Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
"Monsieur will forgive that I catechise him thus but I had expected one much older." Her distress was obvious. And Craven divined that as a prospective guardian he fell short of expectation. And yet, his lack of years was apparently to her the only drawback. His lack of years Good God, and he felt so old! His youth was a disadvantage that counted for nothing in the present instance.
She smiled faintly. "I have sent off for my Lord and Mr. Fox, and pray that one of them may be here presently." Scarcely greater were the visible signs of apprehension upon Mrs. Manners. Her first care, and Dorothy's, was to catechise me most particularly on my state. And whilst they were so occupied Mr.
True to their Persian characteristic of inquisitiveness, Nasr-i-Mulk and the officers catechise me unmercifully for some time concerning the mechanism and capabilities of the bicycle, and about the past and future of the journey around the world. In company with the interpreter, I now ride out to the Doshan Tepe gate, where we are to await the arrival of the Shah.
The folding-doors are wide open to every Protestant to enter all the privileged precincts and private apartments of the various exclusive religious organizations. We may demand the credentials of every creed and catechise all the catechisms. So we may discuss the gravest questions unblamed over our morning coffee-cups or our evening tea-cups.
Alas! and alas! were I to catechise myself too closely, I fear that my horses' heads would face towards Calais, and that I should turn my back upon the only prospect of happiness I can picture to myself in this world. In reflections such as these, the hours rolled over, and it was already late at night when we reached the little village of Merchem.
It was all right in a pal of ours, Bunny, but all wrong in the man who dreamt of marrying Camilla Belsize." "Yet you have just been moving heaven and hell to make it possible for them to marry after all!" Raffles made another attempt upon his paper. I marvel now that he let me catechise him as I was doing.
Reading distrust and alarm in these, he shook off his sister's warning hold. "When you wish to catechise me upon family matters, Mabel, it is my wish that you should do it in private," he said, roughly. "Then you shall learn all that it concerns you to know. There are subjects into which only prurient curiosity cares to pry." "I beg your pardon!" answered Mabel, quietly.
The damsels at the House Beautiful catechise Christiana's boys, as any good ladies might catechise any boys at a Sunday School. But we do not believe, that any man, whatever might be his genius, and whatever his good luck, could long continue a figurative history without falling into many inconsistencies.
Not mere fanatic mystics, as Right Reverend Firmian asserts; protectible by no Treaty?" That was Friedrich Wilhelm's first question; and he set his two chief Berlin Clergymen, learned Roloff one of them, a divine of much fame, to catechise the two Salzburg Deputies, and report upon the point.
I wish to catechise you a little." "But I shall not answer you, sir, if you call me Mademoiselle; it sounds so cold and disagreeable." "Well, I will be careful not to do so; but let us make a commencement." "With my qualifications?" "Certainly; but why do you sit at such a distance?" "We are not so far from each other." "That proves you to be no mathematician.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking