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It is informal, nonchalant, tolerant, sanguine, adaptive, patient, candid, puts up with things, unfastidious, unmindful of particulars; disposed to take short cuts, friendly, hospitable, unostentatious, inclined to exaggerate, generous, unrefined, never meddlesome, never hypercritical, never hoggish, never exclusive.
Under the rock and up to see the snowy peak pink in a gap of thick mist. You were right: it made a crimsoning colour shine like a new idea. Up in those mountains one walks with the divinities, you said. It's perfectly true. I shall remember I did. I have a treasure for life! Now I understand where you get your ideas. The life we lead down there is hoggish. You have chosen the right.
And indeed he forthwith carried them to his lodging. In the meanwhile there came a master beggar of the friars of St. Anthony to demand in his canting way the usual benevolence of some hoggish stuff, who, that he might be heard afar off, and to make the bacon he was in quest of shake in the very chimneys, made account to filch them away privily.
At the dances the pipers furnished the music, or, I should rather say, the noise. Their miserable wailings reminded me of Scotland. After all, thought I, is the insidious, polished vice of France worse than the hoggish, uncouth practices of Scotland and of English country life? Sir George eagerly acquiesced in all my wishes.
That made the camel-driver feel shaky, but all the same he was born hoggish after money and didn't like to let go a cent; so he begun to whine and explain, and said times was hard, and although he had took a full freight down to Balsora and got a fat rate for it, he couldn't git no return freight, and so he warn't making no great things out of his trip.
I wouldn't tackle it until you are gone, sir, good game that it is." "First of all, you must pick out men with money with plenty of money, so that any loss will not hurt them. Also, they are easier to interest " "Because they are more hoggish," the steward interrupted. "The more money they've got the more they want." "Precisely," the Ancient Mariner continued. "And, at least, they are repaid.
Lord! what a truly hoggish man he is; yet I cannot help envying him his oblivion to these surroundings. Arrived in, this afternoon. Alten quite slept off his drink, and was offensively sarcastic as I worked on the forepart with wires, getting her into the shelters alongside the mole. I hastened up to Bruges, and in the Mess heard several items of news and found two letters.
"Drive out these swine, and throw down some acorns for them to eat." The door of the saloon being flung open, the drove of hogs ran in all directions save the right one, in accordance with their hoggish perversity, but were finally driven into the back yard of the palace.
In their hoggish way they feed well and lie warm the phrase is their own favourite and they subsist like odious reptiles, fed from mysterious sources. Whatsoever things are vile, whatsoever things are roguish, bestial, abominable, belong to the racecourse loafers.
I don't know but she's right: she always maintains that when folks has good manners an' good hearts the world is their 'n, an' she was goin' to do everything she could to keep young folks from feelin' hoggish an' left out." Tom walked out toward the farm in the bright moonlight with Mr. Gale, and promised to call as early the next day as possible.
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