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The child is embarrassed, if not panic-stricken, and the teacher seems more like an avenging nemesis than a friend and helper.
The nemesis of a despotic system is that, however well-intentioned it may be, its officials are not controlled by an alert public opinion and yet must be trusted by their master.
His subconscious had obviously been hoping that there would be a disturbance, and he would have to retreat to save himself, his subconscious obviously being very short on interest in saving the slave girl and his nemesis, particularly at the risk of his own skin.
He understood, or thought he understood, that because he had failed to live his life to the full in its proper time, this love had come to him as a belated nemesis.
This bird does great service in the destruction of mice, rats, and other vermin, and it is the nemesis of fate that it is destroyed by those it serves.
A man of distorted imagination might think this tasting of chemicals in the food a sort of nemesis of fate upon the members.
Perhaps in this age when we are beginning to break down the barriers which science has set to the imagination, and this by an expansion of science itself, which is the Nemesis of its own prejudices and arbitrarily imposed limits, we may find the salvation of both the intellect and the will.
As he appeared in the open doorway, the man whose veracity he challenged looked as though confronted by an accusing nemesis.
And over all this is thrown the supernatural interest of the Witches, who are agents of nemesis working by the means of ironical oracles.
Lady Macbeth has faced every crisis by sheer force of nerve; v. i.the nemesis comes upon her fitly in madness, the brain giving way under the strain of contest which her will has forced upon it.
Starting from the notion of pattern as a fundamental idea we have seen how Plot presents trains of events in human life taking form and shape as a crime and its nemesis, an oracle and its fulfillment, the rise and fall of an individual, or even as simply a story.
The two moreover represent the different conceptions of Nemesis in the ancient and modern world; Antonio's excess of moral confidence suffers a nemesis of reaction in his humiliation, and Shylock's sin of judicial murder finds a nemesis of retribution in his ruin by process of law.
At first the minister was talking on the telephone, and some chivalric instinct restrained the would-be assassin from shooting his nemesis in the back.
Never were the lives of the innocent and defenseless so quickly, terribly, yet justly avenged; never has a more awful nemesis from human hands fallen upon the destroyers of women and women's honor.
Startled, the lieutenant leaped back, forgetting the girl, the firing squad, everything but that his nemesis had run him to earth.
Asquith neglected and misled his party more thoroughly than any other prime minister, so he was overtaken by a more malignant nemesis.
There was a corrective, or perhaps it should be called a nemesis to this, in the fact that when an official was put to death, by order of the Sultan, his property was confiscated to the State.
The 8th Marines, having finally destroyed the three-bunker nemesis, made good progress at first, but then ran out of steam past the eastern end of the airfield.
That is always the Nemesis which overtakes a mere trick of manner; when once it ceases to startle it becomes commonplace.
I had crossed a galaxy to come to Foster, and with me, locked in an unmarked pewter cylinder, I had brought Foster's ancient nemesis.
Nemesis is a greedy woman who sells herself to the highest bidder; he curses her avarice, but he loves her and cannot live unless she loves him.
Nevertheless, the growth of Gothic architecture was rapid, so rapid that even in the fourteenth century it began to show symptoms of that swift decadence which is the Nemesis of facile success.
One might expect such a man as Wild Bill Hickok to meet his nemesis in open battle with a murderous cutthroat seeking to pay off an old score.
Nemesis, for example, is the might to humiliate the exalted, and to cast down the man all too fortunate from his lofty seat, and consequently to restore equilibrium.
Nemesis will inevitably chastise man unless he rectifies the consequences of his own delinquencies, whether they be direct or indirect.
His advice was clearly and forcibly given, but the nemesis of humorists followed him, and no one ever thought of taking him seriously.
The nemesis of excess in athletics is specialization, specialization begets professionalism, and professionalism is the death of all true sport.
And when that nemesis was brought here, it was far too harmless and unobtrusive in its aspect, for them to notice or be warned.
It is the true nemesis of human life that any spiritual impulse, not accompanied by clear comprehensive thought, is enslaved by its own realization.
Nemesis here faces us in militarism, crushing the people with taxation and profoundly shocking the best instincts of humanity.
With fixed eyes and close-shut lips, as doggedly, as inexorably as though he were a Nemesis hunting his enemy down, Hiram followed their footsteps across the stretch of moonlit open.