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The monarchy, which was at first representative and the true expression of the nation, because it, or anything else, when there was no detritus, but things were new and the inner air uncluttered, gave freedom to the national aspirations to pour themselves out in action, gives such freedom no longer; it irks; it misfits; you feel it chafing everywhere.
'Alack, noble dame! we poor pilgrims must ever be moving on, however much it irks foot and limb, over these northern stones, he answered, and his accent and tone were such that a thrill seemed to pass over the lady's whole person, but she controlled it, and only said, 'Tarry till these have received their alms, then will I see to thee and thy maimed foot.
To trade his heritage for this was to trade hope and hazard for monotonous ease; but with the smell of the yielding earth in his nostrils, he no more thought of this than a man in love thinks of the long restraints and irks of marriage when the kiss of his woman is on his lips. Ramon’s life on his farm quickly fell into a routine that was for the most part pleasant.
What you are doing is not choosing a line in life, but changing one already chosen. You are making of yourself a rolling stone." "A stone should roll till it has come to the spot that suits it." "Why not give up the school if it irks you?" "And become a Cambridge Don, and practice deportment among the undergraduates." "I don't see that you need do that. You need not even live at Cambridge.
"Yes, O uncle!" answered Agib, "my heart irks me for the loss of a beloved one, who is none other than my father; and indeed my grandfather and myself have come forth to seek for him throughout the world. Alas I how I sigh to be united with him!"
And yet it has not ceased by any means to be representative: it represents now a nation which has lost its adjustment to the inner things and is clogged up by the detritus of old thought and action, and it is that detritus that irks and misfits and chafes you.
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me, the poor dappled foals, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should, in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gored." As You Like It, II.i.21-25 Hurry Harry thought more of the beauties of Judith Hutter than of those of the Glimmerglass and its accompanying scenery.
"Yet men have pined eighteen years in dark vaults," said Friedel; "and, when I think that so may he have wasted for the whole of our lives that have been so free and joyous on his own mountain, it irks me to bound on the heather or gaze at the stars." "If the serpent hath dared," cried Ebbo, "though it is mere folly to think of it, we would summon the League and have his castle about his ears!
It irks them to occupy themselves with purely mental processes, so enslaved are they by what is near and personal, and thus they are impoverished in the best elements of language. It is as if what are sometimes called the associative fibers, both ends of which are in the brain, were dwarfed in comparison with the afferent and efferent fibers that mediate sense and motion.
She looked down on me from the rock with the old quizzing humour in her eyes. "If gratitude irks you, sir, what would you have?" "All," I cried; "and yet, Heaven knows, I am not worth it. I am no man to capture a fair girl's heart. My face is rude and my speech harsh, and I am damnably prosaic.
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