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Not far off was a country town, a "Meriton," the central gossiping place of the neighbourhood, and the abode of the semi-genteel. If a gentleman like Mr. Woodhouse lives equivocally close to the town, his "place" is distinguished by a separate name. There was no resident squire at Steventon, the old manor-house being let to a tenant, so that Jane's father was at once parson and squire.
"It would have been well to have ascertained whether she we seek has not taken some less exceptionable course than this, before we hastily believe that your niece would so easily become the wife of a stranger." "Has Mr. Van Staats any hidden meaning in his words, that he speaks ambiguously?" demanded Ludlow. "A man, conscious of his good intentions, has little occasion to speak equivocally.
We did so, without encountering any adventure more thrilling than seeing an argument between a policeman and a late reveller. "I can't thank you fellows too much," complimented Carton as we left him. "I was hunting around for you, but I thought you had found a suffrage meeting too slow and had gone." "On the contrary," returned Kennedy, equivocally, "we found it far from slow."
"It is on this that I would consult you: a girl without rank; the father, it is true, a gentleman, though almost equivocally one, but the mother, I know not what. And Harley, for whom I hoped an alliance with the first houses in England!" The countess pressed her hands convulsively together. EGERTON. "He is no more a boy. His talents have been wasted, his life a wanderer's.
The revolution harpies of France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotic anarchy which generates equivocally "all monstrous, all prodigious things," cuckoo-like, adulterously lay their eggs, and brood over, and hatch them in the nest of every neighbouring state. The Assembly recommends to its youth a study of the bold experimenters in morality.
I know I couldn't." "Then what is the use? We are a good deal prettier than boys, and cleaner, and have nicer manners, and we must be satisfied." "You are prettier," said Amelia, with a look of worshipful admiration at Lily's sweet little face. "You are prettier," said Lily. Then she added, equivocally, "Even the very homeliest girl is prettier than a boy."
Tito did not say to himself so distinctly that if those two men had known the whole truth he was aware there would have been no alternative for him but to go in search of his benefactor, who, if alive, was the rightful owner of the gems, and whom he had always equivocally spoken of as "lost;" he did not say to himself what he was not ignorant of that Greeks of distinction had made sacrifices, taken voyages again and again, and sought help from crowned and mitred heads for the sake of freeing relatives from slavery to the Turks.
A few words well chosen, and distinguished, will do work that a thousand cannot, when every one is acting, equivocally, in the function of another. Yes; and words, if they are not watched, will do deadly work sometimes.
"They have rather misled me, for they seem to surround the whole common, and there is no path across it that I can see; however, if you will put me in the right road, I will not trouble you further." "It is very late," replied the churlish landlord, equivocally. "The better reason why I should be at . Come, my good friend, put on your hat, and I will give you half a guinea for your trouble."
When words are used equivocally I receive them in either sense; when they are metaphorical, I adopt them in their primitive acceptation.
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