He not only gave them a code of personal deportment, providing them with rules for the etiquette and ceremony of life, but he instilled into them that profound spirit of domestic piety which is one of the strongest features in the Chinese character.

The supremacy of might may be a doctrine merely instilled in the minds of the people by its rulers.

The poisonous foam, Through the deep wound instilled with hostile rage, And all its fiery particles saline, Invades the arterial fluid; whose red waves Tempestuous heave, and their cohesion broke, Fermenting boil; intestine war ensues, And order to confusion turns embroiled.

Something of this axiomatic truth the excellent hosts strove to instill by means, more or less subtle, in the mind of their young guest; but she clung with odd tenacity to her own ingenuous point of view.

The spirit thus instilled at school has again and again been carried in after life into the large affairs of the nation.

Factory system, growth of cities due to, 76; and crime, 203-212; Fear, emotion of, in man, 46-47; instilling of, an object of punishment, 165.

The cut-off was so instilled into their minds that they had great confidence in the report and talked very favorably of taking it.