Yet the great State of Massachusetts has supinely stood still for twenty-five years without making an effort to overcome the barrier between it and the great West.
Perhaps he is not yielding as supinely as many people imagine to the inflexible mandates of constitutionalism.
Was Labor supinely to permit them to be snatched away bodily under cover of war, which Labor had always opposed?
I owed no fealty to the Jeddak of Kaol, but he was of the same race of noble red men as my own princess, and I would not stand supinely by and see his warriors butchered by the cruel and heartless demons of the waste places of Barsoom.
You don't find him maunderingsupinely about his latter end.
Beast of a bird, supinely when he might Lie snug and sleep, to rise before the light!
There seemed nothing to do but stand supinely and await my end.
At last I could endure no longer to sit supinely by while a fellowman was dragged down to a horrible death by that repulsive reptile.
There would seem to me to be about one chance in several million that we shall succeed--otherwise we shall die more quickly but no more surely than as though we sat supinely waiting for the torture of a slow and horrible death.
He stood trembling for a moment, tottered, almost it seemed would have fallen, but presently steadied himself and sank supinely into a chair, where he sat in impotent suffering.
She rested supinely against him, as if bereft of any strength of body or of soul.
There was no alternative except to sit supinely by and see the fear-crazed horse carry its rider into eternity, and Barney Custer was not the sort for that role.
Will you sit supinely by and see another rob you of your kingdom, and then continue to rob and throttle your subjects as he has been doing for the past ten years?
Where a people supinely lay upon their backs and permit anarchy, are they longer entitled to the citizenship of a great state and of a greater nation?
Beneath these glorious Laurels, which were made To crown the noble Victor's Head, Why thus supinely art thou laid?
I rouse my sex from the flowery bed, on which they supinely sleep life away!
And can she rest supinely dependent on man for reason, when she ought to mount with him the arduous steeps of knowledge?
Never again will the saintly, self-sacrificing woman who never questions her husband's authority but who yields supinely to his will be our ideal.
Are we willing to yield supinely to the tyranny of state or of money?
I had a striking example of this when the whole population of a prison, about four thousand persons, was supinely submitting to the will of one of these demons who took advantage of them.
Let woman no longer supinely endure the evils she may escape, but with her own right hand carve out for herself a higher, nobler destiny than has heretofore been hers.
That in discussing References, Appeals and Bills, They take care to purge out all, who upon due Tryal shall be found to be Insufficient, supinely Negligent, Scandalous or Erroneous.
He knows class legislation is deadly to democracy; yet he sits supinely tight while organized labor successfully clubs with votes for special privileges, successively the more indefensible.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
In his almost inexplicable apathy he was content to droop supinely while Carrie drifted out of his life, just as he was willing supinely to see opportunity pass beyond his control.
Supinely he allowed Austria and the Catholic League to raise their Croats and Walloons with the ready aid, so valuable in that age of unready finance, of Spanish gold.
Supinely he saw the storm gather and roll towards him.
Old Asa sat where he had left him, his tall frame settled down supinely in the armchair, his head bent on his breast, motionless and apparently asleep.
How can the idea of the State as an object of pride or as a source of authority flourish when the most elementary of its functions is supinely abandoned to the custody of a higher and a stronger power?
She was willing even to put off this reaction for a while, willing to remain passive and dizzied and stupefied, resigning herself helplessly and supinely to the swift current of events.
If she supinely resigned herself to the current of circumstance, where would she be carried?
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