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...Parnell's policy of obstruction alone entitles him to Ireland's gratitude: by it. - (a) He played off the two English parties against each other to Ireland's advantage; N. A. Review, vol. 144, p. 609; Public Opinion, Oct. 24, '91. - (b) He wrung favorable legislation from an unwilling Parliament and a people; Nation, vol. 51, p. 497. - (c) He made the Irish question the chief question in English politics; Nation, Oct. 15, '91. - (d) He converted the Liberal party to the Irish cause; Handbook of Home Rule, p. 52; McCarthy's Ireland's Cause...
...seen at the Loan Exhibition in Washington." I suppose I told this story with unwonted fervor, for, as I bent tenderly toward her (Lardy was looking), she burst into a flood of tears, and handed me the dripping pocket-hand-kerchief. This I surreptitiously wrung in a corner, and bestowed in my coat-pocket. Before I left that evening she had appointed the day for our marriage, and I had made an eternal enemy of Lardy. As we marmaladed out to Cambridge that evening, he wouldn't say a word to me. His eye, usually so chipper, wore a dark...
Whose necks should all be gently wrung...
...silence cold my heart hath wrung...
With jealous care my love's heart wrung...