There was very little caricature of Napoleon in the year 1800, for the best of reasons, that we had very little to do with him, as he was occupied till May in settlinghis Government, and then he left for his Italian campaign.
So closely did she keep her own counsel that not a single friend was aware of her motive in so constantly changing her employment; indeed, the majority of them put it down to her own fickleness, and blamed her for not "settling down.
Settling himself in the most comfortable hotel he could find he commenced his investigations.
He need not tell all the truth; in fact, he could put his own gloss on the facts as they stood, and so it began to be whispered about that Miss Grover had decided on visiting her friends in America before finally settling in England.
Indeed, to take the engagement for granted might be a good way of settling the matter once and for all.
But, on the other hand, we must be alive to the danger of settling down on our little pile of knowledge, and refusing to take the trouble to investigate any more.
But he soon applied for and obtained a leave of absence, desiring to go to San Francisco with a view to settling there.
The conference broke up without settling the surrender, but Sherman prepared a memorandum, on which there was agreement, stating the terms on which he proposed to receive Johnston's surrender.
Military men know no way of settling troubles except to fight, and our country is now so peaceful that a different policy is needed.
There was a good deal of apprehension lest Congress might break up without settling the contest for the Presidency.
The snow was brushed from her dress and she was standing, her muff pulled over her arm, settling her hat in place.
Tom spoke with emphasis, a grim look settling about his big mouth.
The night was settling down thick with falling snow, so that Rallywood could only pull up and listen when a faint noise, that might have been a woman's scream, came to him through the storm.
She seemed to stand watching it sink, lazily settling with a swing this way and a sway that, into the bosom of the earth, down and down, and still down.
A dark brown mustache upon a somewhat smooth sunburned face, and a stern settling of the strong yet delicately finished features gave him a military look; but the sparkle of his blue eyes contradicted his otherwise cold expression.
If we maintain that they MAY NOT, the rule already established would be of no avail towards settling the tranquillity of kingdoms, and security of property.
Surely then it is a mode of terminating their disputes, balancing their powers, and settling their pretensions worthy to be adopted by Christian Kings and States.
But it is not so in morals, where the least circumstances vary the subject, and admit a latitude of interpretation, settling the points of truth and justice between two extremes.
Strabo says it was the practice of the ancient Greeks, and Aeneas proposed it to Turnus, as the most equitable way of settling their pretensions.
The spiritual darkness now settling down upon the Christian commonwealth might be traced in the growing obscurity of the ecclesiastical nomenclature.
Nor, do I think he would deeply have grieved over this way of settling matters between me and Rascall.
They began to be of a minor importance in the anxieties of the change of trains at Halle, and in the excitement of settling into the express from Frankfort there were moments when they were altogether forgotten.
The sun went out behind a horizon of dull, black mud, and through the greasy dusk that was settling over the sea the wind came pouring out of the west with constantly accelerating force.
One day the water must have broken through into the lava, causing an explosion which, in addition to settling the island a thousand feet or so, blew out a slice of the crater's rim and dropped it out of sight somewhere in the deep sea.
And almost instantly there was a relieved and amicable settling of the difficulties, a sorting of bunches from the despised baskets, and a quick line-up.
It is mixed with dough or other similar material in order to keep this from settling down to a hard solid mass in baking.
Black ash contains less than half its weight of soda, so that for every ton of soda produced there is from a ton and a half to two tons of an insoluble residue which collects in the lixiviating and settling tanks.
To Gerald Heath the going out of sunlight, and the settling down of dusky shadows seemed a mental experience of his own.
So the two brothers continued to come and go, in their best Sunday clothes, however, for they were only engaged in settling up the old business.
However," as he saw a cloudsettling on her face, "I will not say anything if you are happy.
Arriving upon the hall floor, he peered anxiously at the numbers upon the doors, and after settling in his mind what direction to take, went on tremblingly with bowed head towards the woman who was as remorseless as death itself.
He hurried his steps, desirous of settling the question one way or the other.
Is there some little hindrance to your settling that?
All of us are aiming to get at what's right in settling this thing.
We're settling the bill, and there's a hundred plunks waiting you when you get well.
A sharp knife is found to be a very decisive method of settling all controversies, whatever may be their nature.
Barkly West was occupied by troops on the 21st of February, and there was evidence that the country west of Cape Colony and Kimberley was gradually settling down.
Still, though slowly, the country was settling down, and the inhabitants were beginning to realise the advantage of bringing in supplies for sale.
Their yarn stockings gave place to worsted, until, after a very short interval between their arrival and their settling down, they blushed out like butterflies in tye wigs and ruffles and silk gowns.
At the beginning of next week,' said Ethelberta, settling the time there and then.
