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The neighbourhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlour floor and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.
It's detestable owing money to a man!" with suppressed irritation. Two fine lines drew themselves between Sara's level brows. This was worse than she had imagined. "Who is it?" she asked, at last, quietly. "Lester Kent." "And who or what is Lester Kent?" "He's he's an artist by choice. I mean," stumbled Molly, "that he's quite well off he only paints for pleasure.
You've made a bad start, that's all. The first thing is for us to write to Mrs. Bellew, and ask her to come and see us. We shall have to get Bellew watched." Gregory said: "That's detestable. Can't it be done without that?" Mr. Paramor bit his forefinger. "Not safe," he said. "But don't bother; we'll see to all that." Gregory rose and went to the window.
The full- throated emphasis she put upon "detestable" gave the word the sting of a flagellation; it rang with a rightful indignation that brought vividly to my mind the thought of those three years in Mrs. Harman's life which Elizabeth said "hurt one to think of." For this was the lady who had rejected good George Ward to run away with a man much deeper in all that was detestable than Mr.
The Emperor, said Luther, censured understandingly and discreetly, and carried himself princely in this cause of religion; he found our Confession to be far otherwise than the Papists had informed him- namely, that we were most ungodly people, and led most wicked and detestable kind of lives; and that we taught against the first and second tables of the Ten Commandments of God.
There may be neither of us knows enough to deny negroes who are handsome, capable, courageous." "Ugh!" said the botanist. "How detestable you must find Othello!" It is my Utopia, and for a moment I could almost find it in my heart to spite the botanist by creating a modern Desdemona and her lover sooty black to the lips, there before our eyes.
The abbe, become a member of the Committee of Public Safety, denounced Mad. de Fleury, in the strange jargon of the day, as "the fosterer of a swarm of bad citizens, who were nourished in the anticivic prejudices de l'ancien regime, and fostered in the most detestable superstitions, in defiance of the law."
This was the last feast which ever Timon made, and in it he took farewell of Athens and the society of men; for, after that, he betook himself to the woods, turning his back upon the hated city and upon all mankind, wishing the walls of that detestable city might sink, and the houses fall upon their owners, wishing all plagues which infest humanity, war, outrage, poverty, diseases, might fasten upon its inhabitants, praying the just gods to confound all Athenians, both young and old, high and low; so wishing, he went to the woods, where he said he should find the unkindest beast much kinder than mankind.
'An excellent gehenna, says he. He eulogizes equally the torture by fire, which he characterizes as 'an exquisite death. But he wishes only to turn the magicians away from their detestable practises and save their souls. Then Del Rio declares that 'the question' must not be applied to demoniacs after they have eaten, for fear they will vomit. He worried about their stomachs, this worthy man.
Really, you know, Billie, it is such a fine thing being in love that one is sure to be detestable to the rest of the world, and that is the reason they created a proverb to the other effect. You want to look out." "You talk like a blasted old granny!" said Hawker. "Haven't changed at all. This place is all right, only " "You are gone," interrupted Hollanden in a sad voice.
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