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...a future together, even if you were not betrothed to a Royal prince,’ pleaded Helen, hating these customs that tore a young girl from a Audrey Blan... ...dent. Besides, what can a Resident do in a fort besieged by mutineers; there are no ambassadorial duties for me here, my love, and Sir James needs e... ...e of future amputees. Now Helen hardly saw her husband. With dangerous sorties, sentry and other duties all the men - officers and other ranks - wer...

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...h his wife and brother. He worried about how all this affected Amoni, but today they had duties to perform and they must focus on that. Together, t... ... decided to try to salvage the situation. “Prince Alaj, if I may offer - they are ancient customs within our order, and there are also things we, in ... ...gy and unable to sleep. Alaj was working late again. He had taken over many of the King’s duties, while Traeus looked after his son and tried to com... ...“It’s so nice to finally have the opportunity to meet you in person.” “Unfortunately, my duties often interfere with the more pleasant social activi... .... They had chosen the first day of the excavation to be their day off from their regular duties. This way they wouldn’t fall even further behind on ... ...and Alex were back in their lab with Jack and Bob, trying to concentrate on their regular duties, which had now fallen seriously behind. Without war...

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...rd of God than to all the thoughts of men and of angels. I will perform the duties of my office and bring to light the facts in the case. As I have ... ...s of men. They merely play the pontiff, while they utterly despise the true duties of pontiffs, which are to preach the gospel and to care for the p... ...they came upon it in the Holy Scriptures. Such new meanings of words, human customs, and other things they have dragged into the Holy Scriptures. The... ... book, written in 1296, is the standard authority for the laws, ceremonies, customs, and symbolism of thirteenth-century Roman rites and vestments. C... ... or bishops, and bemoan the fact that they bear the name of an office whose duties they either do not know or cannot fulfil, and thus with prayers a...

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...e of priests, recordkeeping expanded, and clerks were trained for scribal duties. In the Louvre sits a stone statue of the Scribe Squatting on His H... ...en, and those who spoke multiple languages. Barbaric as Mongol warrior customs were, their methods differed significantly from those the Islamic ...

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...red the shop, prepared to roundly upbraid me for failing so signally in my duties. Something in my face stopped her. “Why, Jack,” she cried, “what hav... ...sion ladies arrive, and beg that the Editor will instantly abandon all his duties to describe a Christian prize-giving in a back slum of a perfectly i... ... no nonsense of that kind,’ says Dan. ‘I don’t want to interfere with your customs, but I’ll take my own wife.’ ‘The girl’s a little bit afraid,’ says...

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...ans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American ideas and customs is a bad thing." Admittedly, we typically devalue most t... ...nd of the Pakistani fiscal year) - though mostly from import inhibiting exorbitant customs and indirect taxes. Funds, doled out by corrupt bank ma... ...sors in universities, policemen - all demand, and receive, bribes to fulfill their duties, or, more often, to turn a blind eye. Pakistan habitually... ...ut, as everyone realizes, the region's problems run deeper than any tweaking of the customs code. The "Arab Human Development Report 2002", publishe... ...d intellectual property rights is in the works. The GCC has recently established a customs union as well. A similar set of treaties may soon be in... ...bribes countries near and far with cheap oil. It recently signed nine free trade or customs agreements with, among others, Lebanon, Oman, and the Un... ...tability and trust. The new Ministry of Finance and Economy has introduced customs duties and a few taxes with modest success. But the government's... ...ftware and movies. The Central Fiscal Authority of Kosovo estimated that, in 2001, duties and taxes were paid only on $590 million worth of imports... ...onceived in Europe in eras past, is fraying at the edges. Rights and corresponding duties are ill-defined or mismatched. What is legal is not alwa...

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...to judgment -- Illusions of the desert -- Whispering fiends -- Strange funeral customs -- A surprisingly degrading practice -- Travellers permitted to... ...ics of the natives of Utopia -- Among the New Guineans -- Their appearance and customs -- A fight with the natives -- The timidity of Tasman prevents ... ...and Booton -- Among the people of Java -- Description of the natives and their customs -- The return trip from Java to England 367- 373 CHAPTER XXXV. ... ... -- Self-sacrifice of wives at the King's death -- Description of some curious customs -- Return of Cavendish -- Enormous wealth amassed by the expedi... ...An extraordinary cuttlefish -- Reception at Otaheite -- Killing of a native -- Customs of the natives in disposing of dead bodies -- Theft of scientif... ...was always filled with the merchant vessels from that country. From the custom duties levied upon the merchandise brought into Mangi through this port... .... The interval had been well employed, however, for in addition to the regular duties of the day, every seaman who could be spared from the service of... ...lly the petty officers joked with each other and with the men as the necessary duties of the squadron were performed. On their mirth there was but one... ...ced, but soon found it was no gleeful matter, for as soon as he entered on the duties of his office, they ascertained that although he knew nothing of...

