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How did you get to this place?" Morse pointed to the slumbering oxen. The stranger again stared curiously at him. After a pause he said, with a half-pitying, half-humorous smile: "Pike aren't you?" Whether Morse did or did not know that this current California slang for a denizen of the bucolic West implied a certain contempt, he replied simply: "I'm from Pike County, Mizzouri."
She looked at Cartoner with a wise nod and a shrewd look in her gay, blue eyes. "A man's career is only the surface of his life." "Then some men's lives are all surface," said Cartoner. Wanda gave a little, half-pitying, half-contemptuous jerk of her head. "Some men have the soul of an omnibus-horse," she replied.
But this half-pitying, half-contemptuous, and wholly benevolent excuse for Jesus, though it be the words of friends, is like the words of His enemies, in that it contains a distorted reflection of His true character. And if we will think about it, I fancy that we may gather from it some lessons not altogether unprofitable.
The day marched nobly on towards evening, growing out of its blue and silver into a pervasive golden gleam; the bare, greyish houses on the prairie were transformed into miniature palaces of light. Presently a girl came out of the woods behind, looking at the neglected house with a half-pitying curiosity.
The day marched nobly on towards evening, growing out of its blue and silver into a pervasive golden gleam; the bare, greyish houses on the prairie were transformed into miniature palaces of light. Presently a girl came out of the woods behind, looking at the neglected house with a half-pitying curiosity.
"Is Miss Pritty at home, child?" she asked, regarding the domestic with a half-patronising, half-pitying air. "No, ma'am, she's hout." "Oh! That's a pity," said the lady, taking a book out of her pocket. "Will you tell her that I called for her subscription to the new hospital that is about to be built in the town?
But I do not admit that the reasons for your judgment are just. You deny me my claim because, during my early manhood, I have had illicit connection with one woman. Tell me do you propose that your daughter shall ever marry at all?" The Archbishop looked at the Prince with a half-pitying surmise and drew himself up as though he had some statement to make.
A more delightful vision of ingenuous boyhood opening into life under happy auspices never inspired with pleased yet melancholy interest the eye of half-envious, half-pitying age. "And that," mused Percival St. John, "that is London! Oh for the Diable Boiteux to unroof me those distant houses, and show me the pleasures that lurk within! Ah, what long letters I shall have to write home!
"Come, Mister Hamilton, load again; quick. I'll have to do the job myself, I fear," said Jacques, as he leaned quietly on his long gun, and with a half-pitying smile watched the young man, who madly essayed to recharge his piece more rapidly than it was possible for mortal man to do.
Ben gathered the shivering little creature to his bosom with one hand, snugly enveloping him in the capacious folds of his pilot jacket, while with the other he seized Lina's hands, and leaning back against the boat, stood looking at her with a half-pitying, half-affectionate glance, that was indescribably comic and touching.
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