To guide events was never his forte, as he forlornly knew; and here he was condemned perforce to play that uncongenial rôle, with slender chances of reward.

The household duties were scrupulously observed, each man assuming his rôle in the complicated ménage.

How can we make them distinctly serviceable, filling the difficult and well-nigh impossible rôle of "useful as well as ornamental"?

The lovers became good friends, and such friends, that for him, at least, Lange could not feel jealousy, according to Jahn, who adds, "Otherwise he would hardly have taken the rôle of Pierrot in the pantomime in which his wife played Columbine and Mozart the Harlequin.

He had essayed the rôle of waiter but had lasted only through the first courses; down to the entrées, he thought; certainly not much past the pottage.

Four years later, 6 February, 1721, they were acting the same rôles at this theatre, with Mrs. Cross as Bellemante, and Quin, Ryan, in the cast.

But certainly Fink's 'Prides' in their gay trappings of scarlet and gold did seem more to suit the rôle of Winners when Hegness came in victorious with them in the first race.

In his writings since 1878 Nietzsche has exchanged the rôle of a German Rousseau for that of a follower of Voltaire, to arrive finally at the ideal of the man above men.

True to her promise, the dauntless Bobby had accepted the humble rôle of stage hand rather than have no part in the play, and she trundled scenery with right good will and acted as Miss Anderson's right hand in a mood of unfailing good humor.

We have every reason for assigning that rôle to the pineal.

NORTON, GENET, and confrères have kindly consented to perform their original rôles of The Victims.

George Washington did not affect the rôle of a Cincinnatus; he took it in all sincerity and simpleness of heart because he loved it.

"I knew her in 1842," Théroulde went on, "at Nantes, where she created fourteen rôles in six weeks.

There was nothing to prevent their seeing each other every day and all day long, if they chose, yet they preferred scheming for invitation to the same places, that they might meet en évidence before the public; and dearly loved, as now, a retirement into the tea-room, where they could enact their rôle of turtle-doves, uninterrupted, yet not entirely unobserved.

But her lack of occupation and her knowledge of shorthand, and George Cannon's obvious need of clerical aid, had made it inevitable that they should resume their former rôles of principal and clerk.

" I confess that I do not like the rôle of a puppet pulled by a string, therefore I resolved to take an active part in the old ladies' politics.

"On the impulse of the moment he forgot his rôle and revealed his true selfan arrogant Prussian officer.

They characterize the special rôle of the agent set in motion, while inflection is universal.

Strange that she should choose the rôle of deceiver instead of the rôle of victim!

LA REINE BARBUE Avant la restauration de Charles II, les femmes ne montaient pas sur la scène, et les rôles des femmes, au théâtre anglais, étaient remplis par des jeunes gens en habits de femme.

If her father had suddenly adopted the rôle of the stern parent in novels and ordered her to her chamber, Kate would have regarded it as a joke, and felt rather relieved that she could thus escape the pledge given to the Spragues.

It is delightful to study the special rôle of these agents, the reason of their movements.

" "Do I continue the rôle of old beau?" "Oh, no.

I have no part, and laugh, and sit Contented in the wings, whilst you portray An amorous maid with gestures that befit This lovely rôle,as who knows better, pray, Than I that helped you in rehearsing it?" Horace Symonds.

And we must understand the rôle of this American.