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Updated: July 28, 2025
Nothing could have been friendlier and livelier than the spectacle of the spectators spread over the grassy slope, or sublimer than the rise of the hills around, or more enchanting than the summer sea, with the large and little shipping on it, and the passenger-steamers going and coming from Liverpool and all the points in the region round.
It was the picture of a quaint, straggling prairie village, half hidden in the multi-hued foliage of a deep valley, as viewed from his saddle where his horse stood upon the shoulder of land which dropped away at his feet. It was one of those wondrous fairy scenes with which the prairie, in her friendlier moods, delights to charm the eye.
I had no wife at home to vex my conscience at all. All day we played about Hamid's verandah like two children, and Hamid watched us with a sort of twinkle in his eye, seemingly well content. It was plain he had taken a fancy to me, and I thought, as time passed, he grew friendlier. "I blessed the old fellow, too. Had he not given me Aoodya?
It would have been stupid not to see the joke. "I'm sorry I can't sell my sample," I said, with my hand on the doorknob. "That's all right, my dear," said Mr. Kennedy, with a gracious wave of the hand. And his partner called after me, "Better luck next door!" Well, I was getting on! The people grew friendlier all the time. But I skipped "next door"; it was "Mortgages and Bonds."
The fiscal strife with Russia was keener and longer, but had the same result . Of a friendlier kind were the negotiations with Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland, which led to treaties with those States in 1891. It is needless to say that in each of these cases the lowering of the corn duties was sharply resisted by the German agrarians.
And I think the woods are a deal safer and friendlier than Quebec. There's nobody, at least not here, lying around seeking a chance to stick a rapier in your back." He unbuckled his sword and laid it upon the grass. Robert put his beside it.
The captain and crew were all stoutly pro-German, and the "news" they had to give took the unsatisfying form of accounts of British and French reverses. We would have been glad to have had the latest tidings from a friendlier source.
"Why, you just said yourself, dear, that he was friendlier with him than ever." "Oh, that's nothing. The more he disliked him the kinder he would be to him." "That's true," sighed her mother. "Did he ever say anything to you about him?" "No," cried Olive, shortly; "he never speaks of people he doesn't like."
The Hen and the old gent got friendlier and friendlier she being more cheerful when she'd been setting at table a while, and getting to talking so comical she kept 'em all on a full laugh.
He walked out into the garden and gazed for a long time at the sun, just peeping over the hills; he thought it had never shone so brightly. Never had the heavens appeared so blue or the flowers more vivid. Each dewdrop, too, seemed to be more brilliant. All nature proclaimed itself friendlier than ever. With the fragrance of the flowers, his grateful prayer ascended to heaven.
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