He had in his time heard bitter ironies from Henchard's lips, and there might be ironies now.
She had, since her marriage, grown in perception; Gregory would have found it difficult, now, to hide ironiesand antipathies from her.
Her innocence before his ironies made him ashamed always of having spoken them.
His subtle ironies may tell as plain a tale as other men's open complaints; and sometimes he hastens to laugh where we might suspect a rising lump in his throat.
His later ironies on the subject of love tell their own tale.
It was blest at least that all ironies failed them, and during another slow moment their very sense of it cleared the air.
It is a fine novel, grappling bravely with the greatironies of mother-love.
It is one of the bitterest ironies in history that just twenty-four hours before war was declared at Washington, the new Ministry at Westminster announced its intention of immediately suspending the orders-in-council.
It is one of the ironies of American history that the settlement of the Mississippi Valley and of the Gulf plains brought acute pecuniary distress to the three great Virginians who had bent all their energies to acquire these vast domains.
It is one of Nature's little ironies at the expense of the Law of Entail that she will occasionally send out of the spirit-realm, into a place of worldly importance, a man who is a regular chibot, chitterling and chump.
It is one of the ironies of history that the province over which parties battled with so much display of legal profundity was not yet in the possession of the First Consul.
It would be in keeping with the poetic ironies of this existence.
It was not for Pocket to see the many ironies of that moment, and not for him to recognise the tonic property of his heroic grievance.
It is an instance of the minor ironies of war that the great equestrian statue of George III, which had been erected in New York in days more peaceful, was melted into bullets for killing that monarch's soldiers.
Such Job's comforting is one of the many sledge-hammer ironies with which the Cosmos diverts itself at our expense; and of course the Cosmos may permit itself what it likes, and none of us can complain.
It was one of the ironiesin which every active statesman's life abounds, that the author of that forecast should have been fated to take his country over its first marches towards this uncoveted destination.
These reproachful ironies of Lord Hartington boded ill for any prospect of the heroes of this fratricidal war of the platform smoothing their wrinkled fronts in a liberal cabinet.
Blasphemous wit and Satanic sentiment are the natural reactions of all healthy youthfulness in the presence of the sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life.
Strangest of ironies that when he was least a Beaminster, then was she farthest from him--strangest of ironies that her link with him should be the Beaminster in him.
Was it likely that Cecil remembered the caustic lash of his father's ironieswhile he was lifting Mother of Pearl over the posts and rails, and sweeping on, with the halloo ringing down the wintry wind as the grasslands flew beneath him?
His ironies and his satires were always directed at unworthy objects, the varied forms of selfishness and insincerity; and his answer to "What is Happiness?
For under all the frolicsome gayety and beneath the surface ironies of this log of "The Quaker City" there is a solid sense of the realities of human life.
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