She was looking at him, obviously to see how his fastidiousness had taken it.
But I never meant anything else but a laugh at your brother's housekeeping,--a joke surely permitted to a man whose own fastidiousness on these matters is so standing a jest.
It was her delicate fastidiousness and the hint one got of refinement and cultivation.
He had worked with consuming energy and sometimes indulged, for Bernard had nothing of the fastidiousness that marked his relatives.
And all the glamour of high rank and power and fastidiousness enhanced his natural charms, so that Katherine felt a little cold and sick with the emotion which she was experiencing.
He had never desired her more--but that fastidiousness in him, that power of detachment which could appreciate skill even when exercised against his own interests, asserted itself, and helped him.
But all the rich tremble before the fastidiousness of the poor.
Here and there only is some ordinary human custom, some natural human pleasure suppressed in deference to the fastidiousness of the rich.
Every one who has moved much about the world, and especially in uncivilised countries, will get rid of many old antipathies, will lose the fastidiousness of his taste, and will acquire new and genuine tastes.
Excessive fastidiousness greatly limits our enjoyments, and the inestimable gift of extreme concentration is often dearly bought.
Grey, to foster a fastidiousness that can only barb the shafts of penury?
All this fastidiousness may seem to do very well while they are under the shelter of their father's house; but when the sharp winter of misfortune comes, what of these butterflies?
Jonson makes frequent complaint of the growing fastidiousness of his audience, and nearly fifty years later, the same charge against the public is repeated by Davenant, in the Prologue to his "Unfortunate Lovers.
Besides his fastidiousness revolted from plunging him into a position which was so common, and which he, with his dislike of things common, had always counted vulgar.
At the same time a personal fastidiousnessand a social exclusiveness, always to a certain extent characteristic of the man, gathered greater dominion over him.
Do not impute to me quixotic notions with regard to the duties of men and women of culture, or think that I undervalue the difficulties in the way, the fastidiousness on the one side, or the jealousies on the other.
The so-called culture, a mere fastidiousnessof taste, is a barren flower.
He also had spent the winter months in Dalhousie; and he could by no means be reckoned among the men who fail with women through undue fastidiousness in regard to ways and means.
I cannot look with equanimity on so many, and those such foul, such wicked enemies; nor is that feeling caused by any fastidiousness of mine, but by my affection for the republic.
But to make a mystery of the indolence of a rather timid, idle, and unadventurous scholar, who was blessed with morefastidiousness than passion, is absurd.
Even if we count him only a middling poet, however, this does not mean that all his fastidiousness of composition was wasted.
He insists upon quality, he raises a standard, he diffuses an unconscious fastidiousness of selection.
For a moment Mr. Clarkson was tempted to claim a certain fastidiousness himself.
But it is a piece of fastidiousness to forbid us to reinforce the great Christian motive, which is love to Jesus Christ, by the thought of the recompense of reward.
I believe that, other things being equal, an educated man, with his larger interests and his cultivated tastes, has a certain fastidiousness developed which keeps him from being so much tempted by the grosser forms of transgression.
Love did not exist for her; from even the thought of passion she shrank instinctively with the samefastidiousness as she did from actual physical uncleanliness.
Her sensitive lip curled with disgust, all her innatefastidiousness in revolt.
His impulses to write were short, and his fastidiousness interfered with his impulse.
His fastidiousness revolted, almost as a woman's might, no less from the thought of any inferiority of status, than from the knowledge that where he condescended to favour, others had already carried their easy victories.
Her courage and pride appealed to his innermost fastidiousness of breeding.
The same fastidiousness which had operated against that entrance into Parliament, to which his ambition not the less steadily adapted itself, had kept him free from the perils of wedlock.
The Venosta wept at the thought of missing some lively soiree, and Savarin laughed at her shrinking fastidiousness as that of a child's ignorance of the world.
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