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Then, replacing his hat on his head, he added to his friend: "The Marchesa is always hoping that the Duchessa d'Aosta will come one day, if only for a moment, to smile upon the geese. But well, the Duchessa prefers to climb to the fourth story to see the poor. She has a heart. Let us sit here, Emilio."
In the art of dwarfing trees, if such distortion and crippling of Nature deserves to be called an art, the Chinese are certainly most accomplished experts; but what can we think of the taste, or want of taste, which prefers pigmies three feet high to the lofty and far-shadowing trees which embellish our English parks and gardens?
Hillard's pleadings would have melted a heart of stone. "It is Hilda." "That is German." "She prefers it to Sonia." "Sonia Hilda; it begins well. May I keep this letter?" "Certainly not. With that cara mia? Give it to me." He did so. "Shall I seek her?" "This is my advice: don't think of her after to-night. If you ever see or recognize her, avoid her.
In this extensive and superb mansion a suite of apartments is assigned him, with a valet-de chambre, a lackey, a coachman, a groom, and a jockey, all under his own exclusive command. He has allotted him a chariot, a gig, and riding horses, if he prefers such an exercise.
She likes him to study her as he is gravely doing now. She has not posed for him, and yet she thought of him when she came out and settled herself. "I have a favor to ask," he says, presently, and it would sound abrupt if the voice were less finely modulated. "I am in a mood which is either indolent or generous. Try me." Floyd Grandon prefers his request.
He hath the abilities of the mind in potentia, and actu nothing but boldness. His clothes are in fashion before his body, and he accounts boldness the chiefest virtue. Above all men he loves an herald, and speaks pedigrees naturally. He accounts none well descended that call him not cousin, and prefers Owen Glendower before any of the Nine Worthies.
"I thought that possibly, if I reopened negotiations, you might have a reasonable counter-proposition to suggest." "I haven't thought of any." "No, I am not in the market for that Valley of the Giants, as your idealistic father prefers to call it. Once I would have purchased it for double its value, but at present I am not interested."
The bastion which surmounts the burrow, therefore, takes its origin from the temporary lid. The turret derives from the split ceiling. What is the purpose of this turret? My pans will tell us that. An enthusiastic votary of the chase, so long as she is not permanently fixed, the Lycosa, once she has set up house, prefers to lie in ambush and wait for the quarry.
The Old Mother says, "Give me your ticket, my dear, and I'll feed you with my gold spoon off these beautiful old wooden trenchers. Such nice bits as those good old gentlemen have left for you!" There is no quarrelling with a man who prefers broken victuals. That's what the rougher sort will say; and then, where one scolds, ten will laugh. But, mind you, I don't either scold or laugh.
He is a young man about my age, a printer by trade, and he is going to New York to find work." "Why doesn't he find work in Boston? There are more printers in Boston than there are in New York." "That may be; but he prefers to work in New York. He's tired of Boston." "Perhaps Boston is tired of him is that so?
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