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...laimed it. The governing people, which is looked to for direction in grave dilemmas by its representatives and reflectors, shouted that it had been ac... ...marry, unwooed, without love —the creature of a transac- tion. But she was innocent, she was unaware of the sin resid- ing in a loveless marriage; and... ...s wife’s hob- set queasy brew of well-meant villany, that she calls by the innocent name of tea; and the latter is to be blown, asks to be blown, and ... ...lsory enlistment. Do speak to him on that subject.’ Cecilia must have been innocent of a design to awaken the fire-flash in Nevil’s eyes. She had no d... ...e diffi- culty of seriously admiring two gentlemen at once is a femi- nine dilemma, with the maidenly among women. 331 George Meredith ‘He has disapp... ...year in Italy; I fancied it might be two; more than that was unimaginable. Prisoners of long date do not hope; they do not calculate: air, light, they...

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... he was called, however indefensible in it- self, warrants her at heart an innocent young woman, much to be pitied. Only to think of her, I could some... ...or did her pretty eyes. Her heart was too full for the cravings of vanity. Innocent ladies who get their husbands into scrapes are innocent, perhaps; ... ...must be avenged! But if indeed you are unhappy and would like to chide the innocent, I am full of compassion for the poor gentleman inheriting my legi... ...it of it, in the Roman Catholic direction, had proposed, during his latest dilemma, to relieve him of the burden of his pledged word. He had plunged f... ... sight. It is the feet are so desirous. I feel them so this morning, after prisonership. I could not have been driven to my lord.’ ‘I know the feeling... ...n. Certain it is she brought her wounded brother safe home to England, and prisoners in that war usu- ally had short shrift. For three years longer sh...

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...52 Aaron’s Rod Josephine flushed darkly, and turned away. “Ah, he’s not so innocent as all that,” said Tanny roughly. “Those young young men, who seem... ...oung men, who seem so fresh, they’re deep enough, really. They’re far less innocent really than men who are experienced.” “They are, aren’t they, Tann... ...you any more: and you don’t know who is going to amuse you. I admit it’s a dilemma. But it’s a hedonistic dilemma of the commonest sort.” “I don’t kno... ... foolishly let themselves be taken; perhaps half a dozen men, half a dozen prisoners; less rather than more. The sergeant ordered these to be secured ... ...ing: “Oh, my dear fellow, what a lot they are!—Little Mee— looking like an innocent little boy. He’s over seventy if he’s a day. Well over seventy. We... ...in what I say? I speak what is true.” “Y es, I understand. I’m in the same dilemma myself.—But what I want to hear, is WHY you think it is so. Why is ... ...And therefore there is a problem. There is more than a problem, there is a dilemma. Either we must go to the logical conclusion—or—” “Somewhere else,”...

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...s if he had any. He was about eleven years old at this time, and looked as innocent as boys of his age. The family were away more than six months, and... ... a single word the perjured wretch said. My lord and lady were in a manner prisoners in their own house; so her ladyship gave the little page to know,... ... him, and something of the characters of the people he lived with. “We are prisoners,” says she; “in everything but chains, we are prisoners. Let them... ...her own chamber; whereupon the girl, putting on, as her wont was, the most innocent air, said, “I am sure I meant no wrong; I am sure mamma talks a gr... ... “Oh! it only serves to inflame the toe, does it?” says the other, with an innocent air. “If you took off that flannel, and flung that absurd slipper ... ...at the origin of the meeting was a gambling dispute. Except fresh air, the prisoners had, upon payment, most things they could desire. Interest was ma... ... and as these did not kill him he was thrown back upon t’other horn of his dilemma. Our great Duke at the same battle was fighting, not the French, bu...

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...caying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, exce... ...derness with other employments than these, — employments perfectly sweet and innocent and ennobling? For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sin... ... the indelible characters of God, and which discover God.” This is a greater dilemma to be caught in than is presented by the cranium of the young Bec... ... blew down the Indian’s birch and created such a sea that we found ourselves prisoners on the island, the nearest shore, which was the western, being ...

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... actor in producing them, or a contributor to their violence— or even more innocently, (though oftentimes not less miser- ably)—as a participator in t... ...path was in- evitably to be crossed by the bloody tiger;—angel, whose most innocent heart fitted thee for too early a flight from this impure planet; ... ...r yet rings in my ear:—‘Why should I make myself odious to you and to your innocent wife? Messenger of evil I am, and have been to many; but evil I wi... ...ast’—‘How so?’ I interrupted him; ‘surely they don’t detain the corpses of prisoners?’ ‘Ay, but mind you — put case that he or that she should die in ... ..., precisely according to the de- gree in which its absolute power over its prisoners was annu- ally growing less and less, grew more and more jealous ... ...s the circumstance that, by a usage derived from older days, both criminal prisoners and those who were prisoners for debt, equally fell under the cus... ...subjects, or a peaceful reign under the circumstances of the case; for the dilemma in which a Kalmuck ruler stood at present was of this nature; wanti... ...to himself these separate cases of perplexity: 1st, A perplexity where the dilemma arises from the collision be- tween magnitude and distance:—is the ... ...and distance:—is the size less, or the dis- tance greater? 2dly, Where the dilemma arises between mo- tions, a motion in ourselves doubtfully confound...

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...naged to make a grimace and then as- sume a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. The third company was the last, and Kutuzov pondered, ... ...Kutuzov’s whole army.” And Bilibin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was insoluble. 65 Tolstoy “I cannot argue about it,” replied Princ...

