Boyer, who was the proper person to have remedied these abuses, always affected, perhaps felt, a delicacy in interfering in a province not strictly his own.

Of a truth I shall not taste food in this house till you have remedied this grievance.

But I was disappointed in finding so little meat on a partridge wing, and believed that Hedges would have chosen a leg instead of a wing, if he had pondered a moment, so I remedied the omission, and, as a result, each roasted a leg of the bird.

One might as well refuse to travel in a taxicab until the driver had explained the magneto as refuse to accept the principle of Proportional Representation by the single transferable vote until one had remedied all the deficiencies of one's arithmetical education.

Boyer, who was the proper person to have remedied these abuses, always affected, perhaps felt, a delicacy in interfering in a province not strictly his own.

She did not speak again until he had remedied the disaster and brought her some tea.

This remedied the dishonour by preserving the equilibrium, and was kept always in action by eloquence and comedy.

Investigation alone never remedied any evil, never righted any injustice.

420 To whom shall I my evill case complaine, Or tell the anguish of my inward smart, Sith none is left to remedie my paine, Or deignes to pitie a perplexed hart; But rather seekes my sorrow to augment 425 With fowle reproach, and cruell banishment?

Every day some fresh claimant starts up and professes to have remedied every defect hitherto discovered in the systems of his predecessors.

The splendid outing she had enjoyed, with the fine air of the far West, had built up her health to such an extent that nature remedied the ill she had suffered.

Mr. Eulenstein has remedied that inconvenience, by joining sixteen Jew's harps, which he tunes by placing smaller or greater quantities of sealing-wax at the extremity of the tongue.

More than probable it is that many cases of so-called 'navicular' have in reality been nothing more than contraction brought about by one or other of the causes we shall afterwards enumeratecases where a due attention to the prime cause of the mischief would, in all likelihood, have remedied the lameness.

He remedied such mistakes by appointing new boards of more seasoned stuff.

On this confined space a large population existed, and remedied the want of extent by raising story upon story, on the plan followed by the ancient inhabitants of Edinburgh.

Sil. Nay, feare not to discouer what you are; It may be we may remedie your care.

If the jackets proved too tight across the shoulders, which they invariably were, a slit down the back effectually remedied the defect.