Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 15, 2025
Measured even by the complaisant standards of her own time, there can be but one verdict upon the character of Mme. de Tencin, though it is to be hoped that the scandal-loving chroniclers have painted her more darkly than she deserved. But whatever her faults may have been, her talent and her influence were unquestioned.
Of all the carping, cross-grained, scandal-loving, Whiggish assailants of Alma Mater, the author of Terrae Filius was the most persistent. What strikes one most in Terrae Filius is the religious discontent of the bilious author. One thinks, foolishly of course, of even Georgian Whigs as orthodox men, at least in their undergraduate days. The mere aspect of Mr.
Hundreds of persons have probably been disappointed by this work an historical novel, of the time of Edward the Third, by Mr. Power, of Covent Garden Theatre. Scandal-loving people are so fond of concatenation, or stringing circumstances, causes, and effects together, that in the present case they made up their minds to some secret of our times: some boudoir story of Windsor or St.
"We can pick the grains of wheat out of the chaff. No doubt she exaggerates and garbles, after the fashion of a scandal-loving woman, but her evidence is valuable, especially as showing that Lydia was not at Bath on Christmas Eve.
Without answering a word he bowed and went. When Ida saw this, she was sorry she had made the remark, for she had no wish to appear to Mr. She had indeed heard some talk about him and Mrs. Quest, but not being of a scandal-loving disposition it had not interested her, and she had almost forgotten it. Now however she learned that there was something in it.
I'll not let her come into this house. Confound Lady Betty, and all scandal-loving old tabbies like her! Bless me! continued Mr. Witherington, throwing the letter on the table, with a deep sigh, 'this is anything but comfortable. But if Mr. Witherington found it anything but comfortable at the commencement, he found it unbearable in the sequel.
"Isn't it characteristic of scandal-loving humanity?" she rejoined. "And on Christmas Day!" Philip chided her lightly. Then he went on, seriously: "But one should really be above all things save love and gratitude to God on this day." "I suppose so," said Lawrence, "but it's difficult to determine just where this object of gratitude abides and what He is."
It caused a righteous indignation to rise within her, and when after the visit we were seated by the antique centre table in her sitting-room, the conversation turned upon the peculiarities of this scandal-loving Jane North. Clara expressed herself freely on the subject of small talk, as she termed scandal.
"In the first place, if it be true, it is no slander, but simply a scandal-loving report. In the next place for you did not allow me to finish what I was saying the public does not assert that you have abandoned yourself to this passion.
They declared, too, that she had a concentrated and spiteful expression. I believe that she was simply irritated and painfully conscious of the contemptuous and inquisitive eyes of our scandal-loving public. She was proud and could not stand contempt. She was one of those people who flare up, angry and eager to retaliate, at the mere suggestion of contempt.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking