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He was, however, by no means so much in earnest as this might seem to indicate; and, indeed, he was more than anything else amused with the whole situation.
Here lies the essential point of difference between the old style and the new. It is by reference to this point that the credit such as it is of being quite contemporary must be withheld from so earnest and varied a novelist as Margaret Deland.
She regarded him as terribly in earnest; no man unless one who was terribly in earnest could have written that book a book which she felt was bound to alienate from him all the people who had previously honored him and delighted to listen to his preaching.
He was known to be acute at driving bargains, could value sheep, heifers, steers, and bullocks better than a Leicestershire drover, was an excellent judge of horse flesh, and, during his father's life, had several times proved he knew the exact moment of striking earnest. Had fate sent him to a minister's levee instead of a market for quadrupeds, he would have been a great politician!
What should I do with a wife I could not kiss? I wonder if Blanche will speak to me again? Maybe all this was a dodge, women have so many; but she looked in earnest. I might have frightened her by being so sudden, but why the deuce should women be frightened at proposals, when they pass their lives in trying to get them? So Mrs. Stunner said. Poor birdie!, what a soft hand she has!
Our companion ships are out of sight astern, except the Susquehanna, which is behind us only about a mile. In a few hours we hope to reach our expectant friends in Valencia and to commence the great work in earnest.
Now the doctors had it all their own way; and to work they went in earnest, and they gave the poor professor divers and sundry medicines, as prescribed by the ancients and moderns, from Hippocrates to Feuchtersleben, as below, viz. Hellebore, to wit Hellebore of AEta. Hellebore of Galatia. Hellebore of Sicily.
So, any teacher who is earnest and observant of the thought, speech, and general conduct of her pupils can find numerous needs for the ideas that have been presented in class. The community life of a school is not very much narrower than that of any ordinary social community, such as a village; and certainly in a village the uses of knowledge are without limit, if one will only find them.
Before writing the promise which Evadne required, Major Colquhoun begged to be allowed to have an interview with her, and to this also she consented at her mother's earnest solicitation, although the idea of it went very much against the grain.
'We will bid a joyful adieu to this hateful town, and settle again in London, the artist exclaimed, as, late one evening, he entered his house in an excited state, after a visit to one of his new patrons. 'Are you in earnest, papa ? Amy asked, whilst the colour forsook her cheek. 'In earnest, girl? he repeated, 'to be sure I am.
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