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He thought the Spanish alliance would be very useful to him, for all these naked savages cherish an inveterate hatred of each other and are consumed with ambition. Vasco Nuñez flattered himself that he had learned many secrets concerning the wealth of the country from Tumaco, but declared that he would, for the moment, keep them exclusively to himself, for they were the cacique's gift to him.
I had come prejudiced against them, believing them to be all the English Press and my English friends had painted them semi-barbarous, uncouth, money-loving, and treacherous in warfare. I found them simple to the limit of their own disadvantage, magnanimous to their enemies, independent and kindly." The trait that we admire and cherish most in the Boer character is their hospitality.
A great many are going to see him off, even Sytin, and I am sorry that I cannot do the same. I don't cherish tender sentiments for Tchertkov, but the way he has been treated fills me with intense, intense indignation.... MOSCOW, April 1, 1897. The doctors have diagnosed tuberculosis in the upper part of the lungs, and have ordered me to change my manner of life.
I will not burden you with further deductions, so repugnant to the dictates of reason; but I will cherish a hope, that you will see sufficient reason for rescinding the arguments which lead to them.
To speculate upon my title and my rank in order to make a wealthy marriage? To quit my nomad's tent for a fixed residence other than that where the Prerolles have succeeded one another from generation to generation? Never! Of all our ancient prejudices, that is the only one I cherish. Besides, I am free at present to serve my country under any form of government which it may please her to adopt.
To wear a contented look when you know that, perhaps, the effort will not be observed, certainly not appreciated, to take submissively the humblest part in the conversation, and still bear cheerfully that part, to bear with patience every hasty word that may be spoken, and so to forget it that your future conduct may be uninfluenced by it, to remove every difficulty, the removal of which is within your reach, without expecting that the part you have taken will be acknowledged or even observed, to be always ready with your sympathy, encouragement, and counsel, however scornfully they may have before been rejected; these are all acts of self-renunciation which are peculiarly fitted to a woman's sphere of duty, and have a direct tendency to cherish the difficult and excellent grace of humility; they may, however, help to foster rather than to subdue a spirit of discontent, if they are performed from a motive of obtaining any, even the most exalted, human approbation.
Everything that he writes, whether in drama, in lyrics, or in prose criticism, is eminently rational. There is one creed, and only one, That glorifies God's excellence; So cherish, that His will be done, The common creed of common sense. It is the crimson, not the grey, That charms the twilight of all time; It is the promise of the day That makes the starry sky sublime.
The new-fledged little saint soon became conscious that for some reason she was very jealous and very envious, emotions which she seldom had even imaginary cause to cherish towards any of her sex. Nor were Mrs.
He let it be thought that the motive of the slaver in seizing him was merely to get a likely lad for sale on a West India plantation. But his anger against Van Zoon grew. He was not one to cherish wrath, but on this point it was concentrated, and he intended to have a settlement. It was not meant that he should be lost, it was not meant that Adrian Van Zoon should triumph.
Besides writing to her lover, Mavis had given Mrs Scatchard the address to which she was going, and had besought her, in the event of anything untoward happening, either to take Jill for her own or to find her a good home. Mrs Scatchard's promise to keep and cherish Jill herself, should anything happen to her mistress, cheered Mavis much.
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