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Although she was a sort of feminine Tiberius, and in the purity of her life resembled her mother and her great-grandmother Livia, Tacitus nevertheless maligns her for her relationships with Pallas and Seneca.
Jasper's, who maligns him every day? In your heart you cannot mean it. From your heart you could not do it, if his case were yours. 'I have represented to Mr. Crisparkle, Helena, said Neville, with a glance of deference towards his tutor, 'that if I could do it from my heart, I would. But I cannot, and I revolt from the pretence. You forget however, that to put the case to Mr.
There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. The criminal is often enough not equal to his deed: he extenuates and maligns it. The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer. Our vanity is most difficult to wound just when our pride has been wounded.
Cleeve breathed heavily. 'It will be a long, weary time, he said. 'And even with your promise I shall work but half-heartedly. Every hour of study will be interrupted with "Suppose this or this happens;" "Suppose somebody persuades her to break her promise;" worse still, "Suppose some rival maligns me, and so seduces her away."
But no crowd. My exchequer will not stand it. "I'm running low in funds and father won't let me overdraw my allowance, although he lets Grace do it almost every month. He says a girl hasn't any head for figures, anyway, and she's to be excused." "Oh, my!" gasped Nan. "That maligns the sex. I ought not to allow that, Walter Mason." "Huh!" returned the boy, grinning.
Chester Downes and Paul, if it hurts your feelings for me to tell the truth about them. But I am bound to be angry if anybody maligns my father's memory." "Oh, Chester would never do such a thing," mother gasped. "Then, where did Paul pick up that old scandal to throw at me?" I demanded. "What old scandal do you mean, Clinton?" she asked, faintly.
"But the special troubles that beset me are here, not within the theatre! If Poussette is silly, with his ridiculous attentions when he thinks his wife is not looking, if the other person, if " "You mean this man Crabbe?" She inclined her head; at the mention of the name all spirit seemed to die out of her. "If he maligns me, slanders and lies about me, that is here here at St.
Catharine Parr is hailed by the Protestants of England as the new patroness of the persecuted doctrine, and already the Romish priests hurl their anathemas against you, and execrate you and your dangerous presence here. And you ask me, whether I am an adherent of that church which maligns and damns you?
While the following seem to us incorrectly used: mumbling used of wings; the word is confined to the mouth whether as a manner of eating or of speaking: crunch where the frosts crunch the grass: whereas they only make it crunchable. maligns used as a neuter verb without precedent, chinked of light passing through a chink: and note the homophone chink, used of sound. And then the line
Let us leave ourselves in God's hands; and when conscience accuses, or the world maligns or threatens, let us be still, and feel that we have One to speak for us, and so we may hold our peace. The rendering of verse 17 is doubtful, but the general meaning is clear. The brave speakers have hope that God will rebuke the king's taunt, and will prove Himself to be able to deliver out of his hand.
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