There were times when she was really too cautious, and would not accept friendly overtures from strangers of her own kind.
She is still striving to win Arsaces, but her overturesrepel him more than ever.
It is a fact without a cause that some operas have overtures and some have not.
The Tribunate having adopted the proposition of Curee, there was no longer any motive for concealing the overtures of the Senate.
During the two last campaigns in Germany, and since the peace, distant overtures have been made to me, with the view of drawing me into connection with the French Princes.
To such overtures made to a private individual, who wished to preserve no connection either with the army, of whom nine- tenths have served under me, or any constituted authority, the only possible answer was a refusal.
Without being afraid, he kept wide awake and resented all overtures made to him.
One homeless little cur, a mongrel looking for a bit of sympathy in his miserable existence, once made friendly overtures to me.
These overtures were not attended to, and our commission expiring, we made our final report to Congress; and I suppose this the last offer of friendship, which will ever be made on our part.
Our overtures of commercial arrangements have been treated with a derision, which shows their firm persuasion, that we shall never unite to suppress their commerce, or even to impede it.
My journey furnished us occasion to renew our overtures to the court of London; which it was the more important to do, as our powers to that court were to expire on the 12th of this month.
I formerly communicated the overtures for a treaty, which had been made by the imperial ambassador.
Now a considerable portion of the Creek tribe was in just the right mood and in just the right situation to receive such overtures in the right spirit.
While admitting this and expressing a desire to co-operate in the suppression of the slave-trade, Cass nevertheless steadily refused all further overtures toward a mutual Right of Search.
She would make no overtures to her historic and falsely assumed national enemy--England; and Germany, Austria, and Italy were tightly closed against her.
Titus himself, as from time to time the horror of his work impressed itself upon him, made overtures to the factionists, neglecting no art or inducement which should convince the seditious that their resistance was foolhardy, even mad.
They saw the young girl making some graceful overtures of speech to the elder woman as they went.
But in this character she found her interesting, and even a little pathetic, and she made her some overtures of talk which the other met eagerly enough.
Although Ormond was a prominent member of the Lancastrian party, he at once made gracious overtures to him.
Fox began to be recognised as a power in the House, and Lord North soon made overtures to his erstwhile colleague to rejoin the ministry as a Lord of the Treasury.
The warning was sufficient and the overtures were rejected.
On November 4, the day before the council was opened, he wrote to his friends at home that overtures had been made to him to settle matters quietly, but that he expected to win a great victory after a great fight.
How the attempt failed and how it was discovered does not appear, but probably Bernard at the first overtures confided the plot to his superiors and led on the conspirators to their ruin.
To this year is to be referred the composition of the only two overtures published by Brahms.
With them were the arrangements, as pianoforte duets, of Joachim's two overtures referred to in an earlier chapter.
The two Overtures and 'Naenie' were issued in 1881.
It seems that when first overtures were made to him by Canning he called a meeting of his friends at Lansdowne House, at which he declared his own sentiments and the conditions on which he would join the Government.
Soon they made overtures to Alcibiades who was acting with the Spartan fleet; he promised to detach Tissaphernes from Sparta if Samos eschewed democracy, a creed odious to the Persian monarchy.
The book closes with the brilliant reign of Amasis, who made overtures to the Greek oracles, allied himself with Samos and permitted the foundation of an important Greek colony at Naucratis.
But the important functionary thus selected was of all others arrayed in the most open hostility, and, unlike the majority of his avaricious colleagues, his enmity had been proof against overtures and advances.
The veteran's overtures of surrender having been received, he turned again towards his comrades, but a fearful sight fell on his sickening gaze.
He, however, promised to make use of his best means for inducing Yakoob Beg to make overtures to the Russian government for the ratification of a treaty of commerce.
While studiously avoiding any aggressive measures, even under the excuse of defensive precautions, he was always firm in his refusal to recognize any of the semi-official overtures that were repeatedly made to induce him to show his hand.
Abdulla then endeavoured to come to terms with Barhanuddin, and made overtures for the reconciliation of the Karataghluc and Aktaghluc parties to be cemented in a crusade against the invading Khitay.
He made overturesto them, and the Badakshi, seeing that he was likely to give them exciting and profitable employment, entered into negotiations with him.
The overtures to his nephew are thus easily intelligible, and the nephew himself gladly greeted his entry into a wider career than was that of an honoured guest on the hospitality of the Porte.
Each of these couriers announced the various appearances of a change in the British Cabinet, and probably gave some intelligence of the overtures from Great Britain, made to Dr Franklin.
The trading interest of Saxony has seized with avidity the overtures and details, which, after our interviews, I placed under the eyes of the Ministry.
It was not till the approach of autumn that the French Minister, discovering that his overtures to Philip IV.
Charles, who cannot but have known the nature of the overtures now brought, refused even to see the messenger.
He makes overtures for peace, and sends back the son of Scipio Africanus, who was a prisoner in his hands, 34.
Advises AEmilius not to listen to overtures of peace, 19.
It was reported, that some overtures of friendship between Eumenes and Perseus were here agitated, through Cydas, a Cretan, and Antimachus, governor of Demetrias.
During this winter, divers overtures were made to my father by people who demanded me in marriage; but my heart was not yet sufficiently weaned from my former passion to admit the thoughts of another master.
These overtures were interrupted by a rap at the door, signifying the approach of another client; upon which the lady inquired for his private passage, through which she might retire, without the risk of being seen.
Was it not unwise and unpatriotic to reject the overtures of our kinsmen, and cast in our lot with that Catholic and despotic power which had ever been our deadliest foe?
He felt confident that the capture or destruction of half the American army would so discourage the rebels as to make them lend a readier ear to the overtures of that excellent peacemaker, his brother.
Overtures that would be laughed at as coming from North would at least find respectful hearing if urged by Chatham.
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