The Colonel's organ of benevolence was so large that he would have liked to administer bounties to the young folks his nephews and nieces in Brianstone Square, as well as to their cousins in Park Lane; but Mrs. Newcome was a great deal too virtuous to admit of such spoiling of children.

Thus the Mundrucus of North Brazil, when desirous of gaining information on any special subject, would administer to their seers narcotic drinks, so that in their dreams they might be favoured with the knowledge required.

There was no sacrament, consequently no priest to administer it; Islâm has always been the lay religion par excellence.

Heartily willing to administer an effective lesson to her tormentors, I seized the occasion of the sunset meal to notice the weary and harassed look she had failed wholly to banish.

A member of our class has insulted the whole brigade, and under our old traditions only the second class can administer discipline.

The provinces become areas of local governments, with local elected councils to administer them, but the South-African Parliament reigns supreme.

It is well known, that the commons cannot claim a right to administer an oath, and therefore can only examine witnesses by simple interrogatories.

That they cannot, my lords, in their own right administer an oath, they apparently confess, by the practice of calling in, on that occasion, a justice of the peace, who, as soon as he has performed his office, is expected to retire.

The use, my lords, of spirituous liquors, though in the excess now so frequently to be observed, undoubtedly detrimental to multitudes, is not, in a proper degree, either criminal or unwholesome; and, therefore, ought not to be prohibited by a tax so heavy as has been proposed by a noble lord, who, if he pursues his reasoning, must propose to tax in the same proportion every other liquor that can administer to vice.

We went to see his Highness administer justice, which he always did, morning and evening, whilst at Kairwan.

There was happiness in being able to administer to his wantsin hearing his voicein kneeling for his blessing.

The only course open to you, Mr. Judge, is, as I am just going to say in my statement, either to resign your post or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people.

After supper I shall administer another dose of whisky.

" Greiffenhagen had tried to administer more medicine.

To outrage Right, to suppress the Assembly, to abolish the Constitution, to strangle the Republic, to overthrow the Nation, to sully the Flag, to dishonor the Army, to suborn the Clergy and the Magistracy, to succeed, to triumph, to govern, to administer, to exile, to banish, to transport, to ruin, to assassinate, to reign, with such complicities that the law at last resembles a foul bed of corruption.

SIXTHLY, OF THE USE OF OPIATES.It is the practice with some nurses to administer narcotics to quiet infants while teething.

The chief and principal point in the maternal management (for it includes every other) is promptly and faithfully to administer the remedies prescribed by the medical attendant.

When things are in that lamentable condition, the nature of the disease is to indicate the remedy to those whom nature has qualified to administer in extremities this critical, ambiguous, bitter potion to a distempered state.

They are afraid of neither plague, pestilence, nor famine; they administer spiritual consolation under silken hangings, as well as upon straw lairs; in the fever stricken garret as well as in the gilded chamber.

There are cases of this kind, where it requires all the resolution which a father, uninterrupted, can summon to his aid, to administer a dose or perform a task, on which he knows the existence of his child may be depending: but when the thoughtless entreaties of the mother or nurse are interposed, it makes his condition most distressing.

After the conquest of Sicily, Sardinia, and the two Spains, new praetors were appointed to administer justice in the provinces.

But he hadn't meant to administer quite such a punishment as that.

With respect to the time of our author's death, we cannot be absolutely certain; all we know is, that he died in the year 1579, at his house in Flamstead in Hertfordshire, and was buried in the parish church; for as Wood informs us, on the eighteenth of May the same year a commission was granted from the prerogative, to administer the goods, debts, chattles, etc. of George Ferrars lately deceased.

On the reduction of Mangi to obedience, the khan divided it into nine great provinces, placing a viceroy in each, to administer the government, and to dispense justice.

His wife and daughter were permitted to sit close to him, to administer to his wants, no others being allowed so to do, on account of his taboo.