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And the savages love them for their kind generousness, and give them pearls, and shells, and ivory, and cassowaries. And that's the way 'Wait a sec, said Anthea, splashing. 'I can't hear what you're saying. Shells and 'Shells, and things like that. The great thing is to get people to love you by being generous. And that's what we've got to do.
He loved his friend indeed with unbounded warmth, and it was impossible to surpass him in generousness and liberality. But he had a proud integrity, that whispered him, with, a language not to be controled, that he was the inferior of no man. He was destined for the profession of a divine, and, having finished his studies, retired upon a curacy of forty pounds a year.
The sweet generousness of his work caused a few selfish folk to sneer, but even these were forced to admit their respect for a man so gentle-natured that he loved to devote his life to pleasing the helpless little ones of his race.
We are not to question the sincerity and generousness of this movement, however it may have halted and lost enthusiasm in many localities. It cannot be doubted that at the close of the war there was a general desire among the freedmen to be instructed in the rudiments of knowledge at least.
And the fervent and devout believer, besotted with terror and intoxication, furiously smote his chest as, filled with frightful anxiety, he awaited the arrival of the clerk. Such was the humanity, generousness, enlightenment of the race of the conquerors of old Gaul! What a tender attachment to their wives!
Skiff Miller shook his head, no longer belligerent, but kindly, quick to be generous in response to generousness. "I had five dogs," he said, casting about for the easiest way to temper his refusal. "He was the leader. They was the crack team of Alaska. Nothin' could touch 'em. In 1898 I refused five thousand dollars for the bunch.
Johnson says men grow better as they grow older, and improve with experience; but this depends upon the width and depth and generousness of their nature. It is not men's faults that ruin them so much as the manner in which they conduct themselves after the faults have been committed.
What wonder that he was a happy man, he who had hoped for so little and had found so much, since she did not think as a slighter woman might that her youth and beauty paid for and outweighed his richest gifts, but was heavenly kind and dutiful and tender, giving him of her brightest humours and prettiest playfulness and gentlest womanly thought, and receiving his offerings, not as her mere right, but as signals of his generousness and tender love for her.
They might make a song about us, and sing it on winter nights as they pass round the wassail bowl in front of the cabin fire. Noel wanted to very much; but I don't think it was altogether for generousness, but because he wanted to see how the sluices opened. Yet perhaps I do but wrong the boy.
Vincent, fascinated, studied his inscrutable countenance. To begin with, it was a massive head, abnormal and top-heavy, and its only excuse for being was the huge bull-throat which supported it. It had been cast in a mould of elemental generousness, and everything about it partook of the asymmetrical crudeness of the elemental.
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