You are calculating the chances, you are making desperate and uncertain ventures, which may result in disappointing success or brilliant failure.
These inhabitants of chessdom are forced about by an inevitable will; their success and ruin are equally beyond their own let or hindrance.
All owed their existence, or whatever successattended them, to the experience of the class-room.
But whatever success may attend the deceit of the spy, he can never divest himself of the character of being a fraud; and a fraud in war is only a little less base than a fraud in business.
Its success then was owing to the influence of Mazzini's great name.
Gentlemen,--Having now completed my canvass, I think it my duty as well to remind you of the principles on which I have solicited your votes as freely to assure my friends that its result has placed my success beyond a doubt.
Upon Mazzini's life the success of twenty small cohorts of patriots depended, ready to give their lives for Italy.
Last year she (Harriet Martineau) called upon me several times, and I was struck with such marks of energy and resolution in her, which I thought must command success in some line or other of life.
Mr. Mill's success in Parliament was greater than that of any philosopher who has entered in our time.
But this ruse of Nick's met with no greater success than his previous efforts, for Rance, putting his foot down heavily upon the stove, voiced a vigorous protest.
In an incredibly short space of time they had loaded up and got their horses together, and from the harmony in their ranks while carrying out orders, it was evident that not a man there doubted the success of their undertaking.
Is it perchance the revolutionary party that has had its work crowned with success and that can therefore force its criterion of independence on all the inhabitants?
The first element of success is the destruction beforehand of all insurgent or insurrection element.
The initiatorysuccess of manufacturing in Cuba must depend upon the importation of skilled labour from the United States or Europe.
The secret of General Wood's success in Santiago is entirely due to the fact that he has good judgment, the courage to use it, and full power in Santiago Province to exercise both.
With sincere hope for your success in dealing with these matters, and with assurance of all the assistance in my power, I hereby reinstate the Judiciary of the Province of Santiago de Cuba.
The success of the sugar factory depends so largely upon the available sugar cane of the district that the central is always glad to aid a labourer likely to become a thrifty colono.
Madame d'Avrigny here came forward with her usual equanimity which nothing disturbed, unless it were something which interfered with thesuccess of her salon.
This reproduction of a forgotten play, with its characters attired in the costume of the period in which the play was placed, had had great success, a success due largely to the excellence of the costumes.
They began presently to talk of the classes in which they were considered brilliant pupils, and of their success in compositions.
All her hopes ofsuccess as a singer on the stage Madame Strahlberg swept away, as not worth a thought.
The reader remembers the ill success of all our efforts in that direction.
As January dragged slowly away into February, rumors of the astonishing success of Sherman began to be so definite and well authenticated as to induce belief.
The Rebels continued their efforts to induce prisoners to enlist in their army, and with much better success than at any previous time.
Up till this time it was thought that this was the last thing that was likely to happen after their success in the last operations, and the knowledge of the country and open warfare that the troops had thereby gained.
The drawing of the Turkish reserves to this part of the line contributed to the success elsewhere.
But it is not on his capacity as a satirist or humorist, it is on his occasionally triumphant success as a serious or tragic poet, that the fame of Marston rests assuredly established.
Indeed, the pope was so terrified at the success of that courageous reformer, that he determined to engage the emperor, Charles the Fifth, at any rate, in the scheme to attempt their extirpation.
The brave earl defended Thoulouse and other places with the most heroic bravery and various success against the pope's legates and Simon earl of Montfort, a bigoted catholic nobleman.
Encouraged by the success of this decisive measure, the government proceeded against some of the terrorists whom they had hitherto spared, but whose fate was now determined, in order to strike dismay into their party.
This farther irritated the papists to put in execution the diabolical plot concerted for the destruction of the protestants; and it failed not of the success wished for by its malicious and rancorous projectors.
The Vandalian tyrant Genseric, having made an expedition into Italy, and plundered the city of Rome, returned to Africa, flushed with the success of his arms.
Cornelius wrote an account of his bad success to the pope, who immediately sent an order to apprehend Mollius, who was seized upon accordingly, and kept in close confinement.
But no one dared to speak a word to the king or queen in favor of a foreigner, while there were such continual reports of the success of the English arms.
I 'd say something about your natural cleverness; and what a pity it would be if, with very promising talents, you should not have those fair advantages which lead a man to success in life.
In the half self-sufficient toss of the head which received this speech, it was plain that the young man thought his Colonel was easily imposed on, and that such pretensions as these would have very little success with him.
It is true, the Colonel never regarded the project as I did, and saw obstacles to its success which never occurred to me; with all that, however, he never convinced me I was wrong.
He is not naturally quick, and he has a bad memory, so that labor is no common toil; but his heart is in it, and I never saw him really anxious for success before.
