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Wellington showed it in a cold, haughty, unimaginative, repelling self-importance; fearful of unbending to his inferiors lest his dignity should be offended. Nelson's peculiarities were the very antithesis; it was his delightful egotism and vanity that added to his charm and made him such a fascinating personality.
'I shall see about old Jenny, answered Guy. 'As to the house, that must be done directly. Her cottage is not fit to keep school in. Grunt, grunt; but though a very unbending viceroy, a must from the reigning baronet had a potent effect on Markham, whether it was for good or evil.
And from this time Thorwald was particularly tender toward the doctor, evidently desiring to show him that, unbending to everything like disloyalty to God, he recognized his sincerity when he declared that he would no longer set his will against the reception of the truth.
Of all instruments he loved the violin best, and in Rome he had had but little opportunity of hearing it well played. Concerts were the rarest of luxuries to him, and violinists in Rome are rarer still. "What is his name, signore?" he asked, unbending a little. "You must guess that when you hear him," said the old gentleman, with a short laugh.
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn or skims along the main." Essay on Criticism. The teachings of Anchises to Aeneas, respecting the nature of the human soul, were in conformity with the doctrines of the Pythagoreans. He is therefore sometimes called "the Samian," and sometimes "the philosopher of Crotona."
Once, when business took him across the Atlantic, he had served in an English regiment, and being insubordinate had suffered extremely. He drew all his ideas of England that were not bred by the cheaper patriotic prints from one iron-fisted colonel and an unbending adjutant. He would go to the mines if need be to teach his gospel.
But not even old Hell-Fire Packard could get him any further. "Yes, I called," grunted the old man. "I hollered my head off at you. I want to know what you foun' out. Let's have it." Guy Little made his little butler-bow. "Your word is law, m'lord," he said, once more rigid and unbending.
The subject of this text is not lacking in this prominent Indian element. A keen and piercing eye, a sadly kind face, a tall and erect figure, Apache John bears his sixty years of life with broad and unbending shoulders. He was fond of becoming reminiscent and said: “The first thing I can remember is my father telling me about war. We then lived in tepees like the one in which we are now sitting.
'Think how Eleanor went on telling us of duty, duty, duty never making allowances never relaxing her stiff rules about trifles never unbending from her duenna-like dignity never showing one spark of enthusiasm making great sacrifices, but only because she thought them her duty because it was right good for herself only a higher kind of selfishness not because her feeling prompted her.
With a stern, unbending gloom of manner, he had commenced the duties of his novitiate. He submitted to all that was enjoined him. He seemed to have lost for ever the wild and unruly waywardness that had stamped his boyhood; but he was never seen to smile he scarcely ever opened his lips.
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