Amongst the men concerned in the preliminaries of the 1863 movement my father was no more revolutionary than the others, in the sense of working for the subversion of any social or political scheme of existence.
It was the shortest way of getting over the preliminaries of a piece of work which could not have been of the nature of a chronicle.
He drove the preliminaries forward with a sort of tremulous insistence.
A keen onlooker might have noticed a sort of tremulous, joyous impatience, which filled all save two of these old, gray men, pushing the preliminariesforward with uncommon speed.
He associates me with learning to read and other painful preliminaries to life.
And they further undertook that "Rumania shall have the same rights as the Allies in the peace preliminaries and negotiations and also in discussing the issues which shall be laid before the Peace Conference for its decisions.
These preliminaries having been got through, Pere Lactance questioned her in French for nearly two hours, her answers being in the same language.
To increase the terror these preliminaries excited, a pang of physical pain was added by tightening a cord round the wrists.
The lieutenant's advice was to quash the proceedings and obtain an injunction against the continuance of the preliminaries to the action.
Sniping the sniper became part of the preliminaries of settling down to trench warfare.
All thesepreliminaries were directed toward a modest aim--storming a trench line.
Such were the preliminaries to the official proposition of Curee to the Tribunate, and upon reflection it was decided that, as all opposition would be useless and perhaps dangerous to the opposing party, the minority should join the majority.
It means there is no difference in our positions as to what preliminaries the law requires of us, no matter how we may vary in convictions.
The preliminaries for departure were somewhat long in my case, and it was nearly eleven o’clock before I bade adieu to gloomy Clerkenwell.
I saw the poor wretch every day passing and repassing, and later on “assisted” at certain preliminariesin his honour.
A courier was despatched with these preliminaries of a royal marriage, and the prince again sank into the depths of vice.
These hostilities, however, were not of long duration; for preliminaries of peace were signed, before the conclusion of the year, by the English and French plenipotentiaries at Fontainbleau.
Zayla, whilst a route was traced out, guides were propitiated, camels were bought, mules sent for, and all the wearisome preliminaries of African travel were gone through.
These preliminaries concluded, we were led to and seated upon a mat in front of the Amir, who directed towards us a frowning brow and an inquisitive eye.
Queen's had the west and Warwick the east stand, and during the preliminaries hurled defiance at each other across the brown gridiron.
Then came the first real trial of skill, the preliminaries of the hundred-yard race.
These preliminaries being arranged, the ladies, with their relative, concluded to leave the city and reside for a few days on the banks of Lake Ponchartrain, where they could enjoy a fresh air that the city did not afford.
The secret was out; the fugitive had gone in at the front door and out at the back; and the reading of the warrant, nailing up of the door, and other preliminaries of the Quaker, was to give the fugitive time and opportunity to escape.
Yesterday I read to the Grand Pensionary in extenso the copy of the preliminariesbetween America and Great Britain, with which you have favored me.
Yesterday arrived some despatches from the Plenipotentiaries of the Republic at Paris, with the reply of his Britannic Majesty to the preliminaries which had been proposed; this reply is not satisfactory.
In spite of the English faction, I have good reason to foretell that two conditions, sine quibus non, will be insisted on as preliminaries by the Republic.
I congratulate the United States on the signature of the preliminaries between the United States, France, and Spain on one side, and England on the other.
These important preliminaries were arranged so effectually, and with so much despatch, that the Emperor of the French sent an agent to this country to instruct himself as to the mode in which we equipped the expedition.
The preliminaries being thus settled, the clergyman sought his couch, and "boots" left the room with the air of a determined man.
This fact having been communicated to the Duchess of Angouleme, measures had been taken to appoint a time and place wherein the preliminaries of peace might be at once discussed and settled.
If I passed with higher credit in the preliminaries than in the finals, there are two reasons.
All the preliminaries having been arranged and the ground measured by those appointed for that purpose, Pero Arias appeared at one end of the lists, and Diego Ordo[~n]ez de Lara at the other.
Tom Durfy and Dick the Devil soon settled the preliminaries of the ground and mode of firing; and twelve paces having been marked, both the seconds opened their pistol-cases, and prepared to load.
These preliminaries were indispensable in order to clearly appreciate the role of machinery and to make plain the series of economic evolutions.
The primitive concepts must be fertilized, so to speak, by burning controversy and passionate struggle; bloody battles will be the preliminaries of peace.
