Also that kind of obedience, which Tacitus speaketh of, is to be held suspected: Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent mandata imperantium interpretari quam exequi; disputing, excusing, cavilling upon mandates and directions, is a kind of shaking off the yoke, and assay of disobedience; especially if in those disputings, they which are for the direction, speak fearfully and tenderly, and those that are against it,
audaciously.
They
audaciously penetrated, arm in arm, into Sir Patrick's own study--entirely at their disposal, as they well knew, at that hour of the morning.
Sparsit had
audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he.
Under these fortunate circumstances, I was able to keep up my character among my friends, when they inquired about the scuffle, by informing them that Gentleman Jones had
audaciously slapped my face, and that I had been obliged to retaliate by knocking him down.
She
audaciously took to herself the whole credit of telling her story:
I really could not resist the temptation to outrage his sense of propriety by taking an
audaciously liberal view of the whole matter.
"You are a sort of monster," I added
audaciously, "a Caliban who has pondered Setebos, and who acts as you act, in idle moments, by whim and fancy."
This interruption, and the consequent wakefulness of Mrs Varden, who had been nodding in her sleep up to this point, except for a minute or two at a time, when she roused herself to scold the locksmith for
audaciously taking hold of her to prevent her nodding herself out of the chaise, put a restraint upon the whispered conversation, and made it difficult of resumption.
They have
audaciously adjusted, in the name of "good taste," upon the wounds of gothic architecture, their miserable gewgaws of a day, their ribbons of marble, their pompons of metal, a veritable leprosy of egg-shaped ornaments, volutes, whorls, draperies, garlands, fringes, stone flames, bronze clouds, pudgy cupids, chubby- cheeked cherubim, which begin to devour the face of art in the oratory of Catherine de Medicis, and cause it to expire, two centuries later, tortured and grimacing, in the boudoir of the Dubarry.
A high velvet hat,
audaciously turned up in front, with a bunch of pink roses and a sweeping plume, was cocked over one ear, and, with her curls braided into a club at the back of her neck, Rose's head looked more like that of a dashing young cavalier than a modest little girl's.
The longer she spoke, the more disadvantageously she challenged comparison with the absent woman, whose name she so obstinately and so
audaciously persisted in assuming as her own.
Before the actress of the evening had been five minutes on the stage, Norah detected, to her own indescribable astonishment, that Magdalen had
audaciously individualized the feeble amiability of "Julia's" character, by seizing no less a person than herself as the model to act it by.
