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They vanished over the crest of the hill, and Mora alone in this wild solitude realised that many hours might elapse ere the Hermit returned. This check to the fulfilment of her purpose, instead of disappointing her, flooded her heart with a sudden sense of relief. The interior of the Hermit's cell had recalled, so vividly, the austerities of the cloistered life.
Of this kind, is the sudden retirement of Gustavus Adolphus from the scene; stopping for a time the whole movement of the political machine, and disappointing all the calculations of human prudence.
Don't you remember that bat we caught that time? Its wings didn't have feathers at all. It was covered with fur." "Oh, well," sighed Laddie. "Then my riddle isn't any good." "Not much, I am afraid," said Russ kindly but firmly. However, Laddie and the other little Bunkers did not have many disappointing things happen to them on this lovely Christmas Day. Mr. and Mrs.
It was rather hard and sorely disappointing, and for many days Miss McDonald's face was very white and sad, and both the old and young whom she visited as usual wondered what had come over the beautiful lady to make her "so pale and sorry." There were no more letters from Mrs. Guy Thornton until the next Christmas time, when another box went to little Daisy, and was acknowledged as before.
At any rate her fiancé has just broken off the engagement, and that's why she is going away for a little while very naturally to some relations in the west-country, I think." So she had been engaged only for nine weeks, indeed but still, it was a little disappointing.
In this confidence, therefore, he sought his master with great diligence, not with a view of disappointing his intention, but in order to attend him to the battle, that he might stand by him, and see justice done.
"Education is the sum of the reflective efforts by which we aid nature in the development of the physical, intellectual, and moral faculties of man in view of his perfection, his happiness, and his social destination." Compayre. These attempts to bring the task of education into a comprehensive, scientific formula are interesting and yet disappointing.
"The Prophet" was long and carefully elaborated by its composer. Thirteen years intervened between it and its predecessor, "The Huguenots;" but in spite of its elaboration it can only be said to excel the latter in pageantry and spectacular effect, while its musical text is more declamatory than melodious, as compared with "The Huguenots." In this sense it was disappointing when first produced.
They looked upon him, as painters often do writers, with contempt because he was a layman, with tolerance because he practised an art, and with awe because he used a medium in which themselves felt ill-at-ease. "He's an extraordinary fellow. You'll find him a bit disappointing at first, he only comes out at his best when he's drunk."
It is not true that in Spinoza's God there is so little that is positive that it is not worth preserving. All Nature is in Him, and if the objector is sincere he will confess that it is not the lack of contents in the idea which is disappointing, but a lack of contents particularly interesting to himself.
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