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Act for yourselves, and our noble France will reappear more or less as our ancestors made her and as our own eyes beheld her before the death of Louis XVI.
'England, her noble Lords at least, curses as heartily as we ignoble Jacobinism: without English gold, Austria, Russia, Prussia cannot fight more than two or three battles.
Like your noble ancestors who followed Saint Louis to the Crusade, you ought, for those hundred and twenty thousand francs, to let us see at least a regiment, a company, shall I say a half-company, were it composed only of fifty men ready to fight, and devoted to the good cause, alive or dead.
'_Form your battalions_, I say to you, in the words of the Jacobin song; then there will appear some noble Gustavus-Adolphus, who, moved by the imminent peril to the monarchical principle will come flying three hundred leagues beyond his borders, and do for you what Gustavus did for the Protestant princes.
Pardon me the simile, Gentlemen, the noble Duke of ---- is our surgeon.'
'Good,' said the Prince, 'that is graceful, a noble disdain!
He had shown her Julien's letter, she trembled lest he should have deemed it noble to put an end to his life: 'And without my permission?' she said to herself with an agony which partook of anger.
The implicit recognition of your noble birth by that man who governs Besancon will be one of the implied conditions of the arrangement.'
What you call your crime, though it is nothing but a noble revenge which shows me all the loftiness of the heart that beats in your bosom, I learned only at Verrieres ...'Notwithstanding his prejudices against Mademoiselle de La Mole, prejudices of which, moreover, he had not himself formed any definite idea, Julien found her extremely good-looking.
How could he fail to see in all this manner of speech and action a noble, disinterested sentiment, far above anything that a petty, vulgar spirit would have dared?
The noble but slightly romantic spirit of this charming widow, startled and converted to the service of common prudence by an event at once singular, tragic and for her momentous, would have deigned to appreciate the quite genuine merit of the young Marquis.
At this moment Julien was playing upon Mathilde's nature with all the calm of a skilled pianist touching the keys of a piano ...'The advantage of noble birth I lack, it is true,' he went on, 'but the great heart of Mathilde has raised her lover to her own level.
He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
We determined to save him, and, in this noble resolve, our own dispute was forgotten.
"Well, I don't know, gents," replied the noble fellow, "but I suppose SOME train's got to go to Kingston; and I'll do it.
It was a noble sight to see them suffering thus in silence, but it unnerved me altogether.
I felt good and noble.
I am chock full of beautiful and noble thoughts, and I want to stop like it, because it feels nice and good.
Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father - a noble, pious man.
And all the fellows were frowning, and looking stern and noble.
At the sound of the tread of the noble horse ridden by the traveler, the mistress of the farmhouse he was passing at the time might be seen cautiously opening the door of the building to examine the stranger; and perhaps, with an averted face communicating the result of her observations to her husband, who, in the rear of the building, was prepared to seek, if necessary, his ordinary place of concealment in the adjacent woods.
At length Caesar appeared, leading the noble beast which was to bear the weight of the traveler.
Prepare yourself to grant me your assistance and I will soon afford you a noble revenge."
Methinks the goddess of Liberty could furnish a more noble inspiration, and the sufferings of your country a more befitting theme."
With the foolish credulity of my youth, I thought you all that was brave, noble, generous, and loyal."
"Either avarice or delusion has led a noble heart astray!"
Struck with the contrast between man and nature, the fearless trooper rode by each pass of danger, regardless of what might happen; nor did he rouse himself from his musing, until the noble charger, snuffing the morning air, greeted the steeds of the guard under Sergeant Hollister.
"Your sentiment is noble, sir," he said.
"You have the noble acknowledgment of a gentleman, what more can you obtain from this slave?
"Would Washington - the noble, upright, impartial Washington, judge so harshly?
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