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Padre Millon not only used the depreciative tu with the students, like a good friar, but he also addressed them in the slang of the markets, a practise that he had acquired from the professor of canonical law: whether that reverend gentleman wished to humble the students or the sacred decrees of the councils is a question not yet settled, in spite of the great attention that has been given to it.
"You're different from Ned Ferry," he said. "Has he a taste for fiction?" I asked, with a depreciative smirk. "Yes, a beautiful story is a thing Ned Ferry loves with a positive passion." "I suppose we might call him a romanticist," said I, "might we not?" The patient gentleman smiled again as he said, "Oh Gholson can attend to that."
In both ways, we may see more clearly how prevalent ideas and doctrines have arisen as "reflections upon" the life of action, and even account for their qualities and their defects their partial truth or their corresponding inadequacy, according to our own appreciative or depreciative standpoint.
Lanyard," she demanded almost sharply "what was the full wording of that message?" "If you must know " "I must!" He lifted a depreciative shoulder. "If you like, I'll read it to you or, rather, translate it from the thieves' argot Popinot complimented me by using." "Not necessary," she said tersely. "I'll take your word for it.... But you must tell me the truth."
With such perplexities I am not concerned. I merely wish to point out a perfectly legitimate and even important signification of the terms high and low, quite apart from their popular employment as laudatory or depreciative epithets. It surely is not amiss to call the legibility of a book a higher good than its shape, size, or weight, though in each of these some quality of the book is expressed.
They were about as numerous as the books he wrote, and they were of an irritating character which would have wearied out a man less bold and enduring. Of this sort of defence and offence he had had a foretaste during his European residence, when he was often called on to defend his native country from an ignorant and depreciative criticism, which was sixty years ago far more common than now.
At the commencement of this harangue she met her brother-in-law's rather depreciative scrutiny with her bold little stare in his present mood Ormiston found her vivacity tedious, though he was usually willing enough to laugh at her extravagancies then she whipped Julius in with a side glance, and concluded with her round eyes set on Dr. Knott's rough-hewn and weather-beaten countenance.
That's my life, and that's all you or any one else can make out of it." In all this he was neither proud nor depreciative of his people. He was simply modest. Nor did he ever outgrow his sympathy with the common people. The year 1809 was fruitful in the birth of great men in the Anglo-Saxon race.
How very extraordinary! I have always found all our celebrities so exceedingly pleased to be given a little additional notoriety! ... and I should have thought a POET," this with much depreciative emphasis "would have been particularly glad of the chance! Because, of course you know that unless a very astonishing success is made, as in the case of Mr.
During the journey he related with an indifferent air his hunting exploits in this or that forest of the Peninsula, adopting a tone somewhat depreciative, as suited the case, toward hunting in Filipinas.