Gentle Mavis invariably made friends, and before her visit at The Warren was over she was on quite pleasant terms with Tudor, Gwen, and Babbie.
Finally she sought Tom, with whom she was already on terms of great friendship.
Charles scouted all these positions, affirmed his own sovereign right to name his successor, and refused to alter the terms of the proclamation so far as regarded the succession of his daughter and Duke René.
Little Princess Catherine was sent home to Dijon, and the Duke scouted the Anjou alliance, and made terms with Lorraine, a step which in another decade told disastrously against the son of Queen Yolande.
She personally approached the English King, and obtained from him favourable terms of peace, which assured tranquillity and regeneration for France.
But business is business even in royal circles, and the Estates of Lorraine and Bar were assembled by the Sovereigns to consider and fulfil the terms of René’s charter of liberty.
Now, if the interval be gradually narrowed, the contrast between the terms obtained will be less and less violent, and the varieties of comic transposition more and more subtle.
Moliere's Femmes savantes, where the comic element evidently consists largely in the translation of ideas of a scientific nature into terms of feminine sensibility: "Epicure me plait.
The effect of parody, thus defined, extends to instances in which the idea expressed in familiar terms is one that, if only in deference to custom, ought to be pitched in another key.
It is not uncommon for a comic character to condemn in general terms a certain line of conduct and immediately afterwards afford an example of it himself: for instance, M.
By still further curtailing the interval between the terms transposed, we may now obtain more and more specialised types of comic transpositions.
Note that the expression of old-world matters in terms of modern life produces the same effect, by reason of the halo of poetry which surrounds classical antiquity.
Summing up the foregoing, then, there are two extreme terms of comparison, the very large and the very small, the best and the worst, between which transposition may be effected in one direction or the other.
A short Glossary of technical terms belonging to the subject or department treated is also added to many of the books.
Terms in which color may be discussed: hue, value, intensity.
The motives of the former for this delight were quite a mystery to those who beheld it; as for Tam, he seemed determined to keep no more terms with poor Gibbie.
The chief received him at the castle gate, welcoming him in jocularterms of high chivalry to the castle of Roxburgh, which he took care always to denominate "my castle.
Intoxicated as Will was with wine, he was petrified with astonishment and delight, and could not find terms to express his gratitude and adoration.
If ladies are to live on these terms with the world, they had better be out of it.
Neither is it for its versification, imagination, nor any of the thousand abominableterms that end in ation.
Douglas therefore testified the highest satisfaction, extolling the Warden's head to conceive and hand to accomplish, in terms such as he had never been heard to utter.
But to discuss whether they are rightly called species or varieties, before any definition of these terms has been generally accepted, is vainly to beat the air.
We all felt bad when we thought you wouldn't, but I felt worse than the others because we hadn't been on very good terms lately and I had said mean things about you.
He and Peter remained on bad terms for some time, however.
This letter spoke of the desperate situation of Baza, the impossibility of holding out longer without assistance from El Zagal, and the favorable terms held out by the Castilian sovereigns.
El Zagal had learnt that the Christian troops had come to aid his nephew, and now offered to enter into an alliance with them onterms still more advantageous than those of Boabdil.
Never," cried he, "will I maketerms with that recreant and slave.
They claimed the same terms that had been granted to Malaga, imagining them to be freedom of person and security of property.
The same terms were offered in case of immediate surrender that had been granted to Velez Malaga, but the inhabitants were threatened with captivity and the sword should they persist in their defence.
So they all agreed with the king that these evils were preordained, that it was hopeless to contend with them, and that the terms offered by the Castilian monarchs were as favorable as could be expected.
A parley was procured from the Christian monarch, and the terms of surrender were soon adjusted.
He sent his heralds to summon the city to surrender, promising the most favorable terms in case of immediate compliance, and avowing in the most solemnterms his resolution never to abandon the siege until he had possession of the place.
These holy men had come on a momentous embassy from the grand soldan of Egypt, or, as Agapida terms him in the language of the day, the soldan of Babylon.
