Whatever I do, pleases him," said Christel, shutting the door with mock-disgust at his black face.
Whenever I saw any likelihood of being again brought into closer contact with the theatre I was filled with an indescribable disgust which, for the time being, I was unable to overcome.
The angry and arrogant disgustexpressed in his letter at my desire to see that Lohengrin was produced without 'cuts,' served admirably to expose to me the profound antipathy of this man whom I had once so blindly overestimated.
Among these I was especially struck by one, a Livland nobleman of German descent, who, in the haughtiest German Tory tone, proclaimed his disgust at the Tsar's emancipation of the serfs.
In my disgust at never being able to find a detached house protected from every kind of noise, I was on the point of deciding to give up composing altogether until the time when this indispensable condition should be fulfilled.
Well, my young friend, I travelled for two years, and saw even in that short time enough of this busy world to weary and disgust me with its ordinary customs.
He looked with disgust at the skates dangling from Barbara's hand.
He went out into the porch and looked with disgust at Ralph and at the motor-bicycles.
Elizabeth commissioned Anderese to find fuel in another way; and herself in some disgust at her new charge, returned to her rock and her bible.
The farm living and the farm hours seemed to have no disgust for them.
But I can't give pleasure to all the old women in the land," she went on with excessive disgust at the idea.
Elizabeth turned away and began to walk on, an expression of great disgustupon her face.
Cockletop and her sisters cackled for him in vain, and really seemed to take his misfortune to heart, for eggs were fewer, and some of the biddies retired in disgust to new nests, which Tommy could not find.
Stuffy displeased her because he did not eat tidily, and George tried hard not to gobble, that he might not disgust the dainty little lady opposite.
I felt no disgust for you; on the contrary, I asked an opportunity to make your better acquaintance.
Partly from the smile, partly from the strange musical murmur with which the Sire prefaced his observation, Denis felt a strong shudder of disgust go through his marrow.
As the excitement wore away, it was succeeded by an overweening appetite for sleep, and he hailed a cab and drove to his lodging in a state of extreme exhaustion and some disgust of life.
What were you thinking of, not to comprehend that that woulddisgust us?
Theron looked falteringly into her face, as he strove for words which should sufficiently mask the disgust this intelligence stirred within him.
He recalled afterward with something like self-disgust the eager, almost tremulous pains he himself took to please this banker.
It was a work, however, which excited so much disgust in all circles that Voltaire endeavored at first to disclaim it, and it was many years before the whole poem could venture forth with his authorization.
As she drove up the slope of Buenos Ayres--the favourite English suburb, where his villa stood overlooking Tagus--a deep disgust possessed her.
Their artifices disgust me; and I watch them, telling myself that my Ruth has only to enter their balls and assemblies to triumph--nay, to eclipse them totally.
We turn in disgust from the meaningless platitudes of the Republican Convention at Worcester, from the incidental admission of a plank in the platform which means nothing.
Perhaps no part of Buonaparte's conduct at this time gave more general disgust than his meanness in robbing the funeral monument of Frederick the Great of his sword and orders.
He had looked forward with the utmost disgust to a long quarantine: this dread was dissipated in a moment; the deck was crowded with persons, crying aloud, "We prefer the plague to the Austrians!
He saw well the deep disgust which his exactions had excited.
The disgustwith which the Portuguese people regarded his flight, the cowardly termination, as they might not unnaturally regard it, of a long course of meanness, was eminently useful to the invader.
When Lady Feodora had taken a back seat next to the window, in a compartment of the railway carriage, she insisted that Shuffles should have the seat opposite, much to the disgust of Sir William, who usually occupied that position.
You are a bigger fool than I thought you were," added Herman, taking no pains to conceal his disgust at the conduct of his leader.
And I'll bet that is the reason why we are going to sea, instead of going to Germany," answered Greenway, with something like disgust in his looks and in the tones of his voice.
I drop it in disgust and seize a roll, while I scald my tongue with a quick mouthful of coffee.
The house was finally cleared of the company just as the church clock struck six, and then Pitman went to bed with sentiments of complete disgust for politics and politicians.
The lad's musings were interrupted to his great disgust by Andrew coming behind him with the very act and words which had annoyed him.
Andrew, with a look of disgust in his flushed face.
Nor was this disgust diminished by my acquaintance with Mr. Tyrrel.
In this choice she exercises the nicest discretion, selecting such as may gently lead his mind to higher pursuits, but which at the same time are so elegantly written as not to disgust his taste.
Lady Jane charged me to avoid giving him the least disgustby any unusual gravity in my looks, or severity in my conversation.
The doctors, suspecting how his uneasy conscience was accusing him, forbore in disgust all expostulation.
Occasionally, to the evident disgust of the genteel ladies, he wiped his bald head and wrinkled forehead with a ragged blue cotton handkerchief, which he kept in the crown of his hat.
Some haunting doubt of this flashed over her mind like a swift shadow of a black wing, but she dispelled that as she had dispelled the fear and disgust which often rose up in her mind.
Over and over again she named the appeal of the rancher, the sense of her duty, the decision she had reached, and the disgust and terror inspired in her by Jack Belllounds's reception of her promise.
Nevertheless, Wade drew her, and she thought of him until the recurring memory of Jack Belllounds's rude clasp again crept over her with an augmenting disgust and fear.
In disgust I was prepared to take them on myself with the help of Mfutela.
There was a redeeming side to his disgust at the situation from his point of view.
They looked with disgust at the whiskers and well-furnished chins of the white men, and in derision called them Long-beards.
Nor did his disgust and vexation cease when all hands had recovered from sea-sickness, and become accustomed to the ship, for now broke out an alarming keenness of appetite that threatened havoc to the provisions.
