We are not in a condition to play the swaggerer," replied Napoleon.
The King, with his 6000 men, seemed inclined to play the part of the restorer of Germany, and to make himself the Don Quixote of the treaty of Westphalia.
In this strain Blucher constantly spoke to me; and as I never thought it right to play the part of the public functionary in the drawing-room I replied to him with the reserve necessary in my situation.
You must give me back the letters, and allow no one to play the spy or to follow or to watch the person who will bring them to me.
He had sent the chaise on as far as Bordeaux, with a servant inside, engaged to play the part of master, and to wait for him at Bordeaux.
He dwelt passingly upon the manner in which they had treated him, and found it difficult to choose words to express the reason for his returning in disguise to play the knight-errant to Valerie.
Betide what might, it was not for Garnache to play the eavesdropper.
It was with anger in his heart that he had proceeded to play the part he had assumed.
Blanche de Courtornieu, followed by the inevitable Aunt Medea, had come to play the spy.
And he had accepted it--he who was at the same time to play the part of participant, witness, and judge.
Look around you, Carl, and realize that all this magnificence is ours, and to-night I play the hostess to the proud aristocracy of Vienna.
Well--he had better be left to play the fool in peace; his pastoral will keep him from meddling in state affairs.
In Florence I shall be forced to play the emperor, as the reigning duke is my brother; but he, too, will join us, and then we shall all go on travelling incognito.
The reddleman had decided to play the card of truth.
Whenever a club walked he'd play the clarinet in the band that marched before 'em as if he'd never touched anything but a clarinet all his life.
It is with no strong desire, I assure you, that I play the part I have lately played on earth.
These were the grievances, on account of which he was determined to break with his mother, and adopt the manner of life of which I have just spoken, all to play the part of the young Emilius.
Episcopal dignity would not suffer him to play the beggar, or solicit help from private individuals; but we presented his commission to the Senate, who gave him a trifling sum.
This makes me suppose she had either ceased herself to be one, or was yet sufficiently so to behold us play the danger to which this folly exposed her.
You mustn't sing, you mustn't play the concertina, you mustn't have a lark with a lady.
He would laugh, play the fool, gaily respond to the passing advances of strangers in the street.
At these words, Catinella, laughing heartily, said that she regretted the accident because it would deprive her friends of the pleasure they would have enjoyed in hearing meplay the harpsichord.
Self-dignity feels outraged, my wit dies away, and I play the part of a dolt.
We play the game of the Pharaoh (faro), and I hold the bank.
I had touched her weak point, and she exclaimed that she would play the part to perfection; but in spite of her self-confidence she acquitted herself so badly that everybody understood that the plan was of my own scheming.
To sport in lewdness; toplay the wanton; to play lasciviously.
To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
We avoid imprisonment and we play thepart of heroes; the choice is easy.
Does he desire toplay the part in France that Cromwell plays in England?
I assure you I intend to play the devil's game to-night.
But before giving credence to such tales, let me ask you: Why should a woman exchange the brilliant parlor for a gloomy cell in which to play the hypocrite?
And a great deal of laborious reading is undertaken on the same principle that Mary learned to play the piano--and is of just as little benefit.
I once knew a woman with no more music in her soul than a rat-tail file, who spent three laborious years learning to play the piano, then closed the instrument and never touched it again.
I begin to play the part of indifferent to the best of my ability, only visiting her every other day, and looking at her with an expression of polite interest.
When she marked my dreamy langourous gaze, she asked me it it had given me much pleasure to play the part of an infant.
The old man thought I was really in love with her, and had her in to supper for my sake, so I was in common decency bound to play the lover.
You wish man to play the part of a magnet; that is not enough, I want him to play the part of a cogwheel.
She associated exclusively with persons of title, and strove, in every possible way, to play the "grande dame.
My difficulty is that if I play the part of a father, I shall produce the effect of an intrusive stranger; and if I play the part of a discreet stranger, I may appear a callous father.
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