This duke entered the Romagna with auxiliaries, taking there only French soldiers, and with them he captured Imola and Forli; but afterwards, such forces not appearing to him reliable, he turned to mercenaries, discerning less danger in them, and enlisted the Orsini and Vitelli; whom presently, on handling and finding them doubtful, unfaithful, and dangerous, he destroyed and turned to his
own men.
I shrank then--I shrink still--from invading the innermost sanctuary of her heart, and laying it open to others, as I have laid open my
own. Let it be enough to say that the time when she first surprised my secret was, I firmly believe, the time when she first surprised her
own, and the time, also, when she changed towards me in the interval of one night.
This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Ulysses, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his
own chimneys.
"What wonderful discoveries should we make in astronomy, by outliving and confirming our
own predictions; by observing the progress and return of comets, with the changes of motion in the sun, moon, and stars!"
At last Bob brought her a letter, without a postmark, directed in a hand which she knew familiarly in the letters of her
own name,--a hand in which her name had been written long ago, in a pocket Shakespeare which she possessed.
In a minute more, Captain Wragge's
own observation informed him that one among the passengers who left Aldborough that morning was -- Mrs.
If this planet has any atmosphere at all, it is one of no great density, and its orbit being without our
own, we can easily trace on its surface the outlines of seas and continents.
I could name three people now, who would give me my
own terms and thank me."
Then, I said, Thrasymachus, there is no one in any rule who, in so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what is for his
own interest, but always what is for the interest of his subject or suitable to his art; to that he looks, and that alone he considers in everything which he says and does.
He had never been an unhappy man; his
own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how delightful a welljudging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
There was pride in his voice,--pardonable pride, I thought, for who of us would not be proud to be able to build his
own house from floor to chimney?
Mosey was too resolutely bent on asserting her
own importance, by making the most of the alarm that she had suffered, to be repressed by any ordinary method of remonstrance.
