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There was the genial Thomas O'Mally, a low-comedian of genuine ability, whom Hillard knew casually; Smith, a light-comedian; and Worth, a moderately successful barytone to whom Hillard took one of those instant and unaccountable dislikes. These three and Kitty were going abroad. And there were several members of The Modern Maid company, which went on tour the following Monday.
Beware of a house where floors slope and side walls are out of plumb. This means extensive shoring which is slow and expensive. For a truly pessimistic report on the health of an old place turn to a trusted carpenter or contractor. He congenitally dislikes old buildings and will point out all defects with ominous head shakings and subtle suggestions for new building.
Brewster an entire stranger to him, stopped dead, blushed, and went out again to dine elsewhere. "Some people have got the nerve of an army mule!" "Why, what's happened?" "Those darned McCalls have registered here!" "No!" "Bit beyond me, this," said Archie, insinuating himself into the conversation. "Deep waters and what not! Who are the McCalls?" "Some people father dislikes," said Lucille.
Our eye, like our heart, has its likes and dislikes, of which it does not inform us, and which it secretly imposes on our temperament. The harmony of furniture, walls, the style of an ensemble, act immediately on our mental state, just as the air from the woods, the sea or the mountains modifies our physical natures.
I know you do not love any of us but my mother and me; and, being above all disguises, make me sensible that you do not oftener than I wish. Ought I then to add force to your dislikes of those whom I wish you to like? of my father especially; for he, alas! has some excuse for his impatience of contradiction.
Those who study the extant records of miracles with due attention will judge for themselves how far it has ever been supplied. Hume seems to have had but two hearty dislikes: the one to the English nation, and the other to all the professors of dogmatic theology.
Whether he was trading for committee assignments or initiated the fight on political grounds is a question he alone can answer, if anyone should have the temerity to ask it. The same violence of his likes and dislikes is shown in his attitude toward the British and his espousal of the Irish cause.
Our judgment is always too much at the mercy of our likes and dislikes. He did indeed mention himself, but only to say that once in the street of a village he saw the horse at some distance with a child in his teeth shaking him like a terrier with a rat. He ran, he said, but was too far off.
Ledsmar doesn't even think she is smart or at least he professes the utmost intellectual contempt for her, and says he dislikes her into the bargain. But of course she dislikes him, too, so that's only natural. But I can't understand his denying her great ability." The priest smiled in a dubious way. "Don't borrow unnecessary alarm about that, Mr.
The anxious parent endeavours to explain them to the child: who, in his turn, receives three grotesque and whimsical ideas which represent themselves to him something in the following shape: "Grace. The quality which he detests in his schoolfellows; in which the 'model boys' are pre-eminent; which he knows he dislikes and loathes, and yet is rather ashamed to say so.
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