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  • So the puppy, wisely, desisted.†   (source)
  • I shoot her a cease-and-desist look.†   (source)
  • I should have desisted, I should not have seen what I saw.†   (source)
  • "Nor did they desist," Mudgett wrote, "until I had been brought face to face with one of its grinning skeletons, which, with arms outstretched, seemed ready in its turn to seize me.†   (source)
  • Above all, in future, be pleased to desist from pestering with these importunate and ridiculous appeals, Your most humble and obedient servant.†   (source)
  • Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.†   (source)
  • Leto gave Halleck their private handsignal to desist, said: "Our ways are new here, Gurney.†   (source)
  • Howe himself, recalling the mood of the men, would later write that "it required repeated orders to prevail on them to desist."†   (source)
  • The imp's eyes effectively screamed at Max to desist, to retreat, to rock the dragon back to sleep.†   (source)
  • At the cage, Slynt wrenched loose for a moment and tried to make a fight of it, but Iron Emmett caught him by the throat and slammed him back against the iron bars until he desisted.†   (source)
  • As one officer to another, I ask that you desist.†   (source)
  • I made accusations based on everything that's happened — from McAllister's scenario to Babcock's statement that they'd send out an execution team to find me...to that Anglicized voice of dry ice who told me to cease-and-desist with Medusa or they'd call me insane and put me back in a mental stockade.†   (source)
  • ROS desists.†   (source)
  • But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms.†   (source)
  • If there was no such beast in the herd, the wolves soon desisted from the chase and went off to test another group.†   (source)
  • In a few months, it was predicted, its fires would desist A layer of soil would then be imported, spread, and migrating birds would be encouraged to stop and rest, maybe nest, and to use the place as a lavatory.†   (source)
  • Chiefly, though, the hoses were set much alike, in a compromise between distance and tenderness of spray (and quite surely a sense of art behind this compromise, and a quiet deep joy, too real to recognize itself), and the sounds therefore were pitched much alike; pointed by the snorting start of a new hose; decorated by some man playful with the nozzle; left empty, like God by the sparrow’s fall, when any single one of them desists: and all, though near alike, of various pitch; and in this unison.†   (source)
  • But Tom desisted.†   (source)
  • A most peculiar expression stole over Nearly Headless Nick's face as he inserted a finger in the stiff ruff at his neck and tugged it a little straighter, apparently to give himself thinking time. He desisted only when his partially severed neck seemed about to give way completely.   (source)
    desisted = stopped
  • And you, estimable Vizier, whether he desists or not, by no means allow the flow of your eloquence to be interrupted.   (source)
    desists = stops
  • Natasha only desisted when she had been told that there would be pineapple ice.   (source)
    desisted = stopped
  • When he began to undo the chain, the legs desisted, and a voice began.   (source)
  • Adye desisted and thought.   (source)
  • He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.   (source)
  • But as he did so, the oarsmen expectantly desisted from rowing; the boat drifted a little towards the ship's stern; so that, as if by magic, the letter suddenly ranged along with Gabriel's eager hand.   (source)
  • Fearing in his heart lest this might prove but too true, the captain a little desisted, but still commanded the insurgents instantly to return to their duty.   (source)
  • I didn't need much talking into, but at the last minute, Patria desisted.†   (source)
  • Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.†   (source)
  • He thought of speaking to Mauricio Babilonia, thinking that his authority as his former boss would make him desist from his plans, but Petra Cotes convinced him that it was a woman's business, so he was left floating in a limbo of indecision, barely sustained by the hope that the confinement would put an end to his daughter's troubles.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: DESIST!†   (source)
  • "Desist, O my son," said the Tisroc.†   (source)
  • But be sure I will never desist till I have dragged to my palace by her hair the barbarian queen, the daughter of dogs, the —†   (source)
  • She saw the terrible agony and the lips tightened down to hold back the cry and desisted.†   (source)
  • He desisted; he seemed to be leaning a little toward the horse.†   (source)
  • For a fortnight he desisted from the research work on St. Augustine and the African Church that had won for him a high place in his Order.†   (source)
  • This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau.†   (source)