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...ure, to hang on to their local structures, their own ethnic landscape, the customs of local communities and human values? The information on Thailand ... ...at today's young people receive influences, they study and read, see on TV customs and beliefs of many strange countries and peoples, and absorb them ... ...one could say that they happen in leaps and bounds, too quickly. Religious customs have remained the same. If I had the power, I would try to improve ... ...pt to Thai society, they speak the Thai language and also observe Buddhist customs. It is often said that the Chinese immigrants were mostly single me... ...eve that the soul of the deceased comes to visit the relatives? What about customs associated with the new year festival? Do you go to the temple ofte... ...onk is dependent on the villagers. If the monk is faithful, discharges his duties well, the villagers respect him and bring him food. When asked, we m... ...ster; in interpersonal relationships, seniority still means privileges and duties, and age differences cannot be 'democratized'. In the era of agraria...

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...ous, and wholesomely practical set of work-rules for the aid of those whose duties bring them into direct contact with the Manufacturing Department ... ...; nor nouns simply designating direction or point of com- pass : oriental customs, the orientals, southern states, a southerner (but: Northman = S...

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...eneral, takes Mentz, retreats, censured, guillotined, his son guillotined. CUSTOMS and morals. DAMAS, Colonel Comte de, at Clermont, at Varennes. DAMP... ...siege of Bastille. INISDAL’S, Count d’, plot. INSURRECTION, most sacred of duties, of Women, of August Tenth, difficult, of Paris, against Girondins, ...

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...all be the less surprised to find Samoan war defaced with some unpalatable customs. The childish destruction of fruit-trees in an enemy’s country crip... ...t back the boat to be repaired and re- painted by the original owner. Such customs, it might be argued, being double-edged, will ultimately right them... ...ere was found an American clerk in Apia, William Blacklock, to perform the duties of the office with remark- able ability and courage. The three names... ...erhaps no diplomatist; he was certainly no law- yer; but he discharged the duties of his office with the con- stancy and courage of an old soldier, an... ...ffering humanity, their time was too short for the multiplicity of pitiful duties. In Mrs. de Coetlogon, and her helper, Miss T aylor, the merit of th... ...ly by German doctors. In the progressive decivilisation of the town, these duties of humanity became thus a ground of quarrel. When the Mataafa hurt w... ...clause: “and his successor shall be duly elected according to the laws and customs of Samoa.” The right to elect, freely given in one sentence, was su... ...ey were dissatisfied with Laupepa, and claimed, “according to the laws and customs of Samoa,” duly to appoint another. The orators of Malie declared w... ...he thinks it – and perhaps it is – in full accordance with those “laws and customs of Samoa” ignorantly invoked by the draughtsmen of the Berlin Act. ...

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...ly meant no shadow of imagi- nary office; it had been a post of honor with duties to dis- charge. Their fief had always been their domain. Provincial ... ...pressed passion in it, the dignity of her move- ments, the saintly life of duties fulfilled,—all this touched and awed me. Children are more susceptib... ...e Marquis asked himself what a man of seventy should do at court; and what duties, what office he could discharge there? The noble and high-minded d’E... ...feriors, people with whom he had nothing in common, towards whom he had no duties. They were defeated and conquered enemies, whom he need not take int... ...t its gifts of the dried roses of experience, the faded flowers of the old customs of its youth. Everything should have combined to 44 The Collection... ...pin, looked after the house, and they lived accord- ing to the established customs of the strictest parsimony . Mlle. Cadot always carried the keys of...

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...and gold lace waistcoat, with as much other finery as the Puritan laws and customs would allow him to put on. His hair was cropped close to his head, ... ... was the first minister of Roxbury . But besides attending to the pastoral duties there, he learned the language of the red men, and often went into t... ...er seeing them again, and to be dispersed among strangers, whose language, customs and religion were op posed to their own, the weakness of human nat... ...ked Charley. “Because he was a great merchant and contended against paying duties to the king,” said Grandfather. “Well, frequently, no doubt, the off... ... replied that the ships must not leave the har bor until the custom house duties upon the tea should be paid. Now, the payment of these duties was th...

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...rather the theory now,” said Ann Veronica. “Only so many men neglect their duties.” “Yes,” said Mr. Manning, with an air of emerging from an elaborate... ...d self-development manoeuvred Mr. Manning, her aunt and father, neighbors, customs, tradi- tions, forces. They seemed to her that morning to be all ar... ...her hopes again: a position as amanuen- sis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined—to an infirm gentleman of means living at T... ...all made of happiness just worked up roughly into shapes and occasions and duties. She found she could do her micro- scope work all the better for bei... ...as a chorus-girl,” she said. She was not very clear about the position and duties of a 165 H. G . Wells chorus-girl, but it certainly had the air of ... ...rever you are! I will not be slave to the thought of any man, slave to the customs of any time. Confound this slavery of sex! I am a man! I will get t... ...n one way only, and that was by doing nothing except the punctual domestic duties and being noth- ing except restful appearances. He had quite enough ... ...is thoughts again: “I wonder if, some day, one won’t need to rebel against customs and laws? If this discord will have gone? Some day, perhaps—who kno...

