The refusal of the jurors in the Thaw trial to come to an agreement is certainly a somewhat amusing sequel to the frenzied and even fantastic caution with which they were selected.

The refusal of Harland's offer was the consequence, although she had begun to feel an esteem for him, that would no doubt have given rise to an attachment in time, far stronger and more deeply seated than her passing fancy for Colonel Egerton had been.

Too well-bred not to see that a refusal would now be a discourtesy, she unlocked the door, and held it open.

Miller's refusal to go with him was pure, elemental justice; he could not blame the doctor for his stand.

[Footnote 18: Of course, other causes combined for the Barcelona outbreakhatred of the religious orders, chiefly economic, and the Catalonian hatred of Castile; but the refusal of reservists to embark for Melilla was the occasion and the main cause.]

My friend objects to my statement that non-co-operation is not anti-Government, because he considers that refusal to serve it and pay its taxes is actually anti-Government.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

The refusal on the part of France to receive our minister is, then, the denial of a right; but the refusal to receive him until we have acceded to their demands without discussion and without investigation is to treat us neither as allies nor as friends, nor as a sovereign state.

"You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin," said he, "that your refusals of my addresses are merely words, of course.

This refusal to believe without evidence, and the declaration that anything "behind phenomena" is unknowable to man as at present constitutedthese are the two chief planks of the Atheistic platform, as Atheism was held by Charles Bradlaugh and myself.

His Excellency's refusal to commute two death sentences out of five is a fine illustration of the accusation.

The refusal was the more provoking, as there was plenty of boiling water ready, and I had humbly limited my request to a spoonful of tea.

They talked of killing themselves if she resisted, as if it were her duty to surrender, as if refusal on her part were treachery.

The refusal of a demand for the closed shop is often the ground for a strike.

This refusal is the signet of her greatness.

The President's accompanying special message argues that the organic law of the Territory conferred the essential rights of an enabling act; that the free-State party stood in the attitude of willful and chronic revolution; that their various refusals to vote were a sufficient bar to complaint and objection; that the several steps in the creation and work of the Lecompton Convention were regular and legal.

" Jarvis looked up with an impatient gesture, as if about to speak, but Dave kept on: "As captain of this submarine, I might order you below, and your refusal to do so would be mutiny.

They showed how the Negroes immigrating into the West Indies would be made to believe that the refusal to extend to them here social and political equality was cruel oppression and the immigrants, therefore, would carry with them no good will to this country.

A mere metaphorical refusal to cry, thisfor, after all, there had been tears.

The refusal of the false is not the reception of the true.

But Miss Rawlins was of opinion, that nothing more ought to be allowed me: and yet Mrs. Moore owned, that the refusal was a strange piece of tyranny to a husband, if I were a husband.

A man may be ill in mind or body, or busy, or gloomy, and so not care for advances; and a refusal would be a blow to her vanity.

He knew his landlord for a suspicious curmudgeon, and refusal of the favour, with such a look as Mr. Suggs knew how to give, would be a sore humiliation; besides, it was very doubtful whether Mr. Suggs could make any use of the cheque himself.

But his refusal to face facts about her musical career was another thing altogether.

THE REFUSAL OF CHARON FROM THE ROMAIC Why look the distant mountains So gloomy and so drear? Are rain-clouds passing o'er them, Or is the tempest near?