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For when your whole day's cricket has been spoilt, it is perfectly absurd to be told that .026 of an inch of rain has done the damage; the soul yearns for something more startling than that The record of the pond, that there has been another 5 in., soothes us, where the record of the ordinary pedantic rain-gauge would leave us infuriated.
As she waited at the window she understood very clearly that it was she herself who must buckle to the hard work of forgetting. Or if that was impossible, she must be careful always that by no word let slip in a forgetful moment she betrayed that she had not forgotten. "No," she said, "two lives shall not be spoilt because of me," and she turned towards Mrs. Adair.
Life was very disappointing with Mr. Wallis, but he meant well, an' used to be an amiable person to dwell with, until his temper got spoilt makin' so many hopes an' havin' 'em turn out failures. He had consider'ble of an air, an' dressed very handsome when I was first acquainted with him, Mr. Wallis did. I don't know's you ever knew Mr. Wallis in his prime?"
In the evening, Loveday's heart was made glad by seeing the baked and boiled in rapid process of consumption by the kitchenful of people assembled for that purpose. Three-quarters of an hour were sufficient to banish for ever his fears as to spoilt food.
No! if this business does turn out badly, I shall have remorse enough, God knows but you can't escape! If you punish me for it, if I alone am to pay the penalty, it will be not only Radowitz that has a grievance not only Radowitz whose life will have been spoilt!"
I think I am not wrong in saying that there is no other game at the present time in which this combination of the sexes does not tend to minimize the enjoyment of the player and the interest of the spectator. A mixed foursome at golf is poor sort of fun for the man, unless the ladies are quite first-class; the game is rather spoilt for him.
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wild waste there still is a tree; And a bird in the solitude singing, That speaks to my spirit of thee. The fashionable world was tired of its spoilt child, and he of it.
'You've stalked bigger game and that has spoilt you, grumbled the Major. 'After Count Sagan, partridges pall. Yet it is a pity. 'I shall bring Valerie here sometimes, of course. I think she'll like the old place almost as much as I do. 'More, since it is the birthplace and home of one John Rallywood, said Counsellor with a twist of his big moustache. 'You lucky, undeserving beggar!
If they did or could, I should simply never go there, for nothing is so utterly destructive to meditation as to know that probably somebody inquisitive is eyeing you from behind a curtain. The loveliest garden I know is spoilt to my thinking by the impossibility of getting out of sight of the house, which stares down at you, Argus-eyed and unblinking, into whatever corner you may shuffle.
But all Carlyle's love and admiration for his friend did not induce him to praise Sterling's writings; he looked upon him as a poet, but without the gift of expression. He says that all Sterling's work was spoilt by over-haste, and "a lack of due inertia."
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