To regulate the wages for one voyage, and to leave another without limitation, in time of scarcity of seamen, is absolutely to prohibit that trade which is so restrained, and is, doubtless, a more effectual embargo than has been yet invented.

Already the manufacture of heavy howitzers for the Spring Offensive had been stoppedby a cunning embargo upon small essential partsand the moment had arrived for a trial of strength between authority and rebellion.

More than ever must it be so now; that was as natural as the maternal embargo in which Catherine seemed almost to glory.

The truth is that Clara, fearing lest Coronado should tell more stories about her million to Thurstane, had taken the women of the family into her confidence and easily got them to lay a sly embargo on callers and correspondents.