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I do not mean to say a word of what has been done. We believe, that is, I believe, and Herr Molk, and Peter also believes it " "I don't care what Peter Steinmarc believes," exclaimed Linda, unable to hold her peace any longer. "Linda, Linda, would you be a thing to be shuddered at, a woman without a name, a byword for shame for ever?"
"Look all you want," was the grim reply; "I am used to being a' object and a spectacle." The nurse took from her satchel a glass with which she carefully examined the dulled and lifeless eyes, sitting down afterward without a word. "And not only a' object and a spectacle," continued Aunt Dalmanutha, bitterly, "but a laughing-stock and a byword for the preachers in especial to mock and flout at.
"Laura's faint" had become a byword in the family; and Laura herself held it for so important a fact in her life that she had more than once begun a friendship with the words: "Have you ever fainted? I have." From among these long, glossy curls, she now cut one of the longest and most spiral, cut it off close to the root, and with it bound the flowers together.
They had even extended to Minturn's too, although about that he said little yesterday. The estates up there adjoin, you know." Owen Minturn, I recalled, had gained a formidable reputation by his successful handling of cases from the lowest strata of society to the highest. Indeed it was a byword that his appearance in court indicated two things the guilt of the accused and a verdict of acquittal.
He was come of the best blood in Molokai and Maui, of a pure descent; and yet he was more white to look upon than any foreigner: his hair the colour of dry grass, and his eyes red and very blind, so that “Blind as Kalamake, that can see across to-morrow,” was a byword in the islands.
We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Yankee in Europe is a sort of byword, denoting repudiation and all sorts of chicanery; but the Yankee States are more English, more intellectual, and more enterprising than all the rest put together; and Pennsylvania should be enrolled among them.
He sold very bad wine at a very low price to the retail-dealers in the country, and had the reputation, among his friends and acquaintances, of being a shrewd rascal a true Norman, full of quips and wiles. So well established was his character as a cheat that, in the mouths of the citizens of Rouen, the very name of Loiseau became a byword for sharp practice.
A runaway wife is an encumbrance to everybody, a burden to herself and a byword all of which make up a heap of misery greater than any that comes by staying at home though this may include the trifling items of insult, beating, and starvation. Liddy, if ever you marry God forbid that you ever should! you'll find yourself in a fearful situation; but mind this, don't you flinch.
The man was rough and foreign; his thoughts had been couched in harsher language, perhaps, than he intended; moreover, the fellow's high sense of honor was a byword and of a sudden the desire to set himself right in this man's eyes dictated his answer.
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