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"I admire your frankness, sir," he said. "I meant to say that its logic rather than its substance reminded one of Lincoln." "I tried to learn what I could from him, Major Sherman." At length the car stopped, and they passed into the Arsenal grounds. Drawn up in lines on the green grass were four regiments, all at last in the blue of their country's service.
I have seen the most elegant creatures at St. James's grow wild for love of the coarsest and most vulgar of men; the cleverest women passionately admire the most illiterate of our sex, and so on.
"I dare say his sisters are not very good to him. I can easily believe it," said Jem. "He is not like the people we have been taught to admire," said David. "He always thinks of himself first," said Violet. "And he is not really in earnest about anything." "Mamma, listen to Davie and Letty speaking evil of their neighbours," said Jem.
The nurse retired to the far end of the room, where she stood with her back toward the bed, pretending to inspect and admire a Donatello upon the wall. Frank took the chair beside the bed and found Inza's hand, which he clasped in a firm but gentle grasp. "What shall we name him?" he asked. "Why, haven't you decided on a name, dear?" "Without consulting you?
Here they were interrupted by the absolute necessity of Charles's following the others to admire mirrors and china; but Anne had heard enough to understand the present state of Uppercross, and rejoice in its happiness; and though she sighed as she rejoiced, her sigh had none of the ill-will of envy in it.
In the certainty of his triumph, old Sovrani was ready to place it in the priest's extended hand, when young Vergniaud interposed and prevented him. "No! You can admire it from a distance, Monsignor! You are capable in your present humour of tearing it to atoms and so destroying evidence! As the 'servant' of Prince Sovrani, it is my business to defend him from this possibility!"
One of the colonists said to me: "It is true that the Mishnah forbids you to turn aside from the Torah to admire a tree, but you have come all the way from Europe to admire my trees. Leave the Torah alone for the present." I felt that he was right, and wondered how the Shepherd Rabbis of Hebron managed in similar circumstances.
It seems that, both in sports and learning, he is wonderfully well instructed." "I should like to see him," the prince said. "I admire what I have heard of him, greatly, and it is hard that he should be shut up in prison; and yet he is scarcely more a prisoner than I am." Harry was struck with dismay. "But Your Highness is in no way a prisoner!"
At this ringing command, every bird, as far as the river carried his voice, came to investigate and remained to admire. Over and over he rang every change he could invent. He made a gallant effort at warbling and trilling, and then, with the gladdest heart he ever had known, he burst into ringing song: "Good Cheer! Good Cheer! Good Cheer!"
The interest is one that absorbs all others. We eat, drink, and sleep to the noise of drums and musketry. You would enjoy and almost admire Fleeming's enthusiasm and earnestness and courage, I may say for we are among the small minority of English who side with the Italians.
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