Phosphoric sparks hissed and crackled forth, and coalesced into a blue lambent flame, which concentrated itself upon a depicted figure, whose precise attitude the ratcatcher assumed as he dropped upon his knees.

To say that he is supercilious means that he maintains toward others an attitude of lofty indifference or sneering contempt.

But some of the women who have left factory life behind are adopting an attitude towards the present industrial situation as lacking in vision as in patriotism.

"In Berlin," he said, "I was supposed to be a Roumanian officer, who had hopes of changing the attitude of that country.

Then to make himself all the more awful, he strikes an attitude and proceeds in his most tragic vein: "Declare with speed what spot you claim by birth.

I could not help remembering that during these very days, the poorer classes of another great city had taken up an attitude full of awful lessons to us, and to every civilized country upon earth.

I don't understand her mental attitude.

Gifford was the last to leave the room, and his glance back showed him that Edith Morriston had turned again to the window and resumed her former attitude.

The senate preserved its firm and unbending attitude, while messengers from all sides hastened to Rome to report the loss of battles, the secession of allies, the capture of posts and magazines, and to ask reinforcements for the valley of the Po and for Sicily at a time when Italy was abandoned and Rome was almost without a garrison.

In a book dealing with the great novelist these passages may not be out of place, as they serve to illustrate his general attitude towards the Dreyfus case.

I may quote from an essay of Mr. Frederic Harrison an anecdote which admirably expresses the becoming attitude of the poor towards ecclesiastical institutions.

The debates are full of utterances which explain this attitude of mind.

Militancy has not affected my own individual attitude toward the main question and never will.

Henshaw had left Wynford Place half an hour previously, having kept to the end his attitude of resentful incredulity.

Yet, according to Hill, he suddenly abandons this attitude for one of trusting credulity, meekly accepting the assurance of the man he distrusts that Sir Horace Fewbanks's unexpected return from Scotland on the very night the burglary is to be committed is not a trap to catch him, but a coincidence.

This British Government not only refused to redress the wrong, but it refuses to acknowledge its mistake and so long as it retains its attitude, it is not possible for us to say all that we want to be or all that we want to get, retaining British connection.

His answer was that the proposed action of the powers was a breach of neutrality and that Montenegro would not alter her attitude until she had signed a treaty of peace.

'Murray's Report' of 1762 gives us a good view of the Canada of that day and shows the attitude of the British towards their new possession.

Gratton was nobody's fool, save his own, and both marked and resented King's attitude.

She was in some respects so different from her husband as at times to make children precociously wisebut nevertheless, far from knowing everythingwonder why she had ever married their father, for whom, at that time, it would be hypocrisy to describe their attitude as one of love.

In Asolando, Browning thus presents his attitude toward life: "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

M. Stolypin attempts to justify his attitude by arguing that the constitutional relations between Russia and Finland are determined only by Clause 4 of the Treaty of Peace between Russia and Sweden, dated September 17,1809.

" "Shall I go on my knees, Mrs. Renfrew?I know no humbler attitude," Jack said, hastily presenting himself.

On the other hand, hens deprived of ovaries tend to metamorphose in the male direction, even to acquire the male spurs, and to display the male attitudes.

The following dispatch of Baron Beyens, dated July 26th, may probably be taken as fairly representing their attitude: To justify these conclusions I must remind you of the opinion which prevails in the German General Staff, that war with France and Russia is unavoidable and near, an opinion which the Emperor has been induced to share.