United States or Algeria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But Phoebe will let them see what a pastor's family is out of their dirty little town. She will bring them to their senses. Though I hesitated at first when it was spoken of, I am very glad now." "Yes; Phoebe is a girl to find her level anywhere," said the pastor, complacently. And they forgot what she would have to put up with in their satisfaction and admiration for herself.
"He was in his bath and didn't want to admit me. However, I gained my end, I generally do," said Noel complacently, with one eye cocked at Olga's rigidly unresponsive face. "Who is Badgers?" asked Nick. "Why, the C.O. of course. I didn't find him in at all a Christmas spirit; but it was beginning to sprout before I left. I say, I hope you are providing lots of beef for our consumption, Nick.
As Mart watched the process of buttoning them, and remarked complacently that she shouldn't wonder if Dirk would buy her a pair some day, when he earned money enough, she kept her lip from curling with an incredulous sneer. You will remember that she had not the slightest faith in Dirk.
She is passionately in love with her husband; and, although people have complacently taken you for him, he is as handsome, as much of a 'grand seigneur, as interesting, as you are ugly, ridiculous, and insignificant, although of ancient race, Polyphème. "Eh? Zounds! what does it matter? In again beholding Blue Beard I shall not be happy, that is true, but I shall be content.
She, of course, could trust HIM anywhere, everywhere. Mrs. Falchion had seen the change in me, and, I am sure, guessed the new direction of my thoughts, and knew that I wished to take refuge in a new companionship a thing, indeed, not easily to be achieved, as I felt now; for no girl of delicate and proud temper would complacently regard a hasty transference of attention from another to herself.
If he was going to have a medicine man or a priest at all to marry him to the girl of his choice a barbaric survival, at the best, he thought it he would, at any rate, prefer having his friend Arthur a good man and true to having the fat, easy-going, purse-proud rector of the parish; the younger son of a wealthy family who had gone into the Church for the sake of the living, and who rolled sumptuously down the long hilly High Street every day in his comfortable carriage, leaning back with his fat hands folded complacently over his ample knees, and gazing abstractedly, with his little pigs'-eyes half buried in his cheek, at the beautiful prospect afforded him by the broad livery-covered backs of his coachman and his footman.
I could add much to the conclusion of one of my last letters. Surely this incessant solicitude for mere existence debilitates the mind, and impairs even its passive faculty of suffering. We intrigue for the favour of the keeper, smile complacently at the gross pleasantries of a Jacobin, and tremble at the frown of a Dumont.
Bribe him to the point where he cannot refuse to speak. Wong Li Fu is the only man I fear. Put him where he can accomplish no mischief, and the rest of his crew will be powerless!" "When you come to count up the achievements of my friend Winter and myself in the face of stupid but none the less disheartening obstacles we have not done so badly in two days," said Furneaux complacently.
One Sunday they kept looking up at the children in the gallery. "I'll bet Mildred will be the handsomest woman," Mr. O'Halloran was saying. "I'll back Beth," Captain Keene observed. "If all the men in the place are not after her soon, I'm no judge of her sex, eh?" "Oh, don't look at me!" said Captain Caldwell complacently. "I can't pretend to say.
There was nothing for it but to surrender at discretion; but when I had done this, I was granted all the honors of war. Mrs. McIntyre received me with an old-fashioned maternal blessing, and all was as happy as possible. "And now," said Mary, "I suppose, sir, you will claim a right to know all about me." "Something of the sort," I said complacently.
Word Of The Day