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He was tempted to have Stephen Jannan turn over to Essie, at once, a conclusive sum of money. That would put an end to any communication between them, provide her with the power of self-gratification which for Essie Scofield spelled forgetfulness.... For a little, he was obliged, wearily, to add.
It had no cabin, and there was seating room for a large party a design calculated more for profit than safety. The boat was in evident poor condition, lacking paint, and its rigging frayed, a not uncommon condition with boats to let in small waters of this sort. Somewhat crude lettering on the stern spelled the name, Flyaway.
"There are two things that I want to tell you. First, that I love you, and always have loved you, and always shall love you to all eternity. But how could I say this to you, sweetheart, in the days when my love spelled poverty for us both? And how could I say it when you became one of the richest women in Mershire, and I only the paid manager of your works?
Then came a tenement, under which two enterprising Greeks by the name of Pappas spelled Papas lower down conducted a business called "The Gentleman," a tailoring, pressing, and dyeing establishment. Janet could see the brilliantined black heads of the two proprietors bending over their boards, and sometimes they would be lifted to smile at her as she passed.
No wonder King Ulric is so anxious to retain his sovereignty; no wonder this er Madame Tcharnovetski, I think you said the name is " "Yes, monsieur. It is oddly spelled, but it is pronounced a little broader than you give it quite as though it were written Shar-no-vet-skee, in fact, with the accent on the third syllable." "Ah, yes. Thanks very much. No wonder she is anxious to become a power here.
A general grunt that might be spelled "Hmmmmhm" assented. "I'm a good suffragette," she added. "Watch us squat the men, Mary." "Like to smash windows? Let's see it's red fours, black fives up?" remarked Tom, as he prepared the pack of cards for playing. "Yes, I would! It makes me so tired," asseverated Mrs.
It either spelled retreat in a harrowing dawn with the marshal and Silas at his heels or a temporary sojourn in a village jail. And Kenny detested any form of humiliation or discomfort. "Silas," he said wearily, "this is a rotten corncrib. It's sprained and spavined and Lord knows what.
Hesitant to do this thing which to him, by the strange standard of his warped code, spelled dishonour, he would and he would not; and while he paltered, was visited by an oddly vivid memory of the clear and candid eyes of Cecelia Brooke, seemed veritably to see them searching his own with their look of grieving wonder ... the eyes of one woman who had reckoned him worthy of her trust....
Ferdinand Lassalle was a native of Breslau, the son of a wealthy Jewish silk-merchant. Heymann Lassal for thus the father spelled his name stroked his hands at young Ferdinand's cleverness, but he meant it to be a commercial cleverness. He gave the boy a thorough education at the University of Breslau, and later at Berlin. He was an affectionate parent, and at the same time tyrannical to a degree.
Do you know, Laura, that I have here a note you wrote when you were eight years old? It is as badly written as any note I ever saw. There are also twenty words in it spelled wrong. Suppose you had said then, "If I can't, I can't, and there's an end of it."
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