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There have been outcries against his course in some matters, though these have been indulged in only a small section; but the Indian chafes under direction, and is, for the most part, a chronic grumbler; and his discontent frequently finds expression in delegations to the Government, which, though they may be planned with the view of ventilating some grievance, are more generally conceived of by him in the light of happy expedients for giving play to his oratory, or for setting about to establish his pretensions to eminence in that regard, in a somewhat exacting quarter; or, mayhap, for conveying to the powers that be, by palpable demonstration, the fact of his continued existence, and more, of his continued dissatisfied existence.
And Pierre, moved by it all, shaken in his theories of negation, thought that he could indeed hear a low but far-spreading murmur of the work of thousands of active minds, rising from laboratories, studies and class, reading and lecture rooms. It was not like the jerky, breathless trepidation, the loud clamour of factories where manual labour toils and chafes.
Feeling as you do, I really wish you would not spend your money on us, and give us these beautiful and expensive presents. It puts me under an obligation that chafes me and makes me unhappy." "I don't disapprove of you, particularly," said Miss Chadwick. "Do I act as if I did?" "Your manner seems to suggest it." "You can't tell much by manners," replied Cousin Ann.
She can trust him with the heiress until the property is settled on the married lovers. Hardin, when Jules Tessier's addled brains are restored by careful nursing, receives a document from Leroyne & Co., which rouses his inmost soul. Jules Tessier, handsome brute, chafes under the loss of the double blackmail. "Two hundred thousand francs," and his Marie.
Why, I spend half my life now, pretty well, loitering and dodging about his door. What does he care? Nothing. Just as much as the rusty old carbine I have compared him to. He chafes and goads me till Bah! Nonsense! I am forgetting myself. Mr.
"Perhaps so, but then it will be your own mistake; and a man chafes less, at the shortcomings of one whom he has chosen himself, than at those of one who has, as it were, been forced upon him." "Well, there will be no hurry in that matter," Philip said. "I can get on well enough without a servant, for a time.
The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and like the current files Each bound it chafes. What have you there? We perceive that he is a poet, and a rather rhetorical than sincere one. He has the art, but, as we shall see, not the heart. Painter. A picture, Sir. And when comes your book forth? Poet.
By the rocky cove where the Island House peers out through the fir-trees, the current already has a perceptible slope. It begins to boil over hidden stones in the middle, and gurgles at projecting points of rock. A mile farther down there is an islet where the stream quickens, chafes, and breaks into a rapid. Behind the islet it drops down in three or four foaming steps.
The soldier on leave, eager to be done with the preliminary journey, chafes at inevitable delay in Boulogne. Yet this largest of channel ports, in its present state, can show the casual passer-by much that is interesting. It has become almost a new town during the past three years.
Thou hast heard that in youth he wooed Katherine Nevile, that we loved, and were severed. They who see us now marvel whether we hate or love, no, not love that question were an insult to Lord Bonville's wife! Ofttimes we seem pitiless to each other, why? Lord Hastings would have wooed me, an English matron, to forget mine honour and my House's. He chafes that he moves me not.
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