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"But she has her guards, her keepers, to look after her property," said Marietta. "Guards and keepers are mere mercenaries. If you want a thing well done, you should do it yourself," said Peter, with gloomy sententiousness. On Sunday he went to the little grey rococo parish church.
Then he lit a pipe, and gazed keenly about him. The buckskin interested him. "No good," said he, feeling of its texture. Thorpe laughed. "Not very," he confessed. "Good," continued the Indian, touching lightly his own moccasins. "What you do?" he inquired after a long silence, punctuated by the puffs of tobacco. "Hunt; trap; fish," replied Thorpe with equal sententiousness.
If Bracciolini could get so much for an incomplete copy of Livy's History, what might he not hope to get for a complete one? Imagination wanders into the realms of fairy. The genius of Livy, and also of Sallust, was more in accord with his own than the staid majestic coldness and the solemn curt sententiousness of Tacitus.
"No time is lost in which one has been happy!" said Felix, with a bright sententiousness which may well have been a little irritating. "And in which," rejoined his sister, with a harsher laugh, "one has secured the affections of a young lady with a fortune!" Felix explained, very candidly and seriously.
Westlake furnished a sample of the tranquil sententiousness of Busby's brother Robert during a stormy debate in the House of Commons. 'I remember, Dacier was reminded, 'hearing him say, when the House resembled a Chartist riot, "Let us stand aside and meditate on Life. If Youth could know, in the season of its reaping of the Pleasures, that it is but sowing Doctor's bills!"
It is odd that the nation that has given us so much epigrammatic slang and the telegraph and the telephone and the typewriter should have so little of what might be called intellectual short-hand. But so it is. Too many Americans are remorseless when they are making themselves clear. Yet the passion for printed idiomatic sententiousness and arresting trade-notices is visible all the time.
The decorative inscriptions in Saracenic monuments can have no beauty of expression for one who does not read Arabic; their charm is wholly one of material and form. Or if they have any expression, it is by virtue of such thoughts as they might suggest, as, for instance, of the piety and oriental sententiousness of the builders and of the aloofness from us of all their world.
He read in a high, clear treble the telegraphic dispatches, the sanguinary editorial ratiocinations, Orphic in their prophetic sententiousness, and then turned to the local columns. Any one listening to the lad would never have suspected that he was not a Southron.
Their friendship may now be one that won't change so easily." "Ah! don't be hard on me, Mary. I have never ceased to love you." "I am so glad!" answered Mary. "People don't generally take much to me at least, not to come near me. But you can be friends without having friends," she added, with a sententiousness she had inherited.
Hell Mary Juana, servant of the Gabriele goddess and her partner, the sun god, give us something sweet to hallucinate now and at the hour of our death. Amen." She looked over at Nathaniel there in her pew. He was barely able to keep himself from launching through the roof. This sententiousness and pomp was too much poop for him too.
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