He departed for Lansing as soon as the Assembly opened, and almost immediately became lost in one of those fierce struggles of politics not less bitter because concealed.
The copartnership with its gains and losses, its struggles and easy sailing was a thing of the past.
The ignoble struggles of callous selfishness were made all the more desperate by the bewildering confusion of the political situation.
The double object of all his long struggles had been to establish in all its dignity the constitutional monarchy, and to restore the Church to its rights and privileges.
It is true that Athens, during her desperate struggles in the last years of the Peloponnesian war, had consented to this concession, and even to greater, without doing herself any good (Thucyd.
Having firmly resolved to be unflinchingly just to a Vincent Farley, one could afford to be humanely interested in the struggles shoreward or seaward of a poor swimmer in the welter of the tideway.
The men of his class had marked it, and there were helping hands held out, as there always are when one struggles toward the forward margin of any Slough of Despond.
The opportunities for marking the struggles of the poor swimmer were limited; but where is the woman who can not find the way when desire drives?
In the midst of the paroxysm Mr. Bentley entered and stood over her by the bedside, and suddenly her struggles ceased.
She felt deeply depressed, and, after many severe struggles to restrain herself, at last burst into tears.
Hence her hard struggles with the old enemy, and her half-heroic, half-tragic determination not to give in while a shred of force remains.
Women who cannot live happily without being made love to are more like mistresses than wives, and come but badly off in the great struggles of life and the cruel handling of time.
They were willing just to sit and watch the fruitless struggles of the swollen waters.
The man swaddled in the sheets made a few futile struggles and then subsided.
After more than seven weeks of such terrible struggles with the ice, the three boats reached the junction of Prince Regent Inlet and Lancaster Sound, only to find the sea covered with continuous, impenetrable ice-floes.
All thesestruggles had weakened Flanders considerably.
During the fourteenth century they were weakened by internalstruggles between classes and cities, and, through their trade restrictions, became an obstacle to the free development of the economic life of the nation.
In the same way the preacher in the pulpit loved to make his congregation the confidants of his own struggles and convictions; his sorrows and joys, repentance and inward peace, were listened to with respect and consecrated by prayer.
It is the disease of a rightly-gifted, genial nature, whose volition has been crushed by the horrors of war and the struggles of fate, and whose warm heart has been benumbed.
The descendants of the Roman gladiators, whose rough struggles had once caused great scandal to strict Christians, led a despised life as roving fighters[67] through the whole of the Middle Ages.
You're looking mighty young and happy, Prince, if there are hard struggles in the nation!
She urged her daughter to follow the good example and get "rested" for struggles to come.
How many strugglesof faction, how many scenes of civil war, have these old houses witnessed!
The rest of Taou-Kwang's reign was spent chiefly in endeavours to improve his naval and military forces, and in fruitlessstruggles to replenish the exhausted treasury of the state.
But only from such crises, from such pitilessstruggles with the forces of one's own soul, do the vast conceptions of the universe and their new creative reconciliation grow.
She feels bound really to defend her; she invents God knows what in her behalf, and struggles like a mad woman; but a feeling of disappointment sticks in her, and I think that she grieves over it, for she has grown very thin.
During all the mental struggles through which Pan Stanislav had passed, the interests of his commercial house were developed favorably.
Without ever interfering in his spiritual struggles unless he positively demanded it of her, she gave him advice as a good friend and comrade.
It seemed to point to a time when, in the peace and security of his simple home, it would serve its turn by testifying to all the dangers its possessor had gone through, all his past struggles and hardships.
Fortunately his presence was now required for the next boat, over which the struggles were already commencing.
Ah, what if he struggles to turn Once more to the sweet old skies With praise and praise, from the fetters that burn, To the God that brightened your eyes?
What if he strugglesand still Fails and struggles again?
Such prolongedstruggles give steadiness and solidity to his character that do not permit him to abandon himself to trifles or to yield easily, if at all, to excitement and panic.
Witness the struggles in Africa and Asia, where millions of foreign people may be enslaved and bled for the benefit of their new rulers.
I was incapable of connecting two ideas in logical order, and I had strayed into the most absurd hypotheses, when I was snapped out of my mental struggles by these words from Ned Land: "Well, look here!
In its struggles the man-eater churned the watery mass so furiously, its eddies threatened to knock me over.
The plain where some negotiations took place in the struggles among the descendants of Charles the Great is still called the Field of Lies; a name, he says, that might well be common to most spots where men have negotiated.
Hour by hour he endured the harassing tortures of a poverty, whose struggles were all abortive, and whose repulses came without ceasing.
It is doubtful if there is any portion of the earth upon which there are so many deadly struggles as upon the earth around the trunk of a tree.
These death-struggles occur not only in the daytime, but in the night.
Grown old in struggles to get out of it, were they to be again plunged into it, and to be thrown once more into the dreadful career of political convulsions?
His frame, exhausted by the heat, and the strugglesof his mind, could only bear a covering of the slightest texture; it was in that state that he passed a portion of his days at Witepsk.
But now, amid the terrible scenes which Rome was witnessing, and seemed likely long to witness in the fierce struggles of rival generals for power, her life was anxious.
Bears, lions, and tigers were worried and hacked by armed bestiarii, and sometimes a bestiarius in his turn lay rolling on the sand, crushed by a bear or torn by the fierce strugglesof a panther.
Antonelli took the sacrament, and then was stripped naked on the banks of the Tiber, and tied hand and foot, to prevent those struggles by which a man, throwing his arms out of the water, sinks his body.
The flesh and blood around that fire quivered for their severed member, hearing its struggles and perils.
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