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This is the deepest, the oldest, the most wholesome and religious sense of the value of Nature the value which comes from her immense babyishness. She is as top-heavy, as grotesque, as solemn and as happy as a child.
I never heard of such silly babyishness!" It was very seldom, indeed, that the Terror showed himself sensible to the emotions of his sister; but on this occasion he blushed faintly as he said: "Well, what harm is there in it?" "It's babyish! It's what mollycoddles do! It's girlish! It's " The Terror of a sudden turned brazen; he said loudly and firmly: "You mind your own business!
She scarcely ever went anywhere without this instrument, and she was fond of striking up the sweetest, wildest songs to its accompaniment at any moment. Fluff, for all her extreme fairness and babyishness, had not a doll's face. The charming eyes could show many emotions, and the curved lips reveal many shades either of love or dislike.
Was this person she was examining a pretty person? Would she be called so in comparison with Kate and Hannah Heath? Would a man,—would David,—if his heart were not filled,—think so? She decided not. She felt she was too immature. There was too much shyness in her glance, too much babyishness about her mouth.
"Now, let's sit down and cool off for five minutes," proposed Dick, as he filled the feed bag for the horse. "After that we'll be ready for a swim." "But, with regard to what you were saying about frayed American nerves, poor stomachs and all-around babyishness " Tom began all over again. "Stop it!" laughed Dick. "We don't need that line of talk any longer."
Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend. Grant was a Radical himself, but he was that more discriminating and not uncommon type of Radical who passes most of his time in abusing the Radical party.
In childhood, the subthyroid or thyroid deficient, the cretinoid type, the type resembling the cretin, is fairly common. The peasant's face, with the broad nose and the tough skin, coarse straight hair, the undergrowth, physical and mental, a persistent babyishness and a retardation of self-control development, make up the picture.
There was a silence, followed by a muttered oath, as the pistol dropped to the ground. "Confound my babyishness!" snarled Rathburn, stooping and pocketing his weapon. "One would think I'd never seen a gun before!" This was on Sunday. On Monday Rathburn took the dog far up the trail. "Want a dog?" he said to the low-browed, unkempt man sitting at the door of a squat cabin. "Well, I don't.
Her sponge-like eagerness for all the Romance, the Adventure he could give her was insidious in its effect on him; she was flattered that he, with all his cleverness, his "grown-up-ness" that went so queerly with his babyishness, should have so thrown himself on her mercy; to her nineteen years it seemed a wonderful and beautiful thing that a man of twenty-seven should find in her an anchor.
Eugene did not know that in Angela, despite her smallness of body and what seemed to him her babyishness of spirit, he had to deal with a thinking woman who was quite wise as to ways and means of handling her personal affairs.
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