" "You did not get into bed, then?" "No, I preferred to be up and to be ready for immediate action should the apparition, the horror, or whatever you call it, appear.

But when the money had been looked at and replaced, then, indeed, they saw the necessity for prompt action.

They believed that the utmost concession that could be safely made to democracy was the power to select suitable men to legislate for the common good, and nothing is more striking in the Constitution than the care with which they sought to remove the powers of legislation from the direct action of the people.

The President of the Senate: A convention having been concluded at Naples on the 14th October, 1832, between the United States and the Government of the Two Sicilies, I now lay it before the Senate for its constitutional action upon it.

A very cleverly-written narrative, in smooth verse, detailing the experience of a bride who took to flirting early in her matrimonial career, but was saved from coming to grief by the decisive action of a stern husband.

The members had solemnly sworn to stand by one another whatever happened, and the manner in which they carried out their resolve, and the important consequences which resulted from their concerted actions, will be made known to the reader as our story progresses.

On the failure of regular proof, the Roman law allowed a party to refer the facts in a civil action to the oath of his adversary.

It was not until the time of Septimus Severus and Caracalla (second century A.D.) that the legislative action of the senate ceased, and the edicts and rescripts of emperors took the place of all legislation.

The reflex action of the snail is the result of the presence of a nervous system in the animal.

Suffice it to say, that, with the title of Comandante de Campaña, he retained in La Rioja every fraction of actual power,nominating, nevertheless, a shadowy governor, who, if he attempted any independent action, was instantly deposed.

"[380] But as the end of all earthly learning is virtuous action, in Sidney's mind, he agrees with Minturno and Scaliger in borrowing from rhetoric Cicero's three-fold aim of the orator: to teach, to delight, to move.

They haven't had time to go far," said Billie, stirred to instant action by the thought.

It is noteworthy that to Aristotle the characteristic movement of poetic depends on the dramatic unity and progression of a dramatic action, a plot.

Gardens, vineyards, homes have been planted confidingly on the flanks of volcanoes which, after remaining steadfast for ages, have suddenly blazed into violent action, and poured forth overwhelming floods of fire.

Carden broke Allen's flanks rounded up his centre, and won the little action easily, though at the expense of his own most useful life.

There has been the Chinese persecution, the destruction of Galveston by storm and of Martinique by volcanic action.

Along these and other similar lines it seems to me that the House of Governors will be of practical advantage in the beneficial influence it will exert in the promotion of joint action where that is necessary to secure desired ends.

They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

" "Gennadius," whispered a cynical courtier to his neighbour, "I hope thou admirest the magnanimity of our sovereign, who deems he is performing a most generous action in presenting Manuel with his cast-off mistress, who has tried to poison him, and with whom he has been at his wits' end what to do, and in dowering her at the expense of another.

This paramount action of the Universal Mind thus sets an unchangeable standard by which all individual mental action must eventually be measured, and therefore our first concern is to ascertain what this standard is and to make it the basis of our own action.

"Germany's proletariat, conscious of its mission, raises herewith, in the name of humanity and civilization, the most fervent protest against this criminal action of the war party (Kriegshetzer).

But it must be admitted that the phenomena of the divining-rod and table-turning are of precisely the same character, both being referable to an involuntary muscular action resulting from a fixedness of idea.

It was too late for other women to register, but an organization of 1,000 women was at once formed to secure definite action of Parliament, with the approval of President Braga and several members of his cabinet.

The position held by these troops was vital to the entire advance, and it required rapid action on the first day to reach the objective at the same time as the other units.

He said to me 'Tis not an action worthy of a man; He glared at me with eyes as big as cups And face an egg-plant blue.