Also I have to tell you that, to complete my misfortunes, his Excellency has been pleased to become
stricter. Today he railed at and scolded Emelia Ivanovitch until the poor fellow was quite put about.
Governments are sometimes preserved not only by having the means of their corruption at a great distance, but also by its being very near them; for those who are alarmed at some impending evil keep a
stricter hand over the state; for which reason it is necessary for those who have the guardianship of the constitution to be able to awaken the fears of the people, that they may preserve it, and not like a night-guard to be remiss in protecting the state, but to make the distant danger appear at hand.
This friend was the gamekeeper, a fellow of a loose kind of disposition, and who was thought not to entertain much
stricter notions concerning the difference of meum and tuum than the young gentleman himself.
Had Greece, says a judicious observer on her fate, been united by a
stricter confederation, and persevered in her union, she would never have worn the chains of Macedon; and might have proved a barrier to the vast projects of Rome.
Norris, on quitting the Parsonage, removed first to the Park, and afterwards to a small house of Sir Thomas's in the village, and consoled herself for the loss of her husband by considering that she could do very well without him; and for her reduction of income by the evident necessity of
stricter economy.
And," she added, after hesitating a little, with a rising sob of mortification, "necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon, who was
stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments.
Then, as I was saying, our youth should be trained from the first in a
stricter system, for if amusements become lawless, and the youths themselves become lawless, they can never grow up into well-conducted and virtuous citizens.
"We are not wont to show an idle courtesy to that sex, which requireth the
stricter discipline.
It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a
stricter cut.
There on the shelf was a bottle which she at once recognized as one containing some of her three-year-old homemade currant wine for which she was celebrated in Avonlea, although certain of the
stricter sort, Mrs.
Having given this explanation, Mrs Squeers put her head into the closet and instituted a
stricter search after the spoon, in which Mr Squeers assisted.
And she was far
stricter on that point than the Lord Chamberlain, who had, she held, betrayed his trust by practically turning Leveller.