A slight smile of grudging approval appeared on his round face.
I take my hat off to you," said Baxter, with a slight nod of grudging admiration.
You did not come to dinner," he replied with his grudging smile, "so I had to call and see why.
I wish I could understand you and all there is behind thatgrudging smile--what you think of people--me, for instance.
With her great nature, she could do nothing by halves, so gave of her love with no grudging hand.
And especially in the works and in the life of Blake there is so strong and special a charm for those to whom the higher ways of work are not sealed ways that none will fear to be too grudging of blame or too liberal of praise.
For three days its mother would cry through the fields, hurt with her loss, grudging her milk, but in the end Nature would assert itself.
Into an old and tired world they would be ushered with grudging of the pain they brought and fretting complaint of ugly circumstance.
But Lucy at fourteen is drawn with slight and grudging strokes, sufficient for the minor part she is evidently to play.
French supposed us to be one and the same person; which, if possible, heightened their grudging admiration.
He looked at the mean, poverty-struck room, he marked the dinginess and tawdriness of its detail and all the sordid evidences of ungracious bargaining and grudging service in its appointments.
Mr. Turnbull, angry at such carelessness, accepted the apology in a grudging spirit and trudged along in silence.
Fancy grudging your own daughter the food she eats!
Such conduct seemed too monstrous, too wicked to the man who had strained every nerve to reach his child, who had ridden in terror for hours, trembling at the passage of every minute, grudging the loss of every second.
Well," Bess said, with a grudging air, "perhaps you may not wish to do him harm.
Meanwhile the three men had brought their heads together, and sat discussing the position with unconcealed grudging and mistrust.
Despite the curious silence of Seneca himself and of his contemporaries, there can be little doubt as to the general correctness of the attribution which assigns to Seneca the only Latin tragedies that grudging time has spared us.
I have lived my life to the full; nor can grudging fortune ever rob me of that which her favouring breeze once gave me.
A strange picture we make on our way to our Chimæras, ceaselessly marching, grudging ourselves the time for rest; indefatigable, adventurous pioneers.
A strange picture we make on our way to our chimaeras, ceaselessly marching, grudgingourselves the time for rest; indefatigable, adventurous pioneers.
He did it with grudging humility; but there was no breaking the barrier of Conal's reserve.
While he was at the bar, Maitland had won grudging tributes to the range and depth of his knowledge; in his facts, if not in his law, he improvized the little that he did not know, and the habit had become permanent in his conversation.
Could it be that--that sum so overwhelming to human caution and human decency which Harry had cloaked by his grudging phrase "some better offer"?
She couldn't withhold a little grudging pleasure in the sharpness with which he had turned her maneuver, and the way it had detached them from the surrounding crowd.
Compare the grudging admission of his enemy Bouille, Mem.
Nor is this to be deemed a slight or grudging praise of the services they undoubtedly rendered.
But whether Metternich or Ferdinand were to blame in the matter, the concessions of the King were made in a hesitating and grudging manner which took away their grace, and made the defeat more vividly apparent both to victors and spectators.
She smiled at Sally, the smile that opens confidence and invites you within; no grudging of it between the teeth, ill-favoured and starved, as we do the thing in this country.
