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It would be interesting to know the origin of this proverb, because it is still much relied on as evincing a deep knowledge of human nature, and as an argument against change, that is to say, in this case, against progress. It would seem to have been made by a man, conservative, perhaps malevolent, who had no appreciation of a hen, and a conservatively poor opinion of woman.
He had been openly displeased to find her trespassing on his estate which was only what current report would have led her to expect yet now he was evincing a desire for her company, and, in addition, a very determined intention to secure it. The man was an enigma! "I'm surprised," she said lightly. "I gathered from a recent remark of yours that you didn't think too highly of women."
"It was not Mary alone I alluded to," said Roughgrove; "but to lose two children all that we had so cruelly Oh! may we all meet in heaven!" "Then you had two children, and lost them both? I never heard the other mentioned," said Glenn, now evincing a most lively interest in the subject. "No it was my request that it should never be mentioned.
Steadily refusing to muddle the harmony by taking any share in it, and evincing the supremest contempt for scales and such-like rudiments of music which, indeed, seldom captivate mere listeners Joey did at first give up the whole business for a bad job, and the whole of the performers for a set of howling Dervishes.
But the chief point on which he lays stress as evincing the 'uncritical way with which men receive legends, even the legends of their own country, is the entire baselessness of the common Athenian tradition in which Harmodios and Aristogeiton were represented as the patriotic liberators of Athens from the Peisistratid tyranny.
Of medium size, or rather above it, his figure though robust is well proportioned, with strong sinewy arms and limbs lithe as a panther's, while his countenance, notwithstanding the somewhat embrowned skin, has a pleasant, honest expression, evincing good nature as a habitually amiable temper, at the same time that his features show firmness and decision.
It is not, however, in my humble judgment, by evincing an anxious desire to stretch to the utmost constitutional principles in his favour, but, on the contrary, by the frank acceptance of the conditions of the parliamentary system, that this influence can be most surely extended and confirmed.
Her eyes were brilliant, her cheeks by nature redder than the rouge she had used upon them. She squared her shoulders, lifted her head, as if she irrevocably had made a decision and would not be thwarted in acting upon it. While she waited she straightened her hat, and tucked up her pretty hair, once more evincing concern about her appearance. After a nervous wait she secured her party.
If your object is to secure the best specimens for a museum, it may be allowable, and even deserving of commendation, as evincing a desire to kill only those really wanted; but if, as has been practiced by some Griquas and others who came into the country after Mr.
The Indians prepared our encampment, cooked for us, and fed us as if we had been children, evincing humanity that would have done honour to the most civilised people. The night was mild and fatigue made us sleep soundly.
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