" I demurred.

" Goethe is profoundly right; though possibly he puts it in a way to which Homer himself might have demurred.

The tool of the decemvir's lust laid hands on the girl as she was coming into the forumfor there the elementary schools were held in boothscalling her the daughter of his slave and a slave herself, and commanded her to follow him, declaring that he would drag her off by force if she demurred.

The soldiers, however, demurred, because the statement which their comrades were gone to make to Pilate would contradict any account which they could now fabricate, but the Pharisees promised to arrange everything with the governor.

" "If it were not for the boy, I shouldn't mind selling it," his mother demurred.

Still I demurred, and at last she, with the wit of Eve and of Semiramis conjoined, let me off by saying that, if I would go in with her, and sustain the initial conversations with the Governor and the ladies staying there, she would risk Dennis for the rest of the evening.

" "It isn't the truth," he demurred.

" Louis demurred, but the trader was inexorable, and rather than let the opportunity to rescue Ellen from him escape he paid the exorbitant price, and had her brought to his hotel.

At first my husband demurred, for we were doing a good business; but I said, let us go, if we have to live on potatoes and salt.

The young man demurred an instant, and then, laughing, ran into the stable to find a halter.

It was even more delightful yet, strolling out when tea was over, and meeting the Routh party again half way between the cottage and the hotel, and sauntering on with them, insensibly, till they found themselves on the wide wing-piazza, upon which opened the garden bedrooms, and being persuaded after all to sit down, since they had got there, though Mrs. Linceford had demurred at a too hasty rushing over, as new comers, to begin visits.

The savage strongly demurred, but finally yielded, and the two set out, making their way somewhat after the fashion of a yoke of oxen.

Phil had demurred, but had been quietly overruled and had acquiesced perforce.

She demurred at first, knowing how hard these vigils were for the restless, unhappy lad.

" "Oh, Tom," she demurred blushingly, "I shall be young enough at eighteen; and you are barely twenty-one.

But poor David called that deserting the ship, and demurred, till Alfred assured him the captain had ordered it.

To this demand Condé at first demurred; but finding that he could not succeed in securing the assistance of the reformed party, he at length consented to withdraw; and not venturing to return to Amboise, he took up his temporary residence at Châteauroux in Berry.

He demurred to paying Mad.

He demurred at this, but finally withdrew and established headquarters across the bay at a place called Bacoor, from which place on the 15th of June he sent me a proclamation declaring the independence of the Philippines.

I began to suspect he was not loyal to us about the time our troops arrived, when he demurred at moving out of Cavite to make room for our troops.

Far too many meals partake of the characteristics of the one described in the story told of a clergyman who, when requested to ask a blessing upon a dinner consisting of bread, hot and tinged with saleratus, meat fried to a crisp, potatoes swimming in grease, mince pie, preserves, and pickles, demurred on the ground that the dinner was "not worth a blessing."

Once, we are told, when he expressed a wish to give her a pair of diamond ear-rings at a cost of fifteen thousand francs, she demurred at accepting so valuable a present.

He demurred, but I was not disposed to excuse him.

Julius demurred a good deal to her wish of sending him on a mission to Eleonora.

" Mr. Charnock demurred at first, and wanted to saddle Cecil with her old governess as a companion, but when he found that Mrs. Poynsett and Miles made no objection, and remembered that she would be under their wing, and would be an inestimable adviser and example to Anne, he consented; and Cecil's arrangements were made with startling rapidity, so that she was in possession before Christmas, which she insisted on spending there.