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Such was the life of the peasants; at the other pole was the life of the courts: intrigue and cunning, and what always goes with cunning ineptitude; a good measure of debauchery; some finicking unimportant refinement; each man for self and party, and none for Gods and Men. We have to do, not with the bright colors of the childhood of a race, but with the grayness of its extreme old age.
I had been sent down to be personal and then in point of fact hadn't been personal at all: what I had dispatched to London was just a little finicking feverish study of my author's talent. Anything less relevant to Mr. For myself, I knew but too well what had happened, and how a miracle as pretty as some old miracle of legend had been wrought on the spot to save me.
Reuben, listening, heard the sound of the jarring chain, and the door was opened. He peeped through the interstices of the hedge, and saw Miss Blythe smiling in the light of the candle she carried in her left hand. "Dear niece," said Rachel, with an unusually fine and finicking accent. "Enter, you are welcome."
Why, in particular, do you" here she indicated De Griers "come sneaking here with your goat's beard? And what do YOU" here she turned to Mlle. Blanche "want of me? What are YOU finicking for?" "Diantre!" muttered Mlle. under her breath, but her eyes were flashing. Then all at once she burst into a laugh and left the room crying to the General as she did so: "Elle vivra cent ans!"
When he went to a patient he always took this book with him. He played billiards in the evening at the club: he did not like cards. He was very fond of using in conversation such expressions as "endless bobbery," "canting soft soap," "shut up with your finicking. . ." He visited the hospital twice a week, made the round of the wards, and saw out-patients.
At the commencement of the new year the Duke and Duchess of Shrewsbury arrived in Paris. The Duchess was a great fat masculine creature, more than past the meridian, who had been beautiful and who affected to be so still; bare bosomed; her hair behind her ears; covered with rouge and patches, and full of finicking ways.
So, if perchance thou mayst direct me " "Ha! Will Gamwell!" cried Robin, placing both hands upon the other's shoulders and holding him off at arm's length. "Surely, it can be none other! I might have known thee by that pretty maiden air of thine that dainty, finicking manner of gait. Dost thou not know me, lad? Look upon me well."
Lillyston's voice, too, began to be loudly heard, and several dons among the crowd exerted themselves to restore order out of the hubbub. There is nothing like a touch of manliness. A feeble, and fussy, and finicking little proctor, who happened to be on the bank, was pompously endeavouring to assert his dignity, and make himself attended to.
The master, Mr Smith, was a very quiet man, plain and unoffending, but perfectly master of, and always attentive to, his duty. The marine officer, Mr Tusk, was a nonentity put into a red jacket. The surgeon was a tall, and very finicking sort of gentleman as to dress; but well informed, friendly in disposition, and perfectly acquainted with his profession.
He gazed innocently at Meyer. "Ah, you think so too! It cannot be unknown to you that my workers have left me one after another not to say that they were taken away from me. Even to please you I can't call those orderly conditions." Pelle sat there getting angrier and angrier at his finicking tone.
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