He may have
consistently broken them for fifty years, yet this year he will keep them.
The fourth point is consistency: for though the subject of the imitation, who suggested the type, be inconsistent, still he must be
consistently inconsistent.
Were they
consistently pitiful, then would they make their neighbours sick of life.
But, about three centuries afterwards, the Law decided that in all towns containing a population above ten thousand, the angle of a Pentagon was the smallest house-angle that could be allowed
consistently with the public safety.
During the Civil War he as- sisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and
consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves.
In spite of the complaints of the French as to the nonobservance of the rules, in spite of the fact that to some highly placed Russians it seemed rather disgraceful to fight with a cudgel and they wanted to assume a pose en quarte or en tierce according to all the rules, and to make an adroit thrust en prime, and so on- the cudgel of the people's war was lifted with all its menacing and majestic strength, and without consulting anyone's tastes or rules and regardless of anything else, it rose and fell with stupid simplicity, but
consistently, and belabored the French till the whole invasion had perished.
At the same time I cannot,
consistently with my duty as a Christian, suffer my opinion of Miss Jethro to be in any way modified, until proofs are laid before me which it is impossible to dispute.
"Well, I don't like to acknowledge it, Dorcas, but I don't see how I can
consistently stick to my doubts in the face of such overwhelming proof as this dog is furnishing."
If he would act in this sort of manner, on principle,
consistently, regularly, their little minds would bend to his."
But for this, I should not have dreamt of running so much on the high-pressure principle; but love, you know, Miss Julia, is a calculation, like any other great event of life, and must be carried on
consistently."
Of her sons-in-law he was the one she had most
consistently ignored; and all his wife's efforts to represent him as a man of forceful character and marked intellectual ability (if he had only "chosen") had been met with a derisive chuckle.
Traders and makers of all kinds of commodities have effected a revolution in the picture-world, never dreamed of by the noblemen and gentlemen of ancient lineage, and
consistently protested against to this day by the very few of them who still remain alive.