What's this but that damnable Vice, of which they so reproach our Sex; that of jilting for Hearts?
Instinctively he took the judge's part, as if he must establish himself firmly in the father's good graces in order to make premature amends for the jilting of his daughter.
He smiled a sudden appreciation of what he was doing--trying to excuse his jilting of Henrietta--an event not far off if she persisted in holding him to the thingumabob foolishness.
Thus old Dame Wisdom (whom the wags of antiquity have humorously personified as a woman) seem to take a mischievous pleasure in jilting the venerable councillors of New Amsterdam.
He was a testy invalid, a sufferer from some chronic complaint which was so obscure in its complications as to seem only an excuse for ill-temper, and he had not forgiven Dora for jilting his son.
As for Mr. Smithson, why should I have any more compunction about jilting him than he had about that poor Miss Trinder?
Do you mean to tell me that Lord Maulevrier's sister, a young lady under my charge, answerable to me for her conduct, is capable of jilting the man to whom she has solemnly bound herself, in order to marry you?
Mathewson had been reading the first volume of Goethe's autobiography, and was indulging in some strictures on his course in jilting Frederica and leaving the poor girl heartbroken.
Why, Sir--if her Maid will be a jilting Whore, how can I help it?
Ay, there's his Grief; there is some jilting Hussy has drawn him in; but I'll revenge my self on both.
Most damnably,--and wou'd fain lie with the dear jilting Gipsy.
Is it because you have been jilted yourself, that you want the pleasure of jilting another?
He loved that wicked, jilting little Fanny as much as ever; and the heartache only grew worse day after day; but he ceased to desire vengeance.
It was happy indeed for Frank that he had taken his father's advice, and had early broken off all connexion with Jilting Jessy.
Jilting Jessy had certainly given Frank reason to believe she was very fond of him; but the sudden change in her fortune quite altered her views and opinions.
The morning after this conversation passed, Jilting Jessy, accompanied by her sister, Saucy Sally, came to pay Patty and Fanny Frankland a visit.
Yet it is doubtful whether any preliminary hinting could have made Osbert believe that his adored one could possibly be contemplating the treachery of jilting him.
He was very young and impetuous; perhaps that is putting it too mildly; he had a shocking temper, and he didn't take his jilting at all peaceably.
I came into my inheritance not so many years after my jilting .
While many held Dorothy in slight esteem for her instability and delicacy, and thought she was no desirable helpmeet for any man, some were of the opinion that she had shown praiseworthy judgment and shrewdness in jilting Burr for Eugene.
The idea of jilting Alexandrina instead of Lily had never as yet presented itself to Crosbie, and now, as he thought of it, he could not perceive that it was feasible.
I don't even know if he's got feelings or not; but I know what is becoming in a young woman, and jilting is not.
I remember when I was young there was a girl called Jilting Jessy.
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