For the Jesuits had no love for the king's minister Choiseul--and the madcap girl was but the lure whereby the king was to be drawn from his great minister.
When they now reached one of the principal squares, the madcap chase came to an end.
As they do not return from such a Commers, at the earliest, till the noon or the evening of the next day, all kind of follies and madcap playfulness are resorted to, to make the time pass merrily.
The madcap figure in white went forward to the door, while Wat remained behind cackling helplessly with idiot laughter.
And at Poole town, when his madcap daughter comes aboard at Branksea, as she ever does, I warrant it that she makes the fur to fly.
He, I believe, has stirred the Prince up either to ambition or to jealousy, and I should not wonder if I were arraigned as traitor as a preliminary to some madcap exploit of Sigurd's.
No sooner said than done, the madcap leaped out of the saddle and was standing before us as she finished the last sentence.
She noticed my overwrought condition, and I believe my madcapherself was a little touched.
You would not tell me that such a madcap as you are can care to go poking about in those damp underground passages, listening to an old Cardinal's fabulous legends of this Roman nonsense?
He is at the same time a general and a private soldier, a madcap and a Ulysses.
One of the most pitiful calamities that ever could have befallen a human being had happened to beautiful, hapless Madcap Dorothy.
She was wild and willful Madcap Dorothy no longer.
Though they called her 'Madcap Dorothy,' yet every one loved her for her bright, winning ways.
I wonder what he can find about me to hold me still dear in his eyes, for I am no longer pretty, willful, madcap Dorothy, as they once called me.
One of the madcap friends of Zoe was to be a singing-girl.
I should like to have seen that noble old madcap Peterborough in his boots (he actually had the audacity to walk about Bath in boots!
Meanwhile he reigns master of the forest; the joyous sound of his silver horn replies to the birds' songs; the young madcapbounds with the roe and overthrows the deer.
Flamingo kept his eye en him very earnestly, while a small twitch of his cheek, just below his eye, every now and then, and a slight lifting of the corner of his mouth, showed that the madcap was waiting in expectation of some fun.
He began by being persuasive and argumentative, and when that availed nothing, he insinuated threats, when a grand row broke out, and the madcap ordered him out of her room.
The wind played madcap games--now leaping high into the heavens, now rushing low along the earth.
Nor will Shakespeare allow his "madcap Prince" even to play "drawer" with hearty goodwill.
I have no son; your Uncle Franz, who is but a year or two younger than I am, would reign, and he would not tolerate your madcap ways.
The beautiful madcap who took the duchy by the ears, every now and then, and tweaked them!
Where was the old mother whom that madcap girl teased and petted and delighted?
He had quite forgotten that this self-possessed, clear-eyed, pale girl was the madcap coquette whose caprices and griefs had alternately fascinated and moved him on the previous evening.
He had looked upon it simply as one of the madcap undertakings which his troopers were always ready for, and in which he liked to please them when he could do so.
May the foul fiend take you for tempting me to this madcap raid!
Yet the Ensign was not such a madcap as his countrymen declared him, nor such a fool as his foes supposed.
In keeping with this wonderful “spasm of good behavior” is the sudden change that came over the Madcap as soon as he became King Henry V.
He admired Miss Fisher's dash and courage and buoyant spirit of enjoyment, and, having a good horse, he pressed Madcapto his best devoir.
Then, her foot being held by the stirrup perhaps, she might be dragged by Madcap or brained by one blow of the ironshod hoofs.
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