My sister-in-law, R.'s wife, was also an Englishwoman; the daughter of the house had married her cousin, de Bunsen, who had been a German diplomatist, and who had made nearly all his career in Italy, at the most interesting period of her history, when she was struggling for emancipation from the Austrian rule and independence.

It appeared to be shaken, as though some of the creatures struggled with it, silently; but it was far too strongly constructed and hung to be easily moved.

St. Cloud, Meudon, Versailles, Robinson, were crowded every night with people who were thirsting for air and food after long hot days in the dust and struggles of the exposition.

United, at first, by the sympathy of men struggling in the same cause, and by similarity of manners and religion, they will, after a while, do as men always have done, quarrel and fight; and these wars will check their social improvement, and mar their political hopes.

The inner is the conquest of the evil within his own nature; the outer is the struggle against the evil forces of the worldthe constructive task of building up, under warring conditions, the spiritual kingdom of God.

When we first came to Paris in 1866, just after the end of the long struggle between the North and South in America, our first visits too were for the Conciergerie, Invalides, and Notre Dame, where my father had not been since he had gone as a very young man with all Paris to see the flags that had been brought back from Austerlitz.

For a few minutes, I lay thus, in a dazed condition; then, slowly, I struggled to a sitting position, and looked about me.

One had a feeling that one ought to see as much as possible, and there were some beautiful things, but it was most fatiguing struggling through the crowd, and we invariably lost the carriage and found ourselves at the wrong entrance, and had to wait hours for a cab.

There is a constant struggle on the part of nature to build up and beautify, to strengthen and recuperate, against the results of human excesses.

W. used to struggle into his clothes when "M. le Marechal" was announced.

A fair Moor maiden he adored, A daughter of the brave, Who struggled at Granada's siege; Granada was their grave.

The end sought to be attained, namely the nationalization of the basic industries, and even the control of the foreign policy of Great Britain, vindicated the truth of the British Prime Minister's statement that these great strikes involved something more than a mere struggle over the conditions of labour, and that they were essentially seditious attempts against the life of the State.

A heavy sigh struggled from the chest of the old man, and, stroking down the few hairs which time had left him, he lifted his cap from the pavement, and prepared to move.

They felt that there was one struggling by their side, one who could rest on God's promises, and could almost insensibly "weave links for intercourse with God.

" She struggled under his look.

There was, so to speak, not much on the surface, but one heard an elusive note of effort, as if one struggled after something one could not grasp.

It was like no fighting ever I had done before, a mad, furious mélée, amid which I lost all consciousness of action, all guidance of thought, struggling as a wild brute, with all the reckless strength of insanity.

Shillito struggled like a savage animal and Lister imagined the trooper did not help much.

I made one wild bound into the midst of the crowd; and struggling among the arms stretched out to catch me, amid the roar of the laughter and criesfledfled wildly, I knew not whither, in panic and rage and horror which no words could describe.

We have no right to let it be generally known that there are such peculiar struggles within us as make our lives a ceaseless battle with temptations and fears and doubts.

" With one of those freakish turns of the weather that takes the conceit out of all weather-prophets, the snow had now ceased to fall, the sun was struggling out of the clouds, and the wind was swinging around to the west.

Presently the small object stirred, struggled about feebly under the encompassing furs, and, freeing itself, held out its arms.

You would strike him as personally capable, but you would fail to strike him as priestess of the idea which God has now called to life within man's bosom, and of the struggle towards the realisation of that ideaeducation by developmentthe destined means of raising the whole human race....

When I stood up it was most gratifying to see them all struggling toward me.

The result was an endless struggle along the ever-receding frontier of the West.