Bill started toward the would-be detective in a threatening manner; but the latter was not minded to take any chances of an encounter.
But then it needed a night's rest to put you into shape, and I'm not minded to run any risks.
You've got to borrow it, or go hungry, and that I'm not minded you shall do.
This we may best see by examining The Methods of Persuasion High-minded speakers often seek to move their hearers to action by an appeal to their highest motives, such as love of liberty.
A fair-minded examination of the uses and abuses of the political "leader.
My mother had a friend--a very noble, lofty-minded gentleman who had loved her with a great and honest love before the profligate who was my father came forward as a suitor.
They departed, and Mr. Caryll remained seated for all that her ladyship was standing; it was as if by that he wished to show how little he was minded to move.
The compressed energy of the man under his conscious display of a great-minded deference to the claims of family ties and duties, intoxicated him.
The most single-minded man he had met had been King William himself, and of his memory he always spoke with the most affectionate honour.
We just never minded him, but went on as we had been doing.
I would not have minded much if he had never gone to the beach at all; it is not a very good berth for a boy.
Cartwright's narrow-minded dogmatism was crushingly answered in Richard Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, the first volume of which appeared in 1594.
Rogers), a bitter but fair-minded opponent of their heresies, a Protestant, and a zealous defender of the Lutheran dogma of justification by faith alone.
I said good-bye to the kindly, simple-minded monastery, and I returned to the worldly suspicions of civic life.
The simple-minded folk seeing that the envelope was open, thought it public property, and read it joyfully aloud.
I felt like an impostor; it was embarrassing to be given hospitality as the bearer of good-tidings from Great Britain, but to our innocent-minded entertainer the idea seemed quite simple and sufficient.
FN#100] Very simple and pathetic is this short sketch of the noble-minded Princess's death.
Then with show of friendly bias he betook himself to Ma'aruf and said to him, "His Highness the King loveth thee and hath a daughter, a winsome lady and a lovesome, to whom he is minded to marry thee.
Without the name and fame won for the work by the brilliant paraphrase of the learned and single-minded Frenchman, Lane's curious hash and latinized English, at once turgid and emasculated, would have found few readers.
However he hath sent his officers to make his peace with me, and now I am minded to return to city.
If the Judge is a liberal-minded and enlightened man, I would rather take his judgment than submit my case to a dozen selected by chance, and among whom there would most probably be at least a couple of dolts.
The vengeance of the strong upon the weak is the most abhorrent spectacle in the eyes of all right-minded people which can be exhibited.
And you shall help me; and you shall help my friend, who is so strong-minded that she will perhaps make you think even better of our sex.
I confess we English girls are interested in your Maximilian, if only because we would be charitably minded and teach him better.
And are not these simple-minded men much in the right?
She was in truth a proud and high-minded maiden--perhaps more so than became even her dazzling beauty and her princely rank.
The bishop's simple way of relating the episode would have convinced any liberal-minded man of his innocence and rectitude.
He treated me like the low-minded brute he was; you know he did, George, you know he did.
She had not even mindedabout Muriel, when he told her--and he had told her everything.
He thought, "How can a mean swine like Stephen create such glorious high-minded stuff?
It is the intense earnestness, the simple-minded sincerity of the man who lives as Christ would live on earth which impresses these people of Labrador and gains their love and confidence.
Then came the preparatory school and college days, when the boy looked forward to his vacations and spent them with me in single-minded enjoyment that warmed my heart like old wine.
Poor Sylvia loves this villain, Miss Alcott evidently loves him, but the bloody-minded reader would like to thrust a knife into him.
She says that she joined in the hurrahs "like the strong-minded woman that I am.
I should like to see that done to-day by some zealous liberal-minded publisher.
The morality of our system of slavery has been fully and thoroughly discussed, and may be considered as finally and forever settled, in the judgment of all right-minded and impartial men throughout Christendom.
If this subtle, sharp, and strong-minded female did not turn out to be something of a shrew, before her husband was done with her, I am much mistaken.
Such a love is a curse to any woman, and it was doubly so to Annie, who loved him too entirely to see any faults in him, and was too weak minded to resist his merciless exactions.
Now the Cure had lived long out of the world, and was not in touch with the swift-minded action and adventuring intellects of such men as his brother, Marcel Loisel.
In the first place, the Cure seemed satisfied; secondly, he minded his own business.
She's minded to give you fellows a fine meal and treat you like princes.
Frank was minded to treat the intruder civilly and resumed his chair.
Finding the Germans a race of toadies and slaves, in which the noble-minded go under while the base triumph, he turns his back upon the new empire for good and all.
It was a byword that Vigo minded no man's ire but the duke's.
I was minded as I worked of Lucas and his bonds, and wondered whether he had managed to rid himself of their inconvenience.
That rested not with me but with my dangerous host, the League's Lieutenant-General, dark-minded Mayenne.
The divine was minded to speak seriously to him concerning the dreadful sin of robbery, and having strengthened him with texts and good counsel, to send him forth unpunished.
At first he was minded to make for his ancient haunts, or to conceal himself within the Liberty of Westminster; but the fetter-locks were still upon his legs, and he knew that detection would be easy as long as he was thus embarrassed.
