United States or Ireland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
She was under instruction for the Church at the time, but, naturally, she did not go on after divorcing her husband. 'And how do you reconcile a good man, going to his duties regularly, doing the things Denis was accused of? said I, quoting the old Latin proverb, 'No one becomes suddenly altogether base. 'That was where the scandal was, he answered me.
He looked as if he could kill me. For five minutes he cursed me with a perfection of phrase which I had thought beyond him. It was no I.D.B., he declared, but a pipe which 'Mwanga had discovered. 'In this kind of country? I said, quoting his own words. 'Why, you might as well expect to find ocean pearls as diamonds. But scrape in the spruit if you like; you'll maybe find some garnets.
"There will not be anything as bitter as to lose a fancied friend," said she, quoting my own expression. "I think it is sometimes the friendship that was fancied!" I cried. "What kind of justice do you call this, to blame me for some words that a tomfool of a madcap lass has written down upon a piece of paper? You know yourself with what respect I have behaved and would do always."
"Chi lo fa, lo sa," hummed Laura; "but I would avoid quoting you as that authority." "After your last miserable fiasco, my dear!" "It was another of our school exercises. We had not been good boys and girls. We had learnt our lesson imperfectly. We have received our punishment, and we mean to do better next time." "Behave seasonably, fittingly; be less of a wasp; school your tongue."
"Schon fleissig?" * said Rostov with the same gay brotherly smile which did not leave his eager face. "Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! Kaiser Alexander hoch!" * said he, quoting words often repeated by the German landlord. * "Busy already?" * "Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!"
We have before had occasion to remark that Smith's memory had the peculiarity of growing stronger and more minute in details the further he was removed in point of time from any event he describes. The revamped narrative is worth quoting in full for other reasons. It exhibits Smith's skill as a writer and his capacity for rising into poetic moods.
Without citing any further examples I will conclude by quoting a line addressed by Plato to Dion of Syracuse: Dion, with love thou hast distraught my soul. Which of us is most to blame? I who am fool enough to speak seriously of such things in a law-court? or you who are slanderous enough to include such charges in your indictment?
"I wish I might; oh, how I wish I might! It seems to me it is easy to be happy if one has only a safe home and a good friend," said Rose. "And those you shall always have in me and in my house, my child," said the Iron King. Cora listened in pure amazement. Her grandfather sympathetic! Her grandfather giving praise and quoting poetry! What was the matter with him?
Wilson, in his speech before leaving for India, "in India you see people tied down by caste, and, whatever their talents or exertions may be, they cannot rise." Now the history of many families that have risen to eminence entirely belies this assertion, and the evidences are so numerous that I need not weary the reader by quoting them.
"If there is one thing I despise more than another," said Bascombe, "it is to hear a man, a fellow with legs and arms, pour out his griefs into the bosom of that most discreet of confidantes, Society, bewailing his hard fate, and calling upon youths and maidens to fill their watering-pots with tears, and with him water the sorrowful pansies and undying rue of the race. I believe I am quoting."
Word Of The Day