The primate, who, as all the others, had shown fealty to Matilda, refused to perform this ceremony; but his opposition was overcome by an expedient equally dishonourable with the other steps by which this revolution was effected.
In many native broils and in the British campaign of 1881 he had shownhimself a capable leader.
From the earliest days of the campaign, when he first faced Methuen upon the road to Kimberley, he had shown that he was a most dangerous antagonist, tenacious, ingenious, and indomitable.
In the meantime, both President Kruger and his burghers had shown a greater severity to the political prisoners from Johannesburg than to the armed followers of Jameson.
He had shown a disposition to give lands to the French.
He had shown himself a zealous defender of the Church against heresy, and was the author of edicts for the suppression of heathenism, and for the destruction of heathen temples and idols.
Earlier in his reign Tiberius had shown a serious purpose to improve the administration of justice, but with the lapse of years he became distrustful and cruel.
Moffatt was seated behind his desk, examining another little crystal vase somewhat like the one he had shown Ralph a few weeks earlier.
His counsel had been most valuable in Gilbert's equipment, especially in the knotty question of horses, and he had shown himself so amiable and rational that Mr. Kendal was quite delighted, and rejoiced in committing Gilbert to his care.
And when he had obtained every thing he desired, by reason of Isaac's good nature, who preferred the earlier friendship Abimelech had shown to himself and his father to his later wrath against him, he returned home.
Old as he was, and prone to cynic indifference as he had shown himself, he was affected almost like a young girl.
Since his extravagance he had shown himself to be an industrious, sensible, steady member of society;--and there was the money that he had earned!
There had come to be necessity for complicated woodwork below the surface, and he had shown himself to be a skilled miner.
Charles Critchlow, enveloped safely in the armour of his senile egotism, had shown no emotion, and very little activity.
It was characteristic that he had shown no curiosity whatever as to the details of Sophia's arrival.
His father having taken him to Daniel Povey's opposite, to choose cakes, he had shown, by his solemn and fastidious waverings, how seriously he regarded the affair.
When Doña Ximena and her daughters heard this, they set their knees to the ground, and lifted up their hands and thanked God for the favour he had shown to the Cid, and to them with him, in giving him the Lordship of Valencia.
Then the honourable Moors rose and kissed his feet and his hands for the mercy which he had shown to the son of Abeniaf; and they took out Abeniaf to stone him, and other twenty and two with him.
Mr. G---did not once depart from the ready kindness that he had shown.
I had shown you no kindness for your private self: it was because you thought I had been of some little service to your friends, that you came to help me thus, and help me you did, from death to life.
And yet he had shown a quality, a facility, a promise, that had gained him a foothold and a support in the world of books and of the making of books.
Why, he thought, it is just as if I had shown it to Brad himself--apiece of confidence that he could not bring himself to.
The Duke of Savoy had been treacherous to us, had shown that he was in league with the Emperor.
Coislin was praised for the firmness he had shown.
They came in another instant, but with less steadiness than he had shown before.
First thanking him for his disinterestedness, I remarked that he had shown me so much consideration as a lawyer, that I now felt emboldened to ask something from him as my friend.
Seemingly, he had been in the engine-room; since the beginning of the cruise he had shown a fancy for both the engine-room and the engineer.
He had shown a quality which no youth could have shown.
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