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His tone made her suddenly feel that she could confide in him, and though she began by murmuring that it was nothing she did so with the conscious purpose of being persuaded to confess. And his extraordinary "niceness" seemed to justify her and to prove that she had been right in trusting her instinct rather than in following the counsels of prudence.
'As an instance of the niceness of his taste, though he praised West's translation of Pindar, he pointed out the following passage as faulty, by expressing a circumstance so minute as to detract from the general dignity which should prevail: "Down then from thy glittering nail, Take, O Muse, thy Dorian lyre ." 'When Mr. Vesey was proposed as a member of the LITERARY CLUB, Mr.
It is possible that Alice, from sheer thoughtlessness, shared the vulgar prejudice against Jews; but certainly she did not now feel it. The man's personal charm, his exceeding niceness, had always conquered that prejudice, whenever encountered. Moreover, he was only about thirty-five in years, and no such costly and beautiful male had ever yet stood on Alice's doorstep.
And this to be the lovely niceness of the human heart; and I not to have any grumble thereat; but yet, surely, you shall say that this Maid that did be Mine Own, did be very dear and lovely. And, in verity, I to show my human heart in this thing; for you likewise to want that I think your Maid to have been just so dear, and the more so.
Mountstuart Jenkinson, "have bargained for health above everything, but she has everything besides lineage, beauty, breeding: is what they call an heiress, and is the most accomplished of her sex." With a delicate art he conveyed to the lady's understanding that Miss Middleton had been snatched from a crowd, without a breath of the crowd having offended his niceness.
But Fortune, that loves to determine the greatest affairs by a minute, in this conjuncture showed such an exact niceness of time, that immediately after the battle in Sellasia was over, and Cleomenes had lost his army and his city, the messengers came up and called for Antigonus.
You are as rare as I am, and if there is anything you would take from me, I would make more than one exchange for the mere niceness of your fibre the feeling you have for fine shades of morality and taste all that makes you a lady, my dear." "Such niminy piminy things," said Alicia, contradicting the light of satisfaction in her eyes.
"You're a nice old thing," she whispered, flashing into unexpected dimples, and she rewarded him for his niceness in a way he thought altogether desirable. A crisp, strong step sounded outside. The door opened and Clay came into the room. He looked at Kitty. "Thank Heaven, you're safe," he said. "Johnnie rescued me," she cried. "He got shot in the shoulder." The men looked at each other.
My dress, if not showy or costly, was certainly without blame in its neatness and niceness, and perfectly becoming my place as a school-girl. And I had very little to do at that time with my schoolmates, and that little was entirely friendly in its character. I am obliged to think, looking back at it now, that some rivalry was at work. I did not then understand it.
He meant to be nice, perhaps. Some girls may like that sort of niceness; I don't." "Why didn't you tell him to get out?" "I wanted to see his samples. It is time for us to buy our Christmas things and I had rather choose them myself, that's all." "Oh! But Mr. Hamilton or the Captain I should think " "Oh, they might have bought some that we couldn't sell." "The beauty-boxes, for instance?"
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