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Updated: May 24, 2025
In an instant the air was filled with whirling copies of the Blazeton Weekly Courier. Henry, the horse, was a sober animal who had long ago reached the age of discretion. But to have his old ears and eyes suddenly blanketed with a flapping white thing swooping apparently from nowhere was too much even for his sedate nerves. He jumped sidewise.
Not being immediately distressed by debt, I did not exhibit the gush of gratitude, and my sedate 'Thank you, sir, confused his appeal for some sentimental show of affection. I am sure the poor old man suffered pangs of jealousy; I could even at times see into his breast and pity him.
And your phraseology is just as unusual to us. 'Indeed? he said with some surprise. 'I supposed our method of expression very sedate and uneventful. 'Not at all, I returned, 'when you say, as you did a moment ago, that you never eat potato to your fish. 'But I do not, he urged obtusely. 'Very likely, I argued, 'but the fact is not of so much importance as the preposition.
Two maiden ladies unmistakably such, though they appear neither "anxious nor aimless " -within the scoop-top smile benevolently on the sorrel back. It is the deacon's horse, a meeting-going nag, with a sedate, leisurely jog as he goes; and these are two of the "salt of the earth," the brevet rank of the women who stand and wait, going down to the village store to dicker.
The affair was thus concluded; before the thirty days were up Vanna was taken to church by her father, and taken from it by her new master. Within a week she appeared at the doorway of Baldassare's little shop, very pretty, very sedate, quite the housewife to sit there sewing and singing to herself from grey dawn to grey dusk. A year passed, two years passed.
If an Orator, then, who is ambitious to win the palm of Eloquence, has any thing to deliver which is warm and cutting, let his voice be strong and quick; if what is calm and gentle, let it be mild and easy; if what is grave and sedate, let it be cool and settled; and if what is mournful and affecting, let his accents be plaintive and flexible.
Mary Rose's dancing feet moved in a more sedate measure. "I think Jenny Lind has had ride enough for one day. And George Washington likes his four feet better than he does an automobile. He won't mind if we leave him behind." "Then you may sit on the front seat with me," Mr. Jerry promised. "It's very exciting living in the city," sighed Mary Rose, when she was on the front seat beside him.
We none of us had a wish to separate, for the imagination of each was teeming with that sedate yet full flow of sentiment which, as Milton has so beautifully described, melancholy can give. Mr.
For in that event the familiar circumstances of sedate and wholesome living cannot but seem, like paintings viewed too near, to lose in gusto and winsomeness. Desire, perhaps a craving hunger, awakens for the impossible. No emotion, whatever be its sincerity, is endured without a side-glance toward its capabilities for being written about.
Plowden, who, as a sedate business man was less intimate with the generality of the young men at the Baths, was accompanied only by his second; his adversary was attended by a whole cohort of acquaintances really far more after the fashion of a party going to a picnic, or some other party of pleasure, than in the usual guise of men bent on such an errand.
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