" All that Constance knew respecting Alexandre's recent years was a story which he had concocted and retailed to Seraphinea story to the effect that he owed his long term of imprisonment to a woman, the real culprit, who had been his mistress and whom he had refused to denounce.

Never did human eye behold a scene so pitiful as this dying man gazing on his destroyer, gasping to implore or to denounce him.

To denounce was to please; zeal is one of the forms of servitude towards which people lean the most willingly.

"To-day," said Piero to himself, "it is this poor devil who cried to me to shield him when I was forced to denounce him to the Signoria; to-morrow, for some caprice of their Excellenciesit may be Piero Salin!"

My object was first to show the folly of those who denounce all crying, and secondly, to point out some of its advantagesin the hope of preventing parents from going to that extreme which borders upon stoicism.

Many people in our enlightened times would denounce this treatment as illiberal and persecuting, and justly.

Whatever was a sin, when measured by the laws of immutable morality, he would denounce, whoever was guilty of it; whatever would elevate the public morals he would advocate, whoever opposed.

Nothing, indeed, is more common than to meet with those who denounce that in others, which is of constant occurrence with themselves; and who rail at vices that are so interwoven with their own moral being, as to compose integral portions of their existence.

Into his mind rushed a temptation suddenly to denounce the real slayer before them all.

What chiefly concerned the nobles, therefore, was not to evolve a masterly campaign, but to propound the fundamental principles of monarchy, and to denounce an awful retribution on insurgents.

Saint-Just rose in the Convention to read a report to denounce Billaud, Collot, and Camot.

His critical temper, however, was in truth exceptionally equable; regarding it as his duty to encourage all that was good and elevating, and relentlessly to denounce all that was bad or tended to lower the tone of literature, he conscientiously acted up to the standard by which he judged others, and never allowed personal feeling to intrude upon his official judgments.

Now, there are certainly not many who would be so stupid or unreasonable as to denounce any course of action on the score of one spasmodic attempt, but there are not a few who are honestly desirous to follow out what they feel to be a better mode of living, who take it up in such a hasty, ill-advised way as to ensure failure.

If necessary, to keep your own skirts clear, it would be your duty yourself to denounce him as a spy.

She must be the first to denounce Anfossi.

" "What harm has the poor man done you that you denounce him?" said I. "I am a poor wretch, sir!"

Their complaints brought before him are often of the most trivial kind; yet because he does not condemn the apprentices to receive a punishment which the most serious offences alone could justify him in inflicting, they revile and denounce him as unfit for his station.

The next anodyne was prescribed by Mr. Patton, of Va., but its effect was to rouse from their stupor some of the Northern Legislatures, and to induce them to denounce his remedy as "a usurpation of power, a violation of the Constitution, subversive of the fundamental principles of the government, and at war with the prerogatives of the people.

The tone in which opposite political journals denounce the late outrage may warn the slaveholders that they will not much longer hold the north in bonds.

It was conceivable, indeed, that members of the latter might dispute it and argue with him, or even denounce him for a heretic.

He could not even spare time to denounce her.

"I am come," said the latter, "to denounce to your Royal Highness a man who has five hundred thousand livres in gold."

"Ah, Mr. President," he cried, "what low vocation have you taken to?" "Monseigneur," rejoined the president, "I am obeying the law; but your Royal Highness may be quite easy; it is myself whom I have come to denounce, in hopes of retaining at least a part of this sum, which I prefer to all the bank-notes."

It is not only generous but just to take the language in which the writers and orators of a country denounce the evils existing in it cum grano salis, or with considerable allowance for exaggeration.

Let those who denounce and deplore this harsh unpeopling come and stand upon the cold, bleak summit of one of these Sutherland mountains.