...nominally successful he has emerged from the contest empty-handed. It would be but another illustration of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. In any possible outcome of the case he would have his own costs to pay, if the plaintiff is insolvent....

...but we must not be too sanguine. The War Office has in past years shown a perfect mastery of the art of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the heart. The success of the scheme will depend on the spirit in which it is carried out by the military...

...colony the sums expended by it for the common defense in the French-Indian wars. This was not only keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope, but it was also a fine sarcasm on Howard's argument for the Stamp Act, ie, that Great Britain was bearing...

...all of his property to another, leaving nothing whatever upon which the will could operate, would be 'keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope.' Such a mode of performing an agreement certainly cannot be recognized by a court of equity. Besides...

...qualification to the other party — the hunting-party, who often has occasion to quote Macbeth as to keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope, as his path is, metaphorically, strewn with fragments of " desirable residences," " commanding positions,"...

...been granted to the shipper, he could not have so stated truthfully. In short, every conceivable way of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope was indulged in. At least we shippers over the Pennsylvania road heard from its officials from time...

...refused to participate in the conspiracy of his colleagues in their attempt to deceive the people by "keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." He insisted on a few positive unequivocal reforms that were mild and modest enough — reforms that...

...with them in a double sense"? Are you willing that the great republic shall cheat these poor negroes, "keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope"? Then, how shall we secure to them a complete and perfect freedom? The constitution of every slave state...

...adjectives, but in the classification he uses them as nouns. This manner of using the words is much like "keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope." The transition from the adjective use of the words to their use as nouns is so bold and sudden that...

...wholly unfit for selfgovernment — all of which, in effect, meant that Governor Taft had been merely "Keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. " The Wright plain talk made the Filipinos one and all feel: "Alackaday! Our true friend has departed....