There he is again with his Privy Council case for next term, and with, I suppose, as much chance of success as I should have in a suit to recover a Greek estate of some of my Phoenician ancestors.
The wicked woman was greatly pleased with the success of her trick, for as long as she had one of the shoes she owned half the power of their charm, and Dorothy could not use it against her, even had she known how to do so.
Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his successin giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted.
Brooklyn has had a deep sympathy with your fair city in this tremendous enterprise, and has watched with keen interest and satisfaction your success in overcoming the many difficulties that lay in your way.
In this great western empire we all take a common interest, and the success of this Exposition redounds to the credit and honor, not only of the men who have carried it to such successful issue, but upon the whole country.
Each state, territory and American possession is unselfishly interested in the success of this Exposition.
In conclusion let me thank you again for the courtesy extended to our people, and we wish you great success in this stupendous enterprise.
It was proper, therefore, that our State, in its dignity, with its conservatism and with its intense patriotism, should be among the first to contribute of its means to make of this Exposition the grand success which it promises.
He had covered his amazing retreat with a triumphant victory; but in the very moment of successhe was struck down by a cannon-ball, which shattered his left shoulder.
The district has been long famed for its beauty, charm, and grandeur, and those curative waters on the success of which a colossal and palatial hydropathic institution is conducted by Messrs.
There in the north he is putting his theories of war to the test with as much success as he did at the outbreak of hostilities in Lorraine and later in the centre during the battle of the Marne.
After this book, the success of which has been prodigious, it would truly seem that there is nothing more to say.
There are many girls who beautify their own lives by their success on the stage, but you know, there are a great many more who find in that life a terrible current to fight against.
The "best-laid plans of mice and men" had one bad habit, as Burke recollected, just at the moment when success was apparently within grasp.
This officer had hitherto fought with no less success than skill, and had already captured four Turkish galleys.
The other accusations, they considered, were disposed of by the necessity of shaping his course according to the tactics of the Algerine, and abundantly refuted by the vigor and success with which he at last attacked the enemy.
Selecting for the scene of operations the beautiful belt of country lying between the thirty-fourth and forty-fifth parallels of north latitude, the King certainly provided an ample field for the success of the patentees.
Such were some of the chief causes of the success of the arms of the League.
But this discourse deceived none but those who were ignorant of the advantage he found in keeping the affairs of the finances in their present state of confusion, and with what success he had hitherto labored for that purpose.
He had made his first big success some five years before with Romeo and Juliet, and was, so far as we can judge, on the high tide of financial prosperity.
No success was ever better earned and few more richly rewarded.
Nevertheless, a brilliant, unexpected success justified their enterprise and changed into favor the wrath of their sovereign.
HUME BROWN The year 1559 began ominously for thesuccess of the Queen Regent's policy of suppression.
But this success did not assuage the hunger of the famished colonists.
But we have reason to believe that a great part of the colonists contributed nothing to the success of the scheme, and did much to render it fruitless.
Officers and men were in the highest spirits, eager for the battle which they knew to be at hand, and in which they supposed their success to be certain.
Yielding to his disappointment and mortification at these repeated disasters, and exhausted in money by his enormous outlays, Raleigh no longer hoped for success from his own exertions.
We think fit," he wrote, "with all speed to certify your Lordships of the happy successit hath pleased God to give us against the rebellious assembly in these parts.
But in all cases my success depends mainly upon the purity and the heartwholeness of those that seek my aid.
Then their captain, who throughout had been of one opinion, proposed to them that they should resist, and promised them success if they would hear his words.
But the poor Baital had little reason to congratulate himself on the success of his escape.
They were translated into Latin by the historian Sisenna, the friend of Atticus, and they had a great success at Rome.
And the success of his book had quite effaced from the Brahman mind the holy man's failure in bringing up his children.
A number of questions concerning the success of the night's work was quickly put and answered: then the company, having got ready for the revel, flocked into the first cave.
There was no way but that the young class-leader take the meeting, which he did with fair success and a rich blessing to his own soul.
Amy had not made the best of a success as housekeeper.
Tis a fond thought that to attain the end And object of ambition is to rest; Success doth only mitigate the fever Of anxious expectation; soon the fear Of losing what we have, the constant care Of guarding it, doth weary.
If you do so, I promise you that you will have successin hunting; you shall find game abundant for the needs of yourself and family.
If you save me you shall hereafter have success in your undertakings and you shall become a great man.
He became renowned among his people for his skill and successin the chase, for his generosity to the old people and to the sick and poor, and he attained many honors for his deeds of valour in warfare against the enemies of his people.
Ill-success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.
On the same day, he administered it with success to a man who called to have a tooth extracted.
Who would say Successand Merit Ne'er part company?
He is introduced into the salons of his superior officer, Count Chamaral, but meets with no sort of success among the marchionesses and duchesses.