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...’d be hell, wouldn’t it, now?” He chuckled at contem plation of so pleasant a dilemma. Nightfall found him by the edge of the stream, his eyes wrestl... ...ood for at least five minutes outside; that then, when he entered, he found the prisoners already inside; and that they had not entered just before, be... ... by the one door to the barracks. But what of that? Ah Cho and his four fellow prisoners had testified that Schemmer was mistaken. In the end they woul... ... with him was of a piece with everything they did. First they found guilty five innocent men, and next they cut off the head of the man that even they,... ...ev ils had doubtlessly changed their minds. Instead of taking the life of one innocent man, they were taking the life of another innocent man. Ah Cho... ... had dug their own graves and been shot into them. Two more were United States prisoners in Los Angeles. Juan Alvarado, the Federal commander, was a m... ...l about her at all. He laughed weakly at the recollection, for she had been as innocent of garb as Eve before the fig leaf adventure. Squat and lean at...

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... to my good feeling? Or does my brain respond with reward responses to a situation, and that‘s why I feel good. It is the old chicken and egg dilemm... ...was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male students for a two week study. He assigned some to be prison... ...s were told to keep order and make sure that no one escaped, but they were not to use violence. By the second day some guards were hitting the prison... ...econd day some guards were hitting the prisoners with their fists. Some of them made the prisoners do pushups, then they put their feet on the prison... ... 43 a bomb for a turban. Most people in the West, Muslims included, had abhorred what they saw as senseless killings of innoce... ...ing men, women and children. Even the government troops, out of frustration, often attacked the people they were supposed to protect. In Iraq innoce... ...Socialism, Hitler needed Jews and gypsies as the devils. Bin Laidin needed pro-Israel countries and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innoce...

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... and both parties agreed to withdraw their troops from Alsace, to exchange prisoners, and to bury all that had been done in oblivion. Thus ended in no... ...tthias; and his own pru- dence would scarcely have extricated him from his dilemma. But the interests of the Roman Catholics were closely interwoven w... ... was re- solved to petition the Emperor to press for the liberation of the prisoners. The answer of the Emperor, already offensive to the states, from... ...tions of his outrages. Ferdinand was not natu- rally cruel. If not totally innocent of the atroci- ties which were practised in Germany under the shel... ...owards Brandenburg, in which much of their artillery and baggage, and many prisoners fell into the hands of the pursuers. By seizing the passes of Rie... ...e of horrors for which history has no language — poetry no pencil. Neither innocent childhood, nor helpless old age; neither youth, sex, rank, nor bea... ...cing to the right, turned to the left, to make the less important and more innocent princes of the Rhine feel * Priests’ plunder; alluding to the mean...

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...the boys thought that strength and expe- rience were necessary. Seeing the dilemma, and feeling myself to be near the medium of these requi- sites,... ...t; that if he is fined, it will only be taking bread from the mouths of the innocent and helpless, and laying a burden upon them which their whole l... ...n yard aback, we went alongside and were hoisted up, when we found we were prisoners of war, and our ship a prize to the Confederate steamer Alabam...

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... have been a pity to deprive them of the pleasure of contemplating such an innocent spectacle. Over the Count’s horse was thrown a fine red cloth, ric... ...ime she considered herself free as the wind, and permitted herself all the innocent gaieties which that “char- tered libertine,” a coquette, can take.... ... but no, she never looked directly towards him, and still walked on. Sweet innocent! she was singing as if none were near; her voice went soaring up t... ... he was perfectly satisfied with his present bachelor condi- tion. In this dilemma, Mr. Brock stepped forward, who de- clared himself very ready to ac... ...munication; on the contrary, Mr. Brock, as an old soldier, entertained his prisoners with the utmost courtesy, and did all that lay in his power, by t... ...hed much a night’s conversation together. The Corporal, after treating his prisoners to punch in great quantities, proposed the amusement of cards: ov... ...ur to belong to is not paid by the Queen; and so we’re obliged to make our prisoners pay, according to estab- lished military practice.” No lawyer cou...

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... kill’d, and eight wounded, we were obliged to yield, and were carry’d all Prisoners into Sallee, a Port belonging to the Moors. The Use I had there w... ...pecially the Wax to make Candles. Another Trick I try’d upon him, which he innocently came into 16 ROBINSON CRUSOE also; his Name was Ismael, who the... ... I must throw you into the Sea too; the Boy smil’d in my Face and spoke so innocently that I could not mistrust him; and swore to be faithful to me, a... ... be taken with a Fresh of Wind I might neither reach one or other. In this Dilemma, as I was very pensive, I stept into the Cabbin and sat me down, Xu... ...s they often met, and fought in their Canoes, the Victors having taken any Prisoners, would bring them over to this Shore, where according to their dr... ...any more than those Christians were Murtherers, who often put to Death the Prisoners taken in Battle; or more frequently, upon many Occasions, put who... ...acrificing human Bodies to their Idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very innocent People; and that the rooting them out of the Country, is spoken of...

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...praise, they moved the more candid to revolt. I was here on the horns of a dilemma; and between these horns I squeezed myself with perhaps some loss t... ...th condign punishment; the generation passes, the offence remains, and the innocent must suffer. No underground railroad could atone for slavery, even... ...d down, this poor, insulted poet ran once more upon his fate. There was an innocent and gentle Highland nursery-maid at service in a neighbouring fami... ... service to spread culture, if this be its result, among the comparatively innocent and cheerful ranks 69 Familiar Studies of Men & Books of men. Whe... ...n escap- ing from Japan; and Yoshida and his followers were handed over as prisoners to the authorities at Simoda. That night he who had been to explo... ... of the formality on such occa- sions for the new King to liberate certain prisoners; and so the basket was let down into Villon’s pit, and hastily di... ...or the profit of mankind. In the year 1415 Henry V . had two distinguished prisoners, French Charles of Orleans and Scottish James I., who whiled away... ...against the Reformer affixed, Sunday after Sunday, to the church door. The dilemma was fairly enough stated. Ei- ther his doctrine is false, in which ...