Peel, although only home secretary under Wellington, was the prominent member of the administration, and was practically the leader of the House of Commons, in which character he himself introduced the bill for Catholic relief.

"Do that," said the young leader calmly.

It was wise, therefore, that the leaders forbore from active hostilities at this early stage of the business.

Karl Marx (1818-1883), preeminently the philosophic leader of the movement, sought to give a solider foundation of reason to the somewhat romantic socialist philosophy current in his day.

The Republic lost in him an ardent patriot, but scarcely a great leader.

The troops collected to oppose these marauders always lost courage and fled, and their leaders, not seldom, set them the example.

Sentences: The leader of the minority the upholders of the measure sharply as to a secret understanding.

" Inspired by the fortitude of this noble woman, Tone went forth on his perilous mission, and similarly the Young Ireland leaders, Mitchel and Smith O'Brien, were sustained by the courage of their nearest and dearest.

One noble mastiff, with long white hair and strong straight limbsthe leader of the packpursues Silvestro up the dark, tiring stairs.

Undoubtedly a born leader of men, like Captain Selover at his best, would have known how to act with the proper decision both now and in the inception of the first mutiny.

[Fr.], pioneer, prodrome^, prodromos^, prodromus^, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare^, forelooper^, foreloper^, stalking-horse, voorlooper [Afrik.], voortrekker

The leaders must remember that numbers alone do not make strength, that most of the rank and file, and not unfrequently the leaders too, need the apprenticeship of long experience before any union can be a strong organization.