If the guillotine, as applied to office-holders, were a literal fact, instead of one of the most apt of metaphors, it is my sincere belief that the
active members of the victorious party were sufficiently excited to have chopped off all our heads, and have thanked Heaven for the opportunity
But his coming for me as he did, with such
active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men.
It appears that the same
active and leading members of the council had been
active and influential members of the legislative and executive branches, within the period to be reviewed; and even patrons or opponents of the very measures to be thus brought to the test of the constitution.
you remarked that we were all
active, vigorous and armed.
This
active leader, it will be recollected, had embarked the year previously in skin-boats on the Bighorn, freighted with the year's collection of peltries.
Nerved by an
active resolution, Adam took a morsel of bread and drank some wine.
He held the promise of the Chief for
active service, and the men must get ready.
Let us suppose," he continued, folding his table-napkin into a graceful festoon, "that this represents what is perhaps the necessity of this Age--the
Active Tourist's Portable Bath.
Accustomed to ease, and unequal to the struggles incident to an infant society, the affluent emigrant was barely enabled to maintain his own rank by the weight of his personal superiority and acquirements; but, the moment that his head was laid in the grave, his indolent and comparatively uneducated offspring were compelled to yield precedency to the more
active energies of a class whose exertions had been stimulated by necessity.
After lying there quietly for some time, his mind became
active again.
AMBITION is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men
active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped.
In the twilight of the morning light seems
active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is
active and crescent, and the light which is the drowsy reverse.
