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...idding foreign vessels to engage in the trade, thereby increasing also the price of goods and confining the benefit to the North, which car- ries on t... ...hat were our numbers compared with those of the Southern States? We paid a price for the slaves, but no price is to be paid in this case. The value of... ...in Virginia; of Johnston, on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee; and of Price, in Missouri. There was also a fourth army in Kansas, west of Missour... ...four broad, which occupied one end of the shanty, and he seemed in all his fixings to be as comfortably put up as any gentleman might be when out on s... ...n writ- 183 Trollope ing of the States, I should not do justice to my own convictions of the country if I did not say how pleasantly social intercour... ...on which they shall vote, and justify them- selves in voting against their convictions by the fact that they have received such instructions. Such a p... ... chosen, who votes at the bidding of his constituency in opposition to his convictions, is manifestly false to his charge, and may be presumed to be t... ...s who were sent to a convention at Chicago, as- sembled for the purpose of fixing upon a candidate. At that convention Mr. Lincoln was chosen as the R... ... expenses may attend its close. It may be the case that the government, in fixing some boundary between the future United States and the future Southe...

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...lete, he had experience with leases and titles and an excellent memory for prices. His shoulders were broad enough, his voice deep enough, his relish ... ...use if a buyer was such an idiot that he didn’t jew you down on the asking-price. Babbitt spoke well—and often—at these orgies of com- mercial righteo... ...ch by inch, and all its faults and virtues.” Though he did know the market-price, inch by inch, of certain districts of Zenith, he did not know whethe... ... per cent., which Babbitt and the Traction officials had given to him for “fixing” health inspectors and fire inspectors and a member of the State Tra... ...d. Him at the De Luxe! And if he wasn’t ordering a tony feed with all the “fixings” from celery to nuts! And instead of being em- barrassed by the wai... ... shame!” “Fine. But for glory hallelujah’s sake don’t go putting any fancy fixings on the story. When men lie they always try to make it too artistic,... ... you were so wise. And courageous! I love a man to have the courage of his convictions!” “But do you think it was a good stunt? After all, some of the...

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...s Frances married, in the com- mon phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexion... ...ge almost always produces. To save herself from useless remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the subject till actually married. Lady ... ...r conduct, and threaten her with all its possible ill con- sequences. Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer, which comprehende... ...hat Fanny had got another child. By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one... ...ture cannot say it was not so. We must all feel at times the difficulty of fixing our thoughts as we could wish; but if you are supposing it a frequen... .... It was plain that he could have no serious views, no true attachment, by fixing him- self in a situation which he must know she would never stoop to... ...re than what she had long perceived, it was a stab, for it told of his own convictions and views. They were decided. He would marry Miss Crawford. It ...

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...f a different kind. It flowed from the rare depth and genu- ineness of his convictions and his sympathetic feelings. Sympathy was the strongest elemen... ...swept through the whole Northern country. A cry for union and peace at any price rose on all sides. Democratic partisan- ship reiterated this cry with... ...vention, declared the war a failure, demanded, substantially, peace at any price, and nominated on such a platform General McClellan as their candidat... ...ty for the benefit of a few individuals only, un- less there be a law made fixing the limits of usury. A law for this purpose, I am of opinion, may be... ...ot aspire to one, has ever found any fault of the Bank. It has doubled the prices of the products of their farms, and filled their pockets with a soun...

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... no fortune (I report only from hearsay), and endowing him simply with the priceless bless- ing of her own womanly charms, her delightful society, and... ... literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had been the price paid cheerfully at one time for a complete set of Hearne. At Laxton, ... ...est of the traditional rubric. But he purchased this con- summation at the price of all comfort to himself: and, hav- ing done that, he felt himself t... ...tive law; and what should hinder a young man, bent upon his pleasure, from fixing the station of his hunter a few miles out of Oxford, and riding to c... ...ace amongst the servants of the castle; and every presumption concurred in fixing the time of the dreadful scene to about one hour before. “Such, gent... ...resolved to meet the summons with the liveliest expression of defiance, by fixing this evening for a second masqued ball, upon a greater scale than th... ...k of Achilles and Patroclus, when described as being (or not being) “under convictions of sin”? 390 Memorials, and Other Papers and finally that the ...

