Frank Hawley followed up his information by sending a clerk whom he could trust to Stone Court on a pretext of inquiring about hay, but really to gather all that could be learned about Raffles and his illness from Mrs.
" Fred had simply snatched up this pretext for speaking, because he could not say, "You are losing confoundedly, and are making everybody stare at you; you had better come away.
Dorothea was detained on the good pretext that Mr.
What if the acts he had reconciled himself to because they made him a stronger instrument of the divine glory, were to become the pretext of the scoffer, and a darkening of that glory?
Who would not, when there was the pretext of casting disgrace upon him, confound his whole life and the truths he had espoused, in one heap of obloquy?
Very few men could have been as filial and chivalrous as he was to the mother, aunt, and sister, whose dependence on him had in many ways shaped his life rather uneasily for himself; few men who feel the pressure of small needs are so nobly resolute not to dress up their inevitably self-interested desires in a pretext of better motives.
Foreign encroachments increased after 1860 by means of a series of treaties imposed on China on one pretext or another.
"The pretext was that they had evicted a trespasser.
" And off she went She informed the king she had never seen his daughter so content On the contrary, alwasy alone in the room, with ladies-in-waiting who didn't so much as look at her, the princess spent her days wistfully at the window She sat there leaning on the windowsill, and had she not thought to put a pillow under them, she would have got calluses on her elbows The window looked out on the forest, and all day long the princess saw nothing but treetops, clouds and, down below, the hunt
" Silver Nose set out for the washerwoman's, but when he was only halfway there, he said to himself, "Maybebut I shall see if this girl isn't emptying my house of everything I own, under the pretext of sending out laundry" He went to put the bag down and open it "I see you, I see you!
" "To England" "So am I We shall travel together" The youth noticed the man's eyes: one of them looked east, and the other west, so the boy realized this was the cross-eyed man he must avoid He found a pretext for stopping, then took another road He met another traveler sitting on a stone "Are you going to England?
" He stepped back on the betrothal on a pretext that his aunt had betrothed him to sombody else and he came to retrieve his sword.
The whole story was a pretext.
I shall never allow my wife to leave her rooms on any pretext whatever without my permission, and my visits to her will be marked by all the ceremony calculated to inspire respect.
" Hindbad was not a little surprised at this summons, and feared that his unguarded words might have drawn upon him the displeasure of Sindbad, so he tried to excuse himself upon the pretext that he could not leave the burden which had been entrusted to him in the street.
Henry Allen But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
" The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.
So it came to pass one evening that a strangercame riding to our castle, and, under pretext of not being able to get onto the next place, begged for shelter for the night.
" As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband.
The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.
