lad seized his rescuer about the neck and forced his head below the water.
It was as if the first dim realization of their errors was being forced upon them.
Groans, that seemed to tear his breast as they forced their passage, burst spasmodically from his lips.
Mrs. Linwood wasforced to yield; and when once her consent was given, mine was supposed to be granted.
Again the truth was forced from me by his unconquerable will,--a will that opened the secret valves of thought, and rolled away the rock from the fountain of feeling.
Like the sunshine that forced the wind-blown traveller to throw aside his cloak, the warmth of her kindness penetrated, but it also compelled.
I looked up and saw Richard Clyde, his student's robe of flowing black silk gathered up by his left arm, who had literally forced his way through a triple row of men.
I had never forced myself into his presence, for the dullness of his vow was upon me, and the hand that would have removed the icy barrier he had raised between us was numbed by its coldness.
Harlowe brought her some of that generous wine which had infused such life into my young veins, andforced her to swallow it, but it never brought any color to her hueless cheeks.
In a moment we were all down stairs, and our fire became so fatal they were forced to retire several times; but with desperate courage they returned to the attack.
But for some wise reason their prayer was not granted; and when their voyage was but little more than half accomplished she died, and they were forced to consign her loved form to a watery grave.
Deep as was the mother's grief, she was forced to place a restraint upon it that she might comfort her almost heart broken husband.
Some three months previous to the time when our story opens his employers were forced to dismiss him, as they could no longer employ him with any degree of safety to their business.
Miss Carlton still regarded her with a feeling of enmity and dislike; but as Emma seemed not to notice the many annoyances she experienced she was at length forced to desist, although the same resentful feeling remained in her heart.
Bank-notes must be paid, and to raise money to meet the claim he was forced to mortgage his house for nearly its full value.
The pinnace had sprung a leak, and they were forcedto stay and mend her to be ready for Captain Newport when he came to take them away.
Decision between conflicting parties had often been forced upon these noble earls, and been met openly, bravely, and loyally, whether or no the cause had prospered.
Smith regarded them as mutineers, and with five men landed among them and arrested the ringleaders; but they overpowered him, and forced him to retire on board of a vessel lying in the river.
But I am forced to altogether deplore his present attitude with respect to the liberal party, of which I, the humblest unit, am still a member, and as such grieved to the heart by every fresh utterance of his which comes to my knowledge.
The bill that had been proffered as a generous concession to Irish members, was now violently forced upon them without debate.
Into the second they forced back certain provisions that the Commons had with full deliberation decisively rejected.
It is no wonder that after his visit to Hawarden, he laboured hard at consideration of the problem that the strange action of government on the one hand, and the speculations of a trusted leader on the other, had forced upon him.
Went reluctantly to the House," he says in his diary, "and by the help of God forced out what was needful on the question of the adjournment.
We may as well, therefore, leave it alone, only observing that the necessity for the closure was probably the most unpalatable of all the changes forced on Mr. Gladstone by change in social and political circumstance.
But Northcote was forced on against his better judgment by his more ardent supporters.
The more I consider the question, the more I am forced in a direction contrary to my wishes.
Thus, by the Sultan's perversities and the fluctuations of purpose and temper in France, single-handed intervention was inexorably forced upon the one Power that had most consistently striven to avoid it.
For a few seconds nothing could be heard but the cracking of the undergrowth as we forced our way through it.
This I forced the patient to take, and after caring for him assiduously during a few hours, I had the satisfaction of noting a marked change for the better.
He was a man of fine intelligence, great earnestness, quick perception, and could make his dispositions as quickly as any officer, under difficulties where he was forced to act.
At this place he was met by the enemy's cavalry, supported by infantry, and forced to retire, with the loss of his artillery and trains.
Should Fort Fisher and the point of land on which it is built fall into the hands of our troops immediately on landing, then it will be worth the attempt to capture Wilmington by a forced march and surprise.
The position assumed by Hancock's corpsforced Lee to reinforce his left during the night.
Prior to the time of these encroachments the great majority of the people of the North had no particular quarrel with slavery, so long as they were not forced to have it themselves.
He had been forcedover to the Catharpin Road, crossing the Po at Corbin's and again at Wooden Bridge.
Hood may turn into Tennessee and Kentucky, but I believe he will be forcedto follow me.
On the 26th day of September, Price attacked Pilot Knob and forced the garrison to retreat, and thence moved north to the Missouri River, and continued up that river towards Kansas.
