1
It required the most arbitrary laws; it rendered government odious; it bred discontent.
2
Like all similar places, it varies in size in the most arbitrary manner.
3
Geraldine refused to answer any questions, in a most arbitrary manner.
4
And of all men-of-war the general discipline of the American ships is the most arbitrary.
5
Excessive taxes were levied in the most arbitrary ways.
6
The most arbitrary restrictions were imposed on their trade.
7
We affect a tremendous and cultivated shyness and delicacy about imperatives of the most arbitrary appearance.
8
They are arranged in the most arbitrary way on the stones and are often crowded together in masses.
9
In civilised nations, the most arbitrary governments have generally suffered justice to have a free course in private suits.
10
The most arbitrary measures were resorted to by the officers of the prison, and carried out with perfect impunity.
11
These the Czar did not hesitate to alter and reform by proceedings of the most arbitrary and summary character.
12
Landing, without stopping to investigate the conduct of Columbus and his brothers, he instantly commenced the most arbitrary proceedings.
13
That is a conception difficult beyond all the difficulties of the most arbitrary and self-contradicting of orthodox patristic or scholastic speculations.
14
A court has no affections; but those of the people whom they govern, influence their decisions even in the most arbitrary governments.
15
He justified the most arbitrary and extravagant measures by the authority of visions from heaven, as others have done in similar circumstances.
16
Every Moslem commander considered the town or province committed to his charge an absolute property; and accordingly exercised the most arbitrary extortions.