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...Let those who serve a cause with a secret expectation of recompense, set a price upon their blood and become mercenaries. Those who wield either sword... ... he is first among the learned men in these parts, and he’ll pay me a fine price, too; he stuffs men and beasts. Now my boy there stands me out that t... ... eight casks of wine, as much gleaned as har- vested, were sold for a good price. However, out of these various proceeds the Grand-I-Vert was mulcted ... ...whose benefit I leave you to guess. Perhaps you know?” re- turned Michaud, fixing an eye on Sibilet which caused the latter to turn red. “O rus!” crie... ...ted the second-rate post of Blangy out of pure devotion, for his religious convictions were joined to political opinions that were equally strong. The... ...t by natural impulses as much as by the power and consistency of religious convictions. The priest had seen at first sight Blondet’s attachment to the... ...ity of soul belongs especially to France. The Abbe Brossette respected the convictions of the old man, who be- came simply but deeply attached to the ...

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...ge, it was swept away for her listener down the rushing current of her own convictions. The stranger—the stranger in the garden! Why had Mary not thou... ...choose. Shall it be ‘Faust’ or the ‘Vita Nuova,’ the ‘Tempest’ or ‘Les Ca- prices de Marianne,’ or the thirty-first canto of the ‘Paradise,’ or ‘Epips... ...ds. He would never remember to have his umbrella re-covered, or to ask the price of anything before he bought it. Why, he wouldn’t even know what nove... ...ng to save you! Y ou don’t know us V enetians—we’re all to be bought for a price. It is not only the brides who are marketable— sometimes the husbands... ...e successive courses of the luncheon. Mrs. Ballinger’s deplorable delay in fixing a topic had thrown the Club into a mental disarray which increased w... ...ued, “if the pessimistic tendency of the book is an expression of your own convictions or—” “Or merely,” Miss Glyde hastily thrust in, “a sombre back-... ...ith the original.” “As I suppose you are?” Osric Dane interposed, suddenly fixing her with a look of challenge. Mrs. Roby met it by a deprecating smil... ...clined to tax him with moral coward- ice, with a failure to live up to the convictions for which their marriage was supposed to stand. That was in the...

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...eman perused the no- tice with careful attention, and even jotted down the prices to be asked for seats for the performance. Also, he remarked that th... ...e had received. Once, however, his features assumed a look of grimness as, fixing his eyes upon his vis-a-vis, the boys, he tapped sternly upon the ta... ...ll. “Very well,” remarked Chichikov. “Then we need only to agree as to the price.” “As to the price?” began Manilov, and then stopped. Presently he we... ... piece of old rag, 66 Dead Souls for example. That rag will yet fetch its price, for it can be bought for paper-making. But these dead souls are good... ...ificed their feelings and their person- 367 Gogol ality to their superior convictions. For hardly can it be that I failed to note their overtures and...

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...Sunday the herd has been down. Very clever, that young Annixter. He gets a price for his stubble, which else he would have to burn, and also manures h... ...nd at last, and most important of all, with Liverpool. Fluctuations in the price of the world’s crop during and after the harvest thrilled straight to... ...casion a veritable oppression. Ev- erything seemed to combine to lower the price of wheat. The extension of wheat areas always exceeded increase of po... ...hands on the reins and Harran checked the team. “Harran,” observed Magnus, fixing the machinery with a judicial frown, “Harran, those look singularly ... ... doing well,” answered Magnus. “I could wish he was more pronounced in his convictions, less willing to compromise, but I believe him to be earnest an... ... his side, awkward, clumsy, overwhelmed with constraint. While true to his convictions as a woman-hater and genuinely despising Hilma both as a girl a... ... land once settled upon, the P . and S. W . seemed to be in no hurry as to fixing exactly the value of its sections included in the various ranches an... ...ate, the whole reach of the West, the entire Union, that did not entertain convictions as to the man who carried it; a giant figure in the end-of-the-... ...e’ll get back more than that in cheap rates.” “Mr. Osterman,” said Magnus, fixing the young man with a swift glance, “Mr. Osterman, you are proposing ...

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...peculiar favour of Providence towards the landed interest, and the fall of prices had not yet come to carry the race of small squires and yeomen down ... ...elf and tell him. So, don’t flatter yourself that your secrecy’s worth any price you choose to ask. Y ou drain me of money till I have got nothing to ... ...ar- ketable, escaped without injury; but poor Wildfire, unconscious of his price, turned on his flank and painfully panted his last. It happened that ... ...st be a little frightening added to the cajolery, for his own arithmetical convictions were not clear enough to afford him any forcible demonstration ... ...now,” he added, in a muttering tone. “Jem Rodney!” said Silas, turning and fixing his strange eyes on the suspected man. “A ye, Master Marner, what do...

