The extra expenses this involved were very heavy; but I went to great pains to impress Meser with my belief in the success of my work.
He also informed me that he had not only reprimanded them very severely, but that he had also been at great pains to pacify them concerning me.
Yet Mr. MacCarthy is at great pains to show how the Oxonian Shelley may have come to imagine that the cruelly entreated Mr. Finerty was editor of the paper, with which he in fact is not known to have had any professional connexion.
And sitting down by her, he was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised, and persuade her to speak openly.
The doctor was at great pains to point out the folly and ignorance of Pallet in private to Peregrine, who was often conjured in the same manner by the painter, to take notice of the physician's want of manners and taste.
They had sent word of their coming, and the good French King had promised to be at great pains to receive them.
But above all Sir Eustace de Ribeaumont was at great pains to meet us worthily, and he was at handstrokes with the King for a long time.
However it be, I have been often put out of Countenance by the Shortness of my Face, and was formerly at great Pains in concealing it by wearing a Periwigg with an high Foretop, and letting my Beard grow.
He said he had certain advice by letters from the army, that the enemy's generals had been at great pains to provide themselves with maps of France, in order to examine at what part they could best enter it.
He made also some lines on the chest to which he owed his liberty, and in the latter part of his life was at great pains to recover it[116].
Then his harsh tone had been due to a sense of futility in having been at great pains to preserve for this foolishly dressed and apparently empty-headed young woman a very great property.
Evidently he liked the young man, for he was at great pains to point out to him everything of interest and to explain certain historic monuments that they passed.
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