  • Then, still holding the door shut with his shoulder—the people on the other side had desisted from their hewing, feeling that something was about to happen—he settled his right foot firmly on the ground, about two feet from the door jamb, and let the door swing open.†   (source)
  • At length, desisting, all ceased together, gathered together, all sighed together; all together gave off an aimless gust of lamentation to which some door in the kitchen replied; swung wide; admitted nothing; and slammed to.†   (source)
  • He tries to smoothe it again, clumsily, his hand awkward as a claw, smoothing at the wrinkles which he made and which continue to emerge beneath his hand with perverse ubiquity, so that at last he desists, his hand falling to his side and stroking itself again, palm and back, on his thigh.†   (source)
  • It is noteworthy that our townspeople very quickly desisted, even in public, from a habit one might have expected them to formthat of trying to figure out the probable duration of their exile.†   (source)
  • He heard the fear in her voice, and desisted.†   (source)
  • "That's so," assented the deserter, reluctantly desisting.†   (source)
  • I wonder what he thought had come to me before he understood and suddenly desisted.†   (source)
  • Desisting from this, he began to wander about the far end of the field, aimlessly.†   (source)
  • Scott never desisted from his efforts, though he looked up coolly and asked: "Your dog?"†   (source)
  • The bottle struck the floor and broke, and I desisted and rose.†   (source)
  • As these had not been well received, he had desisted.†   (source)
  • Mr. Guppy therefore desisted from taking something out of his pocket and proceeded without it.†   (source)
  • It was my first thought to pluck forth the dirk, but either it stuck too hard or my nerve failed me, and I desisted with a violent shudder.†   (source)
  • But his brain had then refused to grapple with the theme and, desisting, he had covered the page with the names and addresses of certain of his classmates: Roderick Kickham John Lawton Anthony MacSwiney Simon Moonan Now it seemed as if he would fail again but, by dint of brooding on the incident, he thought himself into confidence.†   (source)
  • Somehow this stopped Hamidullah, and he desisted from his brutality, which had shocked Fielding more than anyone else.†   (source)
  • Fletcher, evidently sure of ultimate victory, desisted for the time being; however, in his solicitous regard and close companionship for the rest of that day he betrayed the bent of his mind.†   (source)
  • One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.†   (source)
  • Therefore she desisted.†   (source)
  • I hammered at the door, but I could not make the people hear (if there were any people inside), and after a time I desisted, and, availing myself of a ditch for the greater part of the way, succeeded in crawling, unobserved by these monstrous machines, into the pine woods towards Maybury.†   (source)
  • Leonard and Dick immediately proceeded to carve their initials, "L. W." and "R. P.", in the old red sandstone; but Paul desisted, because he had read in the newspaper satirical remarks about initial-carvers, who could find no other road to immortality.†   (source)
  • Sondra, because of his strained and as she now fancied almost peevish tone, desisted with: "All right, honey.†   (source)
  • He desired to get in, and kept on drumming with both fists, only desisting now and again to shout huskily, "Let me in!†   (source)
  • My hand desisted from its work.†   (source)
  • One of the men desisted and turned towards him, and my brother, realising from his antagonist's face that a fight was unavoidable, and being an expert boxer, went into him forthwith and sent him down against the wheel of the chaise.†   (source)
  • And Hegglund, taking his cue from Ratterer and occasionally desisting from his own self-glorifying diatribes, would add: "You won't ever be de same, Clyde.†   (source)
  • And so, instead of explaining further why he needed a decision on her part, he merely desisted, saying: "It's because I need you so much now, dear—all of the time.†   (source)
  • Mr Cripples's pupils, who were by this time coming to school, desisted from their morning recreation of cuffing one another with bags and books, to stare with all the eyes they had at a stranger who had been to see Dirty Dick.†   (source)
  • Yet it was a sight that might well arrest wandering thoughts: Eppie, with the rippling radiance of her hair and the whiteness of her rounded chin and throat set off by the dark-blue cotton gown, laughing merrily as the kitten held on with her four claws to one shoulder, like a design for a jug-handle, while Snap on the right hand and Puss on the other put up their paws towards a morsel which she held out of the reach of both—Snap occasionally desisting in order to remonstrate with the cat by a cogent worrying growl on the greediness and futility of her conduct; till Eppie relented, caressed them both, and divided the morsel between them.†   (source)
