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It became the platform of Slavery, whose tyrannical behests would have triumphed, had this decision been allowed to prevail.
To this period is also to be ascribed the complete subjection of all secular officials to the behests of the inquisitors.
The humbly sympathizing friend became once more the respectful servant, and hurried away to carry out his young mistress's behest.
Demons could not have been more revolting in their cruelties than were those savage courtiers as they obeyed the queen's behests.
He flew from village to village throughout the province, executing the bloody behests of his masters with congenial alacrity.
While thus submissive, their persecutors have found them equally oblivious to the behests of wicked men, whether high or low.
Child-like, they had asked for what lay farthest from hand, but Octavian trotted off gleefully to obey their welcome behest.
However, dear boy, at your behest I'll make a martyr of myself; and if transport is to be procured on tick, I'll overhaul you.
Drinking from the fount of inspiration that gushes forth at the behest of all these wholesome influences, he longs for betterment.
And if henceforward he was to be called Joshua, the behest involved casting aside his former self, and becoming a new man.
In this behest is forbidden robbery, theft, stealing, and usury, and unfair dealing with others, in order to have for his own.
The tendency for tribes to congregate around fur-trade areas at the behest of the traders also had a detrimental effect upon the Indians.
Breathlessly, silently, I intimated to my kind accomplice that I would obey her behests and that I was prepared for every eventuality.
No bones were broken; the gentleman resigned the position at her behest, and she would genially dance with him the same night.
Polk, the new President, did not hesitate in carrying out the manifest will of the people and the imperious behest of his party.
You require him to surround himself with laymen, to summon them to his councils, and to confide to them the execution of his behests!
Her tone was frankly regretful, as one who feels obliged to follow the behests of fashion, yet, in so doing, sacrifices a cherished ideal.
They feel that the aspirant is but yielding obedience to the behests of his better self to scale the heights where sublimity dwells.
Do not seek to retaliate upon those deluded soldiers, who know nothing but to obey the behests of their king; why this useless grief?
Wherever the troops were billeted, they had but to demand from their terrified entertainers what they desired, and their behest was done.
Feeling himself the enemy of mankind, he is perpetually in a panic of suspicion, and surrounds himself with mercenaries who carry out his behests.
The sleepless activity of the chief was contagious, and his behests were obeyed with a devotion which few generals on the field have commanded.
Crow been, what it must be owned had been difficult, a worse horseman than he was, he would never have hesitated to obey this behest.
She chose, as a pretext for the dissolution of her marriage, the statement that she had entered into it unwillingly at her father's behest.
They also felt sure of that large minority in the Free States which had formerly acted with them, and obeyed their most humiliating behests.
She evidently stood in considerable awe of her master, obeying his slightest behest with clumsy solicitude and eyes that rolled unceasingly in his direction.
Yet, the tortures she endures are no greater than those voluntarily assumed by many American women at the behest of the same tyrant, Fashion.
How then could you at the behest of a paltry friar, silly, brutish and envious, bring yourself to deal with him in any harsh sort?
To these behests the daring young gentleman only returned a contemptuous laugh, and put his thumb to his nose in the most provoking manner.
Yet though she cannot understand, this woman who has known me to the marrow, I must obey her laudable behests and serve her blindly.
They arranged philanthropic schemes for the betterment of conditions for the little brothers and sisters who gained a sustenance by toil at their behest.
The Hall is not more than a hundred yards or so from our modest demesne; and at Fitz's behest we set forth in quest of recruits.
My behests shall be made known to him; and if he would avoid distraction of mind, as well as utter ruin, let him tremble to disobey.
This virtually denies both the validity of the ethical behests and the reality of an ethical faculty provided for perception of rectitude and duty.
There were councils of different sorts and with varied jurisdictions, but men sat in them at the King's behest and were removable at his will.
The musician, then, may obey Nature's universal behest, and change his form from the physical of to-day to the more tenuous of a finer realm.
A profound satisfaction was within him; it was as if his blood, at last, were flowing submissively along a great cosmic stream, to some eternal behest.
The head is then raised, but the eyes are still meekly lowered, as the imperial voice in thrilling accents pronounces the behest of the great master.
