But, however dead I may be to all sense of honour and decency, I have still sufficient perception to realise that the situation is--uncomfortable for you.
You will have determined men to deal with, and, unfortunately, men who are in a sense prepared.
Continued feud was the invariable result of an exaggerated sense of dignity on both sides, and it was old-fashioned.
Look here," he cried quickly, moved by some inexplicable and irresistible impulse, a sense of chivalry perhaps that her evident depression roused in him.
If he was so lost to all fine thinking, to all sense of decent living and restraint, let him go with this woman who was a fitting companion for the ill-spent hours.
The impulse of the moment is no correct index to a man's nature, and only a crude sense of justice assigns life-long punishment for the sins of youth.
He withdrew to a short distance, briefly examined the packet, and slipped it into his own breast pocket with an extraordinary sense of exultation.
I've got a blunter sense of honour, I suppose; but I don't believe in being generous to swine like Karl Van Bleit.
She did not seek popularity with her own sex from any sense of diplomacy, but because she liked, and got on better with, women.
Where's the sense in squeezing a man past his endurance?
He looked at the thin, scarred face, at the indolent grace of the outstretched limbs, and his strong sense of indignation, of having been somehow defrauded, increased.
The knowledge that Van Bleit distrusted him gave him a peculiarsense of satisfaction.
He had aroused her sufficiently to have a distinct sense that this was not the time to refer to the warning she had given him that he was working too hard.
She betrayed no sense of triumph at having audaciously and successfully combated him, and she appeared now only partially to be aware of Hodder's presence.
The eyebrows were straight, the brown eyes looked at the world with an almost scornful sense of humor, and I marked that there was determination in the chin.
Honora herself was almost frightened by a sense of augury, of triumph, as she went forward to greet her hostess.
It is interesting that my mind rejected all sense of anomaly and inconsistency.
What Janet chiefly realized was the delicious, contented sense of having come, visually at least, to the home for which she had longed.
It was not their fault that his sense at their comradeship was gone.
That irksome sense of spectatorship seemed to fly, and she was part and parcel now of the great, moving things, with sure pinions with which to soar.
But he left Austen's presence that morning vaguely uneasy, with a sense of having received from his own son an initial defeat at a game of which he was a master.
I believe, as firmly as I stand here, that the public opinion which exists to-day would protect your property, and I base that belief on the good sense of the average American voter.
A sense of futility is a sense of incompleteness," he said, "and generally precedes a sense of power.
The enormity of the change that was to come into her life did not appall her in the least; but she had, in connection with it, a sense of unreality which, though not unpleasant, she sought unconsciously to dissipate.
In the present case however there was nothing that could press heavily on her sense of duty; nor any need to appeal to her affections against her natural sense of propriety.
Thus was the old rhyme fulfilled which Gillie Godber had so often chaunted, and in a comprehensive sense that perhaps she had not hoped.
And Monteverde's famous lament of the deserted Ariadne is one of many early examples that appeal to an elementary sense of form by making the last phrase identical with the first.
Now, according to Aristotle, science in the narrow sense is concerned only with the absolutely necessary (E.
To divide by 3, in the senseof partition, we also use the row; but to divide by 3 as a unit we use the column.
Sense receives from the external world an essence, e.
There are therefore two kinds of belongings, universals and attributes; and in both cases belonging in the sense of having no being but the being of the substance.
Spain to establish the supremacy of the Habsburg dynasty and of the Church of Rome, which he considered as being in a peculiar sensehis charge, in Europe.
Intelligence does not differ from sense by having no bodily organ, but the nervous system is the bodily organ of both.
The idea of Dr Saenz Pena was to conduct the government on common senseand non-partisan lines, in fact to translate into practical politics the principles which underlay the compromise of the Acuerdo.
Thus we get successive multiplication; but it represents quite different operations according as it is due to repetition, in the sense of S 34, or to subdivision, and these operations will be exhibited by different diagrams.
In modern opera the aria is almost always out of place, and the forms in which definite melodies nowadays appear are rather those of the song in its limited sense as that of a poem in formal stanzas all set to the same music.
Endowed with unusual common sense and well educated she was a most interesting conversationalist, while her voice was musical and well modulated.
While we did not own the house, the fact that the contents belonged to us gave us a sense of proprietorship that we had not felt in the house we had recently vacated.
His honesty made all men trust him when they doubted his opinions; his goodsense made them doubt their own opinions, when they had as little question of their own honesty.