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...oration of Catholic worship allowed the faithful to fulfil their religious duties, which play more of a part in country life than elsewhere. Protected... ...consider woman as an appendage to man, limiting her sphere to the physical duties of maternity; demanding perfection in that respect, but re- garding ... ...from this conscience, which all men put into the proper performance of the duties they like—scien- tific men into science, artists into art, judges in... ...lty which would never have been inflicted had legislators reflected on it. Customs are often more cruel than laws. Customs are the deeds of men, but l... ...laws. Customs are the deeds of men, but laws are the judgment of a nation. Customs in which there is often no judgment are stronger than laws. Crowds ...

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...sion at the back of her mind that Mr. Polly wanted to bolt from his sacred duties, and there was no way out of the garden except through the house. Mr... ...d Mr. Voules, and then over his shoulder: “I brought that rice! I like old customs! Whoa! Stead-y.” The dog cart swerved violently, and then, evoking ... ...days, until one of their dogs took a vio- lent dislike to him and made his duties unpleasant; he talked to tramps and wayside labourers, he snoozed un... ...f feeling it would suit you.” “I’ve a sort of feeling it would. What’s the duties? Fetch and carry? Ferry? Garden? Wash bottles? Ceteris paribus?” “Th... ...t the afternoon exploring the premises of the Potwell Inn and learning the duties that might be expected of him, such as Stockholm tarring fences, dig... ... the interests of the establishment, scrubbing floors and all the ordinary duties of a scullion, the ferry, chasing hens and goats from the adjacent c...

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...e a fine rain, wetting us, soak- ing into us, and dissolving those ancient customs which make the people to reap public amusement from the Republic. B... ...should pray to the virgin, sleep on a hard board, attend to your household duties, and never be idle.” “Ah! my father, when I am at church in my seat,... ...ng, panting, jumping, scattering all things in his way, after the uses and customs of infancy, and who ran straight to his well-beloved mother, jumpin... ...hold, Madame,” said he, “a picture which will enlighten you concerning the duties of a wife towards her husband.” “You have killed an innocent man,” r...

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...ick, the support of the aged, and the comfort of the afflicted. These were duties enjoined by our religion itself. (Loud cheers.) The performers are i... ...ard. But have we time—we the strong and active of the party—to perform the duties of the table to the more retired and bashful, to whom these little a... ...r candidate in case of an expected election, and saw no amuse- ment in the duties of a road trustee, a commissioner of supply , or even in the magiste... ...ter of pa- rade. Mrs. Martha Bethune Baliol always went through the actual duties of the toilette in an inner apartment, which corresponded with her s... ...eekie were required to dress themselves. Although well acquainted with the customs of other coun- tries, her manners had been chiefly formed in her ow... ...ation amuse the way well enough. Add to this, Donald knew all his peculiar duties in the country which he traversed so frequently. He could tell, to a... ... is fore- stalled. There is Mrs. Grant of Laggan, has drawn the man- ners, customs, and superstitions of the mountains in their natu- ral unsophistica...

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... constitution, the English character, the state of politics, the manners and customs of the royal family, the peculiarities of the aristocracy, the wa... ...e you. Besides, it’s your duty.” “Ah,” cried the young man, “one has so many duties! Is that a duty too?” “Of course it is—did you never know that bef... ...ld know it now. Of course I’m easy game—I was brought up with such different customs and ideas. I’m not used to your arbitrary standards, and I’ve nev... ...say that this is not the custom here. You seem to have plenty of meaningless customs, but none of those that would help along. We are in advance, cert... ...ughly familiar, and for Isabel’s benefit threw a great deal of light upon the customs of the country and the character of the people, who “after all,” ... ...sually interrupted the young man at this point and read him a lecture on the duties of the American citizen. She thought him most unnatural; he was wo... ...ration, you like to be thought well of. You think we can escape disagreeable duties by taking romantic views—that’s your great illusion, my dear. But ... ...visible at every turn, and more easily convertible to literary uses than the customs of those opaque islanders. Out of doors in foreign lands, as she ... ...Like the good reigns in history,” Osmond suggested. He appeared to think his duties as a host now terminated—he had performed them so conscientiously....

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...the Queen of Navarre came in due course to the king, who, weary of Spanish customs, wished to disport himself after the fashion of France; but remaind... ...ng words, harmonising the melodies of the ancient and modern, congregating customs, distilling verbs, alchemising all languages since the Deluge, of t... ..., to the end that he may advise upon them. By doing so you will fulfil the duties of your office, as we do those of preservers of the security of this...