Here Smith founded the celebrated settlement, which wooed to its threshold the gentle Pocahontas, and fell to fragments at the behest of the fiery Bacon.
The unthinking, uneducated masses are in future to signify their will, and statesmen are to be the automata to carry out their behests, whatever they may be.
While he waved his hand and muttered that he had done nothing at all, he was obeying her behest by trying to get into a chair.
It polluted social relations in obvious ways, setting at naught among slaves family ties and the behests of virtue, influences that reacted terribly upon the whites.
This snake experiment is only a brief one, undertaken at the behest of a friend of mine who is writing a book on the feeding habits of pythons.
Their first act was directed towards limiting the power of the Tsar; at their behest he called together an assembly of the people to advise him.
True, that, in executing the conspirators' behests, he would be placing that life in serious jeopardy; but this was preferable to the certainty of losing it.
And on that exceedingly graceful golden standard being hewn down it seemed as if the sun dropped to the earth at the behest of the celestials.
Tall, dark, handsome, a noble brow, commanding voice and mien, he drew to his side willing hands ready to do his behest, be it what it might.
She saw herself going through the rooms, loitering in the garden, and performing the hundred and one duties and behests she had done so willingly.
Then Robin chirped to us to let him out, growing frantic with excitement as we, hitherto so prompt to obey his behests, made no move for his release.
The one who went at her behest came bringing to her the mantle and the tunic, which was lined with white ermine even to the sleeves.
In times of peaceful submission to his behest, the city of his sojourn reaped many advantages besides the amusement of seeing her streets alive beyond their wont.
If Thatcher had knifed Bassett men or if Thatcher men had been knifed at Bassett's behest, evidence of such perfidy was difficult to adduce from the returns.
She was Miss Henderson's handmaiden, still; doing her behest, simply, as if she had but left her there in keeping, while she went a journey.
United States judges, at the behest of the railroad companies (which had caused them to be appointed to the Bench), issued extraordinary, unprecedented injunctions against the strikers.
At Burke's behest he withdrew the vile calumny he had launched against her, and he expressed his formal regret for the malice that had prompted it.
Having initiative as his badge of leadership, he is able to rally hosts of men to his standard to execute his behests for civic, national, and world betterment.
Waterman's husband, who kept an eye on the county records, had, at his wife's behest, assured himself frequently that Kirkwood's block in Main Street was unencumbered.
In this manner I apprehend that the three giants of Virginia, Wise, Hunter, and Floyd, will be neutralized and dwarfed at the behest of West Point.
Yes, you have ordered me to bear patiently my unfortunate love; your behest has so much influence over my heart, that I will rather die than disobey you.
At my behest the pine tree sheltered the king, and now, at the blast of my bugle, it sends forth to the glen its farewell of flame.
"It is evidently the accord of moral consciousness with the behests of a supreme authority; or to use the ordinary expression, a good conscience," answered the millionaire earnestly.
A glaring cloth of red silk is wound about his brow, a silver sword decorates his right side, and fifty robed followers attend his every behest.
"The wilderness was, indeed, blossoming as the rose," and we felt proud at being permitted to fulfil the Heavenly behest of "subduing and replenishing the earth."
Mary was his mother; and while executing the high behests of his father on earth, he treated his mother with the most affectionate and filial tenderness.
Nor does there exist the moral inducement, apart from my own behest, that could persuade her to lift the silvery veil, or arise out of that chair.
Who will dare disobey the behests of the Great President if he should elect to open his heart and follow the path of honor and unbroken vows?
And the difference between this behest and the sixth aforesaid is, that the sixth behest forbids the deed without, but this forbids the consent within.
Not long did it take me to obey her behest, and indeed, no sooner had I done so than Beryl herself appeared at the stable door, equipped for our expedition.
If he had heeded the behests of the clamorous people not a captive would have been spared; but to-day hundreds live to bless him for his cautious, conservative movements.
He had only himself to blame for having given her the right to count upon his friendship; and it was a behest of chivalry to deserve her confidence.
When I recommended you to comply with the Queen's behest I did so because I thought that you might inaugurate such a period more certainly than any other one man.
