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Do any of you bring a charge or claim amends from me?" "I know not on what we could ground any," said the smooth-tongued Conrade, "unless it were that the King of England carries off from his poor brothers of the war all the fame which they might have hoped to gain in the expedition."
"And who is this?" she asked, seizing the opportunity to settle a point that was perplexing her strangely. "Our chauffeur," said Cynthia, and a glint of fun showed through the wanness of her cheeks. "But not not " Even smooth-tongued Mrs. Leland was at a loss. "Not Fitzroy, who left us a minute ago. This man's name is Dale.
When I shall have surmounted myself therein, then will I surmount myself also in that which is greater; and a VICTORY shall be the seal of my perfection! Meanwhile do I sail along on uncertain seas; chance flattereth me, smooth-tongued chance; forward and backward do I gaze , still see I no end. As yet hath the hour of my final struggle not come to me or doth it come to me perhaps just now?
"That the good Abbe has displayed his usual skill in composition. And my mother? Is she imbued with our opinion of his priestship?" "Not exactly, I fear. However, Heaven bless her, she is too soft to say 'nay. But those Jesuits are so smooth-tongued to women. 'Gad, they threaten damnation with such an irresistible air, that they are as much like William the Conqueror as Edward the Confessor.
The prodigious mystery in all their proceedings gave them the appearance of the heads of a party, and I never had the least doubt of their being the authors of the 'Gazette Ecclesiastique'. The one, tall, smooth-tongued, and sharping, was named Ferrand; the other, short, squat, a sneerer, and punctilious, was a M. Minard. They called each other cousin.
With books and money placed for show, Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay. Hudibras. Our readers may recollect a certain smooth-tongued, lank-haired, buckram-suited, Scottish scrivener, who, in the earlier part of this history, appeared in the character of a protege of George Heriot. It is to his house we are about to remove, but times have changed with him.
"One of them was his son, the Captain; one was his daughter, Miss Bervie; and the third was that smooth-tongued old soldier, Major Mulvany. If the escape of Mr. Bowmore and Mr. Linwood is in contemplation, mark my words: the persons whom I have just mentioned will be concerned in it and perhaps Miss Charlotte herself as well.
And each one of this clan each slim, feline little man in blue serge, white-toothed, gimlet-eyed, smooth-tongued, brisk hated Mary Gowd. They hated her with the hate of an Italian for an outlander with the hate of an Italian for a woman who works with her brain with the hate of an Italian who sees another taking the bread out of his mouth.
Ah, God, the horror of it, the monstrous, hideous, demoniacal wickedness of it! He and his family, helpless women and children, struggling to live, ignorant and defenseless and forlorn as they were and the enemies that had been lurking for them, crouching upon their trail and thirsting for their blood! That first lying circular, that smooth-tongued slippery agent!
There are able lawyers who have made fortunes in the practice of the profession which they understood, only to lose them by investments in mines or other ventures, about which they knew absolutely nothing but what was told them by the scheming speculator and smooth-tongued promoter.
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