United States or Barbados ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The earl contemplated her, measuring her powers of resistance for a prolonged engagement. Odd that the pride which had withdrawn him from the service of an offending country should pitch him into a series of tussles with women, for its own confusion! He saw that, too, in his dim reflectiveness, and held the country answerable for it. Mr.
"Mercy," observed Mis' Winslow, warming her hands at the cooking stove, "you got more energy." "... than family, I guess you mean," Ellen Bourne finished. Ellen was little and fair, with slightly drooping head, and eyebrows curved to a childlike reflectiveness. "Well, I got consider'ble more family than I got energy," said Mis' Winslow, "so I guess we even it up.
To make a little difference for the better was what he was not contented to live without; but how to make it? It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it. He wanted some way of keeping emotion and its progeny of sentiments which make the savors of life substantial and strong in the face of a reflectiveness that threatened to nullify all differences.
'Though they say she's a rosy-cheeked, tisty-tosty little body enough, she added; and as the milkmaid spoke she turned her face so that she could glance past her cow's tail to the other side of the barton, where a thin, fading woman of thirty milked somewhat apart from the rest. 'Years younger than he, they say, continued the second, with also a glance of reflectiveness in the same direction.
Without being sad or melancholy, she seemed to have little natural enjoyment. Reflectiveness, order, a sense of duty, the three chief expressions of Flemish nature, were the characteristics of a face that seemed cold at first sight, but to which the eye was recalled by a certain grace of outline and a placid pride which seemed the pledges of domestic happiness.
Fortunately the relatives were lost sight of in the great crowd of Wattleborough people; there was an enormous procession, of course. Maud kept glancing at her sister. The ill-humour had not altogether passed from her face, but it was now blended with reflectiveness. A few moments more, and Marian had to hasten home. When she was gone the sisters looked at each other.
Then the old monkey arose with a puzzled look, half scornful, and made for the door slowly, turning his head toward Shibli Bagarag betweenwhiles as he went, and scratching his lower limbs with the mute reflectiveness of age and extreme caution.
In the first place although, as he became better acquainted with Rachel's varying moods and aspects, he fell more and more deeply under the charm of her temperament a temperament at once passionate and childish, crude, and subtle, with many signs, fugitive and surprising, of a deep and tragic reflectiveness; he became also more and more conscious of what seemed to him the lasting effects upon her of her miserable marriage.
"She is a baby she is of great beauty she has a passionate little soul of which she knows nothing." Mademoiselle Valle said it with an anxious reflectiveness. "I have been afraid. If I were her mother " her eyes sought those of the older woman. "But she has no mother," her grace answered. Her own eyes were serious.
Here nodded the grave, purple-leaved pansies, legendary consolers of the heart, their little, quaint, expressive physiognomies turned in every direction; up to the sky, as though absorbing the sunlight, down to the ground, with an almost severe air of meditation, or curled sideways on their stems in a sort of sly reflectiveness.
Word Of The Day