No one has ever denied that from first to last Louis Napoleon was courteous, affable, gentle, patient, and kind, with a control over his feelings and thoughts absolutely marvellous and unprecedented in a public man,if we except Disraeli.

She has been steady, persevering, and even patient for a hundred years in her struggles for political freedom, whatever mistakes she has made and crimes she has committed to secure this highest boon which modern civilization confers.

He did not live to see the complete triumph of his system, matured by genius and patient study; but his work remained to future generations, and made Prussia invincible except to a coalition of powerful enemies.

No man can be sure of himself or his ground without previous and patient labor, except in reply to an antagonist and when familiar with his subject.

To begin with, the arm-chair in which the patient was always directed to sit, was nailed to the floor, since its immovability tended to impart this same excellent characteristic to the occupant.

The effect upon the excitable patient was rapid, admirable, and harmless.

The green study was further provided with a secret spy-hole; for John Silence liked when possible to observe his patient's face before it had assumed that mask the features of the human countenance invariably wear in the presence of another person.

No one sat in the chairs; no one stood on the mat before the fire; there was no sign even that a patient was anywhere close against the wall, examining the Bocklin reproductionsas patients so often did when they thought they were aloneand therefore rather difficult to see from the spy-hole.

It was the patient.

In some intuitive, unaccountable fashion the music connected itself with the patient he was about to interview.

"I find it of the greatest assistance sometimes" But the patient interrupted him at once.

But you must be patient with me if I go into details that are already familiar to youdetails of Higher Space, I meanand if I seem stupid when I have to describe things that transcend the power of language and are really therefore indescribable.

We have done wrong, dear sister; for we have not patient been, But answered often hasty words by hasty words again; And when we should with gentle acts have soothed each other's care, We've made by cold indifference our lot more hard to bear.

There's no merit in being patient when there's nothing else to do....

To Jem Hardy, who ventured on a delicate remonstrance one evening, he was less patient, and displayed a newly acquired dignity which was a source of considerable embarrassment to that well-meaning gentleman.

Then he handed it across to the mother without a word, but with the look one doctor gives another in discovering a new and terrible symptom in a patient on whom they are consulting.

Bee more patient; Proceede with him after a legal course, And bee not sweyde by fury.

You have been too patient, my beloved Lord, In calming these tumultuous jarring spirits.

You are too patient in wrongs, sir.

Reverend Sir, be more patient.

Since the Spraggs, some two years previously, had moved from Apex City to New York, they had made little progress in establishing relations with their new environment; and when, about four months earlier, Mrs. Spragg's doctor had called in Mrs. Heeny to minister professionally to his patient, he had done more for her spirit than for her body.

Your patient has broken an armthere has been an accident.

He approached the couch not unkindly and stood in preliminary professional scrutiny of his patient.

"How do you find the patient, Doctor?" asked Dunwody.

Jamieson moved a hand in cheerful gesture to his patient.