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With this, Tom went on the brag at once, being but a shallow fellow, and not of settled principles, though steadier than he used to be; until I felt myself almost bound to fetch him back a little; for of all things I do hate brag the most, as any reader of this tale must by this time know. Therefore I said to Squire Faggus, "Come back from your highway days.
When the review was over the General called the officers and non-commissioned officers together and told them that he had never seen a steadier or finer body of troops; that we would soon have some stiff work to do and he knew we would do it, but that he considered the war would be over in a year.
"Can't you speak?" he said. "What's the matter with you?" said Hooker. Evans stumbled, and then with a sudden curse flung the coat from him. He stood for a moment staring at Hooker, and then with a groan clutched at his own throat. "Don't come near me," he said, and went and leant against a tree. Then in a steadier voice, "I'll be better in a minute."
The head forester laughed aloud, and gave the steward, who seemed to enjoy his special favor, a hearty slap on the shoulder. "But, Stadinger, have you really taken all this in earnest? You ought to know the prince better. He certainly does not seem to come back any steadier than he went away." "No indeed, he does not," sighed Stadinger.
And, in this state of things, it will require a much greater increase in the demand for labour, than there is in any rational ground for expecting, to compensate to the labourer the advantages which he loses in the high money wages of labour, and the steadier and less fluctuating price of corn.
Your only fault was to doubt a brave man." "And my wife? May I go back and tell her?" "No, surely. Would you make her hear slander of the man she loves? Be what she believes you and she will be satisfied." "And the absolution, the word of peace? Will you speak that to me?" Her eyes shone more clearly; the voice sounded sweeter and steadier than ever. "After the penance comes the absolution.
Every time I started for more fuel I expected to hear a roar and feel one of the savage creatures spring upon me; but the night wore on, with the fire giving a steadier glow as the time passed.
For the past 14 months, high interest rates have had a severe impact on the nation's housing market. Yet the current pressures and uncertainties should not obscure the achievements of the past four years. Working with the Congress, the regulatory agencies, and the financial community, my Administration has brought about an expanded and steadier flow of funds into home mortgages.
Loman was not a favourite even with his own class-fellows, but they could forgive anything now, provided he made sure of the Nightingale. "He'll be all right!" said Callonby to Wren one day, when the two happened to hit on the topic of the hour; "he's a great deal steadier than he was last term." "I wish he'd read indoors, then, and not be everlastingly trotting out with his books." "Oh!
Rather is it rightly expressed as being a heart fixed in singleness upon God, through drastic simplification of interests: the which is no poverty, but the wealth of all the Universe. Some of us seem open to suggestion, others to the steadier effects of personal influence.
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