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He looked up kind of like he hoped some of us could mention somebody that could have a grudge against that harmless no-account, but of course it warn't no use he HAD us; we couldn't say a word. He noticed that, and he saddened down again, and I never see a face so miserable and so pitiful to see. Tom had a sudden idea, and says: "But hold on! somebody BURIED him. Now who " He shut off sudden.
Durville, too, held out his hand in sign that the past grudge was forgotten so far as he was concerned. Full of a new happiness, Dick trudged back to cadet barracks. Finding Greg Holmes in, Prescott imparted the wonderful news. Greg leaped up delightedly, pumphandling his chum's arm and patting him on the back. "Come out all right?" sputtered Holmes.
But what personal grudge hath Mesu against Egypt or the priesthood or Meneptah?" "It is said that he was wanted out of the way, and by an unfortunate sum of accidents, the miscarriage of a priest's letter and a fight between a messenger and Bedouins in front of a Hebrew tent, gave the information into the hands of Mesu himself." By this time Kenkenes was on his feet.
The jealousy and the quarrelsomeness of authors, actors, and singers, result from the fact that praise has become so much the motive of their life that they grudge the applause awarded to their fellows. The difference between praise and flattery is as wide as that between praise and blame. Praise is a legitimate tribute to worth and worthy doing. It is entirely unselfish in its motive.
Or, if thou canst not let him alone, yet do not speak against him; for thy so doing will but prove that thou rememberest the evil that the man has done unto thee; yea, and that thou bearest him a grudge for it too, and while you stand before God.
He declined doing battle, he said it would be better to yield than to argue, and leave a grudge for ever. 'It will not vex Edmund, he said, 'and though you and Sophy may be pained by incongruities, they will hurt you less than disputing. She felt that he was right, and by yielding the main points he contrived amicably to persuade Mr.
The measure was not passed, though Caesar, jealous of Cicero even more than of Pompey, lent himself to the attempt. But the blow fell on Cicero at last from a very different quarter, and from the mere private grudge of a determined and unprincipled man.
I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
They were each smiling in appreciation of the tableau; her father and Ted, MacWilliams and Kirkland, and all the others who had helped him. They seemed to envy, but not to grudge, the whole credit which the girl had given to him. Clay thought, "Why could it not have been the other?" But he said aloud, "Thank YOU. You have given me my reward."
A change of mind bestows on one for the time being a new Ego; therefore I did not grudge myself my delight in the once despised Rhone Valley. Nevertheless, I was glad that the Mule of Brig had been one with which I could conscientiously decline to associate. My resolve not to take a pack-mule there had become so fixed, that to have uprooted it would have seemed a confession of failure.
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