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Updated: June 20, 2025
But the tourists were well supplied with their own outfits, and these amateurs, disdaining the offered professional services, secured snapshots themselves. "What!" said one of the amateurs indignantly, "let the Turks take us? No! let some of the party stay on the steps and we will take the picture and include the Turks in it."
'Haven't I done parlour-work for six months? no amateurs, please! And again, even while he talked on, Arthur's eyes would stray after the young full figure, the white neck and throat, the head with the soft hair folded close around it in wavy bands that followed all its lines as it might have been the head of one of those terra-cottas that her father had stolen from the Greek tombs in his youth.
The people know many of the common trades which they exercise occasionally as amateurs. Nothing puzzles the Touaricks and Negroes so much as my gloves. Am obliged to put them on and off frequently a dozen times a day, for their especial gratification. My Leghorn hat, on the contrary, here, as in The Mountains, is an object of admiration, on account of the fineness of the platting.
The amateurs, too, had something to say on their side; they were apt to accuse West-Pointers as a class of a cringing belief that the South was invincible.
It is unfortunate for the amateurs of gardening that most plants of this tribe are difficult of propagation, and are not of easy culture.
He learned later that these receivers were made by amateurs because the factories only made equipment for the armed forces. He bought a triode valve called 'MICRO' and was told it had an amplification factor of 7. He wrapped it carefully in cotton wool for the return journey to Odessa.
The inhabitants of modern Rome are particularly given to applaud the actions and sentiments of their ancient country; as if those actions and sentiments had any relation to them in their present state. They are amateurs of energy and independence, in the same manner as they are of the fine pictures which adorn their galleries.
Since the amateurs had been panic-stricken, seized with consternation like that of speculators when a 'slump' sweeps over a Stock Exchange, prices were giving way day by day, and nothing more was sold.
It is common enough too, at a big dinner-party, to meet three or four people, without the least professional dinginess, who have written books. Mr. Winston Churchill said the other day, with much humour, that he could not reckon himself a professional author because he had only written five books the same number as Moses.* And I am far from decrying the pleasant labours of these amateurs.
Certainly I am no judge of music, but to my ear the discord was terrific, to the ears of better informed amateurs it seemed ravishing. All were spellbound; even Mrs. Poyntz paused from her knitting, as the Fates paused from their web at the lyre of Orpheus. To this breathless delight, however, soon succeeded a general desire for movement.
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