Sometimes he would manage to get home for lunch, and afterwards, on the pretext of showing her the run, would saddle a horse for her, and off they would go for a long ride through the mountains.
Mary Grant, now undisputed owner, took up the reins of government, and Hugh was kept there always on one pretext or another.
The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland deprived them, it is true, of the international pretext they had traded upon in the past, but their depredations continued just the same as before.
What pretext could he find for a daily visit to Fairoaks, and that kind word or glance from the lady there, which was as necessary to the curate as the frugal dinner which Madam Fribsby served him?
He had been absurdly jealous himself all the evening, and had longed for a pretext to insult Pynsent.
In the previous year, when the town was making much of her, and the press lauded her beauty, Pen had found a pretext for coming to London in term-time, and had rushed off to the theater to see his old flame.
In spite of the most formal engagements," he wrote, "these people find the means of obstructing all business, the pretext for breaking promises the most solemn.
I left London under pretext of going to the country and have come running from London to Paris, to confer with MM.
They will arrange together that when my vessel sets out, the American Corsaire will capture it under any pretext he chooses, and carry it off.
The greatest trivialities are tolerated and applauded under the pretext that they are real nature.
Under thepretext of good humor and of sentiment people tolerate these poverties: but this good humor and this sentiment ought to be carefully proscribed.
Accordingly, following the dictates of his conscience, he made the latter leave Manila, under pretext of going to pacify an encomienda that he had given him.
Look out and see to it that under the pretext of a Krestni Khod, your Kaledins do not instigate you against workmen, against soldiers.
Under thepretext of establishing order, and of protecting the inhabitants, they hope to establish the domination of Kornilov, which the revolutionary people succeeded in suppressing not long ago.
A machinist from the Putilov works described how the superintendents were closing down the departments one by one on the pretext that there was no fuel or raw materials.
On the pretext that Petrograd was in danger, the Provisional Government drew up plans for evacuating the capital.
As to the crowd of villains and criminals, they should be sent far away, under pretext of founding some colony.
Caelius, in which he tells of a lady who divorced her husband without pretext on the very day he returned from his province.
But if President Rochette of Chambery, who has the confidence of the Pastors, were to visit us on some pretext or other, say to settle such small matters as the peace has left in doubt, it might soothe their spirits and allay their suspicions.
On the pretext that the light hurt the invalid's sight, she shaded the window, and so hid the hollows under her eyes and the wan looks that must have betrayed the forced nature of her cheerfulness.
Some new pretext must be made to wrest the power from those who held the reins of government.
Polygamy had not been revealed then, and so did not exist in their imaginations to cast a flimsy pretext over their fiendish purposes.
Thereupon, under the imaginary pretext of treason, he was brutally arrested, deposed, and sent into exile.
But that was an exercise never omitted on any pretext in the house of the ex-divinity student.
I called Nance back on pretext of matters domestic.
Mr. Osbourne, indeed, made a pretext of talking to her about the price of butter, and how her hens were laying.
The British government were not averse to disunion from the outset, and seized every pretext of tariff, or of inaction respecting the rebellion, that it might quibble with the United States authority.
His theological views having met with much opposition, however, he was finally dismissed from the pastorate on the pretextof want of funds for his support.
The kind feeling and brotherly love I have met with among masons, has rendered this event one of the happiest of my life.
A Frenchman may form a violent attachment to a person to-day, and to-morrow be wholly indifferent as to his whereabouts or welfare.
Some blamed openly, some condemned in secret; but all felt that there was at least impolicy in a display which would serve as a pretextfor the terrible excesses that were committed under the banner of "Equality.
They make a picture of manners the pretext for a ridiculous display of furniture, crystal, lustres, chinoisarie and curiosities of every kind; their interiors resemble bazaars.
If his people were less attractive one might imagine that they were only a pretextfor showing off the velvet jackets, satin skirts, and rich furs.
So we must be very much on our guard in praising others to free ourselves from all suspicion of self-love and self-recommendation, and not to seem to be really praising ourselves "under pretext of Patroclus.
And this boy-love denies that pleasure is its aim: for it is ashamed and afraid to confess the truth: but it needs some specious excuse for the liberties it takes with handsome boys in their prime: the pretext is friendship and virtue.
This is not a pretext for evading the subject, but merely a request for lenient judgement, that our discourse, looking as it were for a haven and place of refuge, may rise to the difficulty with greater confidence basing itself on probability.
I saw his face flush suddenly and a moment later he managed to work Gloria about to the opposite side of the dancing floor and, though the music had not stopped, on some pretextor other to join the party in the corner again.
While Broadhurst and Kennedy hovered about the stall on onepretext or another, watching both Murchie and McGee as they directed the rubbers and others who were preparing for the race, I watched the trainer and the jockey minutely.
With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.
It is quite possible that the vanity of the General had led him to say and do things that afforded a plausible pretext to the administration for doing just what it did and what it had wanted to do from the start.
On the other hand, Sir Henry Parnell said that the pretext of farmers being interested in a continuation of the corn-laws was a gross delusion practised on them by the landlords.
The question, therefore, regarding the new boundaries of the kingdom, and the separation of Candia from its territory, formed a ready pretext for his rejection of the offer.
It was expected that coercive measures would be adopted; but in the face of this a mob, headed by Henry Hunt and others, met in Spa-fields on the 10th of February, under the pretext of petitioning for parliamentary reform.
A pretext for arming was found in the non-success already mentioned, of the revolutionary forces on the frontier.
Alderman Newnham still persisted in his intention to bring forward his motion, but Pitt seems to have considered that after such a declaration he had no further pretext for refusing the relief which the prince required.
On the contrary, as all relief was to be given in the workhouse, every man who was refused would have a pretext for prædial resistance.
Fox called the objection to the time for reform a fallacy; a mere pretext for putting off what the house knew was necessary, but felt unwilling to grant.
As regards the declaration of war against the Ottoman Porte by Russia, the chief pretext for it was, the imperious behaviour of the Porte, in its delay to fulfil the treaty of Ackerman.
All were ready, and the king, having assembled the troops within the walls of Stockholm, under the pretext of providing against an insurrection, then threw off the mask.
The pretext of his condemnation was that he had incensed by his writings the despots of Vienna and London.
