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The matter has been discussed in the Press, too, with the usual pros and cons of hesitation, but it is the People I am thinking of, the People! and I am just now in the humour to satisfy a Nation rather than a Church!" De Launay said nothing. His opinion was not asked.
You'll have my sympathy and help in everything that makes you feel bad, whether it's right or wrong." "Oh, Mr. Derry, we are all going away way off to the country to live on a farm!" "Amarilly, you little city brat! You'd be a misfit on a farm. Tell me what has sent the Jenkins family into the open." Faithfully Amarilly enumerated the pros and cons of the agricultural venture.
Why should I give him my husband to do it for him and be disowned therein? I thank heaven I can do without a king, but I can't do without my Ned, and there he lies in prison for him who cons him no thanks!
Jews sway at prayer for the same reason. Movement of the body is not a mere mannerism; it is part of the emotion, like the instrumental accompaniment to a song. The child cons his lesson moving; we foolishly call it "fidgeting." The child is never receptive unless also active. But there is another of Montaigne's feelings, with which I have no sympathy.
And the members of her council drew near and whispered their opinions in Winifred's attentive ears. They were not all in accord at the first. Pros fought with cons, elbowed them, were hustled in return. Sometimes there was almost a row, and she had to stretch forth her hands and hush the tumult. For she desired a calm conclave, although she was a woman.
It was the Poet of this society who put those words together the Poet who has heard all its pros and cons, who reports them all, and gives to them all their exact weight in the new balance of his decisions.
What are the objections to games for girls? It seems to me the chief arguments against them are that they are injurious to health; that they impair the womanliness of woman; that they mar her appearance. There may be something to be said for these contentions, but to my mind the pros materially outweigh the cons. As to the injury to health, I deny that the case is proved.
They were talking together, he and his comrade of the Maxim gun, discussing whether the bag was really a big one, the former as glib with the pros as the latter was with the cons. The tall listener smiled rather wistfully as he heard them. After the last round from the six-pounder had been fired, before we went to lunch, he came up and said farewell to me.
She was conscious that an abiding dread was stealing into her heart; but her stage training came to her aid, and she managed to say evenly: "My little ramble does not appear to interest you?" "It does," he said. "I have been arguing the pros and cons of a ticklish problem. There are two courses to me. I can either bribe you, or leave you to your own devices.
hummed the editor in the cottage. His song had taken on a reflective tone as that of one who cons a problem, or musically ponders which card to play. He was kneeling before an old trunk in his bedchamber. From one compartment he took a neatly folded pair of duck trousers and a light-gray tweed coat; from another, a straw hat with a ribbon of bright colors.
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