By his advice fourteen of the principal inhabitants were chosen from the fourteen districts of the city, and sent to the camp bearing a long letter couched in terms of the most humble supplication.
If the inhabitants should comply with this summons, he promised them the indulgent terms granted to Baza, Guadix, and Almeria; if they should refuse, he threatened them with the fate of Malaga.
Muley Abul Hassan now abandoned all hope of carrying the place by assault, and attempted to distress it into terms by turning the channel of the river which runs by its walls.
Terms used in Heraldry to denote the arms of a man and his wife, marshalled together.
Heraldry is the science which teaches how to blazon or describe in proper terms armorial bearings and their accessories.
It is considered that a lion cannot bear a rival in the field; therefore if two or more lions are introduced they are supposed to be lion's whelps, or in Heraldic terms lioncels.
Come, Miss Morland, let us leave him to meditate over our faults in the utmost propriety of diction, while we praise Udolpho in whatever terms we like best.
On his return from Woodston, two days before, he had been met near the abbey by his impatient father, hastily informed in angry terms of Miss Morland's departure, and ordered to think of her no more.
Nelson received the news before his squadron anchored in the Bay of Naples on the following day, and, not knowing the exact terms on which it had been granted, characterised them as “infamous.
In due course the British Government consented to the terms which had been made, although it disapproved of Sir Sidney Smith’s high-handed policy.
He was certainly on excellent terms with the Commissioner’s wife, for whom he cherished the most friendly feelings.
British market for Russian goods, lost no time in coming toterms with England.
If these terms are not complied with, in the time .
The proposed terms were definitely refused by Denmark, but Nelson’s “bold measure” of detaching part of the British fleet to attack the Russian squadron at Revel while the other attacked the Capital did not appeal to the unimaginative Parker.
By its terms the army and its munitions were to be allowed to return to France.
Towards the end of 1796 Napoleon’s astounding successes had obliged Ferdinand, King of the Two Sicilies, to agree to terms of peace, especially as the English had decided to evacuate the Mediterranean.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers stood at the zenith of its power about this time and was able in 1889, by the mere threat of a strike, to dictate terms to the Carnegie Steel Company.
He is out of patience with mere amelioration, even though it may mean much in terms of human happiness to the worker and his family.
At its expiration the identical terms were renewed for another year, while the negotiations bore the same informal character.
The twoterms are not always distinguished, but the essential difference is that in the trade agreement proper no outside party intervenes to settle the dispute and make an award.
A part of the same understanding was that the terms which had been agreed upon should remain in force until April, 1901.
When industrial prosperity has passed its high crest and strikes have begun to fail, producers' cooperation has often been used as a retaliatory measure to bring the employer to terms by menacing to underbid him in the market.
If my friend in the burganet, or volant-piece, or whatever he terms his rusty headdress, is here, the fight will be inside.
A man who has put man and Nature on good terms and brought happiness to thousands of homes.
Go to the fields and the mountains with him, and you will soon be impressed that he is on speaking terms with bird life in almost every detail.
The facts need only to be seen with the poet's eyes to make them beautiful, and he has translated them in terms of the human soul, without having to create beings of fancy to interest us while he tells the message.
He and Duncan went on board the Harriet Lane and the termsof surrender were reduced to writing.
He added that he hoped these honorable terms would be immediately accepted, for if not it would not be in St. Leger's power to offer them again.
But Captain Laval and his company charged and captured the battery, when the governor quickly showed himself with a flag, and promised to comply with any terms offered if Jackson would spare the town.
On the 9th he sent a written demand offering about the same terms as before.
They carry with them certain terms which will be offered to the American government at the point of the bayonet.
Their loss made the surrender of the fort a necessity, and Colonel Higginson accepted the generous terms offered him by Porter.
Our terms are a constant series of repetitions, so that if we understand their meaning in one series we are able to argue to their meaning in another.
They know my value as a master, and have offered me largeterms for another year or two of service.