  • From this employment she suddenly desisted, and said to Steerforth, much to my confusion: 'Who's your friend?'†   (source)
  • It would have been impossible to return to land that same evening, for we were thoroughly fatigued by our labours, and had eaten only the light refreshment we had brought in our wallets, scarcely desisting a moment from our work.†   (source)
  • He told her that when he was captured, he broke away, and was about casting himself into the river, when thoughts of her came over him, and he desisted.†   (source)
  • The uncle desisted; and, after receiving a few cautious instructions from the Tuscarora, Mabel rallied all her spirit, and advanced alone towards the group seated near the fire.†   (source)
  • So saying, he resumed his discontented walk through the apartment; and Rebecca, perceiving that her attempts at consolation only served to awaken new subjects of complaint, wisely desisted from her unavailing efforts—a prudential line of conduct, and we recommend to all who set up for comforters and advisers, to follow it in the like circumstances.†   (source)
  • That was the process going on in poor Rosamond, while she arranged all objects around her with the same nicety as ever, only with more slowness—or sat down to the piano, meaning to play, and then desisting, yet lingering on the music stool with her white fingers suspended on the wooden front, and looking before her in dreamy ennui.†   (source)
  • At last, when the competition had been prolonged for some time, the elephant captain and lady desisted from the race; and the hammer coming down, the auctioneer said:—"Mr. Lewis, twenty-five," and Mr. Lewis's chief thus became the proprietor of the little square piano.†   (source)
  • There was so much to be done in consequence of this affair, that Fritz, who had hoped to set out on his solitary expedition that day, deferred it until the next; and was, therefore, fortunately with us, when late in the evening we desisted from our labours, and having supped, were preparing to retire to rest.†   (source)
  • A nervous affection has probably as much to do with these demonstrations as any imbecile intention in the poor old woman, but on the present occasion they are so particularly lively in connexion with the Windsor arm-chair, fellow to that in which Mr. Smallweed is seated, that she only quite desists when her grandchildren have held her down in it, her lord in the meanwhile bestowing upon her, with great volubility, the endearing epithet of "a pig-headed jackdaw," repeated a surprising number of times.†   (source)
  • These are the gifts I shall arrange if he desists from anger.†   (source)
  • But he did not desist; though his hands were hard and urgent it was with rage alone.†   (source)
  • And the Sunday after that when he arrived the door was locked, and the loafers watched him try the door and then desist and stand there with his face still not bowed, with the street lined with men who never went to church anyway, and little boys who did not know exactly what it was but that it was something, stopping and looking with still round eyes at the man standing quite motionless before the locked door.†   (source)
  • Then another voice, telling some "Heaven-forsaken idiot" to desist.†   (source)
  • He would neither desist from his attacks on the food nor from his noisy babbling to himself.†   (source)
  • Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist.†   (source)
  • But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account.†   (source)
  • "Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more emphatically.†   (source)
  • He would not despair: he would not desist.†   (source)
  • 'Would not a word from you induce them to desist from this unmanly course?'†   (source)
  • She felt sure that a similar fate awaited me, if I did not desist from my enterprise.†   (source)
  • Why did she not with unearthly screams, that would re-echo from one end of the lonely beach to the other, send out a warning to him to desist, to retrace his steps, for death lurked here whilst he advanced?†   (source)
  • I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.†   (source)
  • He followed the sorrel into the narrowing split between the walls, and presently had to desist because he could not see a foot in advance.†   (source)
  • He ceased, feeling reasonably sure that he had dispelled the fear, as well as the determination that had brought Roberta to him—that, being a sensible, ordinary wife, she would now desist of course—think nothing more of her plan and leave.†   (source)
  • She gathered many of the stones which I built into the walls of the hut; also, she turned a deaf ear to my entreaties when I begged her to desist.†   (source)
