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His soft-hearted devotion to a vision had weakened his combativeness; still, he would have yielded less readily to a man who had once been a slave, but that the invitation to Melissa released him of her presence for a while.
Arthur and inherit the wealth you supposed to be his." Cora was beginning to feel a return of combativeness, and she exclaimed quickly: "That is false!" "I know," pursued her inquisitor, ignoring her retort, "that this man you call 'Dr. Le Guise, is your tool and I have had every drug that has been prescribed by him analyzed by city physicians!"
She found that even poets, whom she had fondly deemed were the angel-guides among the children of this earth, were most of them painfully conceited, selfish in aim and limited in thought, moreover, that they were often so empty of all true inspiration, that they were actually able to hate and envy one another with a sort of womanish spite and temper, that novelists, professing to be in sympathy with the heart of humanity, were no sooner brought into contact one with another, than they plainly showed by look, voice, and manner, the contempt they entertained for each other's work, that men of science were never so happy as when trying to upset each other's theories; that men of religious combativeness were always on the alert to destroy each other's creeds, and that, in short, there was a very general tendency to mean jealousies, miserable heart-burnings and utter weariness all round.
One sort of play or pastime soon palled on me. I think this was mainly due to the fact that I had been humored to death and had enjoyed every sensation and surprise that it was possible for me to experience. When I played with other children, things had to go my way or there was a scene. I did not fight, my bump of combativeness being evidently small.
His broad, mis-shapen head bulged in those parts where they had placed the so-called organs of combativeness, destructiveness, etc. Something Learned About Them. Plainly, this was an effect of his training and education.
We neglected to count on that passion which is innate in women, and which phrenologists call combativeness. With her there is now a cause to be gained, and, when love unites its interests with cards or with war, it becomes irresistible. Truly our campaign is greatly jeopardized, unless Heaven or M. Larinski interfere."
Tempered thus, and modified by some of the tendencies of the demagogue, his love of military parade amounted to a propensity, a trait which he shared with most of the people among whom he lived. The inference from this characteristic, that he possessed what phrenologists used to call "combativeness," is not unavoidable, though such was the fact.
He had won, deservedly, a great fame, which he proceeded to imperil by his combativeness with his neighbors and his harsh strictures upon the national character, due mainly to his lofty conception of the ideal America. He continued to spin yarns of sea and shore, and to write naval history.
I am ashamed to say I know nothing about it, and my zeal for the cause of its people is an ignorant sentimentalism partly, perhaps, mere innate combativeness that longs to strike on the weaker side, and partly, too, resentful indignation at the cold-blooded neutrality observed by all the powers of Europe while that handful of men were making so brave a stand against the Russian giant.
"Is it altogether advisable that she should go out with him?" she asked. Stirling smiled somewhat dryly, for there was a vein of combativeness in him, and she had stirred it. "You mean, is it safe? Well, I guess she's quite as safe as she would be with me or the major."
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