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...h a long way in Paris. He could have lived in Angouleme for a month on the price of that dinner. Where- fore he closed the door of the palace with awe... ...stone arcading for some more money. “There is a differ- ence between Paris prices and prices in L ’Houmeau.” He gazed in at the tailors’ windows on th... ...e, he discovered a place where he could have a fur- nished room for such a price as he could afford to pay. He settled with his hostess of the Gaillar... ...ians. Time alone can pronounce upon the merits of his theories; but if his convictions have drawn him into paths in which none of his old comrades tre... ...cept the editorship of a review of which the politics are known to you, my convictions remain the same, and we shall be friends as before. I am quite ... ... “Y ou are too clever not to know what has brought me here,” said Dauriat, fixing his eyes on Lucien. “You have come to buy my sonnets.” “Precisely. F... ...r circumstances I should be glad to hear that you had adopted my political convictions; but situated as you are with regard to the Liberal Press, it i...

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...ou- sand francs; certain extras amounted to six thousand more; in all, the price paid was fifty-two thousand francs. A de- scription of the property g... ... this Scene, about whom we must content ourselves at the present moment by fixing the amount of his rent,—namely, seven hundred francs a year,—and the... ...arden, the main building, which they inhabited, seems to have been the ca- price of some enriched bourgeois in the reign of Louis XIV .; the dwelling,... ... his tradesmen’s accounts; he went to Saint-Denis to judge for himself the prices of things. Talma was his friend; Talma taught him his gestures; neve... ...n wrath against you? Must my children inherit the blood of a deist and his convictions? Oh! God, what misery for a wife! No, no, these ideas are intol... ...he speech of a major of the National Guard could contain when his literary convictions were imperilled. As the result of a vote, victory remained with... ...,” said Phellion, “and he thinks it a book extremely well written; but his convictions—and that is a misfortune —have not been affected by the perusal... ...o believe that I am exclusively charged with it.” “What!” said la Peyrade, fixing upon Cerizet a scrutinizing eye, “did you never hear of the Comtesse... ... together. “It is she!” he cried. Hearing his cry, Lydie turned round, and fixing her atten- tion on Corentin, she said:— “How naughty and troublesome...

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...and scarcer. Riots for grain, tumultuous Assemblages demanding to have the price of grain fixed abound far and near. The Mayor of Paris and other poor... ...e, on this of Grains alone! Free- trade in Grain, impossibility to fix the Prices of Grain; on the other hand, clamour and necessity to fix them: Poli... ...de, in spite of all Eloquence, come bellow- ing round; will have the Grain-Prices fixed, and at a mod- erate elevation; or else—the honourable Deputie... ...indeed, if we consider it, what shall these poor Girondins do? Speak their convictions that Louis is a Prisoner of War; and cannot be put to death wit... ... of farm- ers’ seems to have no bowels. Wherefore this Law of the Maximum, fixing the highest price of grains, is, with infi- nite effort, got passed;...

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...he conducted a long mock-quarrel. She pretended that he cheated her in the price of magazines and candy; he pretended she was a detective from the Twi... ...I know. The doc is good for it. But that’s yoost a rule I made. I make low prices. I do business for cash.” She stared at his red impassive face, and ... ...ions. Carol saw Dave Dyer secretively turn over the gold pillows to find a price-tag, and heard Mr. Julius Flickerbaugh, the attorney, gasp, “Well, I’... ...mer into a chair and chuck- led, “There we are, Halvor! We’ll have you out fixing fences and drinking aquavit in a month.” The farmwife sat on the cou... ...Adolph Morgenroth, farmer ten miles southwest of town, got his arm crushed-fixing his cow- shed and a post caved in on him—smashed him up pretty bad—m... ... which she had seen on drives with Kennicott. In her fluid thought certain convictions ap- peared, jaggedly, a fragment of an impression at a time, wh... ...s going to sleep, or manicuring her nails, or waiting for Kennicott. These convictions she presented to Vida Sherwin—Vida Wutherspoon—beside a radiato... ... the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League kill all our initiative and enterprise by fixing wages and prices. There isn’t any movement that amounts to a whoop w...

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...eel it yourself. If you have had a drawn battle, or a re- pulse, it is the price we pay for the enemy not being in Wash- ington. We protected Washingt... ...nd injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory con- clusion. An order fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War Depart... ... war could never have been, than to sink both the thing to be sold and the price of it in cutting one another’s throats! I do not speak of emancipatio... ...ment of propriety and policy I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I s... ...e United States Quartermaster’s Department, will be paid for at regulation prices, or the rates allowed by the department for such articles. Railroad ... .... Please forward as soon as possible the full and complete record of their convictions; and if the record does not fully indicate the more guilty and ... ... called by, it is immaterial. Secondly, if it is desired for more than the fixing a name, it can only be to get a position from which to draw practica...

