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Hastily she thrust the half sheet of charred paper into her corsage and brushed off the fragments of the burnt edges from her laces; then turned and affected to be tidying the writing table as Michael came in. Rossiter: "Linda! Surely not putting my papers in order or rather disorder? I thought you were far too intimate with my likes and dislikes to do that!... Why, what's the matter?"
We've got to leave her and the rest to do what they think they must do; and we must arm ourselves the best we can against them. Now did General French send for me and tell me this just for fun and just because he likes me?
But by the time his training is complete he has realized that whether he hates a thing or not, sees the point of a thing or not, is a matter of the uttermost unimportance. If he is wise, he keeps his likes and dislikes to himself. All through his training he is learning the unimportance of his individuality, realizing that in a national, a world crisis, it counts for nothing.
She likes to have you read while she rests, and we are going to be busy." Rose obeyed, and the quiet rooms above were so like a church that she soon composed her ruffled feelings, and was unconsciously a little minister of happiness to the sweet old lady, who for years had sat there patiently waiting to be set free from pain.
I've often wanted to ask you, but I was always a little afraid to. You seem so reserved and and, as if you didn't want to be asked about yourself." "I know it. I know I'm stiff and hateful, and that nobody likes me, and that it is all my own fault. No, never mind trying to smooth it over, Miss Channing. It's the truth, and it hurts me, but I can't help it.
Rather clumsy, that is to say, he is a man of polished manners, but I mean clumsy in a different sense. He is an intelligent fellow, very much so indeed, but he has his own range of ideas.... He is incredulous, sceptical, cynical... he likes to impose on people, or rather to make fun of them.
And I reckon that this 'ere's the hisland where Turnbull thinks 'e'll find 'is treasure." "No doubt," agreed Leslie. "Well, what do you want me to do?" "Well, sir, it ain't for the likes of me to say just exactly what you ought to do," answered Reynolds. "I thought that maybe if I spinned you the whole yarn you'd be able to think out some way of 'elpin' of us.
'He's ower guid to the likes o' me. And she lifted up her voice and wept. She had been informed of his coming, but she had not expected him till the evening; he was much altered, and old age is slow. He had hardly placed her in her chair, when Betty came in. If she had shown him respect before, it was reverence now.
"I can't believe it, I really can't why, the Radicals want to ruin the army, spend no money on the navy, make magistrates of Tom, Dick, and Harry, and top everything by letting Ireland do what it likes. They are a dangerous crew." "I am not a Home-Ruler, though every one must admit that our way of managing Ireland up to the present has not been fortunate."
Men then might not dress according to their likes and dislikes, they were obliged to dress according to their rank. Therefore it helped the Elizabethan onlooker to understand the play when he saw a king, a courtier, or a butcher come on to the stage dressed as he knew a king, a courtier, or a butcher dressed.
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