The rector, not unfeeling by nature, butinveterately professional by habit, had already recovered enough to be thinking of a text for the funeral sermon.
A smile--the dangerous smile of an inveterately vindictive woman thoroughly roused--showed itself with a furtive suddenness on her face.
Suppose Blanche told one of those inveterately intrusive insects that the honey in the flowers happens, through an unexpected accident, to have come to an end--do you think he would take the statement for granted?
It would be impossible to conceive a soul more diabolically hardened, more inveterately depraved, than that of this old hag.
There it no separation—no classification—during the day; but the plan of silence prevents the corruption of the only moderately bad by the inveterately wicked.
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved.
If they had that foresight for which they were so inveterately lauded, it was a foresight based upon the certainty that it would yield them forty-eight per cent.
Whatever an air of indifference he would assume in his grandee role of "art collector," yet in most other matters he was inveterately closefisted.
Nobody could hear her speak, and doubt for a moment that she was an inveterately ill-natured woman.
Mr. Raikes, who, inveterately silly when not engaged in a contest, now began to play on the names of the sons of Noah.
Of the three sisters, the wife of the Major was, oddly enough, the one who was least inveterately solicitous of concealing the fact of her parentage.
His habits were now so inveterately savage that he could not tolerate civilization.
I had anticipated the pleasure of communicating with Mrs. Vanstone," answered this inveterately evasive and inveterately civil man.
The stout lady with the wig (and the excellent heart) personated the sentimental Julia from an inveterately tragic point of view, and used her handkerchief distractedly in the first scene.
In her situation, and with her temper, the quieter she is now, the more inveterately I, for one, distrust her in the future.
I mean that in which the language becomes thick; the eye knowing but vacant; the face impudent but relaxed; the limbs tottering, and the voice inveterately disposed to melody.
Allan was too inveterately straightforward to take the warning even now.
It had first found him out in Somersetshire six months since, and it had now followed him to the Isle of Man under the inveterately obtrusive form of Ozias Midwinter.
He was just as easy and open in his disposition as ever; just as quaintly and inveterately good-humored; just as heedless in following his own impulses, lead him where they might.
I believe you would try the major, if you were in my place," returned Allan, reverting to his inveterately personal way of putting the question.
For, in spite of all Nietzsche's Mediterraneanizing of this Superman, Goethe was profoundly and inveterately German.
It would not receive Mrs. Tramore again on any terms, and when she was spoken of, which now was not often, it was inveterately said of her that she went nowhere.
The stony stare of Belgravia could be practised at Homburg; and somehow it was inveterately only gentlemen who sat next to her at the table d'hote at Cadenabbia.
They had hated Leicester before, and they hated him now more inveterately still.
The chief ostensible reason was, that Philip was so inveterately hated by all the English people, and Elizabeth was extremely desirous of being popular.
Asked what may be the leading colour in the Venetian concert, we should inveterately say Pink, and yet without remembering after all that this elegant hue occurs very often.
But he was too inveterately polite to omit making his excuses for leaving them in a hurry; he expected, he said, to find a telegram from Paris waiting at his house.
Amelius, weary of the woman's inveterately indirect way of explaining herself to him.
We have an inveterately false and vicious system of society in England.
Illustration] But Leonard Mitchell must not be blamed if his manners and habits were thus changed, and if he took inveterately to drinking.
It is terrible to think that so old a man should be so inveterately wicked.
These are also the very Means, which may remove all the Danger that might ensue from a Person's omitting to bleed, at the usual Season or Interval, when the Habit, the Fashion of Bleeding had been inveterately established in him.
With his senatorial presence, his distinction of person and manner, Mr. Pasmer was inveterately selfish in that province of small personal things where his wife left him unmolested.
We know the satiric image as periodical, and above all as punctual--the characteristics of the printed sheet with which custom has at last inveterately associated it.
Théophile Gautier himself was not more inveterately addicted to this latter wanton exercise.
This is by no means inveterately the case with those of the ingenuous artists who most rejoice in the title in question.
To the seaports of Hirado and Nagasaki came a horde of the outcasts of Europe, inveterately hostile to one another, and indulging in quarrels, riots, and murders to an extent which the native authorities found difficult to control.
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