But its worst consequence was that it gave Russia a pretext for armed intervention.

Breteuil, Baron de; appointed prime minister; and foreign intervention.

Children resemble the young Jewish nation in this respect: they accept the direct intervention of God in the life of every day.

By divine intervention, the crowd parted and made a way for me; and when I came to the priest he held out the roses, and I ate them, and was changed into a man.

She could do nothing except fold her hands and patiently wait for some miraculous intervention.

The assembly was also called upon to settle a difference between two members of our Oregon contingent, friendly intervention having induced the disputants to suspend hostilities until their rights should be thus determined.

Thus when young Mr. Karslake explained his uninvited if timely intervention by stating that he was conducting her to the parent of whose existence she had so recently been informed, he succeedednot to put too fine a point upon itonly in making it all seem a bit thick.

TELEGRAM SENT TO BERLIN On the assembly of the house the premier, Mr. Asquith, said that a telegram had been sent early in the morning to Sir Edward Goschen, British ambassador in Berlin, to the following effect: "The king of the Belgians has appealed to His Britannic Majesty's government for diplomatic intervention on behalf of Belgium.

God!" replied Harris, in the tone of a man who takes little account of providential intervention in the things of this world.

Moreover, he laid violent hands upon Donato Acciaiuolo, the Florentine ambassador, and, but for the prompt intervention of the envoys of Venice and Milan, would have cast him, uncharged, into the dungeons of the castle of Sant Angelo.

Degradation may almost be considered a law of religion and morality which needs some kind of violent counteraction, some continual intervention and providence, if it is to be kept in check.

But the dramatic intervention of Germany "in shining armour" on the side of her ally resulted in a diplomatic victory for the Central Powers.

He could bring official intervention to bear, without which Jack might, even though alive and well, be hidden from them.

Our projects of conquest were, however, all frustrated by the unlucky intervention of Bernardine's soupe aux choux,

I would send one from our own body, incognito, to Paris to talk to Polignac and endeavour to get him to join us in an act of vigorous intervention which would give character to his Government and save Constantinople.

It occurred to me that I might be able to help the cause of peaceful intervention.

"You cannot deny, that the great mover and author of nature constantly explaineth himself to the eyes of men, by the sensible intervention of arbitrary signs, which have no similitude, or connexion, with the things signified.

When, how,by the gradual spread of knowledge, or by supernatural intervention,who can tell?

Ah! what will become of me, good Lord?" Santerre again attempted to console her, but she no longer listened to him, and he was about to defer all further efforts till another time when unexpected intervention helped on his designs.

The energetic intervention of the spiritual and temporal authorities prevented a renewal of the scandal, and it was thought best, in the interest of peace, to allow the statue to be turned half-way to one village and half to the other.

No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" (The Transport Sergeant, in whose memory certain enormities of Dunshie had rankled ever since that versatile individual had abandoned the veterinary profession, owing to the most excusable intervention of a pack-mule's off hind leg, was not far out in his surmise, as subsequent history may some day reveal.

Side by side with this arithmetical proof of his active benevolence we will place a moral proof taken from Joinville's often-quoted account of St. Louis's familiar intervention in his subjects' disputes about matters of private interest.

" The pious señora lamented as a Christian the departure of her brother-in-law, dedicating a part of her prayers to him; but she insisted with a certain cruelty in giving an account of his sad end, for she had never been able to pardon his fatal intervention in the destiny of Ulysses.

Few seemed to reflect that the forcible intervention of a Great Power in the Balkans must inevitably call other Great Powers into the field.

Germany, however, made difficulties on the ground that anything like formal intervention would be impracticable, unless both Austria and Russia consented to it.