Dryfoos complained to his wife on the basis of mere affectional habit, which in married life often survives the sense of intellectual equality.
He was a believer in the cause of women's rights, which has no picturesqueness, and which chiefly appeals to the sense of humor in the men who never dreamt of laughing at him.
Undoubtedly it expressed his sense of the case, and in the same measure it would now express that of many who love their country most among us.
He lost the sense of his wife's presence, and answered her vaguely.
Why don't you speak of summat what's got some sense to it?
I hope as I've a properer sense of my duty nor many others what I could name.
And han't got their proper sense to them, nor nothing.
This was in no sense the Merchant Gild, though probably all the members of the select body would be members of the Gild[48].
The following letter is valuable as affording a view of the contemporaneous opinion held of the Gilds by a man of ordinary common sense and average education.
Corn-law controversy--here interposed, and "spoke the sense of the meeting.
I suppose she was exceedingly handsome, with a proper senseof her importance, and a capacity of keeping an eye upon what she considered her interests.
The knowledge of maturity, which has discovered that nothing that is true (in the sense of being existent) can be beautiful, deprecates truth beyond everything.
There was an unusual sense of luxury in being able to talk to an aunt as though one was talking to the Evil One, but Nicholas knew, with childish discernment, that such luxuries were not to be over-indulged in.
Mrs. Bebberley Cumble thrust a very pardonable sense of exasperation into the background of her mind and demanded impatiently: "What is there in Betsy Mullen's cottage that you are making such a fuss about?
It was "tame" in the sense that it had long ago discarded the least vestige of fear of the human race; nothing in its record encouraged its human neighbours to feel a reciprocal confidence.
And then the nation and the newspapers turned with a sense of relief to happier things.
They were true poets, and in their work a sense of "The broad horizons of the West" first made itself felt.
It is probable that the Indians were following their old custom of leaving off fighting to enjoy a sense of victory when they had won it.
This bold good sense brought the Indians to a pause in a frenzy which has raged among every people in times past.
He was a great orator, of such a fiery eloquence that the interpreters often declared it impossible for them to give the full sense of his words; but none of his many recorded speeches have the pathos of Logan's.
But still the sense of his wrong, and the hunger for revenge, gnawed at Logan's heart, and one day he came to Robinson with a piece of paper and bade him write a letter for him.
These are the main features of the picture whose details the imagination strives to supply, with a teasing sense of the obscurity resting upon the whole.
Some antiquarians have tried to read these letters, if they are letters, and to make sense out of them, but no seeker after true Ohio stories can trust their interpretations.
While she was still in Ohio, the poems which are full of the love of nature and the sense of immortal things began to win her a fame in which she need envy no others of our time.
Sense and sound are intertwined Through her necromancy, Till our dreaming souls are blind To all things but fancy.
The ostrich, like a snake tied to a bird, All out of sense and drawing, wilder far Than all the mad, fantastic thoughts of men.
The various controversial poems (granting for argument's sake that controversy is poetic) were written when Burns was smarting under the sense of defeat.
When his father died and left him a goodly fortune, he had the sense to turn the entire management of the estate over to his wife, a woman with a thorough business instinct, while he busied himself with his books.
His caution and good sense saved him from all Byronic excesses, or foolish alliances such as took Shelley captive.
And Robert Browning, with a certain sense of guilt upon him, for depriving her of all the creature comforts she had known, sought by tenderness and love to make her forget the insults her father heaped upon her.
He has a sense of remorse, and this suggests reformation, and from the idea of reformation comes the picturing of an ideal.
He was an Artist and a Poet in the broadest and best senseof these much-bandied terms.
As success came to Southey he lost the sense of values, that is to say, the sense of humor.
Morris, the elder, proved his good senseby taking no very special interest in the boy's education.
Knowledge in use is wisdom, and wisdom implies a sense of values--you know a big thing from a little one, a valuable fact from a trivial one.
His thought has broadened from the sense of loss into a stately march of conquest over death for the whole human race.
Once, at the house of Garrick, to the terror of every one, Burke contradicted Johnson flatly, but Johnson's good senserevealed itself by his making no show of resentment.
He may have possessed all his life a curious sense beyond that allowed to others--an instinct--it may not have been finer than the instinct of a bird.
He could see this poor, unhappy girl being so carried away by a sense of her own superiority to her natural surroundings as to presume upon the good nature of her patrons, the result being humiliation to herself.
