I therefore fired a pistol over them, but was answered by a shout of derision, which no doubt would have been soon followed by a shower of spears had we not compelled them to retreat by a discharge of small shot directed into the scrub, after which we were not further molested.

" With another unholy shout of derision Wattie was raised and set on the bridge.

The sovereigns could not at discretion, or by the want of it, play the bloody game of war for their mere amusement; and the emperor putting in his claim at this epoch to his ancient rights of sovereignty over Brabant, as an imperial fief, the council and the people treated the demand with derision.

This namewhich was given by Dr. Johnson in derision, because of the fantastic form of Donne's poetryis often applied to all minor poets of the Puritan Age.

None of this discussion was either derision or burlesque.

The waves of derision were stayed by no barrier, but made a clear breach over you.

" In 1834, during the second term of Jackson's office, there were committees sent to investigate the affairs of the Bank, who were very cavalierly treated by Biddle, so that their mission failed, amid much derision.

His respect will be taken as an insult, his refinement for derision, and his fine discourses for ridiculous pretexts.

Sime flung a jeer from the top of the canoe, the women snickered in his face, cries of derision rose in his wake, but he took no notice, pressing onward to the house of Scundoo.

The children swarmed mockingly about his feet, and the air was wild with laughter and derision, but that was all.

If the book of St. Dionysius had contained nothing but the derision and confutation of all we have just read, it is certain that he doth in no way concern himself with the harmless Millennarians, but with the Jews and Judaizers.

The kutwal and factor laughed in derision at this present, saying, that this was no fit present for their king, the poorest merchant presenting one more valuable.

Whilst they were disputing with one another, Caiphas and some of the other members of the Council employed themselves in questioning Jesus, and turning his answers into derision.

A large body of councillors, with Caiphas at their head, were still in the room, and they looked with both delight and approbation at the shameful scene which was enacted, beholding with pleasure the most sacred ceremonies turned into derision.

" She smiled in derision.

" "All right," said Buck, forcing a grin of derision, "so long, Hal." Purvis frowned at him with narrowing eyes.

He remembered the looks of scorn and derision that had met him as he had taken his way to the office, and, with a glow at his heart, the few simple, kindly words of welcome and the firm grasp of the hand from the Principal.

Let him refuse, in the face of derision, and reproach, and opposition.

That later years proved the idol's feet to be of clay, that he fell from his pedestal to end his days an object of contempt and derision, only served to those who knew him in the pride of his youth to mingle pity with the glamour of romance that still surrounds his name.

In the man's eyes, I had but replaced my father; I was another patient subject for his mockery, derision and abuse.

The air was filled with drum-beats, shouts of encouragement and derision, and the sound of the heavy blows which were administered to the unlucky bridegroom by each successive detachment of women as he ran the gantlet.

It was as though I had found my way behind a towering wall that now closed me in with a smile of contemptuous derision.

he interrupted, and he gave a kind of grim chuckle of derision.

On starry heights A bugle wails the long recall; Derision stirs the deep abyss, Heaven's ominous silence over all.

" "You ought to write criticisms for Blackwood, really, Miss Monfort, and give a woman's reason for every opinion," with ill-concealed derision.

Immense audiences came to listen, but tho the contest lasted a year they could arrive at no decision.

* THE DECISION

The first and most urgent is a matter of present decision: What is my duty here and now?

Indeed, that it had this character was admitted by Lord Grey himself, with no abatement beyond such mitigation as might be found in the idea that it was only intended to affect their decision on a single question.

Supported by the positive dictum of the ministers on whose judgment she had hitherto been bound to rely, the Queen naturally adhered to her decision of refusing to permit the removal of the ladies in question, and the result was that Sir Robert Peel declined to take office under circumstances of difficulty beyond those to which every new minister must of necessity be exposed, and Lord Melbourne and his colleagues resumed their posts.

no se ha de , it cannot be said; o mejor dicho, or rather; querer , to mean. decisión, f., decision.

The undecided, weak conduct of Pilate filled Claudia Procles with anxiety; she again sent him the pledge, to remind him of his promise, but he only returned a vague, superstitious answer, importing that he should leave the decision of the case to the gods.

Before he could arrive at a decision his meditations were interrupted by the entrance of a stout, sandy-haired lady from the back parlour, who, having conquered his scruples against matrimony some thirty years before, had kept a particularly wide-awake eye upon him ever since.

"Now that you have all spoken," said Souwanas, "and cannot come to any agreement, I, as chief, will make the final decision.

However, he had not been there many hours before he had to come to a decision, for one of the little children came rushing into the wigwam with the terrible news that Gray Wolf, carrying a big dog whip and looking very angry, was coming along the trail.

"When the moose heard the decision of the council he was very sorry for his poor little brother the rabbit, so after thinking it over he told the rabbit to jump up on one of his flat horns while he was holding them down.

"They had a long talk about the matter and the decision was that there should be two great changes.

Against this decision there was no appeal; and the gentleman was obliged to let the pew be resold for such a price as the white aristocracy thought fit to give.

DOT'S DECISION.

Pending Esther's decision,and of her mind in the matter, he had something more than a glimmering,he welcomed Mike with gladness as a prospective brother-in-law, and, as soon as he found an opportunity, left them alone together, returning quite a long time afterwardsto find them extraordinarily happy, it would appear, at his safe return.

His father had come to this decision by the advice of Monsieur Marguerite, the vicaire of his parish and a friend of the Abbé Bordier.

I am satisfied, if you could resolve to address an exhortation to those young men with all that eloquence of which you are master, that its influence on the future decision of this important question would be great, perhaps decisive.

Thus the state of Missouri has proclaimed to the world, that the wretches who perpetrated that unspeakably diabolical murder, and the thousands that stood by consenting to it, were her representatives, and the Bench sanctifies it with the solemnity of a judicial decision.

He concluded, by observing, that he would be glad to leave the decision of this to the committee.

Why hadn't he cabled her at the first moment of his decision to sail or why hadn't he relayed his wireless across when the opportunity had offered?

Now there is but one word I can say; that you have courage and decision, I know.

A decision is supposed to be made at the conclusion of a course of reasoning, but is not the conclusion itself.

Conversely, the conclusion of a syllogism is not a decision, but an inference.

"The decision was practically unanimous."

Literally, a prejudice is merely a prejudgmenta decision before evidenceand may be favorable or unfavorable, but it is so much more frequently used in the latter sense than in the former that clarity is better got by the other word for reasonless approval.