Disliking the hardships of Alpine life the Helvetians left the giant mountains to a sturdier race.
Disliking walled towns of the Roman fashion, the Germans felt their freedom of movement impeded and their minds oppressed by living within the prison-like fortifications of strong cities.
I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.
And in return for an acknowledgment, which must give me some pain, you cannot deny me the privilege of disliking him as much as ever.
He is half afraid, half contemptuous of it, instinctively disliking anything more alert and alive than his own most stolid self.
At the two critical periods of the war, at Derby and after the battle of Falkirk, Charles was probably right in disliking any retrograde movements.
Grafton thus found himself in no state to meet the Opposition, and in his heart still admiring Chatham, and much disliking business, he suddenly and unexpectedly gave in his resignation the very day fixed for Rockingham's motion.
He did not at first open it, disliking all thoughts as to his father.
You began bydisliking him, because he interfered with your plans about Mountjoy.
Yes, I like you," she continued meditatively, "in the face of the fact that you persist in disliking me.
I got in, somewhat mollified, and ashamed of my heat: still disliking the man, but acknowledging he had the better right on his side.
Bryant, disliking what he called the "pliant politics" of the New York Senator, had been disposed to favour Chase until the Cooper Institute speech.
They had the same reasons for disliking England that animated their opponents.
The actual peers were far from disliking the measure; but Walpole, taking fire, instantly communicated his dissatisfaction to all the great commoners, who might for ever be excluded from the peerage.
She had felt poverty, and was far from disliking power.
We find ourselves holding certain beliefs and prejudices, interested in certain things and indifferent to others, liking some foods, some colors and disliking others.
It would be difficult to enumerate the many methods that have been adopted to charm or drive them away, most persons disliking these ugly little excrescences, and willingly resorting to any means, however eccentric, to lose them.
And he raised his shoulders, mocking, yet by no means disliking his own idiosyncrasies.
Regina's correspondent and bosom friend, Cecilia, who had begun by disliking him, without knowing why, persisted in maintaining her unfavourable opinion of the new friend of the Farnabys.
One of the gentlemen of our party, evidently disliking him, spoke rather rudely, I thought.
The livery man, disliking the weather prospects, had had an inferior team harnessed to the big sled.
She had been to a theatre but twice in her whole life, once to Uncle Tom's Cabin and once to a horrible presentation of Hamlet, which resulted in her disliking the play to the day of her death.
He probably has some reason for disliking your sex.
A man's dislike for him was a poor reason for disliking that man.
If he doesn't, why should I mind his disliking me?
Further, George III, though greatly disliking the substitution of Cornwallis for the Duke of York, favoured the appointment of the veteran Brunswick to the supreme command.
And I am sure he is a first-rate fellow," added Erskine with vigor, regretting that he had not said this first, and disliking what he had said.
I was unwilling to accept the man's civility, disliking his looks; but he advanced cogent reasons for changing my mind.
Garschattachin ventured yet farther, confiding in the honour of the nobleman whom he addressed, although he knew he had particular reasons for disliking their prisoner.
They had begun by disliking him--from Lil Sarnia down--and had ended by being his.
