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When the wood merchant, as I suspect insincerely only to show that he was a man of education, began to speak of the necessity of such measures, the soldiers who heard him all turned away from him, scowling and pretending not to hear.
They began to talk dogs, Mr. Povey, for his part, with due caution. "Now, there's a dog!" said Boon, pointing to one of the bull-dogs, a miracle of splendid ugliness. "Yes," responded Mr. Povey, insincerely. "He is a beauty. What's it worth now, at a venture?" "I'll tak' a hundred and twenty sovereigns for her," said Boon. "Th' other's a bit cheaper a hundred." "Oh, Sam!" gasped Constance.
Let us not forget or disobey the Bible injunction, to 'use hospitality one to another without grudging." "I'll try not to. I'll be as good to her as I can, without feeling that I am acting insincerely." "And that is all I ask, love. Your perfect freedom from any thing approaching to deceit is one of your greatest charms, in your husband's eyes," he said, tenderly caressing her.
She was aware of it now as if it were a voice shouting outside a house, shouting passionate verities in a hot sunlight, a voice that cries while people talk insincerely in a darkened room and pretend not to hear. Its shouting now did in some occult manner convey a protest that Mr.
In the next place, the soul does violence to itself when it turns away from any man, or even moves towards him with the intention of injuring, such as are the souls of those who are angry. In the third place, the soul does violence to itself when it is overpowered by pleasure or by pain. Fourthly, when it plays a part, and does or says anything insincerely and untruly.
She was kind to them all in her way, and insisted on their being friends together, in spite of a disposition to reciprocal criticism they displayed. Dangle thought Widgery a Philistine, appreciating but coarsely the merits of "A Soul Untrammelled," and Widgery thought Dangle lacked, humanity would talk insincerely to say a clever thing.
He will be in presently." "Sit down, sit down. Mrs. Waule, you'd better go." Even those neighbors who had called Peter Featherstone an old fox, had never accused him of being insincerely polite, and his sister was quite used to the peculiar absence of ceremony with which he marked his sense of blood-relationship.
Putting the worst hypothesis possible, which it would be the height of injustice to entertain seriously, that the concession was really made solely to convenience, and that the profession of regard for justice was hypocrisy, even so, the ground taken, even if insincerely, is the most hopeful sign of the moral state of the American mind which has appeared for many years.
"I think," said the doctor and paused. "I shall leave this Avebury expedition to you." "We can be back in the early afternoon," said Sir Richmond. "To give them a chance of seeing the cathedral. The chapter house here is not one to miss...." "And then I suppose we shall go on? "As you please," said Sir Richmond insincerely.
There were pictures too of human life so-called, silly, romantic, insincerely posed; some fatuous allegorical things, like ill-staged melodramas; but the strength of English art came out for all that in the lovely landscapes, rich fields, summer streams, far-off woodlands, beating seas; and I felt in looking at it all that the pictures which moved one most were those which gave one a sudden hunger for the joy and beauty of earth, not ill-imagined fantastic places, but scenes that one has looked upon a hundred times with love and contentment, the corn-field, the mill with its brimming leat, the bathing-place among quiet pastures, the lake set deep in water-plants, the old house in the twilight garden all the things consecrated throughout long ages by use and life and joy.
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