We cannot take away power from any childhe shall move the affairs of nationsbut we can direct this love of power, or crush it; strengthen it, or weaken it; turn it toward the highest help of man, or deflect it to tyranny, cruelty, and crime.

He was very anxious about the state of affairs in Francesaid Bismarck was very worried at the great step the Radicals had made in the new Parliamentwas afraid the Moderate men would have no show.

"I believe you know something about this affair with Browse," he continued.

I've scarcely been able as yet to appreciate my luck, with this affair at Wynford Place intervening.

"Your enterprise, Mr. Barnett," said the commander, with a gesture which turned over the conduct of the affair to the torpedo expert.

He went out, and after some time, informed me that our kind host had a violent cholera morbus, in consequence of the various kinds of food with which he had overloaded his stomach at dinner; that he considered himself near his last end, and was endeavouring to arrange his affairs for the event.

17 The bar in Milligan's was not nearly so pretentious an affair as the bar in Lebrun's, but it was of a far higher class.

Wou'd you to bed, Sir, when the weighty Affairs of State require your Presence? Sir Feeb.

This was the state of affairs on a certain soft wet day when the family were all within doors.

"I have always known there was a love-affair between my mother and 'Wild Will.'

The whole affair from beginning to end occupied but little time, and the Indians, seeing that I was some little distance from my company, now came charging down upon me from a hill, in hopes of cutting me off.

The Colonel, the Boy, and Captain Rainey maintained the illusion of prosecuting their affairs by frequenting the offices, stores, and particularly saloons, where buyers and sellers most did congregate.

Writing to George Warde, afterwards the famous cavalry leader, he said: 'Accidents may happen in the family that may throw my little affairs into disorder.

If I do not return, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Petersburg will be pressed for a reason.

Of late he had taken a greater lead in affairs than before, having the indefatigable Mr. Holt at his elbow, who was the most considerable person in that part of the county for the affairs of the King.

Horribly rough luck on the Morristons as new-comers here to have an affair like this happening in their house.

If we attempted this sort of explanation, we'd be lucky indeed to get through the affair without being tried by general court-martial for lying.

It was too heart-rending to have to put the real state of affairs before her.

Fourteen young men of the principal islands of the archipelago, from the pure Indian (if there be pure ones) to the Peninsular Spaniard, were met to hold the banquet advised by Padre Irene in view of the happy solution of the affair about instruction in Castilian.

For purposes of their own the police kept the affair out of the papers, and when Frank Hutcheson stepped out of the sleeping-car from Paris on to the platform at Pisa a few nights afterwards, I related to him the extraordinary story.

"Well, signore," he said at last in a low tone of confidence, "I don't like to trouble you with my private affairs after those untruths I told you when we last met.

The long political strife in England, the gross mismanagement of colonial affairs under Germain, and the shameful blunders that made Saratoga possible, all combined to encourage foreign powers to take the field against the king's incompetent and distracted ministry.

She did not return to the terrace at all events, and the Sarrions went about their own affairs during the afternoon without seeing her again.

Here a group of men and women are enjoying a cold luncheon; there a small party of Memons are discussing affairs over their 'bidis' while on all sides are children playing with the paper toys, rattles and tin wheels which the hawkers offer at such seasons of merry-making.

Europe will feel grateful to the English Minister of Foreign Affairs for the extraordinary ability and spirit of conciliation with which he conducted the discussion of the Ambassadors in London, and which constantly enabled him to bridge over differences.