Then I would get up and go back to work, haunted by the terrible fear that excess of fatigue might have made my eye less keen, my hand less steady than imperious duty required.
Why should Northerner affront Southerner byimperious demands, when the same end might be attained by a compromise which would not cost either dear?
This imperiousforcing of eschatology into history is also its destruction; its assertion and abandonment at the same time.
He was not teacher, not a casuist; He was an imperious ruler.
Time and opportunity favored a conspiracy against the imperious Queen, and the first attack was made on her brother, the Archbishop of Colocza.
Nothing could excuse these hurly burly ways save only my love, our uncertainty regarding my future presence, and the imperious quality of my duties.
Be so good, then, as to open your business at once," said Harold, in a tone of imperious indifference.
Mrs. Transome, whoseimperious will had availed little to ward off the great evils of her life, found the opiate for her discontent in the exertion of her will about smaller things.
She had that high-born, imperious air which would have marked her as an object of hatred and reviling by a revolutionary mob.
Her cheeks blazed with sudden rage, her passion was so furious that she actually did what he wanted and stood out of his way, and made him an imperious sign to pass on and leave her.
This has lasted long enough," he said, in his abrupt imperious way.
He will take the whole prejudice of manhood upon himself, and, to the utmost of his power, imprison and torture her by its imperious rigors.
Imperious circumstances, the evident interest of her family, or the danger of suffering celibacy, may explain such a resolution.
The flashing, imperious expression that so well became her bold beauty at other times had given place to a shy and blushing softness, inexpressibly charming to her lover.
The exercise of the tongue is wanting, and to some it is an imperious need, so that they will talk to the most uncongenial human beings, or even to parrots and dogs.
His outlook, usually so clear, was blurred by these considerations, and he lacked the strength to force the suggestions which he made in the autumn of 1853 upon his imperious colleagues.
The first occasion was in 1755 when, stimulated by his imperious consort Louisa Ulrica, sister of Frederick the Great, he tried to regain a portion of the attenuated prerogative, and nearly lost his throne in consequence.
Although she possessed a proud and imperious nature, combined with great personal beauty and much natural hauteur, she soon became as gentle as a lamb.
But I ought to say that at that time of my life I had developed into a strangely imperious little chap.
It is quite impossible for an imaginative writer to avoid the imperious suggestions of his memory when he is conceiving a character.
Mr. Watts-Dunton has always contended that Tennyson's sensibility to criticism was the result, not of imperious egotism, but of a kind of morbid modesty.
Arriving at the walls, he demanded in his usual imperious tone that the door be opened.
The unconstitutional Stamp Act was welcomed in the Colonies by the Tories of that day precisely as the unconstitutional Slave Act is welcomed by large and imperious numbers among us.
Thus sacrificing one class to the other, both were injured,--the imperious Spartan and the abased Helot.
That time, however, is not come; and imperiouscircumstances point out to each one his particular road.
By degrees, he grew less civil, assumed a more imperious air, became fault-finding and captious, and seemed ready for an outbreak.
It is not unlikely that he would have been as good as his word, so prompt was the second, who had borne the challenge from Temple to Whately, to give free play to his irascible and imperious nature.
Bailly firmly resisted the imperious solicitations of his former patron, and refused even to absent himself from the Academy on the day of the nomination.
Were it not for the imperious duty that made us undertake this journey, I would say to you: 'Let's return to our peaceful home in Nantes, where you are happy and gay from morning to evening.
Any person by giving serious consideration to the subject will soon be convinced of its great importance, and the imperiousnecessity of action.
The duchess turned a look of grief towards her haughty lord; but, accustomed to obey hisimperious commands, she retired to her room.
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