United States or Bahrain ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
We wagered optimistically on every favourable fan of air that lasted over five minutes; but it never did any good. The fans faded out just the same. But there were exceptions. In the variables, if you wait long enough, something is bound to happen, and we were so plentifully stocked with food and water that we could afford to wait.
Those persons who write and talk, not from any material, but from political interests, from political devotion and sympathy, are, from the nature of the case, above suspicion of reporting, for their own personal reasons, more optimistically than is justified. But they are apt to be deceived.
We were all of us silent during the rest of the journey. And how is one to give any true picture of the confusion into which we flung ourselves at O ? O had been the town at which, a little more than a month ago, we had arrived so eagerly, so optimistically. It had been to us then the quietest retreat in the world irritating, provoking by reason of its peace.
"I wish I could have belonged to something like that in the city where I worked," she said with a sigh, "maybe I wouldn't have been so lonesome all the time. And I would have had a Guardian is that what you call her? to go to when I got into trouble." "Maybe you'll get into a group yet," said Hinpoha, optimistically. "There are some in the city where you live."
For instance, there were rings in the floor that Crothers eyed with keen curiosity. They were anchored in the solid blocks of stone. "It's better than it might be, mate!" he argued optimistically. "They might 'ave gone and chained us up to those!" Arabia has some peculiarities, not all of them discreditable, which she does not share with any other country.
We may conceive of the world optimistically as a place in which all shall issue in good and nothing be lost; or as a place in which, by alliance with or revolt from the forces of life, the will in its voluntary and individual action may save or lose the soul at its choice. We may think of God as conserving all, or as permitting hell, which is death. We do not know.
It was a pleasant sight to see the colonel stroll about the paneled corridors and pause to chat with divers deferential workmen who were putting the last touches there, or to observe him mid-course in affable consultation with gardeners anent the rolling of a lawn or the retrimming of a rosebush, and to mark the bearing of the man so optimistically colored by goodwill toward the solar system.
The journalist is sick with work and fancied importance; the diplomat's hair whitens with the game which he cannot understand; the statesman, if he be wise, is in fear, knowing the meaning of such movements, while, if he be foolish, he chirps optimistically in his speeches and is applauded in the press.
She tossed the last piece of cake to an inquisitive kookaburra who had been watching the meal optimistically, with bright eyes and nodding head. It was a triumph, this cake in several ways. The stationmaster at Cook's Wall had built his "bosker hotel" at last, and had made it a store at which one could buy fruit, jam, sugar and various luxuries.
"It doesn't seem fair, Robin," she faltered. "I'm older than you are, for one thing." "One year or two, is it?" he mocked joyfully. "Half a century, I think!" with a quick sigh. "You'll grow younger," he suggested optimistically. "And anyway, can you bear to think of me living all alone at the Cottage after Ann is married? I should probably commit suicide."
Word Of The Day