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I suppose he meant by it, 'with an obstinate resolution, similar to that of a sullen man. BOSWELL. Southey wrote to Scott: 'Give me more lays, and correct them at leisure for after editions not laboriously, but when the amendment comes naturally and unsought for. It never does to sit down doggedly to correct. Southey's Life, iii. 126.
And head and shoulders above the other boys of his age at the school was Bewsher; not that materially, of course, there weren't others more important; Bewsher's family was old and rich as such families go, but he was very much a younger son, and his people lived mostly in the country; yet even then there was something about him a manner, an adeptness in sports, an unsought popularity, that picked him out; the beginnings of that Norman nose that Mr.
Well, that was still more indiscreet of you, for I shall get away unseen, while you lie here unsought." "Your scheme is futile. There are fifty men about the pit's mouth now. I have told them " "Liar!" Solomon darted forward; and Richard, throwing away the torch, as though disdaining to use any advantage in the way of weapon, grappled with him at once.
I shudder at the thought." "But you would learn to love me." "But you cannot take Russell's place. None can come between him and my heart." "Electra Grey, you are unwomanly in your unsought love." "Unwomanly! If so, made such by your unmanliness. Unwomanly! Were you more manly, I had never shocked your maudlin sentiments of propriety."
Suddenly that cruel repulsion which seizes mankind towards reptiles and unsought love seized Barney. He unclasped her clinging hands, and fairly pushed her away from him. "Good-night, Rose," he said, shortly, and turned, and went up the path to his own door with determined strides. "Barney!" Rose called after him; but he paid no attention.
In the midst of the uproar Webster James, a candidate for county attorney, who had the promise of Caleb's support and an understanding with him, rose and was recognized by the chairman. "Mr. Chairman: I have always felt that office should come unsought; should seek the man.
The mere shyness of a modest girl. If she was to be 'won unsought, she would not be worthy to be Mrs. Talboys." "Her worth is indisputable," said Mr. Talboys, "but that is no reason why I should force upon her my humble claims." The moment his friend's pride began to ape humility, Fountain saw the wound it had received was incurable. He sighed and was silent.
The tenderness of colour, the beauty of series and perspective, and the variety of surface, produced by the small culture of vegetables, are among the charms that come unsought, and that are not to be found by seeking are never to be achieved if they are sought for their own sake. And another of the delights of the useful laborious land is its vitality.
In such a moment one could find it in one's heart to believe that some ethereal soulless creature, like Ariel of the "Tempest," was floating at one's side, directing one's attention, like a petulant child, to the things that touched its light-hearted fancy, and constraining one into an unsought enjoyment.
This task, like so many others which Lord John accomplished, came unsought at the death of his old friend, Lady Holland, in 1845. It was the ambition of Lord Holland, 'nephew of Fox and friend of Grey, as he used proudly to style himself, to edit the papers and write the life of his brilliant kinsman.
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