...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,"...

...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 to...

...implies the right to live and to labor for a living. It is difficult to conceive a grosser case of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope than to invite Chinese to become permanent residents of this country upon a direct pledge that they...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...deception. - He knew that the object of the lessor was to secure diligent search for oil, and he was "keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope" ; skillfully turning it into a mere speculative lease, binding the lessor and leaving himself free....

...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....

...pointed insistence on one of the most cynical of our Byzantinisms, which have the characteristic of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. And yet it does not follow that the utterance was cynical in intention, as too many of our judicial...

...pointed insistence on one of the most cynical of our Byzantinisms, which have the characteristic of keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope. And yet it does not follow that the utterance was cynical in intention, as too many of our judicial...