...Japanese and United States officers: the former endeavour to frame articles in such a manner as " to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope," the phrases following each other, so that each restricts its predecessor until the residue becomes...

...in which I will confide, and in future not suffer appearances to alarm me. A mother would not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Mrs. Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an attempt to blow her nose, and succeeded...

...Really, that is one of the tricks of the trade. You know sibyls have always been thus oracular, to ' keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope.' "There is nothing really to understand in 'Science and Health' except that God is all, and yet...

...he was assailed by persuasions from the legate and most of his officers and advisers — " To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the sense." They urged upon him that, in dealing with an enemy who had again and again set good faith at defiance,...

...fiddles to the women as usual." ' l It was as well known to the Stuarts as to the Tudors how to make the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. However England might boast of its struggles for free discussion and control of affairs by Parliament,...

...fiddles to the women as usual." ' l It was as well known to the Stuarts as to the Tudors how to make the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope. However England might boast of its struggles for free discussion and control of affairs by Parliament,...

...victimize; abuse; mystify; Mind -one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes, " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope " [Macbeth]. impose -, practice -, play -, put -, palm -, foist- upon ; snatch a verdict ; bluff,...

...justified only on the principle that the worst puns are the best.1 But such instances of puns which "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense" are indeed rare. The word play usually serves to enforce the sense. How much it adds to the sharpness...

...their degradation, than that they should be deluded by an empty, formal equality which would "Keep the word of promise to the ear And break it to the hope.' "" The men who applied the Declaration of Independence to the negroes were merely declaiming,...

...advantage may thereby be derived, to Indiana Rolling-Mill Co. r. Livezey — 47 Ind. App. 390. keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." So in the case at bar, when appellant received the answer of appellee as to order No. 6,504,...