There was such a calm resting upon all things, such an impress of repose upon forest and lake, such a cheerful quiet and serenity all around us, that one could scarcely refrain from rejoicing aloud in the beauty and the glory of the hour.

He had been particularly kind to his American prisoners in Canada and had purposely refrained from annihilating the American army after the battle of Three Rivers.

Darius wisely refrained from moving from his position to attack the Macedonians on the eminences which they occupied, and the two armies remained until night without molesting each other.

For whereas he refrained scrupulously from the possessions of others,so long at least as he practiced virtue at all,and would not even accept the inheritances which were left to him by testators having relatives, he spent vast sums both upon the cities and upon private individuals.

There were several tall girls in the room, yourself among the number, but naturally it never occurred to me" He stopped awkwardly, just as by inadvertence he was about to say that which all along he had studiously refrained from suggesting.

Although the "key" discreetly refrained from identifying the amorous Theodore, no great penetration was necessary to see in his character a picture of the royal George himself.

And if it is, are they prepared to exercise restraint, religiously refrain from violence and practise non-co-operation without counting the material loss it may entail upon the community?

Dr. Johnson politely refrained from opposing directly an observation which the duke himself had made; but said, 'Man must be very different from other animals, if he is diminished by good living; for the size of all other animals is increased by it.'

As already stated, we think that a theistic view of Nature is implied in his book, and we must charitably refrain from suggesting the contrary until the contrary is logically deduced from his positions.

He modestly refrained from making any remarks; and having given in his account, he rose to take his hat, when his attention was arrested by hearing Mr. Bruteman say: "We have not yet mentioned the most valuable property Mr. Royal left.

Many persons entertain a belief that cow's milk is hurtful to infants, and, consequently, refrain from giving it; but this is a very great mistake, for both sugar and milk should form a large portion of every meal an infant takes.

Finally, he wished to express his thanks to the learned counsel for the prosecution, who had generously refrained from demanding a convictiona pleasing evidence of deep and humane understanding.

Matthew, irritated by this most aggravating species of ridicule, took the carpenter's measure for a kickbut judiciously refrained from fitting him with one.

But the observations of that profoundly philosophical historian, Mr. Grote, give so correct a view of the probable origin of this universality of the mythical element in all the ancient religions, and are, withal, so appropriate to the subject of masonic legends which I am now about to discuss, that I cannot justly refrain from a liberal quotation of his remarks.

This is a reflection that will always influence the negative side of the balancea kind of warning to refrain from unnecessary action in matters of importancequieta non movere.

"She used to at one time; but she refrains nowadays, for I would tell her nothing.

My answer is that I do not doubt the relevancy of that inquiry, but that the treaty has not been concluded with the sanction of Belgium, for we have advisedly refrained from any attempt to make Belgium a party to the engagement.

Not only did the latter passively refrain from recognizing Aguinaldo's pretensions, but on July 22, 1898, he wrote to him as follows: "I observe that your Excellency has announced yourself Dictator and proclaimed martial law.

Finding her now with her father and mother at home on this bright Sunday morning, one glance at her face surprised him and, almost before he was aware, he had spoken what he had hitherto so patiently refrained from speaking.

Certain it is that on that day her suitor first alluded to a possibility which Madame de Trezac had prudently refrained from suggesting, there fell upon Undine's attentive ears the magic phrase "annulment of marriage.

" Again, "Three errors there be, into which they who wait upon their superior may fall:(1) to speak before the opportunity comes to them to speak, which I call heedless haste; (2) refraining from speaking when the opportunity has come, which I call concealment; and (3) speaking, regardless of the mood he is in, which I call blindness.

She resolutely refrained from looking down and kept on steadily, branch above branch, until she reached the one from which the robin hung.

Lady Tancred had rigidly refrained from questioning her daughters, on their return from the dinnerparty; she had not even seen them until the morning, and when they had both burst out with descriptions of their future sister-in-law's beauty and strangeness their mother had stopped them.

Sometimes their kettles were overflowing; at others they scarce refrained from eating their horses.

He shrewdly refrained from any attempt to defend the capture of the Grange by L'Ambuscade in Delaware Bay.