The enemy occupy their thoughts; they have no leisure for domestic dissentions.
The mathematician is only to be amused with intricate problems, the lawyer and the casuist with cases that try their subtilty, and occupy their judgment.
We know that he may be employed on a great variety of subjects, which occupy different passions; and that, in consequence of habit, he becomes reconciled to very different scenes.
Fear, therefore, is the principle which qualifies the subject to occupy his station; and the sovereign, who holds out the ensigns of terror so freely to others, has abundant reason to give this passion a principal place with himself.
Men, in general, are sufficiently disposed to occupy themselves in forming projects and schemes; but he who would scheme and project for others, will find an opponent in every person who is disposed to scheme for himself.
It has been reserved to signalize the lives of a Cato or a Brutus, on the eve of fatal revolutions; to foster in secret the indignation of Thrasea and Helvidius; and to occupy the reflections of speculative men in times of corruption.
When we compare the particulars which occupy mankind in the beginning and in the advanced age of commercial arts, these particulars will be found greatly multiplied and enlarged in the last.
This was the rule followed at Sparta: the object of the rule was, to preserve the heart entire for the public, and to occupy men in cultivating their own nature, not in accumulating wealth, and external conveniencies.
Belle, with her husband and boys, would occupy Sunnybank while we were away.
Phillips was more successful as a portrait painter: his likenesses are faithful, his pictures free from faults, and possess a pleasant tone, though as a colourist he does not occupy a high place.
He determined to weary out the man if he could, while he on his part went up to his own old bedroom, which he used to occupy when he came home from school while his father and mother were in town.
But you occupy a very curious position, young gentleman, a very curious position, and everything naturally looked very black against you.
But I am not going to preach at you; and it is better that you should take it to heart--you in particular, Andrew Forbes, for you occupy a peculiar position here.
It is for you to occupy it all, if you think proper.
Rachael and Sissy, leaving Mrs. Pegler to occupy a bed at her son's for that night, walked together to the gate of Stone Lodge and there parted.
The soothsayers are the exponents of divine omens to the community, and occupy a kind of official position, like the Hebrew prophets.
In the cities this separation is evident the blacks occupy definite districts, while the social separation is complete.
They occupy the black prairie of Alabama and Mississippi, and the lands of the river states with a smaller population in the Oak Hills of Texas, the red lands of Tennessee and some of the limestone district of Kentucky.
The mediæval glaziers had considered the position which their glass was tooccupy in the Cathedral.
Now that I have retired permanently from the stage in order to devote my time exclusively to writing, my only business engagement is a series of lectures at the university, where, as you know, I occupy the chair of Dramatic Literature.
It was all very exciting and gratifying to a person possessed of an inordinate ambition to have a worthy shrine ready the moment his goddess evinced the slightest willingness to occupy it.
The cottage weoccupy was formerly the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Eustace Carey.
Price urged their going immediately to the house he had just erected; but it was of brick, and the walls still so damp that they did not dareoccupy it.
It is built round a quadrangle, and the apartments used by Queen Matilda occupy the whole of the south side.
The presence of bark is absolutely necessary for infestation by most of the wood-boring grubs, since the eggs and young stages must occupy the outer and inner portions before they can enter the wood.
In the disks cut from limbs these dark bands often occupy the greater part of the ring, and appear as "lunes," or sickle-shaped figures.
You play the infant prodigy in making sport of suffering; you find it amusing to occupy your leisure moments in committing murder by means of little pin pricks.
I replied 'that it was impossible to change our natures, and the other sex would naturally have attractions which you would not be able to resist, and that they would occupy a large portion of your time.
I am glad of it, for it gives me an idea which I shall work upon by-and-bye; at present we have this eventful meeting between you and your father to occupy us.
It was only, he said, for an immediate special service, and the terms being exceedingly advantageous he had resolved on his own responsibility to accept the offer, as the work would not occupy us more than a few days.
Masses of the troops had been placed to occupy the forts, and otherwise secure the conquest.
Is there a youth in the audience who does not desire tooccupy a position so elevated and so honorable?
To elect a new Prince when the reigning family becomes extinct, owing to absence of descendants who can occupy the throne.
Back from the walls of Vienna they have been driven little by little until now they occupy the toe only of the Balkan Peninsula.
The relation of good and evil in their broader aspects occupy the poet's attention in others of this group.
After the anthers have shed their pollen - and tiny teeth at the edges of the outer pair aid its complete removal by insects - the stigma comes up to occupy their place under the roof.
From the fact that a blossom has a lip in the center of the lower half of its corolla, that an insect must use as its landing place, comes the necessity for the pistil to occupy a central position.
You understand that we had constructed a branch tunnel through which our men were to rush and occupy the crater as soon after the explosion as possible.
It was this tunnel through which the Alpini were to pass to occupy the crater after the explosion of the mine, but this plan was defeated through the presence of gas from detonated Austrian asphyxiating bombs.
We were not able to occupy the crater for twenty-four hours.
Still another campaign would have to be launched to occupy the country up to a line from Aleppo to Mardin or Diarbekir; but Russia should reach this region from the Caucasus before we can get there from the south.
Small minds easily find objects: trifles amuse them; but a high soul covets things beyond its daily reach; trifles occupy its aim mechanically; the thought still wanders restless.
Don't let men flatter themselves; Providence has been just as kind in that respect to one sex as to the other; our objects are small, yours great; but a small object may occupy the mind just as much as the loftiest.
Madame Derues would occupyone of the two beds which stood in the alcove.
Thereupon Catinat was promptly sent back to the palace, where truly his trial did not occupy much time.
I entreat you, tell me your decision: God alone knows what I suffer, and that because I occupy myself with you only, because I love and adore only you.
In order to cause a diversion, they were to descend into the valley of Janina at night, and occupy a position which he pointed out to them, and he gave their the word "flouri" as password for the night.
