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There was, however, at Paris, much discontent with the ascent of "Le Flesselles;" and the Journal de Paris de Paris, which notices so enthusiastically the other ascents of that epoch, speaks slightingly of that at Lyons.
She might chide them at will, and she did, holding this to be her prerogative and her right, but whosoever spoke slightingly of either of them in her presence, be the speaker black or white, had Aunt Charlotte to fight right there on the spot; she was as ready with her fists and her teeth to assert the right of her white wards to immunity from criticism as she was with her tongue lashings.
She could make better lemonade herself, and she murmured slightingly of the stuff to Aunt Delia McCormick. "It wants more lemons and more sugar," said Marcella, firmly. Aunt Delia pressed back the white satin bow on her bosom in order to manage her second glass with entire safety. "I don't know, Marcella," she said in a dreamy undertone, after draining the cup to its cherry.
"When she was young," I began, and my voice failed me for a moment, and it was only with a great effort that I was able to add, "was she like Olalla?" "Now God forbid!" exclaimed the Padre. "God forbid that any man should think so slightingly of my favourite penitent. I could not bear to have you think so; though, heaven knows, it were, perhaps, better that you should."
The office being done I went home and took pleasure to see my work draw to an end. 14th. Up early and by water to Whitehall to my Lord, and there had much talk with him about getting some money for him. He told me of his intention to get the Muster Master's place for Mr. Pierce, the purser, who he has a mind to carry to sea with him, and spoke very slightingly of Mr.
If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however." "If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it." "Yes but as it happens, they are all of them very clever." "This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree.
Edmond became thoughtful. "You are recalling," said he at length, "my former existence within me; I believe I comprehend you, and yet formerly I did not understand myself. You even mention the miraculous and similar things slightingly, do we not live in the age of such things?
Kilda appears to be innocent of any trace of such pretension; unless it be that the author speaks slightingly of second-sight, a subject for which Johnson always had a strong hankering. In 1773 Johnson paid a visit to Mr.
His tie, too, was rising over the top of his collar.... But the sense of insignificance disappeared from Henry's mind almost immediately after Marsh had offered his hand to him and had smiled; and following the sense of insignificance came a feeling of personal shame that was incomprehensible to him until he discovered that his shame was caused because he had thought slightingly of Marsh, even though he had done so only for a few moments, and had allowed his mind to be concerned about the trivialities of clothes when it should have been concerned with the nature of the man who wore them.
In the prefatory note of the 1631 Madrid edition entitled Obras propias, y traduciones latinas, griegas y italianas Luis de Leon speaks of his poems slightingly as mere playthings of his youth, now brought together at the request of an anonymous friend perhaps Benito Arias Montano to whom they had been ascribed.
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