Many of our colleagues in the diplomatic corps had played a great role in their own country.

After deliberately sending my poor mother to Siberia, he had assumed the role of my guardian in order that he might, when I came of age, obtain control of my inheritance, the idea no doubt being that I should marry Michael, and then, after the necessary legal formalities, I should, on a trumped-up charge of conspiracy, share the same fate as my mother had done.

The work of Les Amis des Orphelins de Guerre centers here, the "adopted" child receiving from the good maire the gifts in money and presents sent by the Americans who are generously filling the role of parent.

Rulers of the belligerent nations recognized the beauty of the idea and paused awhile in their martial activities to welcome and thank the American commissioner who enacted the role of an international Santa Claus.

In this respect the Negro is much in the position of a great comedian who gives up the lighter roles to play tragedy.

Gladys was a born actress and sustained the difficult role of Marie Latour well.

You risk nothing, therefore, Countess; you yourself have put on the airs of a society woman, but you were too sensible not to abandon such a role; you renounced it; the Marquis imitates you.

" Philip we have not spoken of; but he fills such a hateful niche in the historical gallery of the time, and the poet introduces him but to act his pitiful role, that we pass him by, though many of the grandest passages in the drama are those which give expression to Mary's passionate love for him, and her longing desire for an issue of their marriage, which afterwards culminates in her madness and death.

Remembering that all was well, she smiled as they entered the library, and when she had removed her wraps, said, in repressed triumph: "You need never attempt the role of Shylock again.

Mr. Honeybrook knocked the ash from his cigar and accepted the role of spokesman.

That is why I was anxious to have the war end and embrace the first opportunity to change our roles.

Steinbeck describes vital role of May Ruth's ground crew.

Nick dropped the role of detective and assumed that of doctor in less than a second.

Hitherto I had essayed a much less romantic role in life, belonging rather to the crowd of uplifters who conduct the drab and dreary battle with the slums.

Great Britain is thought of, at any rate by her own people, as the traditional opponent of any such supremacy on the Continent, so that if she were strong enough it might be her function to be the chief antagonist of a German ascendency or supremacy, though the doubt whether she is strong enough prevents her from fulfilling this role.

But happily for you, they seldom possess sufficient resources to maintain a role so amusing.

"Wait!" shouted Graham, taking on the role of the calm and collected boy with a plan.

It is the spirit which has made the Irish play so conspicuous a role in the civic and commercial history of Australasia.

In short, duty or no duty, he was resolved to end the role of jailer and prisoner, for sake of the prisoner herself.

The outcome is a community directed by a military arm seeking to perpetuate and enlarge its own role in the determination and exercise of public authority, using any means which seems likely to produce the desired results.

Only those who have followed the development of mutual obligations between the Entente Powers are able to understand the role which Russia's two comrades (France and England)to say nothing at all of Italywould have played in this conference.

Now, however, American capitalism, like the world capitalist system of which it is a part, has exhausted its constructive role of building the industries.

In fact, I've been just faking the role for two or three years back, because I knew you didn't care the way I wanted you to.

Yet were this lady quite unattached, or her duena not wholly impossible, one might consider the distinguished role of disinterestedly saving one's country in the capacity at least of chaperon.

I found my role not so difficult to play as I thought it would be, because the train did not leave from the central station, but from a smaller one, where there were no gates and guards to pass.