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Updated: June 19, 2025
And what is to become of you when I am not here to get you out of your scrapes, or of Gertrude without me to check her inveterate snobbishness, is more than I can foresee." "I am not snobbish," said Gertrude, "although I do not choose to make friends with everyone. But I never objected to you, Agatha." "No; I should like to catch you at it. Hallo, Jane!"
As I write the words I wonder that the thing should ever have seemed to any one to be more than a wretched piece of God-jugglery, devoid of integrity. Are we to conceive God then as a being of carnal appetites, humiliated by being born into the family of an honest carpenter, instead of into the family of a King? This is the somewhat snobbish imputation.
"Harry, I'd give L10 to have said that!" "You're quite right, Mother; nothing could be more snobbish!" SQUIRE. "Give us your fist, too, sir; you'll be a chip of the old block, after all." Frank smiled, and walked off to his pony. "Is that the note you were to write for me?" MISS JEMIMA. "Yes; I supposed you did not care about seeing it, so I have sealed it, and given it to George."
It is not the view which you will find on the postcards illustrating this particular spot and calling it "Venice on the Vltava." In this the Pragers fall into the snobbish habit of going outside their own country for the sake of finding some inept comparison.
And yet his burning heart said, don't listen to reason; listen only to me. Try. And so he worked double tides; and, in virtue of his university education, had no snobbish notions about never putting his hand to manual labor. He would lay down his pen at any moment and bear a hand to lift a chest or roll a cask.
'No, said Gillian; 'but I call it snobbish to make more fuss about Alethea's concern than Phyllis's -just because he calls himself Lord 'That is to a certain degree true, said Miss Mohun. 'The worth of the individual man stands first of all, and nothing can be sillier or in worse taste than to parade one's grand relations.
He wrote letters to his former playmates in which no snobbish line is discoverable.
Some day when you have nothing better to do visit the de luxe book shops of some department store, and then visit a dusky old second hand shop, and you will see what books can do! In the de luxe shop they are leathern covered things, gaudy and snobbish in their newness. In the old book shop they are books that have lived, books that invite you to browse.
They have never once thought of crying about their dinner, like the wretchedly puling and Snobbish womankind of my favourite Snob Aubrey, of 'Ten Thousand a Year; but, on the contrary, accept such humble victuals as fate awards them with a most perfect and thankful good grace nay, actually have a portion for a hungry friend at times as the present writer can gratefully testify.
We take kindly to this transformation, and perhaps it is only the vulgar in soul who become snobbish in it. Little by little, under this genial consideration, Margaret advanced in the pleasant path of worldliness; and we heard, by the newspapers and otherwise indeed, Mr. and Mrs.
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