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"Yes, straight no joints, no pockets where oil, moisture, and gases can collect." "Straight as lines, Kennedy," he said with a sort of contemptuous defiance. They were facing each other coldly, sizing each other up. Like a skilful lawyer, Kennedy dropped that point for a moment, to take up a new line of attack.
It was only because the dominant party saw the extreme inconvenience of the system, now that it was turned against itself, that individuals contemptuous of law and ignorant of history denounced it as a novelty. But the strong and beneficent principle that lay at the bottom of the Advocate's conduct was his unflagging resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military in time of peace.
"I can't call the general to account for his behaviour, but you are going to answer me for yours." "I can't listen to this nonsense," murmured Lieut. D'Hubert, making a slightly contemptuous grimace. "You call this nonsense? It seems to me a perfectly plain statement. Unless you don't understand French." "What on earth do you mean?" "I mean," screamed suddenly Lieut.
But the intolerable sense of having become an object of derision, or contemptuous pity, of being disgraced and of her being degraded, through the appearance on the stage of a public theater, of a woman who was his wife; and through her exhibition, for pay, of charms he had always supposed would be kept for him, couldn't derive from anything else but just that.
"Year after year, when you come back from this dinner, you invariably say you will not go to another." "I know it, Mary. I dislike the drinking that goes on and the free conversation and the objectionable songs; I feel out of place in it all." "And the Captain's contemptuous treatment of yourself, you might add." "Yes, that is another unwelcome item in the evening's programme."
Then to the driver, 'Wagstaff's Barton Street. The driver bowed his head, and put down the flag. Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul. Yet she was frozen with overwrought feelings. Gerald followed her. 'You've forgotten the man, she said cooly, with a slight nod of her hat. Gerald gave the porter a shilling.
His life, unlike Shelley's, was devoted entirely to art, and was uneventful, its only incidents an unhappy love-affair, and the growth, hastened by disappointed passion and the 'Quarterly Review's' contemptuous attack on his work, of the consumption which killed him at the age of twenty-six. He was sent to Italy as a last chance.
Ryder; he had been assiduous in his inquiries and offers of service ever since the attack at Michaelmas; and it was evident that he really venerated the Curate, while he was a severe and contemptuous judge of the Rector. But when, after a brilliant examination, he became aware that he was to lose both the elder Underwoods at once, his mortification was great, he came to call, and Mr.
And yet, for all the passion that raged in my soul, I preserved upon my countenance a smiling mask. That smile exhausted her patience and increased her loathing, for with a contemptuous exclamation she turned away. "Tarry but a moment, Mademoiselle," I cried, with a sudden note of command.
The man of business appeared considerably disconcerted by the contemptuous interruption of his visitor; yet he strove to conceal his mortification by a sorry smile, as he replied, "I see, sir, that you have taken a firm stand and will do as you please. Grinselhof was bought in by the mortgagees, for the price offered was below its value." "Who lives there?" "It is uninhabited.
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