The witty academician abhorred this duty, which he irreverently styled "dressing the royal macaroni.
At that moment the heavy father, as Ernest irreverently styled the tall, pompous head of one of the first banks in London, who was worth a million if he was worth a sou, entered, and the Rev.
My mood was serious, and it jarred upon me when a classmate, building on current rumours, speculated irreverently as to the probable contents of the pitcher on Mr. Webster's desk.
Under this platform there were many thingsirreverently huddled together, such as flax and thread and wax, and various utensils.
Here are depositedirreverently and in various stages of dilapidation all the official statues, royal, imperial, and republican, that have out-lived their day.
Although this latter receptacle does not, as yet, meet with much favor, and has been irreverently compared by one of the apostles of cremation to a shed, it might be made a very neat and unobjectionable mausoleum.
At the juncture of the principal business avenue of the town with its principal nautical street--from a date passing the memory of living citizens irreverently named Angel Alley--a fight was in brisk progress.
An old silk hat, well glazed with drippings from the elm-tree, was pitched irreverently upon the back of his head.
The fishermen who had irreverentlynamed the present course of talks “the Dickens,” crowded to hear them, nevertheless.
A hand irreverently laid upon his collar and a rough shake assisted to recall his consciousness.
The devilgrass came irreverently above the wheels and flowed with graceful inquisitiveness over the blades, but the brisk little man pushed heartily and the mechanism revolved with a barely audible clicking.
However, it was not moonlight illuminating the weird tumulus, but the glare of a battery of searchlights, suggesting, as Gootes irreverently remarked, the opening of a new supermarket.
It lingers in odd nooks and corners even at the present day, when it is usually and irreverently called "gush," and Heaven only knows whether it may not be resuscitated in full force before some of us are dead.
It is conceiving very irreverently of the Almighty, to suppose he would deal in this jesting manner with mankind; yet all the things called prophecies in the book called the Bible come under this description.
But Spriggins's peculiar forte is that kind of talk which some people irreverently call "bosh.
Is there any thing more uncomely, than for children to behave themselves irreverently and irrespectively towards their fathers, to whom they owe themselves?
Captain Pott irreverently observed to Elizabeth: "I cal'late that there Means is left for once with his sails flopping, without no idea as to what his longitude is.
I was speaking figuratively, my dear," he replied, somewhat crestfallen that his reference should be thus irreverently treated.
They are given to be your helps toward an eternal world, and not one of them ought to be thoughtlessly treated or lightly and irreverently handled.
And yet the same ark, when irreverently and profanely handled, brought death on Uzza; and when honoured and reverenced, brought a blessing on the house of Obed-edom.
Robert declared irreverently that the old pumps were exceedingly dry companions, and reiterated his demand for Normandy.
Such persons as these will doubtless feel offended at finding the romance of history irreverently demolished, for the sake of mere reality.
For speaking soirreverently to the pastor of the parish," replied Dr Smiler.
He was called, and accused of having spoken irreverently of the Queen, of travailing to bring her into the hatred and contempt of the people, and of exceeding the bounds of his text.
Prophets of God speak so irreverently of kings and princes?
Your Grace accused me of having irreverentlyhandled you in the pulpit; that I denied.
I must not forget to mention that John Bull, climbing on a bench, to get a better view of the statue, tumbled off with a racket that resounded irreverentlythrough the church.
They make (be it not irreverently said) the vast and lofty apartment look like the ideal of an immense barn.
This famous place of amusement used to be known irreverently in the profession as the “Pro.
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