The room was in shadow where before it had been lighted by flecks of sunshine, but this was not the change which appealed to him with striking force; nor was it the sense of being refreshed, of which he was now aware.
The wanderers on this Sunday morning stood draped by the fog, feeling a sense of defeat.
Then he found that every thought of his mind--every sense of his soul--was absorbed by another and greater force.
Ah, sir," she murmured, "only last night had I for the first time a sense of what I should be.
He felt for a moment overwhelmed by a sense of his responsibility.
Plain, honest, a gentleman; but no zeal, no sense of his responsibility for the welfare of the souls entrusted to his keeping.
But as he went further and further on this wonderful itinerary of his, that sense of loneliness of which he had become aware at Porthawn seemed to grow upon him.
But was he to believe that any man possessed such a sense as enabled him to predict an earthquake?
It adds to their sense of importance, and this was a modern quality little cultivated by Captain Cable.
She had always ruled her father and brother and the Palace Bukaty, and this sense of powerlessness was new to her.
If he has any sense he will wait in the open until this gale is over," grumbled Petersen, nevertheless following his companion forward.
You have a certain right to know; because in a sense you brought it all about, and it concerns the safety of your father and Martin.
This he did in the literal sense the day after Cartoner landed in England on his return from America.
The homeliness of Germany had vanished, giving place to that subtle sense of discomfort and melancholy which hangs in the air from the Baltic to the Pacific coast.
He did not rush into conversation, and yet his silence had no sense of embarrassment in it.
Julie had a strict sense of duty, which, perhaps, Netty was cognizant of; and the subject was never really brought under discussion.
That he read his duty in a different sense to that understood by other men was no doubt only that which this tolerant age calls a matter of temperament.
He has only one sense, that man--a sense of infinite fearlessness.
He seemed to be interested in the fire, and Lady Orlay glanced at him once or twice, seeking to recall him to a sense of his social obligations.
Their position was in a sense a strategetical one.
In most important matters I followed your advice with reference to my relations toward Cæsar; in other matters I followed my own sense of duty.
Next came that ill-fated moment when either my regard for public opinion, or my sense of duty, or chance, call it what you will, compelled me to go to Pompey.
It led St. Simeon Stylites to secure a more perfect sense of aloofness from the world, and a greater security from contact with it by spending the last thirty years of his life on the top of a pillar near Antioch.
The sense of a word may be extended, or be restricted, or there may be a transfer of meaning.
In reading a piece of popular Latin one is very likely to be impressed with the large number of diminutives which are used, sometimes in the strict sense of the primitive word.
On the other hand, when a man of a certain class refers to his "woman," he is employing the word in the restricted sense of "wife.
This attempt on his part aroused a national spirit among the peoples of these lands, and developed in them a sense of their national independence and individuality.
They were oppressed by the sense of their own insignificance in society, and by the pitifully small part which they played in the affairs of the world.
Out of this last sentiment there would naturally grow a sense of the obligation imposed by the possession of wealth, and this feeling is closely allied to pure generosity.
How our sense of propriety would be shocked if the newly elected mayor of Hartford or Montclair should give a gala performance in the local theatre to his fellow-citizens or pay for a free exhibition by a circus troupe!
If the above basic principles are carefully noted and followed out, and good common sense used in the handling and operation of the kiln apparatus, no serious difficulties should arise against the successful drying of the materials at hand.
This is especially the case with camphor, cedar, pine, oak, and mahogany, and the list would comprise every kind of wood in use were our sense of smell developed in keeping with its importance.
So strong was the sense of subordination in the army and the desire to stand well with Napoleon, that even the fiery Murat paid attention to orders and reprimands signed by Berthier in the name of the Emperor.
In youth the thirst for personal glory and ambition were the dominant traits, and what stability he had he drew from his proud sense of honour, which refused to allow him to take plunder or bribes.
Unfortunately he wrote a comical account of the operations to his chief, who, having no sense of humour, felt that his evacuation of Rome had, to say the least of it, been hurried and undignified.
Though raised to ducal rank he never lost his sense of proportion, and delighted to give his memories of "when I was sergeant" to his friends and to the officers of his staff.
Suchet, recognising the importance of utilising to the full the elan which the French soldier always derives from the sense of attacking, advanced to meet him near Alcaniz, but Blake easily beat off the French attack.
Owing to the great good-sense and good-nature of the American people, the system does not work so badly as might be expected.
