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And then after a moment, she added quaveringly: "But please, ma'am, how are we going to do it?" The outraged and annihilatory Mrs. De Peyster gazed at Matilda, utterer of practical common-places. As she gazed the splendid flames within her seemed slowly to flicker out, and she sank back upon her bed. Yes, how were they going to do it?
Criticism disdains to chase a school-boy to his common-places. Ib. p. 484. See ante, ii. 178. 'A Wizard-Dame, the Lover's ancient friend, With magic charm has deaft thy husband's ear, At her command I saw the stars descend, And winged lightnings stop in mid career, &c. Hammond. Elegy, v. Perhaps Lord Corke and Orrery. Ante, iii. 183.
Let the recital include both the expressions of individual conception, and those of the most current maxims and common-places; and let them be the sayings of persons in health, and of those languishing and dying.
The two doctors of law laid the affectionate common-places of the archduke before the States-General, each of them making, moreover, a long and flowery oration in which the same protestations of good will and hopes of future good-fellowship were distended to formidable dimensions by much windy rhetoric.
The only common-places of his memory are his meals; and if you ask him at what time an event happened, he considers whether he heard it after a dinner of turbot or venison.
To say nothing else, common-places are but blunt weapons; whereas it is particular topics that penetrate and reach their mark.
"I was afraid he would betray himself, but he was strong-minded enough to restrain his emotion, and only replied that we must needs submit, and that we should see each other again in a couple of months. "As the captain stood beside us, I could only utter common-places.
His treatise on "Man" is a jumble of physiological and moral common-places, made up of ill-digested reading and words strung together haphazard, of gratuitous and incoherent suppositions in which the doctrines of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, coupled together, end in empty phraseology.
Common-places were very much out of place, and the things that were in his heart he might not speak yet. "Didn't I say so?" cried Miss Penny, as they stepped ashore on Little Sark. "It's as easy as winking." "I never said it wasn't," said Margaret, with a deep breath. "But I doubt if you'd have come across alone, my child."
"I was afraid he would betray himself, but he was strong-minded enough to restrain his emotion, and only replied that we must needs submit, and that we should see each other again in a couple of months. "As the captain stood beside us, I could only utter common-places.
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