The corps will leave its position in the trenches as early in the evening, tomorrow, as possible, and make a forced march to Cole's Landing or Ferry, where it should reach by ten A.
The cavalry carried the works on the south side, and penetrated well in towards the town, but were forced to retire.
If you delay attack longer the mortifying spectacle will be witnessed of a rebel army moving for the Ohio River, and you will be forced to act, accepting such weather as you find.
The Duke was obliged to flee before the French soldiers, who forced their way into the town and took possession of it.
It was but a weary wandering life that awaited Leonardo after he was forced to leave his home in Milan.
Dreadful as it appeared to me that she should be induced to marry in this way, I forced myself to be silent until I learned that he whom she loved was free, and ready to make any atonement in order to obtain her hand.
Let me heal the wounds that obedience to heaven forced me to inflict upon you!
Then Mary Elton's words and his own dream forced themselves painfully upon him, and sounded like a warning which said, "Stop, before it is too late.
Nay, turn not flatterer, or I shall be forced to begin to doubt.
We read the debates, and my blood fairly boiled when I found what taunts and sneers, and epithets she was forced to endure.
The question of our rights is as clear to me as ever; but we must find a plan to get them without being forced to share, or even to SEE, all that men do in their political lives.
The conclusion was at last forced upon me that he had been endeavoring to commit suicide by a slow course of starvation and exposure.
I forced him, against his will, to say that he was a hired hand on this place, and that Susan must be content to be a hired housekeeper.
The words seemed to be forced from him by the strength of a fierce will.
A stranger then, in the plains of Castile, was either a fool who knew not when he was well off, or an unfortunate, whose misery at home forced him afield.
Should you show any signs of doing so, I am to say, Don Luis will be forced to consider you outside the pale of civilisation, and to treat you without any kind of toleration.
But she did not turn her head to look at Manvers until the Judge forced her.
The old gentleman forced himself, after much squeezing and puffing off steam, through the narrow aperture, and very gallantly lent a hand to assist Flora on to the leads.
This matter settled, he wiped his mouth with the cuff of his jacket, and assumed a look of vulgar consequence and superiority, which must have forced a smile to Flora’s lips had she been at all in a humour for mirth.
There was not a particle of pretence about him,—of forced growth or refined cultivation; a genuine product of the soil, a respectable man in every sense of the word.
No wife of mine shall have it to say that she was forced to mend my rags.
Flora tried to appear cheerful, but the forced smile upon the tutored lips, rendered doubly painful the tears kept back in the swollen eyes; the vain effort of the sorrowful in heart to be gay.
Just at this time Flora fell ill, and was forced to keep her bed for several days.
Strange dogs forced their way in after their masters, and fought and yelped in undisturbed pugnacity.
He dreaded to be forced into a position of illegality and revolt, because it would enable his enemies to outlaw him.
It forced men to conclude that authority was odiously stupid and still more odiously ferocious, that existing governments were accursed, that the guardians and ministers of law, divine and human, were more guilty than their culprits.
Amongst these interpretations we shall have to pick our way; but there are many questions of detail on which I shall be forced to tell you that I have no deciding evidence.
In studying this group of public men, men to whom the future belonged, we are forced to admit the element of national character.
The Législative, having accepted their action, was forced to obey their commandments, and to rescind its decrees at their pleasure.
At last the rolling of the sea forced the unconquered enemies to part.
He had been weakened by the overthrow of the Girondins whom he wished to save, and was forced to abandon.
The Hébertists had proposed that the entire population should beforced into the army, more particularly the richer class.
He advised that the king, when driving out, should be forced by the people to go home; or better still, that a mob should be gathered in the court of the Tuileries to prevent him from going out.
On the 14th Clerfayt, with the Austrians, forced one of the passes, and turned the French left.
For some reason this fellow hated me as only sailors who areforced to live together on long voyages know how to hate.
This done--and it was accomplished in a day--the porch was straightened and the lopsided wallsforced into place.
Not a second was lost as Blake opened his throttle and forced his plane into a steep climb.
Gently he clung to them as the larger men forced their way between the milling groups of excited Europans.
He forced the gag into my mouth, tied it, and verified that my ankles and wrists were securely lashed.
And the world, in wonder and consternation, was forcedto believe.
He found the resistance to be greatest at the place where the door locked, and at this point he forced the instrument in the crevice and broke off a piece of the wood about an inch wide from the edge of the door.
If forced to submit, she would scream and struggle as if for life.