If you have senseenough to discover and spirit to oppose tyranny, whatever garb it may assume, awake to your situation.
In 1772 Wesley sent over Francis Asbury, a man of shrewd sense and deep religious feeling, to act as his assistant and representative in this country.
His eloquent speech, full of sense and without a syllable of bombast, held his hearers entranced, and from that day Alexander Hamilton was a marked man.
Scarcely any, perhaps, had that intense faith in the ultimate good senseof the people which was the most powerful characteristic of Jefferson.
Between Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson there were several points of resemblance, the chief of which was an intense faith in the sound common sense of the mass of the people.
It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided.
Accordingly, it seemed better to take Vergennes at his word, though not in the sense in which he meant it, and, by granting all that the Americans could reasonably desire, to detach them from the French alliance as soon as possible.
He was now, then, in the possession of L2500 a year, and was therefore very well off, in the pecuniary sense of the phrase.
At the age of eight he began to converse more freely, and it was in that year that he startled his mother with the question, "Mamma, are you not sometimes overpowered by the sense of your own identity?
At a public school the chances are that Kenelm will no longer be overpowered by a sense of his own identity; he will more probably lose identity altogether.
He never laughed audibly, but he had a quick sense of the comic, and his eye would laugh when his lips were silent.
You know as well as I do that it is only by metaphor that you can twist the word ascribed to the great Athenian into the sense of hypocrisy.
But if I may venture to offer an advice, I should say employ the next two years in letting him see a little more of real life and acquire a due sense of its practical objects.
He held the door open for her to pass with a profound sense of relief--no suspicion of his awful secret had been betrayed.
And then common senseasserted itself, and he asked himself what Deena owed to her parents; and why Harmouth was a better place for her than New York; and what possible difference it could make to Simeon?
Poor sleeping beauty, her conscience had long ago been pricked by her mother-in-law's spindle, and her whole moral sense infected with the belief that to keep house wisely was the end and aim of wifely duty.
I have often thought that such a congregation might gather in Trinity Chapel, say, and be preached to by an innocent clergyman with a weary sense of the futility of trying to make such evidently virtuous persons penitent.
Mademoiselle Marni" was one of those impossible chromos that might have been designed for the mere purpose of giving one's sense of humor a chance to ventilate itself.
No doubt, Joe has made me out a very vulgar person," said I, forgetting her lack of sense of humor.
Her heart was as sad and aching as before, but there arose a faint encouragingsense that some day she might be better, or things might take some turn.
The civic authorities hearing of this, and desirous to mark their sense of so noble a donation, have presented her with the freedom of the burgh, written on vellum and gold.
She looked hard at her ring, and profited a little by contact with the sturdy good sense of Vizard.
They could resist common sensein its liquid form, but not when solidified into a proverb.
He lay slumbering all night, but not sleeping, and waking with starts and a sense of horror.
Vizard's good sense and right feeling were beginning to sting him a little for calling on the Klosking at all, and a great deal for using the enthusiasm of an inexperienced girl to obtain an introduction to a public singer.
They accorded with his own good senseand method of arguing; but perhaps my more careful readers may have already observed this.
Besides, she has too muchsense to plunge into the Severne and--pauperism!
Unanimity is rare in this world; but Zoe's good sense carried every vote.
But, as the days rolled on, came a sense of monotony and excessive tranquillity.
Oh, joy it was when sense returned That fair, warm ship to see.
But let us hope that you have sound common sense presiding in your household.
Men quite well known as mathematicians failing in this computation of moral algebra: good sense plus good breeding, minus curiosity, equals minding your own affairs!
In nearly all the cases of escapade that you will hear of the rest of your lives there will be a headlong leap over the barriers of parental common sense and forethought.
O ye of highly favored ancestry, wake up this morning to a sense of your opportunity and your responsibility.
And he began with a sense of awe to recognise the place.
So forth they fared with sweetness in their hearts, That took the sense of sharpness from the thorn.
It is now plain that our defeat at Bull Run was in no true sense a disaster; that we not only deserved it, but needed it; that its ultimate consequences are better than those of a victory would have been.
The sense of honor is finer than the commonsense of the world.
Do we require another defeat and more suffering to bring us to a sense of our responsibility to God for the conduct and the issue of this war?
But the lesson of defeat would be imperfectly learned, did not the army and the nation alike gain from it a juster sensethan they before possessed of the value of individual life.
