I, all in amaze, for he seemed as arnest as an ox team.
I, and with that I begun to twistify the square paper about in my fingers, and at last I seemed to be a reading it as arnest as could be, all the while a leaning sort of easy towards him as if I'd forgot he was there.
You don't really intend to leave the city," sez she, a looking at me as arnest as could be.
Her old gray hair was sort a rumpled up under her cap, and her steel spectacles had slid half way down her nose, she was bending so arnest over the big Bible, and reading the Prophecies of Daniel.
She was dreadful arnest tu know if I'd hearn from you, and how you stood the cold weather, and then consarn me!
Mr. Wellford tried in vain to induce Arnest to consent to forget what was past; but he affirmed that this was impossible, and that he had no wish to renew an acquaintance with his old friend.
Reconciled at last," said old Mr. Wellford, when he next saw Arnest and heard the fact from his lips.
Did Arnest rise higher in his self-esteem, or Marston gain additional self-respect?
Mr. Wellford was present at this meeting, and marked the fact that the intercourse between Arnest and Marston was official only--that they did not unbend to each other in the least.
Arnest still dwelt on and magnified the provocation he had received, but thought that the expression of his indignation had not been of a character to give as great offence to Marston as it had done.
The letter of Arnest was before him; he had turned it over by accident.
The two friends were in company with several others, and there was present a young lady in whose eyes Arnest wished to appear in as favourable a light as possible.
Arnest returned the pressure with both hands, his eyes fixed on those of Marston, until they grew so dim that he could no longer read the old familiar lines and forgiving look.
But Arnest shook his head, remarking, as he so--"I would rather let things remain as they are.
They were in arnest and no mistake; they'd got steam up and was determined to finish with us at once, whatever it cost 'em.
I reckon their dander's not fairly up yet; but when they begin in arnest you'll see what they'll do.
Didn't ye git a leetle 'arnest in yer feelin's, Bill, afore ye got to the top of the last ridge?
In 1344 Prague was separated from its far-off metropolis of Mainz and was erected into an archbishopric, for which the piety of Charles, then Margrave of Bohemia, provided a zealous and enlightened prelate in the person of Arnest of Pardubitz.
Archbishop Arnest assumed its chancellorship, learned schoolmen filled its chairs; students flocked to it from every quarter, and it soon rivalled in numbers and reputation its elder sisters of Oxford, Paris, and Bologna.
Apparently the Bohemians had not taken the proper means to obtain the sanction of the curia for such infraction of the canons, so Clement ordered Arnest to dispossess the incumbents in all such cases, and to impose due penance on them.
Faith that iz founded on an arnest and truthful convickshun, iz butiful tu behold; but faith that iz founded simpla on courage, aint enny thing more than good grit.
A few may be hindered, and one or two fetch through a leetle late, but there'll be an 'arnest movement of teeth when the hour for eatin' comes and the plates be well filled.
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