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Updated: May 29, 2025
I seemed to have found my tongue, and to be pouring forth a string of well-turned speeches which I never should have ready at real need. If I could only see her again now that all my plans are weighed and thought out and combined! Really, it is hard that one can not live one's life over twice at least certain passages in it-this episode, for instance.... What is her opinion of me?
A few well-turned paragraphs were added on the subject of the administration of justice "without which the republic was a dead body without a soul" in the Bishop's most approved style, and the discourse concluded with a fervent exhortation to the provinces to trample heresy and heretics out of existence, and with the hope that the Lord God, in such case, would bestow upon the Netherlands health and happiness.
Stradella sat down at a little distance and looked at the Persian carpet, and she could not help seeing that he had remarkably well-turned legs and ankles, and wore very well-made shoes of soft purple leather with handsome chiselled silver buckles.
Each guest is expected to contribute in some way to the entertainment of the company. You Jerome M. de Greville," she begged pardon with a sudden glance at me, "You, M. de Greville, will doubtless favor us with a well-turned madrigal. And you, my dear Captain de Mouret, in which direction do your talents lie?" "I have no talents, Madame; a plain blunt man of the camp."
Every line of the slim, lissom figure, every curve of the soft, undulating body, the sweep of rounded arm, of tapering waist-line, of well-turned ankle, contributed evidence of what it were folly to ask further proof. How could he have ever seen those lovely, soft-lashed eyes and the delicate little hands without conviction coming home to him?
By-the-by, that's a well-turned phrase; 'twill bear repeating. I'll make a note of it." True enough, Mr. Windham called, and, after the trivial business-affair was settled, he introduced the subject he was expected to speak on. "We want men of character and business habits in public station, my young friend, and I was rejoiced to-day to hear that it was proposed to make you a Senator.
The circumstance of the moment adroitly seized, and related in some well-turned stanzas, interspersed with dialogue, is sufficient to insure the success of a new piece, especially if adapted to the abilities of the respective performers. Among them, HENRY would shine in the parts of lovers, were he less of a mannerist. JULIEN may be quoted as an excellent imitator of the beaux of the day.
I seemed to have found my tongue, and to be pouring forth a string of well-turned speeches which I never should have ready at real need. If I could only see her again now that all my plans are weighed and thought out and combined! Really, it is hard that one can not live one's life over twice at least certain passages in it-this episode, for instance . . . . What is her opinion of me?
Amelia, however, was not going to give Emily a chance; for, having dressed with all the expedition compatible with an attractive toilet a lavender-coloured satin with broad black lace flounces, and some heavy jewellery on her well-turned arms, she came sidling in so gently as almost to catch Emily in the act of playing the agreeable.
What is the use of prattling about Universal Brotherhood, if you do not live it? Sometimes, in discussions on Brotherhood, it is spoken of as though it only meant soft words and well-turned phrases, sentimentality and not reality.
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