Proud of being necessary to his master, he assumed an annoying authority over his companions, employing it to further his own interests and compel a submission which made him virtually the ruler of the house.
She had all the submission of a Flemish woman, but her Spanish pride gave it a higher flavor.
Mistress and valet ended by understanding each other, notwithstanding the proud reserve of the one and the reluctant submission of the other.
She must now depart from the submission she had sacredly practised as a wife.
The day after the submission of the clergy he resigned the great seal.
There never was a possibility of mediation or of compromise except by complete submission on the part of the Netherlanders to Crown and Church.
It was in the provinces which had seceded from the union of Utrecht that there was silence as of the grave, destitution, slavery, abject submission to a foreign foe.
A struggle was going on within her, the strife of ill-will against submission and penitent humiliation.
I knew instinctively that we were safe now, as I knew also that this submission of Jean Pahusca's must be paid for later with heavy interest by somebody.
A] SIR,--The submission of a free people to the executive authority of government is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.
The pure and impartial administration of justice is perhaps the firmest bond to secure a cheerful submission of the people, and to engage their affections to government.
The submission of a free people to the executive authority of government is no more than a compliance with the laws which they themselves have enacted.
A faultless, insipid equality in his character is neither capable of virtue or vice in the extreme, but it secures his submission to those persons whom he has been accustomed to respect, and makes him a dangerous instrument of their ambition.
And he did not so much as notice that her lips trembled too piteously to return his kiss, or that her submission to his embrace was eloquent of mute endurance rather than glad surrender.
They had bandaged his injured arm across his breast, but with his free hand he made a humble gesture of submission to his mistress.
Lifelong misery would have been her portion, school herself to submission though she might.
Augustus, in the mean time deprived of every thing, and a wanderer in that kingdom where he had lately reigned, sent a mean submission to him, entreating peace, and that he might have leave to return to his electorate.
Nature refers us to science for help, and to humanity for sympathy; love to the lovely is our only homage, study our only praise, quiet submission to the inevitable our duty, and work is our only worship.
On the contrary, prayer is an expression of dependence and subjection, and must ever be qualified by submission to His sovereignty: "Nevertheless not my will, but Thine be done.
I have known you, madam, too long to think that you want any arguments for submission to the supreme will; nor can my consolation have any effect, but that of showing that I wish to comfort you.
The most implicit submission was required of him, and soon the crafty Reuterholm got the royal authority entirely into his own hands.
The submission of Bavaria deprived the French of that great outwork, of which they have made such good use in their German wars, the Hungarian insurrection, deprived of the hoped-for aid from the armies on the Rhine, was pacified.
He has offered his Submission in the following Terms.
I have often urged the Matter home to my Parents with all the Submission of a Son, but the Impatience of a Lover.
He has, like a good Man and a good Christian, in opposition to all the Flattery and base Submission of false Friends to Princes, asserted, That Christianity left us where it found us as to our Civil Rights.
Grote,--was followed by the submission of all the States that were dependent on Lydia.
If some proud monarchs by the fortune of war have fallen suddenly from as lofty an eminence as that of Croesus, it is certain that few have yielded with nobler submission than he to the decrees of fate.
Receive withsubmission the sentence of the Church.
Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread.
A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submissioninherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to.
Bucer, to accept the Interim, and avoid by a voluntary submission the punishment inflicted on the leagued cities of Germany.
That nothing of this kind may happen to you, you must first of all give devoted submission to the will of the Lord, and in the next place, you must fortify yourself by his sacred doctrines.
Since we do not render to our Creator the submission which is due to him, it is no wonder that men rise up against us.
The terms of that submission bore, that it shall renounce the League of Smalkald, and shall contribute, with the other states, to the execution of the sentence pronounced against the Landgrave and the Elector.
However, I do not so much place reliance upon my own conjectures, as I await the course of events in submission to the will of God.
He came as satrap, not only of his own provinces, but of those which had belonged to Cyrus; and he at once demanded the absolute submission of the Ionic cities, without exception, to his authority.
Thus the year came to its close--a year marked further by a revolt of the Medes from Darius, the king of Persia, followed by renewed submission to his authority.
He taught that there was one universal religion, the substance of which was faith in one Supreme Being, submission to his will, trust in his providence, and good-will to his creatures.
No doubt these are besetting sins with them, as with all nations who are educated under a system which makes submission to authority the chief virtue.
Justice does not consist insubmission to written laws.
The leaders of the religious movement found themselves compelled to choose between submission and resistance.
It makes men tyrants or slaves, women puppets, religion the submission to an infinite despotism.
Its one duty was Islam, orsubmission to the Divine will.
War with them still went on, but the country at large was freed from their yoke, after nearly a century of submission to Tartar rule.
Comte does not want--or wants infinitely less than he wants submission and obedience.
Submission to artificial prescriptions is as indispensable as to natural laws, and he boasts that under the reign of sentiment, human life may be made equally, and even more, regular than the courses of the stars.
On his death he expressed his submission to Providence; for that he had by no means lived ill, but in a splendid and happy manner.
They numbered in their ranks the most popular teachers, and politically, though opposed to Rome and all its ways, they counseledsubmission so long as religious liberty was not infringed.
Generally, in dealing with the struggle against Rome, his dominating desire to justify his own submission and please the Romans led him to distort the facts, and rendered him blind to the real heroism of his countrymen.
The Romans, on their side, accustomed to the ready submission of all the peoples under their sway, could not understand or tolerate the Jews.
He was met there by King Agrippa, who brought a large force of auxiliaries, and by a deputation of citizens from Sepphoris, the chief city of Galilee, who tendered their submission and invited him to send a garrison.
He may have honestly believed that submission to Rome was the truest wisdom; but he placed himself in a false position by associating himself with the insurrection.
Implicit obedience is not a popular virtue in these democratic days, and indeed entire submission to the will of any mere man would be disastrous.
None can escape the snares He setteth, and no soul can find release except through submissionto His will.
Say: True liberty consisteth in man’s submissionunto My commandments, little as ye know it.
That which beseemeth man is submission unto such restraints as will protect him from his own ignorance, and guard him against the harm of the mischief-maker.
He was so accustomed to submission from Scott that he had come to look upon it as inevitable.
Dinah lay across his breast in palpitating submission to his will.
You have studied the pathetic eyes of the lost dog, and the sad submission of the tired, beaten horse.
