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Her tastes are fastidious; she is made for exactitude: the smallest departures from the straight line appear to her shocking deviations.
They were packed and crammed into cars that held each about fifty; and it was said that often a Brahmin of the highest caste was thus brought into personal touch, and consequent defilement, with persons of the lowest castes no doubt a very shocking thing if a body could understand it and properly appreciate it.
Brinkley had entered upon a very difficult spot at the corner of his left jaw. He finished it before he said, "I don't see anything awful about it, so long as Pasmer hasn't come too." "But Dan Mavering! He's in Washington, and he may come down here any day. Just think how shocking that would be!" "Isn't that rather a theory?" asked Mr.
She led him up to several small impressionist sketches in water-colour of Indian subjects, and stopped in admiration. "These are very good. I know the country, and they make you realise what it is like. There is genius here." "My son did them," said Challoner with dry amusement. "I can see their cleverness, but I'll admit that I think them rather a waste of time." "A shocking view.
Speaking of slavery there, he says, "It is shocking to humanity, violative of every generous sentiment, abhorrent utterly from the Christian religion There cannot be a more dangerous maxim than that necessity is a plea for injustice, for who shall fix the degree of this necessity? What villain so atrocious, who may not urge this excuse, or, as Milton has happily expressed it,
The Hébertists might have taken for their motto Diderot's shocking couplet, if they could have known it, about using Les entrailles du prêtre Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.
"All vanity of that sort is a symptom of shocking egoism, and egoism poisons friendship." "Oh! dear," said Lucien, "you cannot know how much I love you all." "If you loved us as we love you, would you have been in such a hurry to return the money which we had such pleasure in lending? or have made so much of it?" "We don't lend here; we give," said Joseph Bridau roughly.
Gibson with a melancholy look, and indeed the news he brought was shocking enough. It seems Mr. Abud, the same Jew broker who formerly was disposed to disturb me in London, has given the most positive orders to take out diligence against me for his debt of £1500.
And you are for seducing him by Liamil, who has as few Charms as any Court Lady, and who, besides, is under conjugal Engagements. How shocking will the Idea of this complicated Guilt appear to the Prince, who cannot bear the Thoughts of a single Infidelity? Ah! learned Mollak, you require of me what is beyond my Power, and out of the Course of Nature.
But to think of the daily and hourly pain I should occasion to you, my beloved and ardent Constanceby shocking all your opinions, counteracting all your schemes, working against objects which your father's fate and your early associations have so singularly made duties in your eyes-to do all this is a patriotism beyond me.
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