The long delay in announcing the assembly of the conference proved the extreme difficulty of arriving at any satisfactory basis of settlement; and though the efforts of the powers succeeded in salving the wounded pride of the Turks, and restraining the impetuosity of the Serbs and Montenegrins, warlike preparations on the part of Austria continued during the winter of 1908-1909, being justified by the agitation in Servia, Montenegro and the annexed provinces.   anvd [Please select]

Then into her own painful self-absorption had intruded her father's death, and the very hurt of this, perhaps, had been a salving one.   anvd [Please select]

Then it was considered that about all had been taken from the stranded and half sunken cruiser that was worth salving.   anvd [Please select]

Smearing or Salving Sheep Is a custom little practised in this country.   anvd [Please select]

The whole idea of animal surgery which the incident implies--such as mending broken legs with clay, salving wounds with pitch, or resorting to bandages or amputations--is preposterous.   anvd [Please select]

To the gentle pretenders themselves, we have but a few words to say at parting:-- "Out you impostors, Quack-salving cheating mountebanks--your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men, kill."   anvd [Please select]