She felt that he was her natural protector in this strange Chicago to which she had come at his behest and continually resented any imputation of his motives.
Of old sent we Moses with our signs and with incontestable power to Pharaoh, and to his nobles-who followed the behests of Pharaoh, and, unrighteous were Pharaoh's behests.
I was so unaccustomed to sickness I had not learned the happy art of accepting patiently its behests; so, after a few more efforts, I succeeded in dressing myself.
Forbes's house stood in a square, and the gray car had been drawn up on the quiet side of the roadway, being stationed there, apparently, to await its owner's behest.
He dared not disobey her mother's behest not to speak to her, so he tried to smile encouragingly, and to intimate by his expression that all was going well.
He would linger and parley, and in a few moments it was master, and he was following its behest blindly, desperately, to the point almost of exposure and destruction.
The city called together a "Congress of Notables"; of these "Notables" only one-fourth were natives, but the Congress acted under the eyes of the people and obeyed their behests.
The forehead was intellectual, and weighty enough to make it no wonder if the slight frame grew nervous and irritable in carrying out the behests of the brain hidden there.
Therefore, as it is a product of unanimity, the penalties which follow on the infractions of its behests are terrible; she who infringes it becomes, not a heroine, but an outcast.
The draft continued to eddy round the room, stirring the soft brown hair about the woman's temples, but the door stood still as at the behest of an unseen hand.
Admitting that a few wise men are likely to be better governors than the unwise many, yet it is not in their power to fashion an entire people according to their behest.
Once or twice he lifted his own arm with an alert gesture in imitative energy, and looked over his shoulder at his squat little image, to note its obedience to his behest.
Nothing so flattered the national pride as the assemblage in Paris of art treasures from all nations, nothing so humiliated it as their dispersion at the behest of the conquering Allies.
When still in full health, he was one of her chief links with the great world, bringing her its news and carrying out her behests with pride and alacrity.
Theodora stood immobile, with blazing eyes and terrible face, then she clapped her hands twice and at the sound two eunuchs appeared and stood motionless awaiting their mistress' behest.
So, obeying his behest, Philip brought them out, and they sat down "to begin at the beginning," as they said laughingly; and each took a volume and commenced to peruse it.
She had summoned him by a note the evening before, and as he felt himself in duty bound to obey the behest of an old friend, he had made his appearance punctually.
He, the ruler of the world, was conquered, and delighted to obey the behests of the victor, because he felt that she before whom he bowed was his own obedient slave.
The Premier alluded to the tremendous change wrought in the national life by the abolition of the liquor traffic, which he designated a second serfdom vanishing at the behest of the Czar.
Now, however, let us obey the behests of night and get our suppers, but let the sentinels every man of them camp by the trench that is without the wall.
Still they regarded him not to obey his behest, although they so far noticed his words as to return menacing look for look, and muttered threats for threat with him.
Her behest was obeyed, of course, though it was evidently displeasing to the nursery authorities, and Lady Strickland gave a warning to be discreet and to avoid gossip with the Cockpit folks.
And the boy, without fear, obeys the odd behest, for he knows that in his father's presence my lady dares not chide him, albeit she makes no pretence of love.
The story itself, however, concerns the love of an artist for a girl who disobeys the dictates of her heart and gives up her happiness at her sister's behest without question.
Yet anyone who considers with due care the conditions under which they were originally introduced, will find himself constrained to admit that the Lawgiver was only obeying a behest of necessity.
Wesley, though less impressionable than his sister, shared these secret devotions to the parent's parts, and bowed before his father's behests, in the filial reverence of the sons of the patriarchs.
Thus did Constantine obey the behests of pity, and try to atone for the wrong to which he had consented in his heart, and which he had so nearly done to his people.
Soup, game, tea, coffee, chocolate, ham, eggs, honey, marmalade, grapes, pines, melons, ices, buns, cakes, skimmed and soared, and floated about the room, in obedience to the behests of the callers.
Time was when the masses of men were not required to act with intelligence of their own, but to follow the decree of the privileged few or obey the behest of the autocratic individual.