George III, slipping into feebleness and insanity, yet jealous of his unconstitutional power, was a vacillating despot, quarrelling with his Commons and his Ministers.

The men are naturally jealous of misrepresentation; and, the other day, as "Radical Jack" was describing the working of the yard to a gentleman who had come to look at the scene, some of the men overheard his words, and, misconceiving their meaning, gathered around the superintendent, clamorously protesting against what he had been saying.

Feudal in its social structure, governed by tradition, with little movement of inner life or contact with the world about it, its people had remained jealous of strangers, and as yet distinguished from the nations of Europe by a strange immobility and want of sympathy with the intellectual and moral movements around them.

It was jealous of his greatness and his renown.

She soon became as jealous of her prerogative as her uncle Charles and her father James had been of theirs.

But the National Guards who were on duty were jealous of the cordial and honorable reception which those Nobles met with; they declared that to them alone belonged the task of defending the king; though they took so little care to perform it that they had allowed a gang of drunken desperadoes to get possession of the outer court of the palace, where they were menacing all aristocrats with death.

Near fifty criminals of this kind were at one time hanged or mutilated; and though these punishments seem to have been exercised in a manner somewhat arbitrary, they were grateful to the people, more attentive to present advantages than jealous of general laws.

She had been a little awed by Miss Hugonin, the famous heiressa little jealous of her, I dare say, on account of Hugh Van Ordenbut now she kissed her very heartily in farewell, and said, "Don't forget you are to come to us as soon as possible," and was beyond any question perfectly sincere in saying it.

Why should a modern be jealous of a mediaeval artist?

Do you mean that the whole trouble is that I'm jealous of Mary?

On the other hand, the French emperor was extremely jealous of the easy victory that Prussia and Italy had won over Austria.

I suppose you mean Doodles, and it does seem so silly for you to be jealous of that little boy!" "You played all his accompaniments, and you didn't play for me," said David in an aggrieved tone.

But most of all he was jealous of the English cavalier.

"Come, Fred," cried Captain Ellice, who had completely recovered from his accident, "I shall be quite jealous of your friend Singleton if you bestow so much of your company on him.

" The sad remembrance of the critical situation of our country also mingled with our grief; and certainly, of all the afflictions we experienced, this was not the least, to us, who had almost all of us left it, only that we might no longer be witnesses of the hard laws, of the afflicting dependence, under which, it is bowed down by enemies jealous of our glory and of our power.

In short, the South Sea Islanders are, as Mr. Macdonald remarks, generally jealous of the chastity of their wives.

They were exceedingly jealous of their individual liberty, and wished to be interfered with as little as possible.

To be jealous of his wife would never have entered his mind; nor was there the least occasion for it.

Do you know, Sir Max, if I were very fond of you,if I were your sweetheart,I should be jealous of this brazen lady, very jealous.

It may be fitly pointed out here that in a letter to Lord Strafford Walpole expresses an opinion that letter-writing is a branch of literature in which women are likely to excel men; "for our sex is too jealous of the reputation of good sense to hazard a thousand trifles and negligences which give grace, ease, and familiarity to correspondence.

And Oxford was as proud and jealous of its own ways as Athens or Florence; and like them it had its quaint fashions of polity; its democratic Convocation and its oligarchy; its social ranks; its discipline, severe in theory and usually lax in fact; its self-governed bodies and corporations within itself; its faculties and colleges, like the guilds and "arts" of Florence; its internal rivalries and discords; its "sets" and factions.

My very eyes forget to wink, jealous of losing even for an instant a sight so enchanting.

On the other hand, we have already noticed a certain theatrical ability displayed in the writing of the first act, and we may further attribute the alteration by which Procri is represented as jealous of Cefalo's original lover, Aurora, instead of the wholly imaginary Aura, as in Ovid, to a desire for dramatic unity of motive.

SWAZILAND (64), a small South African native State to the E. of the Transvaal, of which in 1893 it became a dependency, retaining, however, its own laws and native chief; is mountainous, fertile, and rich in minerals; the Swazis are of Zulu stock, jealous of the Boers, and friendly to Britain.

"I thought you would be jealous of me.