The upshot was that her dear brother and his fiancee were to believe her actuated by the purest sense of the duty and anxiety she owed to them and her dear children, the orphans of his dear deceased brother.
He probably owed something to Buffon, but he developed his theory along a different line.
Something, too, she owed of the source of her misfortunes to the belief of the personal gratitude which she might entertain for the public attention which I had shown to her.
Mr. Gordon swears before Sir Elijah Impey to the robbery; but he never mentions the paper he had written, in which he confessed that he owed his life to this very lady.
Or did he give this poor woman any opportunity of obtaining justice against this Captain Gordon, who, after acknowledging that he owed his life to her favor, calumniates and traduces her to her utter destruction?
Thus he had determined to go in defiance of any right which I might have to his services, or to demand payment of what he owed me, and in breach of promise given to me only a few hours before.
He owed it to Larmon to get to the bottom of this.
Not without confusion, Juliet perceived to whom she owed so uncommon a civility; it was to her old friend and admirer Sir Jaspar Herrington.
Claim upon him she had none--for he owed her nothing, and if his lot were not happy he would have the right to blame her.
No, he owed her nothing; but his claim upon her was for the last moment of her time, for the last thought of her brain, for the last drop of her blood.
What she said must be final, for she owed him the truth.
This day six years," said Heyling, "I claimed the life you owed me for my child's.
Never owed a farden,' said the cobbler; 'try again.
If heowed his commission to any man, it was to Peter; so his traducers persistently alleged.
If he owed so little as a minister of Christ to his brother Apostles, he felt with the most sincere humility that he owed everything to Christ.
The low-bred insolence which the serving-woman, in the prospect of becoming a mother, showed toward the mistress to whom she owed her preferment, gave a foretaste of the unhappy consequences.
Robert de Sainte-Croix owed it to his moral courage not to succumb; and after undergoing the amputation of his leg, left the sword for the pen, and it was thus he became auditor to the council of state.
The engagement at La Rothiere was hotly contested; and the enemy obtained, only at the price of much blood, an advantage which theyowed entirely to their numerical superiority.
The result of all this was an increase of calumny against the Duc d'Orleans, and of importance on the part of the marshal, who persuaded the young king that he owed him his life.
His anger redoubled at the conviction that heowed his life to the captain, and his attacks became more numerous and more furious than ever.
In arriving at this resolution, Buvat had reasoned, very simply, that he owed his place to Albert, and consequently, the income of that place belonged to Bathilde.
From that day, thanks to the young queen, who owed him everything, the ex-ringer of bells exercised an unlimited empire over Philip V.
Monsieur de Malezieux was a man of from sixty to sixty-five, Chancellor of Dombes and Lord of Chatenay: he owed this double title to the gratitude of M.
And I thanked chance for having saved me, when I owed all to an angel's prayers!
Well has it been said that the deep vengeance which Ireland owed him was inflicted by the great criminal upon himself.
The prioress suggested that Emma should hasten to her young friend, to whom they owed so great a debt; and, as nuns were not allowed to travel alone, she was accompanied by a sister who was an experienced nun.
He plainly intimated that he, in a great measure, owed his promotion to her, and he remarked that a lady of good taste and true artistic feeling could be his greatest aid and support in his new calling.
She owed it, both to him and to herself, to explain this; but it is difficult to do it all in writing.
All I know is that I could not help it; it was the last, the unavoidable tribute I owed to truthfulness.
Hansei sent word to the host that he had better return the two hundred florins that he still owed him.
Gibbons treatment of miracles from the purely historical point of view (he owed a great deal to Middleton, see above, p.
In the Sermon of the Fifty and the Questions of Zapata we can see what he owed to Bayle and English critics, but his touch is lighter and his irony more telling.
The councillor should not marry again: so much at least he owed to her.
Numbers have owed their elevation to their attention to the toilet.
Lord Chesterfield says that the Duke of Marlborough owed his first promotions to the suavity of his manners, and that without it he could not have risen.
It was undoubtedly to ISLAM, that simple yet majestic creed of which no unprejudiced student can ignore the grandeur, that Arabs owed the splendid part which they were destined to play in the history of civilization.
Then one day an old friend of my father's came to see me, and paid me fifty pounds, which he said he had owed to my father for twenty years--a gambling debt.
I wish you could have seen how silly those men looked, when they discovered to whom they owed their lives.
He laughed, in spite of his pain, at her description of how the precious pair had looked when they found to whom they owed their lives.
Mr. Selincourt had said that he owed a debt of gratitude to the person who had wronged him; so plainly there was no question of making up to him for any loss that he had suffered.
But the eight others who were wounded, two of them mortally, owed their unfortunate condition to the altogether unnecessary and ill-advised attempt by Col.
These men all owed their release chiefly to the efforts of Mr. L.
The party that fired on us were not above fifty yards from us, and we owed our escape to urging our horses on as fast as they could go over a road where, at any other time, we should have walked our horses very carefully.
Strange to say, this officer owed his life to beating a woman!
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