The self-constituted dictator insisted that his whole desire was for peace and the artistic beautifying of his country; yet if Russia persisted in extending her power and ignoring France.

They should be faced and examined; the danger is far greater from ignoring them.

The most loyal and deep-seated love needs not to shut its eyes to all defects and limitations, but can face them unchilled; and similarly there is often more faith and reverence and quiet enthusiasm in this seemingly cold and critical attitude towards the cause or party we love, than in the extravagant idealism that depends for its maintenance on an ignoring of things as they are.

His acquaintance with actual conditions in humble circles, and with hardships, was as personal as Goldsmith's; but he was not the kind of poet who soothes the miseries of mankind by ignoring them.

With this in mind, ignoring their mad roaring, and the threat of leveled guns, I stared down at the infuriated faces, until the clamor ceased sufficiently to let my voice be heard.

" Satisfied that every precaution had been taken, and ignoring the indignant roar of voices which greeted this order, I watched the men shift the heavy hatch cover into place, and then permitted my eyes to survey the deck, as I hastily considered our next action.

Ignoring all others I leaped straight at him, crying to Watkins as I sprang.

" I sat up, ignoring all else, thoroughly awake from excitement, gazing under hollowed hands in the direction the men pointed.

He left the country of Five Lakes well to his left, ignoring the invitation of the trail beyond down the tall walls of Squaw Creek cañon.

Duchemia could not have been guilty of the offence of ignoring her; but the truth is that, save when courtesy demanded that he pay her some attention, he hardly saw her.

He took Narcissus by the arm and strode ahead into the tunnel, muttering, ignoring noisy protests from the senators, who warned him that the guards were not yet there.

"What I desire," she said, ignoring the remonstrances of the family, "is a chance to make mistakes.

So he stepped briskly up on the carriage-block, and only hesitated when he saw that the prince, utterly ignoring the presence of the princess and Lady Diantha, was edging forward and cocking an alert ear to catch the address which Lanyard was on the point of giving the cabby.

But it is my duty, unfortunately, to make passing search of your coach; will you pardon me if I do so?" As he spoke, Captain Yorke advanced to the door and extended his hand to assist the occupant of the vehicle to alight, but Betty, ignoring assistance, attempted to spring past him to the ground.

Again he was disappointed, the list of birthday honours ignoring him completely.

Henry, too, erred in ignoring the advances of Morse and Vail and in his proud sensitiveness.

In that moment of misery she forced herself to think only of her mother, thus ignoring her own position in the matter entirely.

" "I have noticed that in some things you are very observant," said Joanne, ignoring his question.

" "If I were in your place," said Elinor, "I" "Last night," continued Mrs. Fairfax, deliberately ignoring her, "I was not in bed until half-past two o'clock.

He was inclined rather to the manly course of ignoring the Grande Polonaise altogether.

Having referred to these twelve cases, he proceeds with his argument, utterly ignoring the twelve hundred facts that oppose his assumptiona proceeding so unlike his usual candid habit of stating the difficulties confronting him, that this circumstance alone indicates how shaky he felt in regard to this point.

This preference for matter to form is the same as a man ignoring the shape and painting of a fine Etruscan vase in order to make a chemical examination of the clay and colours of which it is made.

The man who had so terribly beaten me was particularly flagrant in ignoring the claims of age.

I have already described how an assistant physician arbitrarily denied my request that I be permitted to send a birthday letter to my father, thereby not merely exceeding his authority and ignoring decency, but, consciously or unconsciously, stifling a sane impulse.

"Look at him, Peter!" Mr. Duckett, ignoring this reflection on his personal appearance, stepped quietly inside the door, and stood smiling nervously at the company.