  • But when I had come so far a way already, mere shame would not suffer me to desist till I had put the matter to the touch of proof; I was bound, out of mere self-respect, to carry it through; and little as I liked the sound of what I heard, and slow as I began to travel, I still kept asking my way and still kept advancing.†   (source)
  • Yet even though Hans Castorp was prepared, as he had been all along, to lend him an ear, to consider his lectures worth listening to— quite noncommittally—and to let himself be pedagogically influenced, that in no way meant that, on the basis of a strictly educational point of view, he should desist from his enterprise, which still seemed to have an important impact, to be beneficial in some vague way—despite Madame Gerngross and her talk about a "nice little fleert," despite the businesslike personality of poor young Rotbein or the foolish trillings of Lady Overblown.†   (source)
  • But he had been forewarned of the dangers of spiritual exaltation and did not allow himself to desist from even the least or lowliest devotion, striving also by constant mortification to undo the sinful past rather than to achieve a saintliness fraught with peril.†   (source)
  • He had made two attempts to shave but his hand had been so unsteady that he had been obliged to desist.†   (source)
  • Then he slept awhile, and began again with renewed strength, so loudly that I must needs make him desist.†   (source)
  • And in consequence, after, grilling Clyde for four long hours one hot July afternoon, he was eventually compelled to desist with the feeling that as a plotter of crime Clyde was probably the most arresting example of feeble and blundering incapacity he had ever met.†   (source)
  • And immediately, on his part, Clyde sensing how enormous was the hold of this world on her—how integral a part of it she was—and how, by merely too much insistence here and now, he might so easily cause her to doubt the wisdom of her primary craze for him, was moved to desist, sure that if he spoke it would lead her to questioning him in such a way as might cause her to change—or at least to modify her enthusiasm to the point where even the dream of the fall might vanish.†   (source)
  • In case this should be so, or in case you should entertain much thought of me in what you are doing, I most earnestly entreat and beg you to desist.†   (source)
  • Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.†   (source)
  • If George did not mimic his uncle to his face, it was only by Dobbin's rebukes and Amelia's terrified entreaties that the little scapegrace was induced to desist.†   (source)
  • But he did not desist from a kindly scheme on Henchard's account that engaged him just then; and when he met Lawyer Joyce, the town-clerk, later in the day, he spoke of it as if nothing had occurred to damp it.†   (source)
  • He dined with Mrs. Tristram, and on her mentioning their name, he begged her almost severely to desist.†   (source)
  • Isabel speedily found occasion to desire her to desist from celebrating the charms of their common sojourn in print, having discovered, on the second morning of Miss Stackpole's visit, that she was engaged on a letter to the Interviewer, of which the title, in her exquisitely neat and legible hand (exactly that of the copybooks which our heroine remembered at school) was "Americans and Tudors—Glimpses of Gardencourt."†   (source)
  • "Make room for the Jew in front of the lower ring," said Prince John, not unwilling perhaps to, seize an apology to desist from his original purpose; "to place the vanquished beside the victor were false heraldry."†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.†   (source)
  • She beseeches Him, she will not desist, and when God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, 'How can I forgive His tormentors?' she bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction.†   (source)
  • At length I leave him to the contemplation of himself; but he returns to the charge, and does not desist till he has got me to repeat all I had just been saying.†   (source)
  • which he repeated, in the same shrill quavering notes, again and again, until a violent fit of coughing obliged him to desist, and to pursue in silence, the occupation upon which he was engaged.†   (source)
  • An extinguished candle stood on the table; she was bending over the fire, and seemed reading in a little black book, like a prayer-book, by the light of the blaze: she muttered the words to herself, as most old women do, while she read; she did not desist immediately on my entrance: it appeared she wished to finish a paragraph.†   (source)
  • Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable), and that 'a young gal' stationed in the pantry with a bedroom candle, there never to desist from washing plates, would be indispensable.†   (source)
  • Don't ask me to desist; there is a—hum—a general principle involved here, which rises even above considerations of—ha—hospitality.†   (source)
