If you indulge in this thought you are deceiving yourselves, for I am valiant and manly and my titles will oblige you to acknowledge this.
I have only to remark that I should advise you, gentlemen, in future, only to indulge in gambling in places where you may be fairly assured of the character of the men you play with.
My own inclinations lie rather towards sport, and in this I can indulge without being out of the fashion.
Nature had not given him the temperament to indulge in crescendos or double fortes.
Two boys began to indulge surreptitiously in the mild amusement of extracting toothsome kernels from refractory shells.
If you indulge in loud talking, in boisterous and untimely laughter, or in profane or vulgar language, or sing out of tune, you violate its rights and offend good manners.
And Agatha, seeing that Nathanael at least showed no dislike, but rather pleasure, in speaking of his family, thought she might harmlessly indulge her curiosity about the Harpers of Dorsetshire.
The bonnet was popped on quickly and independently--Miss Bowen scorned to indulge in the convenience or annoyance of a lady's-maid.
One glance told her that he was not the sort of man into whose fatherly arms she could throw herself, and indulge the emotion brimming over in her heart.
It is his hobby, and one likes to indulge him in it.
We will indulge in no more dreariness; it is not good for you, and I won't allow it, my patient.
On the contrary, his effort was to limit their extravagance; but in this he had little success, for Pa Briskow had decided to indulge his generous impulses to the full and insisted upon so doing.
To refuse it would be dishonest; it would be to spare or perhapsindulge his feelings at the expense of the guiltless.
A question of the possibility of his wife's being yet alive would occasionally occur to him, but he always cast the thought from him as a folly in which he dared not indulge lest it should grow upon him and unman him altogether.
He seldom brought any one home with him, though he often promised to do so; he never seemed to indulge in gossip, at any rate not with his wife.
The Gloucester physician said that since the disease of my mind had taken that shape, it would be more dangerous to thwart than to indulge it.
Given the possibility of its capture, there was no reason why I should not indulge the frugal joy of having a small and comparatively innocent "debil-debil" on the chain.
Do not these cases support the theories that birds sharpen their faculties by the exercise of defensive and offensive tactics, and also that they do indulge in irresponsible play?
As they indulge in it, the sport is so rough and boisterous and clumsy that one wonders that so many fish should be caught.
Indifferent to style, we do indulge in longings--longings pitifully weak--longings for the preservation of independence toilfully purchased during the poisonous years of the past.
Do I not occasionally indulge the hope of living long enough to sample the first fruits?
Ransom had feared for a moment that she was about to indulge in some appeal to Olive, some attempt to make him join hands with that young lady, as a supreme satisfaction to herself.
It was such dressing as queens alone should indulge in perhaps, but Mary Ashburleigh chose for once to do justice to her style and her magnificence.
A vast covered corridor is nearly always to be found adjacent to the diurno, beneath which the audience can take refuge in case of a shower, walk between the acts and indulge in bebite--cooling drinks, such as sherbets and beer.
Those insects not only seem to enjoy a race with the train, but to show how easily they could leave you behind, they indulge in all sorts of airy gymnastics, at the same time whirling to and fro, and up and down.
So now that it was his duty to go forth, he could enjoy the adventurous days to the full, and indulge his bent for prospecting as he had never been able to do before.
Here William was able toindulge in his favourite occupation of gardening.
It was one of the heaviest crosses of Mary's girlish days that she and Anna were not permitted to exercise their clever fingers, and indulge their taste for the beautiful, in their own dress.
He may indulge at times, but we all have our failings.
And what was much more serious, madame Cochard ceased toindulge their follies.
Another is just what I presume you do: show sympathy with them in their frailties; tell them to come and ask for the luxuries they are in danger of appropriating feloniously, and as far as it is good for them, indulge them.
They will be different, at their very birth, from the children of undisciplined parents, who pamper their bodies, indulge in unholy passions, and reproduce offspring like unto themselves.
I don't think people of my age ought to indulge themselves by giving way to grief in which the spectator cannot share.
His weary shoulders were gladly relieved of the heavy pack they had borne, and he now bethought himself that he might indulge Viola with some memento of her native land.
I usually attended to these commissions promptly; when you have women about, your generous heart will rejoice to protect and indulge their helplessness.
It may seem unfeeling in me toindulge in dissertations like the above at so critical a juncture: but they serve to fill the time while I am waiting for marching orders.
I shall here indulgemyself by setting down a few observations which occur to my memory.
It is my firm opinion that the economists of our century are at fault when they propose material improvements and indulge in visions of opulence and gain, without considering moral education.
I might here indulge in a digression hardly flattering to women.
It is strange that those whoindulge in such opprobrious remarks about southern slaveholders, do not look after their own white bastards which are scattered over this entire country, east, west, north and south.
