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By this time, however, his culture had become too wide, and his independent views too confirmed, to admit of his yielding unconditionally to the great Russian. Especially his critical familiarity with French literature operated to broaden, if at the same time to render less trenchant, his method and expression.
Leary announced he should report the affair to his government "as a gross violation of the principles of international law, and as a breach of the neutrality." "I positively decline the protest," replied Fritze, "and cannot fail to express my astonishment at the tone of your last letter." This was trenchant.
'Prices have gone up, said the painter, dryly. 'Oh! so you know all about Lenbach? 'You lent me the article. However' Fenwick rose 'is that our bargain? The note in the voice was trenchant, even aggressive. Nothing of the suppliant, in tone or attitude. Morrison surveyed him, amused. 'If you like to call it so, he said, lifting his delicate eyebrows a moment. 'Well, I'll take the risk.
I, who would not have executed such gambols for the world in the presence of the fairer sex, but anxious in an elderly way to express my sympathy with the performer, said, with what was meant to be a polite admiration: "I can't think how you do that!" Upon which a shrewd and trenchant maiden-aunt who was present, and was delighting in the exuberance of her nephew, said to me briskly, "Mr.
We only expected that they might leave us a little more margin for our nonsense; we never expected that they would accept it seriously as sense. Therefore I am all at sea about the existing situation; I scarcely know whether to be relieved or enraged by this substitution of the feeble platform lecture for the forcible curtain-lecture. I am lost without the trenchant and candid Mrs. Caudle.
These stinging shots of hers were quite disturbing; they always went home, and reached too far for the comfort of her son's persecutors. Her letter to the allied sovereigns who met at Aix-la-Chapelle is one of the most trenchant indictments that has ever been penned.
"When she's clothed and in her right mind, she is a valuable accessory sharp and trenchant like a clean, bright lancet; but when she allows one of these causeless hysterical fits to override her tone, she plays one false at once like a lancet that slips, or grows dull and rusty."
Like a generous creative enthusiast, he fearlessly makes his idea an action shows himself in peculiar guise to mankind, walks forth a witness and living martyr to the eternal worth of clothes. This is very witty and very trenchant in allusion, but I am obliged to say seriously that Carlyle by no means reached the root of the matter.
The strange content of his query, the trenchant force of it, brought her upright, with sight suddenly cleared. Was this giant the tragic Glenn who had strode to her from the cabin door? "Charley told me you and Flo were married," she whispered. "You didn't believe him!" returned Glenn. She could no longer speak.
"Who put that paper there?" he roared, turning. "With reference, then, to Mr. Hubert Wales's novel," said Clarence. The Grand Duke cursed Mr. Hubert Wales, his novel, and Clarence in one sentence. "You may possibly," continued Clarence, sticking to his point like a good interviewer, "have read the trenchant, but some say justifiable remarks of the Rev.
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