As I afterwards discovered, indeed, these two females had most of the excellences of a devoted wife and daughter, their frivolities being the result of vicious educations or of no educations at all, rather than of depraved hearts.
Then the speaker waded into the popular frivolitiesof the times; cards, dice, gambling, drinking, dancing and other pastimes.
He had early taken a dislike to Kennedy, in consequence of some very harmless frivolities of his freshman's year.
I fear that with the death of his lady-mother there ensued a full plunge into the frivolities and gaities of the University and Inns of Court society.
But they too were infected with the malady of the century; they sacrificed themselves to the taste of their day, which was definitely degraded to the extravagances of fashion and the frivolities of gallantry.
They seemed mutually to draw each other on to a sphere far above the petty frivolities on which so many fritter away powers given for higher ends.
Sunday scholars, on leaving the school, instead of giving one thought to the divine truths they have been hearing, allow their attention to be absorbed with the petty frivolities in which their thoughts run wild!
Pope converted the quarrel between Miss Fermor and Lord Petre into a satire on the frivolities of a young lady of fashion from her morning toilet to the close of her giddy day.
Though his taste was by no means untainted by the frivolities of the rhetorician, he was skilled in all the arts that awaken curiosity and attention, and his eloquence commanded the most various audiences in the most distant lands.
He had become famous as a sophist and rhetorician, skilled in the laborious frivolities of the profession.
Mr. Dobson has made a study of all the eccentricities and frivolities which have from time to time been perpetrated by writers in prose and verse.
Did not Dick think that the situation of the moment necessitated his retirement from the frivolities of Bath for a month or two?
Madam, the man that could leave you for--for--the frivolities of Bath deserves no sympathy.
Except that one thing, and the not unusual frivolities of a youngster that occurred previous to his trial, I understand that his character has been above reproach.
With the air of a gentleman of leisure, somewhat tired of the frivolities of this world, Rowell made his way slowly to the group.
The Huguenots were now able to make a stand in the open country, partly from additions to their numbers and partly from the mistakes and frivolities of Henry III.
Unfortunately, she was fond of all the frivolities of life, and sought at the same time to promote worldliness and religion.
These are not the women who in earlier life placed all their happiness in following, even to the most minute details, the frivolities of fashion.
One may care nothing for art and yet long to be rid of the meaningless frivolities of our domestic art.
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