Of all his ample fortune nothing now remained but his wardrobe, which was not very sumptuous, about thirty guineas in cash, and the garrison, which the misanthrope counselled him to convert into ready money for his present subsistence.
This plan they would have executed that same evening, had not the misanthrope luckily withdrawn himself, by accident, before it was dark, and even before they had intelligence of his retreat.
The misanthrope answered, as usual, in a surly tone: "By your question you must either take me for a pimp or an idiot.
Nor did our hero keep the misanthrope in ignorance of this happy turn of fortune.
For the Tartuffe or the Misanthropeit is vain to seek a proper counterpart in Shakspeare; they belong to a different state of manners.
Where is the outlaw, banned by men, Of fashionable dames the foe, The misanthrope of gloomy brow, By whom the youthful bard was slain?
The misanthrope was, for once in his life, in a good humor.
Assuming it, therefore, to be proved that the surly old misanthrope was the only person who could be profitably applied to for the requisite information, the next question was, How to communicate with him?
To this interrogation the misanthrope replied, with a faltering accent, "If not a vagrant, you incur the penalty for riding armed in affray of the peace.
To this hail the misanthrope answered, "We are the spirits of thy grandmother Jane and thy aunt Bridget.
The misanthropeonce more retired to the pantry for shelter, and the rest of the guests were evidently disconcerted.
In the course of seven years the physical part of man is completely renewed, and is our spiritual part, surrounded by new flesh and blood to remain the same, because some misanthrope doubted his own power of revival.
I am more of a man than you give me credit for; I am not the gloomy misanthrope you take me to be, for you have rescued me from that, and I will make the people of Davy's Bend say that Annie Benton was wiser than the best of them!
I have hated myself for years because of the belief that nothing would satisfy me; that I would tire of everything I coveted, and that I was born a misanthrope and an embodied unrest.
Misanthrope is the potato: rough and repulsive outside, but good to the core.
A misanthrope hates all mankind, but is kind to every individual, generally too kind.
The misanthrope and the reckless are neither agitated nor agonised.
Shall I, because my birth baulks my fancy, shall I pass my life a moping misanthrope in an old château?
The groundwork of the Plain Dealer is taken from the Misanthrope of Molière.
Molière exhibited in his misanthrope a pure and noble mind, which had been sorely vexed by the sight of perfidy and malevolence, disguised under the forms of politeness.
One of the most significant episodes in the discussion is the lengthy criticism on the immortal Misanthrope of Molière.
Do you know, Barbara Marshall, that there are times when you keep one unhappy oldmisanthrope from despairing of his kind?
But though he was neithermisanthrope nor cynic, a little vein of malevolence ran through his system, and he had more than half made up his mind that he would have none of these.
It would convey an entirely wrong impression to describe him as either a misanthrope or a cynic; the charms of marriageable maidenhood simply did not appeal to him.
And if inclined to moor my mind And cast the anchor Hope, A puff of breath will put to death The morbid misanthrope That lurks inside--as errors hide In standing forms of type To mar at birth some line of worth; And so I smoke my pipe.
He has brought up his beautiful and dutiful daughter to be an angel of mercy and a paragon of perfection, but he insists that she too shall be a misanthrope like himself.
The Misanthrope and the Tartuffe have no audible laughter; but the characters are steeped in the comic spirit.
A misanthrope you may well be, after the way men have treated you; but with the Gods so thoughtful for you, you need not be a misotheist.
It seems incredible that such a being should possess such vanity; a misanthrope be conceited; but he really had his notion; and upon the strength of it, often gave himself amusing airs to captains.
Brooding among the ruins of his hut, and the desolate clinkers and extinct volcanoes of this outcast isle, the insulted misanthrope now meditates a signal revenge upon humanity, but conceals his purposes.
The financial business which Charlie had come there to transact had already been concluded, to the mutual satisfaction of his Excellency the Prime Minister and of the grey-faced old misanthrope seated in the silent room in Park Lane.
He is not a philosopher, but a sophist, a misanthrope in verse; a namby-pamby Mandeville, a Malthus turned metrical romancer.
When the engagement was broken off Arno was reconciled to his father, having become a more terrible misanthrope and woman-hater than the old man himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misanthrope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
