Fellenberg would once more make trialof them,--which he very willingly did.
They relied absolutely on the diplomatic resources of Li Hung-chang to save them from any possible trial of strength, and refused to face an alternative even by way of argument.
This is practically what the Chinese Government bad been doing with their national defences, so that on the first trial they collapsed like a sapless flower.
Accordingly, after much preliminary discussion, Mr Wade demanded that that high official should be censured for neglect of duty, and, on later information, that he should be brought for trial to Peking.
But as the fleet belonged to the north, they were unable to exclude northern seamen from the country round Weihai-wei, who proved when the day of trial came the most intelligent and the staunchest force that China possessed.
If lovers, Cupid, are thy care, Exert thy vengeance on this Fair: To trial bring her stolen charms, And let her prison be my arms!
Therefore, a weary climb heavenward was before him, and a great trial of his fidelity.
The Victory murder trial had not attracted much public attention, and the prisoner had been defended at the public expense.
Now, Luliban was hid in another village, and when the time drew near for the trial at the pool she went there before the people.
Ten years' trial has confirmed the declaration of its projectors, that they would make the road as safe or safer than the ordinary railway.
It was determined that the rivals should settle their dispute by a trial of skill, the winner to carry off the beautiful prize.
Ladies have been into Tuckerman's; but the trial cannot be recommended except for the most vigorous and courageous.
During the wars of York and Lancaster, no forms of trial had been observed.
When you think of it, it is a very great trial and effort to preach each Sunday to a thousand or fifteen hundred human beings.
And by longer experience, and that humbler self-estimate which longer experience brings, the trial is ever becoming greater.
Did you ever think to yourself that you would like to maketrial for a few days' space, of certain modes of life very different from your own, and very different from each other?
And little vexatious realities are doubtless a trial of temper and of principle.
Do you ever find, in looking back at some great trial or mortification you have passed through, that you are pitying yourself as if you were another person?
XV It is ended,' Odysseus said, 'My trial is ended.
Well, good-day to ye; and many thanks for the trial o' the rod.
The seeing of so many people going away to the north, the talking with the dogs, the trial of the big salmon-rod, had set his brain a little wild.
The very summary account of the trial mission of the Twelve here given presents only the salient points of the charge to them, and in its condensation makes these the more emphatic.
They 'had trial of mockings and scourgings, of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were slain with the sword.
The so-called trial of Jesus by the rulers turned entirely on his claim to be Messias; His examination by Pilate turns entirely on His claim to be king.
I have; but not without endless trial and tribulation, for they spill off the path on either side in a very remarkable way, and when I rush after one with a flank movement, the column breaks and falls back utterly demoralized.
The railway companies are making experiments with this apparatus as a means of communication between compartments of carriages, and it is being fitted up on trial in hotels.
If an accident had detained him, it was permitted as a trial of her faith, and she was prepared to submit.
To make this trial of telegraphy complete, Agra switched us on to another line, and we were soon talking to a native telegraphist at the Indian Government Cable Station, Calcutta.
This was a trial to us, giving us many errands to the throne of grace, not knowing what the end might be; and not only was it a grief to us, but also to herself.
I have studied music, and would fain make trial of accompanying your voice.
Knowing your love of music, and the attention you have given it, the Duke imagined it might divert you, till he was at leisure to pay you homage, to make trial of my poor powers.
We know what was Stanley's final decision, and though he does not acknowledge that this trial by chances had any effect on his final determination, the experience of human nature, since the world began, proves that it must have had.
How it agreed with him after the short trialof a single day, may be inferred from the following entry in his diary: "Thank God!
The Meat Trust, by raising prices for a few trial weeks, makes half a nation think its way over into vegetarianism or semi-vegetarianism.
It shall be in his times of trial and loneliness like a great people coming to him softly.
Why should nightingales, poppies, and dells expect, in a main trial of strength, to compete with machines?
At Naples he was imprisoned and put on his trial by the government, but was acquitted and released in January 1821; and King George IV.
Cicero's speech for Milo at his trial was not a success, though, as Quintilian (ix.
He was obliged to defend in 54 Publius Vatinius, whom he had fiercely attacked during the trial of Sestius; also Aulus Gabinius, one of the consuls to whom his exile was due; and Rabirius Postumus, an agent of Gabinius.
The Court overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of the United States vs.
To his utter surprise the Cincinnati bluffer met him at the foot of the stairs, and again demanded a trial of strength.
The leaders on the occasion of thistrial of strength were as follows: On the Jackson side, Gen.
The Court referred to the trial of Robinson, which had taken place at the present term, and in which some of the jurors now empanneled had rendered a verdict of guilty.
Thomas Irwin, who afterwards sat as one of his Judges in the famoustrial to be hereafter mentioned.
Instead of standing right out in the blistering noon-day sun of earthly trial and trouble, come under the Rock.
You cannot day after day go through three columns of murder trial without being a worse man than when you began.
She always makes a point of running him down, since he asked her some time ago in the cafe whether she was going to have her hair done high or in plaits at her next trialfor high treason.
This bad treatment of prisoners awaitingtrial must be abolished.
Citizens, that would be like giving a mongrel cur a court trial for sheep-killing!
It's really my trial of you to see if you're obedient when I know it's for your own good.
Good thing I didn't ask for a government inspection until after this trial flight.
I've made a trial flight, and you've seen me come down as safely as a bird.
And then, before he could ask his helper a question, Tom looked from a window and saw a stranger running hastily along the side of the building where his trialmotor was being set up.
Tom tried to entertain Mary and Mrs. Nestor with an account of his trialtrip in the Air Scout, but the two women scarcely heard what he said.
The trial of the generals by their own soldiers, the athletic sports, and the entertainment described in my story are all taken from the Anabasis, but they do not come so close together as I have found it convenient to put them.
Then came the cause celebre, as it may be called, of the day, the trial of Xenophon himself.
The intolerably clumsy system of having ten generals of equal authority was on its trial, if indeed any trial was needed, and was once more found wanting.
With us quoit-playing is a trial of skill as well as of strength.
Like a flash every eye had turned to him; but instantly he said: "Will the Seneca go to Fort Pitt and there put Little Paleface on trial before those whose customs are the customs of the Palefaces?
He had found that the time of the council the Delawares would hold to place Little Paleface on trial would be the following afternoon.
