He reported to Palmerston that Thouvenel was willing to make 'a reasonable adjustment of the Swiss frontier,' which he believed meant 'an extension of the Swiss territory to the Fort de l'Ecluse and Saleve.
I have never desired to make this book a source of profit to myself, beyond a reasonable remuneration for the time and labour I have spent on it.
If you think this reasonable and right, I am sure you have left all sense of reasonableness in Lusitania.
I think a few lines of preface from you explaining your motives for leaving Greville to express his own views and opinions would quite clear you with all reasonable people.
A fortnight after, his name will be submitted to ballot; and though there can be no reasonable doubt that H.
I'll be reasonable fast enough if you can prove that to me.
Her husband, who, like all men, is an idiot as far as the knowledge of housekeeping is concerned, begins to grumble when she asks for a reasonable sum to allow her to keep things going decently.
How many fortunes have been lost because people, instead of being satisfied with reasonable profits, waited for stocks to go still higher, and got caught in a financial crash!
I came amongst them as free from prejudice as you can be, and determined to redress every grievance and meet their wishes in every reasonable way, but to no avail.
I think it is natural and reasonable to hope that there is in that country a very strong attachment to this country.
Subsiding, we had a reasonable discussion, and were finally informed that they would give us land for the actual site of a road and a telegraph through their territory, but nothing more.
Dunmaya was a thoroughly honest girl, and, in spite of her reverence for an Englishman, had a reasonable estimate of her husband's weaknesses.
I'm the most reasonablewoman in the world--when I'm treated properly.
I believe I have carried out my instructions as literally as possible, yet I have received a reasonable support from one faction and the most violent opposition from the other.
My only desire is to suggest the necessity for some such action, whenever reasonable grounds for it may be presented.
Forty thousand would have been a reasonable estimate for Sherman to have made of Hood's strength, with his more accurate knowledge than any of his subordinate commanders could have.
Hence I cheerfully relinquished in 1882 any reasonable ambition I may ever have had to command the army.
It was a reasonable inference that I should not have asked him to send another bridge if I already had one that I could use.
The Spooner law authorized the American president to await only "a reasonable time" for an agreement with Colombia.
A majority of eight to five pronounced in favour of the sea-level scheme "as the only one giving reasonable assurance of safe and uninterrupted navigation.
If that plan is reasonable under the monarchical system, I pledge myself to support it and employ all my means, all my influence, to prevent that invasion of the democracy which is coming upon us.
Alwynne wondered what Clare would say to her interest in a bazaar and a mothers' meeting, and was a little nervous that it would be considered anything but a reasonable excuse for yet another delay.
It's slow, and deep, and restful--such a reasonable voice.
If the evidence lead to a reasonable doubt, that doubt will avail in favor of the prisoner.
One thing is apparent to our minds, and it is forced upon us, as it must be upon every reasonable mind, that in order to have gained all this knowledge Weichmann must have been within the inner circle of the conspiracy.
Whether they are consistent with a reasonable theory by which guilt is excluded.
Does not this open wide the door for the admission of the plea of "reasonable doubt"?
It is not contended, indeed, that any degree of doubt must be of a reasonable nature, so as to overset the moral evidence of guilt.
This is perhaps no proof, nor cause of reasonable conjecture, that the materials of his method are not set forth in some of these MS.
This I devoutly hoped was the true explanation, for if it was, we had a reasonable hope that we should never have to deal with savage enemies.
The result of their deliberation was that they gave up the chase, a very reasonable course, for I am sure they could not have caught us.
Southey certainly puts it mildly when he says, "The conduct of the Earl of Cumberland in this affair admits of no reasonable or satisfactory explanations," for it looks far more like downright treachery.
After waving his hat, and doing all in his power to cheer us, he retired, and ascended the lofty cliff, and in a reasonable time afterwards again returned, with several other gentlemen.
She always had been a reasonable person; and he really did mean to do right.
They were not to imagine that the "Almighty God made so many thousands reasonable Creatures for nothing but only to serve the Lusts of Epicures, or the Gains of Mammonists.
Is it reasonable to deny then they can learn what is good, when it is owned at the same time they can be so artful in what is bad?
Let the chicks eat a reasonable amount, what they will take in twenty to thirty minutes, then remove it.
That he knew to a reasonable certainty the approximate location from which that signal thump had sounded was clearly evident.
Given a reasonable start he had little fear of this.
Where the influence of public opinion has been so restricted, it would be but reasonable to expect that the practical working of the government would reflect something of the spirit of the Constitution itself.
It is a reasonable inference that the framers of the Constitution intended to impress the President with the belief that his obligation to defend the Constitution was more binding upon him than his duty to enforce the laws enacted by Congress.
They would be likely to favor high rather than low or reasonable charges for these necessary public services, since their taxes would be diminished by the amount thus taken from the non-taxpayers through excessive charges.
Within reasonable limits it ought to be conceded the right to formulate its own scheme of taxation.
It was not reasonable to suppose that the Constitution contemplated placing in the hands of the minority a power which it was so careful to withold from the majority.
The speaker is, of course, a member of the dominant party in the House, and is expected to use the powers and prerogatives of his office to advance in all reasonable ways the interests of the party which he represents.
It would be perfectly reasonable to expect that popular government would reach its highest development in the cities.
On the other hand, when a market for African slaves shall no longer be furnished in Cuba, and thus all the world be closed against this trade, we may then indulge a reasonable hope for the gradual improvement of Africa.
On the contrary, the President of that Republic, in a friendly spirit, acceded promptly to the just and reasonable demands of the Government of the United States.
Without a recognition of this policy on their part it will be almost impossible to institute negotiations with any reasonableprospect of success.
Should they succeed in subduing the constitutional forces, all reasonable hope will then have expired of a peaceful settlement of our difficulties.
Whilst entertaining these sentiments, I shall, nevertheless, not refuse to contribute to any reasonable adjustment of the Central American questions which is not practically inconsistent with the American interpretation of the treaty.
I therefore earnestly recommend that the act referred to be so modified as to empower the Postmaster-General to provide for carrying the California mails at a rate of compensation which may be deemed reasonable and just.
They were cross-examined by him, and everything was conducted in such a manner as to afford him no reasonable cause of complaint.
Love, as treated of in romances, he held to be a foolish and profane matter, unworthy the attention of a serious and reasonable creature.
It was a dogma with him rather than a philosophy, and was clung to more from taste than from reasonable conviction.
Is it your opinion beyond any reasonable doubt, and I think you are familiar with that phrase as an officer, aren't you?
In other words, you think it is beyond a reasonable doubt, as far as you are concerned?
During the late war they had availed themselves of what they regarded as a reasonable pretext for exercising their supremacy over the inhabitants of Libya with excessive harshness.
In that case I presume they would, like the animals, herd together; for it is but reasonable to suppose that bodily weakness would induce them to seek those of their own kind to herd with.
Such things we are told have happened, and it is reasonable to think will happen again.
For the Corinthians by ordering Aratus, as Strategus of the league, and the Achaeans to evacuate the town, and by sending messages to Cleomenes inviting his presence, gave the Achaeans a ground of action and a reasonable pretext for moving.
As long as there was any reasonable hope of success in the business he had in hand, nothing was too adventurous or too dangerous for him to attempt; and if any general ever did so, he put every chance of victory to the fullest proof.
The king gave the final decision, if that decision may be called the king’s: for it is not reasonable to suppose that a mere boy should be able to come to a decision on matters of such moment.
Thus Achaeus, in spite of having taken every reasonable precaution, lost his life by the perfidy of those in whom he trusted.
It was a very reasonable inference that he had not ventured into such a quarter unattended.
