At another time, when Foote threatened to take him off on the stage, he sent out for an extra large oak stick; and this mere threat, repeated by Davies to Foote, effectually checked the wantonness of the mimic.

They grant the wantonness of savages, but declare that it is "due chiefly to the influence of civilization."

ABORIGINAL HORRORS If the savage learned his wantonness from the whites, did he get all his other vicious habits from the same source?

Mr. SANDYS replied:Sir, what victory the honourable gentleman imagines himself to have gained, or whence proceeds all his wantonness of exultation, I am not able to discover.

My brothers, were these books nothing more to us than such ancient writings, the literature of so noble a race, a literature intrinsically fine, to which our civilization owes so much of mental and of moral influence, they should win our reverence, and should shame the wantonness of liberalism, falsely so called.

[Now in trying anybody in court he really did have the appearance of a man, but everywhere else his actions and the quality of his voice showed the wantonness of youth.

I would whip a youngster of ten who could not mould our soft Italian into better rhyme than this?" "'Tis the wantonness of security.