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How badly would any of these precious fellow-citizens of yours feel if they knew their income was drawn from other men's pockets? Eh? Wouldn't they prefer to have somebody suffer rather than lose their investments? Verily, verily, I say unto you, they would. Don't talk to me about being a rascal! You're just a little sharper than the rest of them that's all.
Be sure that it is your goodness and not your evils or your weakness, that men dislike. The world has a very keen eye for the inconsistencies and the faults of professing Christians, and it is a good thing that it has. The loftier your profession the sharper the judgment that is applied to you.
From this there protruded the sharper edges of a "thunder-head," as if some titanic and unseen hand were lifting to the firmament a colossal head of cauliflower, its shaded portions beautifully toned with blue. This description may be homely, but it has the merit of accuracy.
And wasn't he gentle even with those to whom he was sharper than a two-edged sword! and oh how gentle to her he would cover from their rudeness and wrong! No reproaches, you see! No stirring up of the fiery snakes! Only don't do it again. I don't think she did it again: do you?" It was just here that Helen came and stood behind Leopold's chair. The curate lay on the grass, and neither saw her.
It will take some weeks and will probably cause you inconvenience. But you like suffering, don't you?" "Spring," said Luke, thoughtfully. "Not all daffodils. No." A little later Mr. Alfred Jingle, solicitor, talking to his friend the artist, may be permitted to throw some light on events. "Saw Sharper yesterday. Don't like it. Awful. Went to his house. What? Yes, looking for lunch.
He grew discouraged; he seemed no nearer to anything, had not obtained from his inspection any of the knowledge he had vaguely hoped for. He had merely increased his dislike and mistrust of this young man, who had tired him out with his politeness, and in whose manner he now certainly detected mockery. The fellow was sharper than he had thought, and better-looking than he had hoped.
But it was towards the north that I kept turning my head. There seemed to be something different in the sound there, something sharper in the report of the guns, as if shells were dropping in a narrow valley whose rock walls doubled the echo. Had the Russians by any blessed chance worked round that flank? I got Sandy to listen, but he shook his head. 'Those guns are a dozen miles off, he said.
With the whole of the wide sea for you to choose out of was there no place that would do you except just the one place where the lady happened to be standing?" Priscilla's reproaches were sharper and less broadly philosophic in tone. "Why didn't you luff when I told you?" she said. "Didn't I say you were to keep up to windward of Jimmy Kinsella's boat?
Then he added, "I hope you won't mind my saying it, sir, but I think their ladies are rather harder than our English ladies, sir." "Yes," I eagerly assented. "How do you mean? Sharper? Keener?" "Well, not just that, sir." "More practical? More business-like?" I pursued. "Well, I shouldn't like to say that, sir.
Whereas Clarissa was obeyed by no one, was in debt to her bootmaker and milliner, and, let her struggles in the cause be as gallant as they might, could not understand a word of Dante, and was aware that she read the "Faery Queen" exactly as a child performs a lesson. As to her love, there was a sharper sorrow.
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