At the same time, it hoped to intimidate the urban mob by bringing into Rome, from all parts of Italy,[586] the citizens upon whom it relied.
As to their cavalry, they will surely not dare to move away from the column; that of the Gauls must show so much the more ardour, as the infantry, ranged before the camp, will be there to intimidate the enemy.
In reality, however, Napoleon hoped to intimidate the Austrian statesman, and to gather from him the results of his recent interview with the Czar.
If he began by giving up towns, they would demand kingdoms, whereas by yielding nothing he would intimidate them.
Such a confession of weakness, urged Müffling, would dishearten the troops andintimidate the Austrian statesmen who had promised speedy succour.
Dmitri, who had never seen the elder, naturally supposed that his father was trying to intimidate him, but, as he secretly blamed himself for his outbursts of temper with his father on several recent occasions, he accepted the challenge.
At first he almost flew at me and tried to intimidate me, but as soon as he saw the money he had begun embracing me; he kept touching me with his hands.
If she expected to intimidate him she was disappointed.
In a few days he arrived off Boulogne, where he instructed the artillery to make as much noise as they could with their guns, in order that he might intimidate the foe, and encourage himself by the roaring of his own cannon.
He was brave, and he liked the idea of personal danger, with which some of the more cautious tried to intimidate the violent among the masters.
We seek a Persian Gulf where conflict is no longer the rule, where the strong are neither tempted nor able to intimidate the weak.
I am your equal: think you to intimidate me with threats?
Danger cannot intimidate me; what you meet and suffer, that will I encounter.
The inner meaning of all this, was the desire to discredit the new Chairman, and intimidate him, lest he should show a bold front against the shameless obstruction on which the Tories had resolved.
This punishment served to intimidate those among the inhabitants who were engaged in the conspiracy, and disconcerted the plans of the king of Achin.
About this period the chiefs took umbrage at his interfering in matters of trade, contrary to what they asserted to be the established custom of the realm, and assembled their forces in order to intimidate him.
Was it not, then, the shout the warriors make when they wish tointimidate their enemies?
After much studying, he had at last planned something that, while it would not directly touch Mary herself, would at least serve to intimidate her, and as well make further action easier against her.
The lawyer was furious over the failure of his effort to intimidate this extraordinarily self-possessed young woman, who made a mock of his every thrust.
Burr misread Daviess if he believed such tactics would intimidate or embarrass him.
The discontented Aragonese, despairing of redress in any regular way, resolved to intimidate their oppressors by some appalling act of violence.
The Montagnards overran the departments to deceive or intimidate the people.
Yet I suspect that the greater part of those who voted for it did not intend more than to intimidate the bishops.
It was suggested therefore by some crafty lawyers that a judgment of forfeiture obtained against the corporation of London would not only demolish that citadel of insolent rebels, but intimidate the rest of England by so striking an example.
But for some time the two parties stood face to face, seeking to cajole or intimidate one another.
Retiring in some confusion, he regains his presence of mind among the soldiers outside, and enters the hall of the Five Hundred, intending to intimidate them not only by threats, but by armed force.
With a view to intimidate those who were planning an attack, I occasionally fired toward the sea an eight-inch howitzer, loaded with double canister.
One of the editors said, in reference to it, "Make ready your sharpened stakes, but you will not intimidate freemen.
Even little insects intimidate doughty warriors, or assure them that they are far from danger, by their appearance or their cry.
They were enough to intimidateone unaccustomed to the creature's appearance.
The Parliament backed up the cry for reform, and Mazarin, to check and intimidate it, decided to arrest two of its most prominent members.
After the assassination of Henry of Guise at Blois, he planned reprisals against Henry III and sought to intimidate the Parliament, which would have made submission to the King, by making its members prisoners in the Bastile.
Whoever has sunk his fortune in the purchase of an office soon recovers his losses by means of exactions which are not punished, so as not to intimidate those who may wish to become office-holders.
They grant the existence of a hell, but the priests never mention the torments prepared for the wicked, lest they should intimidate the feeble minded.
On observing this, Murray ordered his party at once to fire a volley, which would inspirit their friends, and intimidate the enemy.
Jesus, like our modern teachers, for want of better arguments proceeded to intimidate his audience, knowing well that fear prevents the exercise of reason.
They changed their ground, and, to intimidate the governor, told him that by suffering the accused to live he betrayed the interests of his master.
Speak of the end of the world: this will intimidate women and poltroons.