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...was in a divided state of mind, and remained seated on his haunches, again fixing his eyes anx- iously on his master. Adam noticed Gyp’s mental confli... ...as very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from ... ...h looked ear- 101 George Eliot nestly at the hand for a moment, and then, fixing her eyes again on Dinah’s face, said, with something of restored cou... ... Adam Bede?” said Dinah, in her calm treble, pausing from her sweeping and fixing her mild grave eyes upon him. “I trust you feel rested and strengthe... ...at bottom; but, you see, he was sourish-tempered, and was for beating down prices with the people as worked for him; and his preaching wouldn’t go dow... ...rl nowadays to be trusted any further than you could see her—about the bad price Mr. Dingall, the Treddleston grocer, was giving for but- ter, and the... ...conclusion, but it is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are q...

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...dn’t.” She was listening with keen attention. “And yet they fetch fabulous prices, don’t they? It seems so odd to want to pay a lot for an ugly badly-... ...idered the finest in the world, and what 11 Edith Wharton was the largest price ever fetched by a single volume. It was so pleasant to sit there look... ... truffles; Alice W etherall, an animated visiting- list, whose most fervid convictions turned on the wording of invitations and the engraving of dinne... ...ight have been expected from her imprudent opening. She refused to pay the price named, and after a moment’s hesitation, met it by a counter-offer of ... ... knowing when you were mentioned.” He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disli... ...d. Any one would 246 House of Mirth look ghastly in it!” She turned back, fixing her plaintive eyes on Gerty. “Y ou stupid dear, why do you say such ...

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...do not understand you. Why should I require less to- day than yesterday?” “Because, monsieur, your lordship will permit me to say, yesterday I did not... ...nable, monsieur, not to comprehend that our city is small, that the court is about to invade it, that the houses will be overflowing with inhabitants,... ...t catch my exact meaning. I wish for monsieur to give up one or two of the apartments he occupies, which would diminish his expenses and ease my consc... ...at this time endowed with all the natural gifts which make the perfect gentleman; his eye was brilliant, mild, and of a clear azure blue. But the most... ...rais- ing his head, “it is a million you require, or two hundred gentlemen, I think you say?” “Sire, a million would be quite sufficient.” “That is ve... ...uld we find, after collecting all our resources?” 77 Dumas “Thirty-nine millions two hundred and sixty thousand.” “That is correct, Bernouin; that is... ...hut, — “How much is due to you, monsieur?” “Why, something like five thousand livres, monseigneur.” “For arrears of pay?” “For a quarter’s pay.” “A qu...

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...r intellect and refinement to mar- ket, and tell me in a private note what price is bid for them.” Mr. Hunsden had taken his tone for the night; the s... ...ment of his bad temper; over another by little attentions to his petty ca- prices; a third she had subdued by flattery; a fourth—a timid man—she kept ... ...ill give her an answer,” thought I; and, meeting her gaze full, arresting, fixing her glance, I shot into her eyes, from my own, a look, where there w... ... any time subject her inclination, if that inclination went counter to her convictions of right; yet when called upon to wrestle with the propensities... ...nd. In one sense a note will do as well—it will wrap up the 20 francs, the price of the lessons I have received from you; and if it will not fully exp...

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...lets. “The gold goes with the others,” she declared. “You’ll gi’ me a fair price for the lot, or I’ll take um back.” In the end a bargain was struck t... ... not one who would let gold go out of his house. He counted out to her the price of all her junk, grudging each piece of money as if it had been the b... ...a. That’s a good girl, come give it to me.” They haggled as usual over the price, but to-night Maria was too excited over other matters to spend much ... ...t sleeve, but Marcus swung himself around in his chair, 100 McTeague and, fixing his eyes on McT eague, cried as if in answer to some protestation on... ...nd New Year’s he went to church with Trina. He commenced to have opinions, convictions—it was not fair to deprive tax-paying women of the privilege to... ...” growled the dentist, releasing her, “that’s more like. Now,” he went on, fixing her with his little eyes, “now listen to me. I’m beat out. I’ve walk... ...as flaming up again. “Don’t try an’ load that gun either,” cried McTeague, fixing Marcus with his little eyes. “Then don’t lay your finger on that sac...