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Her laughter 'rang merry and loud, as the poet says, though not a word of her whispered conversation was audible. Indeed, Miss Malory was not present; she and her sister had no great share in the elegant frivolities of the metropolis. 'It all fits in beautifully, said Mrs. Brown-Smith. 'Just let me look at the page of Bradshaw again. Merton handed to her a page of closely printed matter.
But Walpole still reigns: his whims, his flirtings, his frivolities will disappear with his old china and trifling antiquities; but his best letters will always be the best of their kind among men.
The sins, the excesses, the frivolities, of the Carnival had to be atoned for by extra prayers and religious exercises; and if Violante had herself been guilty of no sins, excesses, or frivolities, during the festive season, yet there was abundant need of her prayers for those who had.
"André I know your voice, though I cannot see your form you have been taking too much, and to-morrow I shall complain to Madame Hellard. How dare you wake quiet people out of their first sleep?" "First sleep! Has la bouchère not been to the theatre?" "Theatre, you good-for-nothing! Do I ever join in such frivolities?
The Huguenots were now able to make a stand in the open country, partly from additions to their numbers and partly from the mistakes and frivolities of Henry III., who alienated stern Catholics and his best friends. It was then that Bouillon, father of the illustrious Turenne, joined the standard of Henry of Navarre.
Foiled in his endeavor to call out Washington by any maneuver, and feeling that another battle was quite impossible and useless in the extreme cold, which was more bitter than for years, he too, gave himself over to diversion, and looked leniently on the frivolities of his officers and the ruder dissipations of his men. The most fascinating game on the ice was skating after a ball.
For there was something almost gigantic in the frivolities with which weeks and months of such precious time were now squandered. Plenary powers "commission bastantissima" from his sovereign had been announced by Alexander as in his possession; although the reader has seen that he had no such powers at all.
Extracting a huge tome in which some by no means reticent mythological illustrations were contained, he set himself to examine these pictures. They were of the kind which pleases mostly middle-aged bachelors and old men who are accustomed to seek in the ballet and similar frivolities a further spur to their waning passions.
I own I don't altogether understand the taste for frivolities which you have developed since you married. It's harmless, no doubt, but it doesn't seem quite natural in a young woman who has taken a First in Greats." Milly's hands grasped the arms of her chair convulsively. She looked at her aunt with desolation in her dark-ringed eyes.
When Lebas so confidently predicated the sentence which posterity would pass on the fall of Marie Antoinette, none of his auditors doubted the correctness of his prophecy. Posterity, however, more partial to the frivolities of courts than to the fury of revolutions, has acquitted the Queen, and passed, perhaps, too heavy a sentence on the judges who condemned her.
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