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Turmoil and discontent gripped the land; naked want was among the people. The green island smiled winsomely in the Atlantic, only to belie itself as an abode of happiness. Its plaintive atmosphere wisped round Sir George Grey, as a mist enwraps two walkers on a Scottish hill-side, sending them silent.
She left the table and went into the kitchen, and Mr. Wilks's eyes glistened as she returned with a large brown jug full of foaming ale and filled his glass. "Teddy mustn't 'ave any," he said, sharply, as she prepared to fill that gentleman's glass. "Just 'alf a glass," she said, winsomely. "Not a drop," said Mr. Wilks, firmly. Mrs.
It pushes out, against all obstacles, and comes shyly and winsomely, but steadily and strongly, out to the brooding warmth, growing as it comes and growing most as it comes into closest touch with the warm brooder. Brooding is the mother of all love-words, friendship, wooing, pitying, helping, mothering, fathering, witnessing, believing.
There was a demon of mockery playing in the curves of the scarlet lips, as she smiled so winsomely. All his apprehensions were verified by her utterance. It came in a most casual voice, despite the dancing delight in her face.
Every line in these fourteen or fifteen pages can be traced back into that brief statement. Indeed this becomes an outline of the book. See: in the opening paragraphs the wooing Lover is coming down to earth. In the first twelve chapters the Lover is pleading winsomely and earnestly for acceptance.
'There are many such roosts, said Siegmund pertinently. Helena's cold scorn was very disagreeable to him. She talked to him winsomely and very kindly as they crossed the open down to meet the next incurving of the coast, and Siegmund was happy. But the sense of humiliation, which he had got from her the day before, and which had fixed itself, bled him secretly, like a wound.
His voice it was that won and impressed so winsomely the man waiting in the hand-covered cleft of the rock that early morning, and long after, that other rugged, footsore man, standing with face covered in the mouth of a cave. Isaiah saw His glory that memorable day in the temple.
Here perhaps was the single entirely disinterested sentiment of the poet's life, wholly independent of a long list of benefits, or benefices; for the younger had turned winsomely, appealingly, to the elder, who, forty years of age, feeling chilly at the thought, had no son. And of one only of those companions did the memory bring a passing cloud.
"Well, you know," said Archie, "I'm open for being understood any time he cares to take a stab at it." "You must try and make him fond of you." "But how? I smile winsomely at him and what not, but he doesn't respond." "Well, we shall have to think of something. I want him to realise what an angel you are. You ARE an angel, you know." "No, really?" "Of course you are."
She left the table and went into the kitchen, and Mr. Wilks's eyes glistened as she returned with a large brown jug full of foaming ale and filled his glass. "Teddy mustn't 'ave any," he said, sharply, as she prepared to fill that gentleman's glass. "Just 'alf a glass," she said, winsomely. "Not a drop," said Mr. Wilks, firmly. Mrs.
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