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There was a semi-poetic vagabondism in the half-indifferent, half-contemptuous expression of his face, with its fierce moustache, and strongly-marked eyebrows overshadowing sleepy gray eyes eyes that were half hidden, by their long dark lashes; as still pools of blue water lie sometimes hidden among the rushes that nourish round them.
If Christian men will do their work in the dawdling, half-interested, and half-indifferent way in which so many of us promenade through our Christian service as if it was a review and not a fight, they are not likely to bring back many trophies of victory. You must put your whole selves into the battle. I said we must subdue ourselves ere we begin to fight.
"Would you mind telling me some of the considerations?" And the moment Sadie began to talk honestly, the doctor's tones lost their half-indifferent coolness, and expressed a kind and thoughtful interest. "No," she said, hesitatingly.
"Have you ever heard her?" "More than once. And I never heard any thing like it." "Could you take me with you some time?" he asked, in an assumed tone of ordinary interest, out of which, however, he could not keep a slight tremble. "I don't know. I don't quite see why I shouldn't. And yet" "Men do go," urged Roger, as if it were a mere half-indifferent suggestion.
"I don't know," I said; "I'm sure that this is somehow beautiful. Can't one feel that nature is half-tender, half-indifferent to our broken designs?" "Perhaps," said Father Payne, "but I don't like being reminded of death and waste I don't want to think that they can end by being charming the vanity of human wishes is more sad than picturesque. I think Dr.
The Prince grasped Don Juan's hand affectionately, then when all faces had simultaneously put on the same grimace half-gloomy, half-indifferent the whole masque disappeared, and left the chamber of death empty. It was like an allegory of life. As they went down the staircase, the Prince spoke to Rivabarella: "Now, who would have taken Don Juan's impiety for a boast? He loves his father."
"Well, my dear, a man has to be as old as that to be able to offer a woman an acceptable position. It's not at all bad to be the wife of a banker." At this moment the music began, and the men came forward to ask my little neighbors to dance. They accepted languidly, with a half-indifferent air.
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