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Their grandeur was strictly local. Thus a Marquis or a Count in Lima or elsewhere in the Southern Continent would have been crassly unwise to leave the shores of South America, for once in Spain his title fell from him like a withered leaf; he became plain "Señor" and nothing beyond, for in Spain these colonial distinctions were a matter for jeers and mockery.
Other obvious fruits of the movement were the revival of the poetry and dignity of the Middle Ages, both in art and life that colorful, form-loving musical era which the Age of Enlightenment had so crassly despised.
His luminous eyes returned once more to the woman, and there was no mistaking his admiration. He seemed enchanted by her pale beauty, her rich, red hair held him fascinated, and with Latin boldness he made his feelings crassly manifest. "You probably know why I wished to see you," Alaire began. Longorio shook his head in vague denial. "It is regarding my ranch, La Feria."
We want you first to hint and then to speak openly of the purchase of Le Jour by means of German gold. We want you to combat the popular opinion here that our army is a wooden box affair, and that we as a nation are too crassly selfish to risk our fleet for the benefit of France. We want you to strike a great note and tell the truth.
It was true that in old days he and Cliffe had been on those terms. Now it was a piece of bad taste. "Probably what is reason to you is folly to him," she said, dryly. "No, no! he knows," said Cliffe, with impatience. "The others don't. Parham is more impossible more crassly, grossly ignorant!" He lifted hands and eyes in protest. "But Ashe, of course, is another matter altogether."
All the same, after the promising beginning, I was enormously disappointed, and if only it had been lighter, doubtless my chagrin would have showed on my face. I did not then understand that in all the unending and necessarily eternal game of chess, which men and women play one against the other, there is no better opening than this. But I was still crassly ignorant, intensely disappointed.
'Crassly ignorant and inconceivably stubborn, repeated S. Cohn, pausing impressively. 'Haven't I always said that? The boy only bears out what I knew without going there. But hear further!
Probably never before in the history of the United States has a portion of the citizens been so openly and crassly discriminated against by action of the general government. It was disheartening, and on top of it came the celebrated "German plots."
There is possible many a highly imaginative fairy-tale on this basis if we revert to the sound principles of the story of the old lady and the pig. Moving Day is at present too crassly material. It has not the touch of the creative imagination. We are overwhelmed with a whole van of furniture.
"Yes, he has. He said so. He's got papers, and all," sobbed Amy. "Ahem! the young lady puts it very crassly indeed," said the curly-haired man. "You, I presume, are Mrs. Josephine Carringford," he went on, reading from a paper. "Yes." "I am serving you in the suit of Mrs.
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