In that, there seemed a faint expression of curiosity or perplexity as though he were trying to reconcile some doubts in his mind.

Friends tried to reconcile them, but had their labor for their pains.

Perhaps he can not reconcile himself to the French style of living, and might prefer something else.''

``How can you reconcile that with his conduct this morning?''

I can not reconcile myself to this idea it would madden me.

It is consolatory to me that others find Professor Owen's controversial writings as difficult to understand and to reconcile with each other, as I do.

It may well be asked how it is possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection?

To reconcile the indifference and contingency of human actions with prescience; or to defend absolute decrees, and yet free the Deity from being the author of sin, has been found hitherto to exceed all the power of philosophy.

How can you reconcile it to your conscience, I wonder, to prejudice my own boy against me, or against anybody who is dear to me?

I thought, more than once, that it was well no serious cause of division had ever come between them; or two such natures--I ought rather to express it, two such shades of the same nature--might have been harder to reconcile than the two extremest opposites in creation.

'He is an excellent man, most exemplary in every way; and he pointed out to her that she ought, as a Christian, to reconcile herself to the sacrifice (especially as it was so uncertain), and to bear no uncharitable feeling towards me.

I had been unhappy in trying it; I could not endure my own solitary wisdom; I could not reconcile it with her former appeal to me as my child-wife.

Again: because it is a general complaint, that the favourites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories; the same doctor proposed, “that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused.” He likewise directed, “that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.” When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them.