But the Duke of Clarence, who now succeeded to the throne, had always shown a leaning toward the Whigs, who of late had been commonly regarded as the reforming party.

Helen W. Thurber (W) & Rosemary Thurber Sauers (C); 5Nov65; R372017. Man clutching drink leans forward on table.

Lord Penzance, who favours the Baconians, made no pretence of impartiality, and says outright in his preface that his readers 'must not expect to find in these pages an equal and impartial leaning of the judge alternately to the case of both parties, as would, I hope, be found in any judicial summing-up of the evidence in a real judicial inquiry.'

While Hope, that ceaseless leans on Pleasure's urn, 1820.]

Must the practice of hiring a man for one year, by a share of the crop, to lay out all his skill and industry in killing land, and as little as possible in improving it, be kept up to commemorate the pious leaning of man to his primitive state of ignorance and barbarity?

It was at this time that he betrayed in the pulpit a leaning toward views that many believed to be heterodox.

It is certain, however, that Grace's thoughts wandered; and, while they never lost entirely their leaning towards faith and a bright Christian hope, they became tinctured with something allied to childish simplicity, if not absolutely to mental weakness.

By this trust I do not mean a lazy leaning on Providence to do for us what we have ability to do for ourselves.

'To my father I owe a mind that, once set on a clue, must follow it, if need be, to the nethermost darkness, though he has chosen to restrict the operation of his own within certain limits; and to my mother a natural leaning to the transcendental side of an alternative, which has saved me so many a time when reason had thrown me into the abyss.

He politicly leans to neither part, But stands betwixt the camps as at receipt, Having great swine his pioneers to entrench them.

Moreover, while Canterbury represented the papal policy and always looked to Rome, York preserved some faint traditional leanings towards the liberties of the Irish and Scotch churches from whence the Christianity of the north had sprung.

There are many days when one might pass and repass the shabby lean-to that is his home without seeing any signs of life.

In the United States, however, the military is subordinated to the civic ambition, and Scott all his life retained a strong leaning to diplomacy and statesmanship, and on several important occasions gave his country valuable service in essentially civic functions.

And who but Dunois would have been so reckless as to follow baked mussels and crépinettes with rognons frits? Dunois, too, revealed intrepid leanings toward strange liquors.

That's what gives it that rocking qualitythe train leans one way and then pulls back and leans the other.

We have however already seen the leaning of the Clementines for Western readings.

But when to sin our biass'd nature leans, The careful devil is still at hand with means; 80 And providently pimps for ill desires: The good old cause revived a plot requires.

If the bronze relief of the "Crucifixion" in the Bargello be really Pollajuolo's, we may even trace a leaning to Verocchio in his manner.

I confess a leaning toward Garcilasso, so truthful

They are massive but plain brick structures, and it is difficult to decide which way the higher one leans.

The aged warrior had himself negotiated this reconciliation; and when it was accomplished, and the Duke of Guise had performed his part in it with so much complaisance, the constable considered himself to be quits with his former allies, and free to follow his leaning towards the Catholic party.

" His friend is put to work a ministerial paper, with orders "not to be rash, but to elevate the population gradually;" and finding those orders to imply a considerable leaning towards the By-ends, Lukewarm, and Facing-both-ways school, kicks over the traces, wisely, in Nicoll's eyes, and breaks loose.

" Her father caught the irony of the remark, and said: "My dear child, I know the natural leaning of your sex to handsome men.