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Unlike the delicate article of olden time, which required only a momentary infusion to develop its richness, this requires a longer and severer treatment to bring out its strength, thus confusing all the established usages, and throwing the work into the hands of the cook in the kitchen.
Unlike Hollis, Marjorie was the outgrowth of home influences; the kitchen oilcloth had something to do with her views of life, and her mother's broad face and good-humored eyes had a great deal more. Good-humor in the mother had developed sweet humor in the child.
"And that is really to come about!" said Dot. "Why, she and I were girls at school together, John." He might have been thinking of her, or nearly thinking of her, perhaps, as she was in that same school-time. He looked upon her with a thoughtful pleasure, but he made no answer. "And he's as old! As unlike her! Why, how many years older than you is Gruff and Tackleton, John?"
She did not inquire after mother's health and took no interest in any remark I made." "That was very unlike my mother." "It was, John. Finally I said, 'I see that you are troubled about something, mother, and she answered sharply, 'Yes, I'm troubled and plenty of reason for trouble. I asked if I could help in any way." John sat upright at this question and said, "What reply did mother make?"
"Yes, we're making a big run," he said, then stopped and looked straight at the rancher. "Did it ever strike you, Winston, that you were not unlike me?" Winston smiled, but made a little gesture of dissent as he returned the other's gaze.
The deputation exchanged glances, puzzled by this pompous and peevish exordium. It did not promise well; it sounded quite unlike Mr. Keith's usually bland address. Perhaps he had not yet breakfasted. "We ought to have waited," they thought. One of the listeners was so annoyed that he began: "A paradox, Mr.
The Kistisew Kestin, or Great Storm, had come earlier than usual this winter, and for a week after it scarcely a hoof or claw was moving. Baree, unlike the other creatures, did not bury himself in the snow and wait for the skies to clear and crust to form. He was big, and powerful, and restless. Less than two years old, he weighed a good eighty pounds. His pads were broad and wolfish.
She could not do much with her own muscles, but she had known the passionate delight of being whirled furiously over the road behind four scampering horses, in a rocking stage-coach, and thought of herself in the Secretary's chair as not unlike the driver on his box.
No doubt she wore a necklace quite unlike anything that Elsie had ever seen before; but then, except in the shop windows, she had seen so few ornaments in her life that she knew not whether it was a common one or not. She put the locket carefully back in its place, shut the bag, and slipped across the room to take another glance at the sleeping child.
The sentiment of the whites toward the Indians is not unlike that which has been expressed by an eminent American statesman, who says that the cause of the failure of Mexico to establish for herself a national position is to be sought and found in her acknowledgment of the political equality of her Indian population.
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