Little notice was taken of the operations in America; but his majesty bitterly complained of the unprovoked hostility of the court of France.
The Greek government well knowing the unfavourable feeling of both Russia and France to England, treated British subjects with insult, and frequently allowed Greek subjects to treat them with wanton and unprovoked injury.
Any diplomacy now would seem to our Tagal antagonists the raising of the white flag--the final proof that the American people do not sustain their Army in the face of unprovoked attack.
Meanwhile we are now in the midst of hostilities with a part of the native population, originating in an unprovoked attack upon our troops in the city they had wrested from the Spaniards, before final action on the treaty.
I protested against thisunprovoked outrage, with a violence of language which I would rather not recall.
The lady's brother-in-law listened with an interest and sympathy, which offered the strongest possible contrast to the unprovoked rudeness of the mistress of the lodging-house.
It provided a no less convincing testimony to the restraint and forbearance of the victims, in the face of the ruthless and unprovoked aggression of the oppressor.
Our conduct was calculated to alarm and incense them to the extremest point of fear and irritation; and yet we talked of their childish distrust and their unprovoked hostility.
Whilst Captain Burnes, however, was on his journey to Caubul, information was received by the Governor-General that the troops of Dost Mahomed Khan had made a sudden and unprovokedattack on those of our ancient ally, Maharajah Runjeet Singh.
I never witnessed such determined and unprovoked fury as was exhibited by this animal--he appeared to be raving mad.
The natives, smarting under the unprovoked attack, visited Niambore, and desired him to send my men out of the country, as they were evidently leagued with those of Abou Saood.
New and important countries had been investigated, not by explorers or traders, but by the brigands of Abou Saood, whose first introduction was the unprovoked attack and carrying off of slaves and cattle.
At the same time I wrote to Abou Saood, giving him notice of his responsibility for the loss of the government troops, caused by his unprovoked and unjustifiable aggression.
Permit me to inquire the name of the magistrate who offers a gratuitous and unprovoked insult to a respectable man, under the protection of the bench.
What was the cause of this sudden and unprovoked attack?
Be that as it may, Hank at one effort had fathomed the mystery of this unprovoked attack, and at the same time had discovered that Joe was most probably rather an important person.
They've made an unprovoked attack, and must put up with the consequences.
He had never seen his friend in a similar position to this; he had never known him when he was the object of an unprovoked attack, and when the odds were opposed to him.
He alleged that the assault was unprovoked and unexpected.
The unprovoked rebellion with which the Romans rewarded his services, exasperated his haughty spirit.
From such motives almost every page of history has been stained with civil blood; but these motives will not account for the unprovoked cruelties of Commodus, who had nothing to wish and every thing to enjoy.
Unprovoked injuries are often inflicted and even the peculiar felicity of our situation might with some be a cause for excitement and aggression.
Such a continued and unprovoked series of wrongs could never have been tolerated by the United States had they been committed by one of the principal nations of Europe.
The Chickamaugas, aided by some banditti of another tribe in their vicinity, have recently perpetrated wanton and unprovoked hostilities upon the citizens of the United States in that quarter.
Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.
As there was reason to believe that the commanders of these posts had violated their instructions, there was no disposition to impute to their Government a conduct so unprovoked and hostile.
But a tissue of unprovoked atrocities like these is too repugnant to the principles of human nature, - and, indeed, to common sense, to warrant our belief in them on ordinary testimony.
Sardinia, aided by France and Prussia, made anunprovoked war on Austria, and wrested from her the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, and appropriated it to herself.
Does it authorize them to applaud unprovoked war and conquest, and public and private robbery?
So it was not a sudden and unprovoked invasion, as Sir W.
But no such opportunity offering, he resolved, in the autumn of this year, on a sudden and unprovoked invasion of their territory.
Neither these verses had anything to do with waging unprovoked war and exacting tributes during Mohammad's time, nor could they be made a law for future military conquest.
Now, suppose that, for good cause and to right unprovoked injuries, Congress should declare war against Mexico and invade Sonora.
Dorothy opened wide eyes at what she considered was an entirely unprovoked attack.
Phyllis's unprovoked attack had unnerved her considerably, and she shrank away from the head girl's well-meant advances.
Anna admitted that she was not always in the proper frame of mind for these unprovoked sermons, but refused to believe in the necessity for turning up her nose.
Such an insult, such unprovoked malignity of conduct, no nation but this would affect to mistake.
With so many warm friends, it is impossible, in the present state of human nature, that I should not have many unprovokedand unknown enemies.
I speak not now of my systematic and most unprovoked maligners.
Towards the end of the war, in 1782, there was a barbarous and unprovoked massacre of some civilized Indians who had settled near the Muskingum.
Soon after this unprovoked massacre, a party of Americans set out for Sandusky, to destroy the Indian towns in that part; but the Delawares, Wyandots, and other Indians opposed them.
Gentlemen,--In the unprovoked war waged against us by the American Government, Providence hath evidently smiled on the justice of our cause.
The unprovoked invasion of their country, destruction of their settlements, and desolation of their towns, orchards, and crops and farms, by order of Congress.
In all the criminal history of Colorado--in all the register of the achievements of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association--the ensanguined pages show no more causeless, unprovoked murder than that of R.
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