  • I have myself directed some attention, during the past week, to the art of baking; and my son Wilkins has issued forth with a walking-stick and driven cattle, when permitted, by the rugged hirelings who had them in charge, to render any voluntary service in that direction — which I regret to say, for the credit of our nature, was not often; he being generally warned, with imprecations, to desist.'†   (source)
  • This seemed a great achievement; but our work was by no means ended, nor could we venture to desist from it, until, while the material was soft and pliable, we had formed it into the shape we desired for the canoe.†   (source)
  • 'If no regard for my sex or helpless situation will induce you to desist from this coarse and unmanly persecution,' said Kate, scarcely knowing, in the tumult of her passions, what she said,—'I have a brother who will resent it dearly, one day.'†   (source)
  • Instantly the captain ran forward, and in a loud voice commanded his crew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship.†   (source)
  • At last, after much dodging search, he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger's evil eye.†   (source)
  • Some six handfuls were obtained; but more was unavoidably lost in the sea, and still more, perhaps, might have been secured were it not for impatient Ahab's loud command to Stubb to desist, and come on board, else the ship would bid them good bye.†   (source)
  • And as to the king, he learned his mind when he himself, after taking the Duchy of Urbino, attacked Tuscany, and the king made him desist from that undertaking; hence the duke decided to depend no more upon the arms and the luck of others.†   (source)
  • These are the gifts he will arrange if you desist from anger....Even if you abhor the son of Atreus all the more bitterly, with all his gifts, take pity on the rest, all the old army, worn to rags in battle.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I am impressed," I murmured, but desisted in the face of his glare.†   (source)
  • The monster Maffei desisted and flung his victim from him with an oath.†   (source)
  • Bloom, mumbling, his eyes downcast, begins to bestow his parcels in his filled pockets but desists, muttering.†   (source)
  • And since she saw her mistress so determined, she desisted from any further dissuasions.†   (source)
  • Thrice at the cavern's mouth he pull'd in vain, And, panting, thrice desisted from his pain.†   (source)
  • Here finished he, and all that he had made
    Viewed, and behold all was entirely good;
    So even and morn accomplished the sixth day:
    Yet not till the Creator from his work
    Desisting, though unwearied, up returned,
    Up to the Heaven of Heavens, his high abode;
    Thence to behold this new created world,
    The addition of his empire, how it showed
    In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,
    Answering his great idea.†   (source)
  • Had I acted as became me, and resisted as virtue and honour require, this gentleman had either desisted his attacks, finding no room to expect the accomplishment of his design, or had made fair and honourable proposals of marriage; in which case, whoever had blamed him, nobody could have blamed me.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, however, the fact may be true, and less miraculous than it hath been represented; since the natural cause seems adequate to the effect: for, as the guide at that moment desisted from a constant application of his armed right heel (for, like Hudibras, he wore but one spur), it is more than possible that this omission alone might occasion the beast to stop, especially as this was very frequent with him at other times.†   (source)
  • She insisted how it might tend to a further divulging the secret, and might in the end be injurious to him, entreating him not to press for it; so at length he desisted.†   (source)
  • This accident was the arrival of a coach and four; upon which my landlord and landlady immediately desisted from fighting, and at their entreaty obtained the same favour of their antagonists: but Susan was not so kind to Partridge; for that Amazonian fair having overthrown and bestrid her enemy, was now cuffing him lustily with both her hands, without any regard to his request of a cessation of arms, or to those loud exclamations of murder which he roared forth.†   (source)
  • Nor, thus forborne, The youth desists, but with insulting scorn Provokes the ling'ring prince, whose patience, tir'd, Gave place; and all his breast with fury fir'd.†   (source)
  • They will learn at last
    to cease and desist from escorting every man alive—
    I'll pile a huge mountain round about their port!†   (source)
  • Why did he desist from speculation?†   (source)
  • Desist, my much-lov'd lord,'t indulge your pain; You bear no more than what the gods ordain.†   (source)
