Horrified at such treatment Lord Shaftesbury brought an action against the owners of the factory, and obtained £100 for the woman.

The government, however, took no decisive action, and next year both Carleton and Simcoe left Canada for ever.

That the children can easily comprehend the difference between words which express the names of things, and those which express their qualities, and between words which express actions, and those which express the nature of those actions, is undeniable; and this is just what should be taught in an infant school.

You had as good clink this cannakin" (suiting the action to the word) "as your bell.

Mac's hands and O'Flynn's performed the same action.

No traditions of the past bind them; no hereditary policy controls their action; no customs, covered with the dust of ages, fetter them; no physical or intellectual gyves, corroded by the rust of centuries, are eating into their flesh.

I think the course of events has fully justified his action, and now that it has proved such a success, every one claims to have taken the initiative of the French protectorate of Tunis.

The ancients held that a play should not represent actions which would, in actual life, require much more than twenty-four hours for their performance.

Gabrielle daintily imitated the action on her own short upper lip.

Lord Egremont, in giving the king's instructions to Murray, reminded him that the proviso in the Treaty of Parisas far as the Laws of Great Britain permitshould govern his action whenever disputes arose.

Should he fail to do that there was scarcely a possibility of the Turks holding us up till we got to the Jaffa-Jerusalem road, though between Gaza and that metalled highway there were many points of strength from which they could fight delaying actions.

The minister must learn what society really is, and how the far still forces of time act and react upon each other, producing group-actions, institutions, customs, ways.

When my mother sent away the girl, she affirmed she had not the least intention of committing this bad action; but after she was left alone with us, she looked on me, and then on the little lady-babe, and she wept over me to think she was obliged to leave me to the charge of a careless girl, debarred from my own natural food, while she was nursing another person's child.

Unwilling to leave his work half done, the Major remained at Fair-Oaks for some time that he might watch his nephew's actions.

The Adamistic theory requires individualistic action, and disapproves specialization in Eve.

You may observe the actions of these Lovers, But be not passionate whate'er you find; That headstrong Devil will undo us all; If you'll be happy, quit its company.

It is not the truth, it is what men believe to be the truth, that influences their action.

The collect or prayer is placed at the end of the Hours to collect or gather up the fruits of all the prayers that precede; to beg from God that His grace may follow our actions as it precedes them; that the prayer may be a shield and buckler against all temptations which may be encountered.

Physical exercise gives an appetite, which it is necessary to satisfy, and vegetables cannot resist the vigorous action of the gastric organs.

When Carleton became governor of Canada he at once issued a proclamation abolishing all the fees and perquisites attached to his position and explained his action to the home authorities in the following words: 'There is a certain appearance of dirt, a sort of meanness, in exacting fees on every occasion.

I intend to join forces with Germany to prevent any such action by Austria, but it will be necessary to say clearly that we do not consider such eventual action as defensive, and therefore do not believe that the casus foederis exists.

"First of all, tell me," said Belle, "what a verb is?" "A part of speech," said I, "which, according to the dictionary, signifies some action or passion.

This, Rudolph Musgrave decided, was a case demanding firm and instant action.

by Heaven, I saw each action of the Fight, from yonder grove of Jessamine; and doubtless all beheld it from the Town.

I have tried, as Premier of Italy, as writer, and as politician, to regulate my actions by this principle.