They looked on it as merely a family affair, an arrangement made for the convenience of government among the descendants of the great Charles.

The reason he assigned was that they ought not to superintend anything but strictly military affairs, but his true purpose was to afford those who wished to raise a disturbance the amplest scope.

[Sidenote: see exhibit 13.] Faithful to our principle that mediation should not extend to the Austro-Servian conflict, which is to be considered as a purely Austro-Hungarian affair, but merely to the relations between Austria-Hungary and Russia, we continued our endeavors to bring about an understanding between these two powers.

In the good old times cruelty was a reciprocal thing amongst professing Christians; it was a pre-eminently mutual affair amongst the two great religious parties in the landthe Protestants and the Catholics,for when one side got into power they slaughtered their opponents, and when the other became paramount the compliment was returned.

"But first tell me, signore, that you will forgive me for the part I have played in this dastardly affair.

The old furniture, which had seemed so unexceptionable before, suddenly became dowdy in the presence of this princely affair.

" The beautiful, expensive school bus was in fact another type than the shabby, rattly affair Dr. Guerin made spin over the rough country roads.

His few tindery and tinselly affairs suspected of following the obvious formula: three parts curiosity, three parts the literary sense, three parts crude young impulse, one part distilled moonshine.

Certainly the carriage of an individual, outer symptom of the inner tonus among his muscles and tendons, may be said to be as distinctively an endocrine affair as the color of his skin.

She, therefore, forwards Emanuella's affair with Emilius until the lovers are hopelessly compromised; then taking advantage of the loss of the lady's fortune at sea, blackens her character to Emilius and provokes him to desert her.

Except that it was a longer labour, it was no graver affair than any common wasps' nest might have been.

Though ostensibly an innocent affair, this camp was intended to be the nucleus of the army to hoist the Rebel flag in the State.