He had received information, also, that an armed brig from Halifax, probably at the
instigation of the Northwest Company, was hovering on the coast, watching for the Tonquin, with the purpose of impressing the Canadians on board of her, as British subjects, and thus interrupting the voyage.
The young people, at the countess'
instigation, gathered round the clavichord and harp.
Tarzan of the Apes, tensing his mighty muscles, strained at the bonds that pinioned him; but they had been re-enforced many times at the
instigation of the Russian, so that not even the ape-man's giant brawn could budge them.
She is always overdressed and never natural, but it seems to me that nearly everything she does is done to suit his whims, or at his
instigation."
On Mercedes'
instigation she executed an ambitious and wonderful breakfast cap for which the old woman returned her twelve dollars after deducting commission.
Assume, if you cannot believe, that Lucille's leaving me may have been at the
instigation of these people, and therefore involuntary.
The molasses, vinegar, and kerosene had lasted the family for five years, and the Perkins attic was still a treasure-house of ginghams, cottons, and "Yankee notions." So at Rebecca's
instigation Mrs.
Bassompierre and Schomberg were marshals of France, and claimed their right of commanding the army under the orders of the king; but the cardinal, who feared that Bassompierre, a Huguenot at heart, might press but feebly the English and Rochellais, his brothers in religion, supported the Duc d'Angouleme, whom the king, at his
instigation, had named lieutenant general.
