Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
On the railways the jolts and shaking are not deadly enough to require such an antidote; but, even in unconservative Russia, customs outlive the conditions that created them; and at every railway-station you may see men and women carrying about their pillows with them as we carry wraps.
Some of the other hands about whom I inquired had left the old barquey and shipped aboard other vessels, so Garry told me; but at this I was not much surprised, sailors as a rule being fond of change and very unconservative in their habits.
He watched her reading with censorship, yet desire, patronage, and oiliness together. Glancing up when she had read far enough, Hulda thought he was looking at her as if she was some rarer kind of negress. "Beautifully read, Hulda! I never go to such places as theatres, but you might be, I should say, an actress. Don't think of it, however! Very unconservative profession!
In the first place, Nelson could not imagine a man making such a declaration; it was new to his entire experience and contrary to his code. It was unconservative, therefore it staggered him. It was, in fact, a phenomenon so unique as to leave him numb. He told himself that it must have been the act of a madman or a fool.
"I hope," he said, and the amusement broke softly in his face, "all this appraisal is showing a little to my credit." The color flamed pinkly in her face. She looked away. "I was wondering if you blamed me. I've been so unconservative so so even daring. Is it not true?"
Word Of The Day