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Osborne Gordon had recommended him to read Hooker, and he caught the tone and style of the "Ecclesiastical Polity" only too readily, so that much of his work of that winter, the more philosophical part of vol. ii., was damaged by inversions, and Elizabethan quaintness as of ruff and train, long epexegetical sentences, and far-sought pomposity of diction.
Miss Vancourt is, I suppose, the mistress of Abbot's Manor?" "She is, sir, of course it all belongs to Miss Maryllia " "Miss what?" interrupted Walden, with a sudden lightening of his dark blue eyes. "Maryllia, sir. It is a kind of family name, pronounced 'Ma-rill- yer," explained Mrs. Spruce with considerable pomposity; "Many folks never gets it right it wants knowledge and practice.
Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative. A sample of this curious messy mixture he encountered nearer home.
"But I expect she'll dance all the same. And and I may dance with him just once, mayn't I? There couldn't be any harm in just one dance. No one would notice that, would they?" She pressed close to the Colonel with her petition, and he found it hard to refuse. She made it with so childlike an earnestness, and all his pomposity notwithstanding he had a soft heart for children.
From this monstrous pomposity even the artificial rusticity of a Petit Trianon is a relief. It was only human nature that the jaded Frenchman of the regency should run away to the New World, and live in a forest-hut with an Indian squaw; although he found little satisfaction in his act of heroism, unless it was talked about at Versailles.
Webster and Starr King had voices very much alike, and Webster, by the way, wasn't the big man physically that the school readers proclaim. It was his gigantic head and the royal way he carried himself that made the Liverpool stevedores say, "There goes the King of America." There was no pomposity about Starr King.
"That's what I'm here to get at. The murderers of Telfik Bey, of course. My instructions are to find out secretly, if at all. For if it does get into the newspapers there'll be the very deuce to pay. "You need not, in point of fact, tell me anything about it at all," observed Average Jones equably. Pomposity fell away from Mr. Thomas Colvin McIntyre, leaving him palpably shivering.
with heavy pomposity the charge against the prisoners "to wit: That on Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, in the District of Columbia they did aid and abet in setting fire to certain combustibles consisting of logs, paper, oil, etc., between the setting of the sun in the said District of Columbia on the sixth day of January and the rising of the sun in the said District of Columbia o f the sixth day o f January, 1919, A. D."
"What is he doing?" asked the savage of English Chief. "Taking the sun," replied the interpreter, with immense pomposity. "What does that mean?" asked the savage. English Chief tried to explain, but failed for this good reason that he himself was totally ignorant of the subject beyond the phrase, which he had picked up after the manner of a parrot.
Caroline Darrah clasped a sandwich to the death in her hands and questioned the negro with the same faith that she would have used in questioning Major Buchanan. "No, ma'am, he ain't going ter git nigger-beat if we can help it us society colored set, you understand, Miss Ca'line." Jeff's manner was an interesting mixture of pomposity and deference.
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