Matters came to a show-down one morning when Turkey, snug between his blankets, delivered a flat ultimatum to his brother's command that he get up and help pick potatoes.
With which tragic ultimatum Miss Jean turned and fled.
Indeed, I have known him to be interrupted in the delivery of a homily of the kind by the intrusion of a Sheriff’s officer charged with an ultimatum to the genial editor himself.
Thus I have myself roared with merriment over his report of the ultimatumdelivered by the Irish widow on a third-floor-back in Clare Market to her countrywoman occupying the third-floor-front.
On August 4th, Great Britain sent an ultimatumto Germany to withdraw from the neutral territory which her troops had entered and demanded an answer by midnight.
He adds: "Knowing how the matter would be viewed in Russia, it is incredible that Austria would have ventured on the ultimatum unless assured beforehand of the consent of Germany.
Instantly Germany protested, and within forty-eight hours sent an ultimatum demanding that Russia cease her preparations.
I'll withdraw everything except my ultimatum in respect to her putting a foot outside these walls.
The Titus family (omitting the Countess and Rosemary) was to be favoured with an ultimatum from which there could be no appeal.
The assassination of the Crown Prince Ferdinand at Sarajevo was the excuse for Austria's ultimatum to Serbia, the proximate cause of the Great War of 1914.
But there was a third and bigger bird; for the complicity of Germany in dispatching the Ultimatum is no matter for surmise.
Lady Nelson's ultimatum will probably be differently regarded by different persons; it shows that she was at least living human flesh and blood.
On the 12th the British ambassador left Paris, having handed in the Government's ultimatum and demanded his passports.
They addressed an ultimatum to Armenia, demanding the evacuation of Karabagh.
An important debate began on July 19 in the House of Commons about the condition of affairs in Asia Minor and the possible consequences the French ultimatum addressed to the Emir Feisal might have for British interests in that region.
Ismirlian, who had sent an ultimatum to the Imperial Palace and never ceased to intrigue, was finally dismissed in 1896 and sent to Jerusalem.
To this Mr. Bonar Law answered: “The ultimatum had not been submitted to the Supreme Council.
General Gouraud’s ultimatum had naturally been accepted by the Emir Feisal, but a few days after its expiration, and so military action had been started.
In the ultimatum to which reference had been made a passage occurred which he would quote.
This ultimatumwas enforced by the threat of the bombardment of the town by the fleet of the Caspian Sea.
According to the news which was given me when I got out of bed this morning, the German Minister last night presented to the Belgian Government an ultimatum demanding the right to send German troops across Belgium to attack France.
Illustration: Facsimile of the first page of the German ultimatum to Belgium.
The King presided over a Cabinet Council which sat all night; and when the twelve hours given by the ultimatum had expired, at seven this morning, a flat refusal was sent to the German Legation.
He was evidently returning from this pleasant duty when I saw him last night, for the ultimatum seems to have been presented at seven o'clock.
A new ultimatum was at once presented and the allied fleet of the European Powers entered the bay of Navarino.
An ultimatum was presented on July 10, commanding Arabia to surrender the forts.
It does not seem that several months have elapsed since General Chaffee issued an ultimatum to the Sultan of Bayan and other leading Moros of the Lake region, demanding the surrender of several Moro tribesmen for the murder of Pvts.
Gibson's ultimatum demanding Sweeney's resignation by noon of the next day was printed under another heavy black headline and brought the situation to a crisis.
The mayor is sitting tight on Gibson's ultimatum on Chief Sweeney's resignation and Sweeney's out this morning with a demand that Gibson co-operate with him and the department in his campaign.
In February 1854 the French and English Governments sent an ultimatum to Russia, requiring her to evacuate the Principalities, and in March they declared war against her.
I am no less anxious to receive your ultimatum as you call it so politically; but I am curious, above all, to know if you can perceive any impression of love in this last proceeding?
This is not the time to tell you, Viscount, the effect of this last effort, and its consequences; but I promise to give it you in my next letter; you will then receive also my ultimatumon renewing the treaty you propose.
At first the latter defended their action, but on the receipt of an ultimatum from the Japanese on March 5, China apologized and gave assurance that the indemnity would be paid and the responsible persons punished.
After this friendlyultimatum was pronounced the outcome of the measure could hardly be doubted, for the presence of the common enemy speedily brought about a temporary alliance of the Associationists and the Progressives.
Then it came out that Lord Avonley had also delivered an ultimatum to Beauchamp.
It was he who outwitted the whole Spanish Legation and delivered the ultimatum to Minister Polo.
It will be remembered that Spain handed Minister Woodford his passports before the American representative could present the ultimatum to the Spanish Government.
He was confident he would receive a private tip from the White House, which would enable him to demand his passports before the ultimatum was served upon him.
The ultimatum was placed in a large, square envelope, that might have contained an invitation to dinner.
Señor Polo stepped back into the hall and started to read the ultimatum carefully.
The Ultimatum demanded Arbitration on all subjects; the withdrawal of British troops; the re-embarkation of British troops landed after June 1st; troops on the high seas not be landed.
If the Republics had not made the fatal mistake of sending the ultimatum when they did, things would have gone differently; but it is of no use going back on what might have been.
On September 23rd, the Transvaal Government replies that the taal, a language not spoken by any but Boers, is to remain the only language used in the Volksraad, and in dilatory phraseology paves the way for the ultimatum of October 9th.
Four oʼclock was the hour at which the ultimatum expired, and exactly at that hour firing began, and one man was killed and another wounded.
Although we knew that an ultimatum had been sent in, nobody dreamed that the rumpus was going to begin so soon.
On the fourth of August, after Italy had proclaimed her neutrality, England's ultimatum was sent to Germany.
Russia made no reply to Germany's ultimatum but instead sent out a manifesto: "Russia is determined not to allow Serbia to be crushed and will fulfil its duty in regard to that small kingdom.
She made demands such as no civilized country could comply with, and at last gave an ultimatum on the twenty-seventh of July which had far-reaching consequences.
On the twenty-third of July, Austria sent an ultimatum to Serbia demanding that she use every means in her power to punish the assassins and stop all further anti-Austrian propaganda.
France then proposed a joint French and English occupation, but this was likewise rejected, and Whitworth was instructed to stand on the ultimatum of a ten years' occupancy by England.
On September twenty-fourth he arrived at his headquarters in Naumburg, and on October first the Prussian minister in Paris presented his sovereign's ultimatum to France.
The plan was rejected, for the King still feebly hoped that his ultimatum might be accepted.
The courier with this ultimatum from Paris reached Passariano exactly twelve hours after Monge and Berthier had carried the treaty of Campo Formio in the opposite direction for the sanction of the directors.
But Haugwitz could no longer offer the ultimatum agreed upon at Potsdam; the battle had of course utterly changed the situation.
The reply to the ultimatum has not even yet arrived, and the absence of a reply is equivalent to a declaration of war.
The Prime Minister himself and three of the principal members of his Cabinet are waiting there for the reply to the ultimatum which they sent to Germany at noon.
On Sunday, August 2, two days before the dispatch of Great Britain's ultimatum to Germany, we saw thousands of our naval reserve flying off by special boats and trains to their ships on our east and south coasts.
