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In one place the snow had been dug down to the pine planking of the pathway round the house; and the contact of this woodenness with the frozen ground pierced his nerves and set his teeth on edge like a harsh noise.
I dislike extremely drawing aside the veil to let the public gaze intimately where they have no right to look at all. I think it is the consciousness of this feeling that gives an extra woodenness to my style style is a big word I should have put it 'bad style."
In the forefront gleamed, like the white plumes of Navarre, the light flannel suit of Arthur Mifflin, the woodenest juvenile in captivity. His woodenness was, however, confined to stage rehearsals.
The Chinese phenomenon was therefore in no sense new; the dearth of coined money and the variety of local standards made the methods used economic necessities. The system was not in itself a bad system: its fatal quality lay in its woodenness, its lack of adaptability, and in its growing weakness in the face of foreign competition which it could never understand.
The very drawing has a woodenness foreign to his compositions, and much of the painting is by an evidently inferior hand. But good judges hold some of the heads to be undoubtedly his work. However this may be, with the autumn of 1543 Holbein's life came to a sudden close.
'Claire! What's the matter? She looked at him steadily. She looked at him with a sort of queenly woodenness, as if he were behind a camera with a velvet bag over his head and had just told her to moisten the lips with the tip of the tongue. Her aspect staggered Lord Dawlish.
"In spite of my silence my outward woodenness you said, as you went away, that you would come again! You said `soon'! I could only nod but Cora called from the other end of the porch and asked: `How soon? Oh, I bless her for it, because you said, `Day after to-morrow. Day after tomorrow! Day after to-morrow! Day after tomorrow!
A look of surprise came into the Bowery Boy's face, followed by one of stolid woodenness. He took the sovereign that Jimmy held out to him with a muttered word of thanks, and shuffled out of the room. "Can't see what you wanted to give him anything for," said Lord Dreever. "Chap'll only spend it getting soused." "Oh, he reminded me of a man I used to know." "Did he?
Criticism like that is a boomerang that comes back to hit the emitting skull with a hint of its kindred woodenness. It reveals the writer more than the written of. Allan was a bigger man than you would gather from Wilson's account of his Gargantuan revelry.
They've been scribbling away ever since we came here. Probably, society journalists. We shall see in next week's papers: 'Among the second-class passengers, we noticed Mr. "Spike" Mullins, looking as cheery as ever. It's a pity you're so set on going, Spike. Why not change your mind, and stop?" For a moment, Spike looked wistful. Then, his countenance resumed its woodenness.
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