The latter answered, he should act as events should dictate; and is, in consequence of this species of menace from Prussia, arming himself.
What is the difference between thrashing the wretches who would harm a weak and defenceless woman, and helping your country to thrash that German bully who is a menace to Europe?
The God of War must be killed, and this menaceto the peace of Europe must be destroyed.
The sword must never be sheathed until this military god, which had turned all Europe into an armed camp, and which had made Germany a menace to the world, should never be able to lift its ghastly head again.
But that did not make this German menace any the less dangerous.
Must this great immoral force be allowed to menacethe world?
No, it is not right that these Germans should be a menace to Europe and the world; but do we not believe in God?
Of course the Emperor was sincere and conscientious in all this mountebankism, but he was a menace and a blighting danger all the same.
But Japan is no more of a menace to us than we are to her.
Any railroad scheme which might become a competitor by diverting freight from Manchurian lines owned by Japan would be a menace to Japan's sovereignty.
Now, South Manchuria and Mongolia are the gate by which this direful influence may effect its penetration into Japan and the Far East to the instant menace of their security.
And the talk of Japan as a menace is largely due to the fact that Japan has grown out of the lowly state in which her exclusionists had placed her for two hundred and fifty years.
But for the time being, her only right to a voice in the destinies of Asia is found in her industrial leadership of the East, but that is a leadership which is fraught with more menace to Japan than to the world.
And after that their baying came fainter and fainter as the big grizzly led them swiftly away from the menace of man in a long and thrilling race from which more than one was doomed not to return.
Whatever themenace was it was drawing nearer with the swiftness of the wind.
The first growl of menace that passed between the two came from the black.
I feare the Guisians have past the bridge, And meane once more to menace me.
Did he not cause the King of Spaines huge fleete, To threaten England and tomenace me?
Foreign merchants and keener observers than I find in it other and sinister meaning,--the most formidable menaceto Occidental trade and industry ever made by the Orient.
The mercantile buildings--immense by comparison with the low light Japanese shops--seem to utter the menace of financial power.
But he could understand its cost in terms of human pain, feel the menace of its weight, and divine the prodigious range of its intellectual power.
Simply says that the rat menace is increasing, cites several business houses where the rodents have done a great deal of damage, and offers to give our warehouses complete protection for five thousand a week.
With a grunt the tanks heaved their prodigious menace on.
The distant guns beat their menace more insistently into the room.
He looked at me with his filmy eyes, and that faint smile that had more of menace in it than a panther's snarl.
There was not a menace anywhere from the cloudless skies to the sweet and plaintive chant to Kiwassa, sung by women and floating to us from the woods beyond the hollow.
You leave that horse on the main street again and I'll arrest him for being a menace to the public health and safety," the constable threatened Jim angrily.
The constable threatened to arrest the horse as a menace to public safety but further thought convinced him that the doughty mustang would doubtless kick his way out of jail in short order.
It will impose upon our peace-loving people a large standing army and unnecessary burden of taxation and a constant menaceto their liberties.
The political power of the Mormon Church in the territories as exercised in the past is a menace to free institutions, a danger no longer to be suffered.
The Tycoon's officers had in all this one definite object in view, which was to induce the foreign squadrons then menacing Yedo to transfer themselves to Osaka and Hiogo and menace some one in that part of the empire.
With tears in his eyes he deplored his impotence to respond to the invitation of China under such a truculent menace to "his children in France.
Everybody had been warned a thousand times of the danger of leaving the paralytic, whose life depended on his position, and whose fidgetiness was thereby a constant menace of death to him.
The mere existence of Gerald Scales was a menace to her.
With whose reproch and odious menace 6 The knight emboyling in his haughtie hart, Knit all his forces, and gan soone vnbrace 8 His grasping hold: so lightly did vpstart, And drew his deadly weapon, to maintaine his part.
They broke down utterly in the presence of those forces of evil which now menace the very fabric of civilization.
We knew before that the bubonic plague in Calcutta was a menace to San Francisco; we know now that the cult of militarism in a single group in Germany can crucify mankind.
We have come to see that the latter may be as great a menace to the world as the former is a vital resource.
A man who is afraid to meet you at your own home, and appoints a tryst in the park, or a down-town restaurant, is as much of a menace to your happiness as a pestilence would be to your health.
He hears the hurrah of their cruel chase in every tone of sudden speech; he sees the menace of a blow in every shadow.
We would pounce upon a smallpox case soon enough wherever it might lurk, but we are strangely indifferent where the menace is only to the soul.
It is all a mistake, it seems to me, to make death a menace and a dread in the minds of the young.
A moment later the girl stood beside him--for a moment at least free from the menace of his lust.
Her first task was to explore the ship, and this she did, her rifle ready for instant use should she meet with any human menace aboard the Kincaid.
He would have wagered his soul that no power on earth could have tempted that great coward to face the unknown menace of the hut.
For several days the vessels were a continual menace to the passage of American supplies, but on the 20th the squadron sailed for Oswego.
Combined as they are, the power of the great moneyed corporations of this country is a standing menace to the liberties of the people.
The imminence of working-class action was an ever present and disturbing menace to the capitalists.
They denounced Vanderbilt as a bandit whose methods were a menace to the community.
Aside from beggary and petty crimes their only source of income was the sale of their votes, and this made them a real menaceto the Republic.
The inconvenience here was due to the fact that the seats had to be erected before each performance and removed after it, a delay to business if they were constructed carefully and a menace to life if they were put up hastily.
But his hands fumbled in untying the rope which had bound her to him, and he became conscious of an affrighting lassitude which brought with it a grimmer menace than the howling furies of the reef.
The silent, nerve-racking menace of the canopied rock was quite as unbearable as the loud-mouthed threats of sea and reef.
This measure was calculated to alarm and irritate the colonies generally, for the alteration of the charter of one of them would be taken as a menace to the constitutional liberties of all.
Catherine replied that she would only agree on condition that England would not assent to the Fürstenbund, which was a menace to her Austrian ally.
The Northmen were a perpetual menace and scourge to England and Scotland.
So actively was my imagination at work that I felt again the menace which so long had hung over me; I felt as though that murderous yellow cloud still cast its shadow upon England.
The very menace that I sought to avoid reached me somehow.
The old man had risen; as he spoke, he fixed on his son a look which had something of menace in it, but even this reproach, which at another time would have aroused Ulric to angry defiance, now failed to ruffle his gloomy composure.
Gradually Ulric unclenched his right hand; gradually the wild look of menace vanished from his countenance and his eyes sought the ground.
Again there was the same abrupt transition from ruthless menace to almost supplicating entreaty which had disarmed her once already.
She knew that the menace in those glittering eyes was not for her, but it was not for herself she trembled.
The threat contained in his words was terrible enough, but there was a still worse menace in his look.