  • Blin: cease; from Anglo-Saxon, "blinnan," to desist.†   (source)
  • I entreat you, nay, I command you, (says he) to desist from these intentions.†   (source)
  • I wish, too, you would take my advice, and desist from abusing the clergy.†   (source)
  • Both armies from their bloody work desist, And, bearing backward, form a spacious list.†   (source)
  • The shepherds and drovers accompanying the flock shouted to him to desist; seeing it was no use, they ungirt their slings and began to salute his ears with stones as big as one's fist.†   (source)
  • Which Insignificancy of language, though I cannot note it for false Philosophy; yet it hath a quality, not onely to hide the Truth, but also to make men think they have it, and desist from further search.†   (source)
  • When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then we must rate the cost of the erection; Which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all?†   (source)
  • Desist, and drink.†   (source)
  • *where I left off*
    This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,
    When he was come almost unto the town,
    In all his weal, and in his moste pride,
    He was ware, as he cast his eye aside,
    Where that there kneeled in the highe way
    A company of ladies, tway and tway,
    Each after other, clad in clothes black:
    But such a cry and such a woe they make,
    That in this world n'is creature living,
    That hearde such another waimenting* *lamenting <6>
    And of this crying would they never stenten*, *desist
    Till they the reines of his bridle henten*.†   (source)
  • I began to dig in the rock, yet was obliged to desist for want of a pickax, shovel, and wheel-barrow.†   (source)
  • He saw that his squires (for so they call those who follow that trade) were about to rifle Sancho Panza, but he ordered them to desist and was at once obeyed, so the girdle escaped.†   (source)
  • To buy with Mony, or Preferment, from a Popular ambitious Subject, to be quiet, and desist from making ill impressions in the mindes of the People, has nothing of the nature of Reward; (which is ordained not for disservice, but for service past;) nor a signe of Gratitude, but of Fear: nor does it tend to the Benefit, but to the Dammage of the Publique.†   (source)
  • "My lord," says she, "I intreat you to desist from a vain pursuit; for, upon my honour, I will never hear you on this subject.†   (source)
  • I wish, Mr Square, you would desist from filling the minds of my pupils with such antichristian stuff; for the consequence must be, while they are under my care, its being well scourged out of them again.†   (source)
  • and it seemed doubtful to which side Fortune would incline, when the naked lady, who had listened at the top of the stairs to the dialogue which preceded the engagement, descended suddenly from above, and without weighing the unfair inequality of two to one, fell upon the poor woman who was boxing with Partridge; nor did that great champion desist, but rather redoubled his fury, when he found fresh succours were arrived to his assistance.†   (source)
  • Lord Fellamar returned much to this, which we do not perfectly understand, and perhaps it could not all be strictly reconciled either to sense or grammar; but he concluded his ranting speech with saying, "That if she had pre-engaged herself to any gentleman, however unhappy it would make him, he should think himself bound in honour to desist."†   (source)
  • To confess the truth, I am afraid Mr Jones was one of these; for though he was attacked and violently belaboured with the aforesaid weapon, he could not be provoked to make any resistance; but in a most cowardly manner applied, with many entreaties, to his antagonist to desist from pursuing her blows; in plain English, he only begged her with the utmost earnestness to hear him; but before he could obtain his request, my landlord himself entered into the fray, and embraced that side of the cause which seemed to stand very little in need of assistance.†   (source)
  • But now, so uncertain are our tempers, and so much do we at different times differ from ourselves, she would hear of no mitigation; nor could all the affected penitence of Honour, nor all the entreaties of Sophia for her own servant, prevail with her to desist from earnestly desiring her brother to execute justiceship (for it was indeed a syllable more than justice) on the wench.†   (source)
  • At length we are once more come to our heroe; and, to say truth, we have been obliged to part with him so long, that, considering the condition in which we left him, I apprehend many of our readers have concluded we intended to abandon him for ever; he being at present in that situation in which prudent people usually desist from enquiring any farther after their friends, lest they should be shocked by hearing such friends had hanged themselves.†   (source)
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