Once more, therefore, and once more in an unpromising and intractable material, we find the Church seeking to enforce the unity of the Christian principle and to reduce the Many to the One.
Non-union men coming out of the mill at noon for dinner, were repeatedly assaulted, the intractable element among the strikers caring little for the presence of the sheriff's officers.
What were the means you found most successful in bringing these turbulent and intractable spirits into subjection?
It has a curiously intractable disposition, and, even when captured very young, can scarcely ever be brought to bear a burden or draw a vehicle.
There are several passages of Scripture in which the Wild Ass is distinguished from the domesticated animal, and in all of them there is some reference made to its swiftness, its intractable nature, and love of freedom.
An envoy bore him the welcome news that the English, wearied by the intractable Corsicans, had evacuated the island of his birth; and he forthwith arranged for the return of many of the exiles who had been faithful to the French Republic.
Lucien, Louis, and even the youthful Jerome, had the same intractable pride which rose defiant even against Napoleon.
As thy great men are fighters and wranglers, so thy mighty things upon the earth and sea are troublesome and intractable encumbrances.
I am desirous of hearing what sort of feelings thou experiencest, when thou givest loose to thy intractable and unruly wishes.
But, intractable as was this recluse, Epicurus, I fear, is quite as lamentable.
Life springs not from the couch of Death, Nor Muse nor Grace can raise the dead; Unturn'd then let the mass remain, Intractable to sun or rain.
Doblington, and their half-fed pony horses and wretched implements were quite unable to cope with the intractable stubborn stuff they had selected.
But Jacky Hindmarch would defend his system against Mr. Mechi himself; there being no creature so obstinate or intractable as a pig-headed farmer.
Wild and intractable boys do not always grow up into bad citizens; but if they are taken in hand by the penal machinery of the State there is not much chance for them.
A drunk man may be a very helpless or a very intractable person, and little can be done for him till he is sober.
I was still at the same stage, hopelessly behindhand with the intractable alphabet, when my father, by a chance inspiration, brought me home from the town what was destined to give me a start along the road of reading.
Too much precipitation in turning over the intractable page might expose you to many a disappointment.
If not an affecting sight, it was one at least strongly indicative of the intractable and indurated attachment which put itself forth with such vague and illusive energy on behalf of his son.
Ennius compelled the intractable forms of Latin speech to accommodate themselves to the dactylic rhythm.
I will prove to you that they are one and all, a worthless and intractable set.
Literature had arrived at that second stage of which Conington speaks, [28] when thought finds language no longer as before intractable and inadequate, but able to keep pace with and even assist her movements.
This was natural, since with all his changes many long or intractable terminations remained, e.
The German language with all its richness is somewhat awkward and intractable for translation, especially from the English, which from being made up of various languages, possesses a peculiar facility in rendering foreign thoughts.
Their missionary labors had not been fruitful; they had made no converts, and were in despair at the intractable character of the objects of their zeal.
Their inhabitants were negroes, of a short squat make, and their heads covered with thick curled wool, being a bold, mischievous, and intractable race of savages.
When an instrument is introduced through an intractable stricture, and is left there either for some hours, or for some days, to excite what is called "suppuration" of the stricture.
The mental powers are enfeebled, the memory defective, and these intellectual alterations may exist in any degree, even to permanent and intractable forms of insanity.
It is generally asserted in books that the non-convulsive form is much more intractable than the other, but the above table proves the contrary, as, for example, in Nos.
Having been brought up in the belief that epilepsy was one of the most intractable of diseases, no one is more surprised than myself at the readiness with which it responds to treatment.
But as the President was himself one of the leading members of that Council, whose decisions were unanimous, the utmost that one can take for granted is that he strove to impose his tenets on his intractable colleagues and "lost the fight.
I had always expected trouble with the Baris, as I had known them during my former journey as a tribe of intractable savages.
The first steps in establishing the authority of a new government in a tribe hitherto savage and intractablewere of necessity accompanied by military operations.
Then addressing the vicar, said in her softest tones: "I regret extremely to trouble you, Sir, but I find Robert very intractable this morning with his Multiplication Table.
Her natural eloquence, the lightning flashes from her eyes, her reputation as a Spartan matron and an intractable Calvinist, all contributed to give her great influence with her party.
There is enough of bitterness, enough of injustice and perfidy in the dealings of men, enough of inconsistency and capriciousness in their intractable and contradictory humors--there is enough of it all, to disgust us.
Being treated like wild beasts, they became such; and joining the ardor of revenge to their yet untamed barbarity, they grew every day more intractable and more dangerous.
Barbarians, as Voltaire playfully called the French] should take the part of those insolent and intractable cits.
