The low bass and the light high treblethey reached him alternately, cutting into each other, overriding each other, clashing in agitated dissent.

She was prepared for the feeble dissent with which he answered her suggestion of separation.

But if allegiance to truth lays no stern command upon him to speak out his immature dissent, it does lay a stern command not to speak out hypocritical assent.

When such a federation was dissolved, by defeat or inner dissent, individual tribes or groups of tribes could join a new federation or could resume independent life.

He was a shrewd and sound divine, Of loud dissent the mortal terror; And when, by dint of page and line,

Ivanhoe and King Richard (who had followed Wilfred) hastened back to Coningsburgh, and Cedric, finding his project for the union of Rowena and Athelstane at an end by the mutual dissent of both parties, soon gave his consent to the marriage of his ward Rowena and his son Wilfred of Ivanhoe.

" My murmur of polite dissent led her to repeat her words.

It may be said, no doubt, that Shakespeare lived before organized religious dissent had developed a new type of character among the weaker brethren.

Had we employed in the negotiations that serious moral strain which he might have been more inclined to approve, many of the gentlemen opposed to me would, I doubt not, have complained, that we had taken a leaf from the book of the Holy Alliance itself; that we had framed in their own language a canting protest against their purposes, not in the spirit of sincere dissent, but the better to cover our connivance.

Very often the excuse that is set up is some form of theological dissent.

The old nurse, who was fitfully fanning Mabel with a dried palm- leaf, made a growl of utter dissent, and Mabel exclaimed, "None was ever so faithful as good old Sigbert.