You have heard my empire's knell, Yet no hostile world's decree Can estrange your hearts from me; Exiled to a tiny isle, Through your tears you well may smile At the realm my foes bestow, Elba ... after Fontainebleau!

Nothing could be more ill-judged upon the part of Marie than this violence, as by estranging the King from herself she gave ample opportunity to the Marquise to resume her empire over his mind.

It has alienated and estranged the people of the sister States from each other, and has even seriously endangered the very existence of the Union.

Again, a large endowment of intellect tends to estrange the man who has it from other people and their doings; for the more a man has in himself, the less he will be able to find in them; and the hundred things in which they take delight, he will think shallow and insipid.

To think that they had, though unwittingly, hurt and estranged the child like this, was Mrs. Fleming's first thought; and the tears came to her eyes, and her voice broke as she cried impulsively, "Oh, my little girl, my little girl!

He must have had plenty of time and opportunity to discover Miss Lumley's intellectual limitations during the two years of his courtship; and it is not likely that, even if they were as well marked as Mrs. Shandy's own, they would have done much of themselves to estrange the couple.

Much, no doubt, had happened since to estrange the daughter from the mother.

now and then reject them, estrange thyself, et si me audies semel atque iterum exclude, shut him out of doors once or twice, let him dance attendance; follow my counsel, and by this means you shall make him mad, come off roundly, stand to any conditions, and do whatsoever you will have him.

It was only after several reminding coughs that I succeeded in recalling him from afield; and even then the deeply thoughtful look remained to estrange his face from me.

NO BUD IN MAY NOON AND NIGHT FLOWER ESTRANGED THE TIRED CUPID DREAMS FAITHLESS

Evelyn Grant had bitterly estranged her father by marrying against his wishes.

I make it one of my charges against the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government, that, while they have completely estranged from this countrylet us not conceal the factthe feelings of a nation of eighty millions, for that is the number of the subjects of the Russian Empirewhile they have contrived completely to estrange the feelings of that nation, they have aggrandized the power of Russia.

They have alienated Russia, they have estranged France, and then they call Parliament together to declare war against Germany.

The King said he had, but if he made it known he would get no thanks for it and might estrange his best friend.

The disproportion between his intellect and his character, between the boundless pride and the impassioned weakness of his spirit, had little by little estranged his friends and worn out the admiration of his contemporaries.

But, my Anselmo, loth I am to say, I must estrange that friendship.

An incident which happened in 1875 helped to estrange Germany from Russia.

She saw her little Court melting away, her flatterers dispersing, and her friends becoming estranged; nor could she conceal from herself that if she failed shortly to discover some method of estranging Henry from the Queen, and once more asserting her own influence, all her greatness would be scattered to the winds.

This hostile action of course further estranged Lorenzo and the Government of Florence, and, quite naturally, a system of quarrelsome incidents was set up, with a very complete equipment of spies.

When they had thus successfully estranged the majority of Liberals they began to study the political situation a little more closely.

It was too much in the nature of an adverse proceeding to seem quite right to him; he was fearful that, somehow, it would estrange his mother from him.

Its story turned upon the marriage of the elderly Lord Brumpton to a designing young minx who estranges the nobleman from his son, Lord Hardy, the gentlemanly, poverty-stricken leading man of the piece.

In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things for a few moments, that the most ordinary objects and events appear quite new and unfamiliar.

The Habsburgs have least estranged the Poles.

some sayand consequently estrange their religion from the habits of thought we and our forefathers have been accustomed to for centuries past.