The land forces were dismayed by the inaction of the ships; the sailors imagined, from the non-appearance of their leader, that some disaster must have occurred on land.

Barneveldt frequently appealed to Maurice without effect; and all the efforts of the former to obtain justice by means of the civil authorities were paralyzed by the inaction in which the prince retained the military force.

He had his instructions how to act in every probable contingency, but none that covered the case of absolute inaction on the part of those below.

Indeed, the sight of the troops coming up has been a positive relief after long, trying hours of inaction under shell fire.

From the day that I had mentally decided on total inaction as to all ecclesiastical questions, I count the termination of my Second Period.

She marvelled now that she had ever been able to endure inaction with regard to Guy.

That is why her inaction at the last Imperial Conference made people who were interested in the play wonder why she, of all of us, chose to brigade herself with General Botha and to block the forward rush.

Here were 700 men, mostly veterans, of one of Her Majesty's regiments, doomed to inaction through the blundering and stupid perverseness of an old sepoy Brigadier.

When you have lived for some years in Russia you do not wonder that its citizens prefer inaction to demonstrationthe soil is so much stronger than the men who live upon it.