This young gentleman is the son of the Miss Emma Aberleigh you once knew, Hall," spoke the doctor, with a view no doubt to putting her on good terms with the new pupil.
All candidates, however, must be over the age of fifteen and must have spent at least two previous terms at 'The Moorings.
The two were on terms of what Lorraine called "sensible friendship," which Mavis suspected might mean a good deal more some day, if Morland stopped merely drifting and put his shoulder in dead earnest to the wheel of life.
The girls from Chagmouth dined daily with the boarders in the hostel, and were on very good terms with most of them.
I have drawn a little nearer, feeling that our terms of acquaintance gave me the right of approach.
She considers that the privilege of inviting a friend to a meal occasionally, without additional charge (a privilege included in the terms on which she lets her lodgings), has been quite sufficiently exercised of late.
They held meetings, they made speeches, they got up petitions to extort this boon; on what terms it was made they cared not.
Mr. Yorke was in no mild mood, and in no measured terms did he express his opinion on the transaction of the night.
David and she were on the best terms in the world; and his devotion to the heiress was quite disinterested, since it prejudiced in nothing his faithful allegiance to the magnificent Dora Sykes.
He will draw up specifications, with the terms of which gas-engine makers must comply, so that he can compare on the basis of these specifications the merits of the engines submitted to him.
He will prepare an estimate of cost and also a contract which is not couched in terms altogether in the gas-engine maker's favor, and which gives the purchaser important warranties.
It may be advisable to define these variousterms exactly, since unscrupulous dealers, to the buyer's loss, have done much to confuse them.
All constraint was banished at our first interview, and afterwards we continued on the same terms of easy and equal politeness.
Baron Taylor was at this time the official charged with the acceptance or rejection of plays, and Charles Nodier, so Lassagne informed me, was on intimate terms with him.
After suffering a cannonade, the commandant proposed to evacuate Wexford on terms which "manifested the impudency of the men.
I am not a severe man," Johnson once said; "as I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier termsthan I was formerly.
There is no question which ballad would stand higher in the estimation of the gentle knight, but the terms by which the war-song he admired is described are of course equally applicable to The Battle of Otterbourne.
The terms 'good man' and 'cunning cheat' must here be considered as synonymous.
He 'readies up the broads,' as he terms it, by cutting all the high cards convex, and the low ones concave.
These terms were agreed to, and upon that basis of settlement the agreement was entered into.
Matters having arrived at this point, Laforcade proposed terms upon which he was willing to come to an understanding with the Spaniard.
They set out to find the solution of the cosmic problem in Christ; they endeavour to express the relation between God and the world in terms of His personality.
Monism abandons the universal relation by abandoning one or other of the terms to be related.
Whether the problem was conceived in terms of being or of value, the result was the same.
Here we have in its lowest terms the material for the ontological question, the first and the last problem of philosophy.
No clear notions attached to the terms "person" and "nature.
A relation must be such that, while the terms are unified, they are preserved as realities.
Whether conceived in terms of existence or of value, the world for the mystic is an obstacle to the unio mystica.
If its termsare merged, the relation falls to the ground.
If he thinks the world in terms of time, he must postulate a creator.
The terms and the formula are only of importance as expressing or failing to express the true facts of Christ's being.
It makes that relation such that the terms related are preserved in the relation.
Christology is an attempt to define the relation between God and the world in terms of personality.
But as years wore on the relish of foreign and far-travelled terms grew upon the public taste with surprising rapidity.
To say that oaths and imprecations, and in fact all terms of anger and violence, would leave the more durable impression, is only to insist upon what we see daily exemplified in countries where the like process is going on.
A Sandwich Islander appreciates this when he salutes a British crew in terms compounded of oaths and ribaldry.
In reply the Virgin points out interms of keen resentment the injuries inflicted upon the Infant by the swearing of Dives and his associates.
The truth would seem to be that the literature of the country, gross and abusive as it often was, was singularly free from terms of this particular description, while the conversation of the humbler orders was not so unexceptionable.
