Mr. Farebrother thought he could account for this speech, in striking contrast with Lydgate's former way of talking, as the perversity which will often spring from the moodiness of a man ill at ease in his affairs.
The moodiness of provincial innkeepers had become proverbial in France; they seemed to look upon all guests, who brought money into their pockets, as arrogant intruders, and treated them accordingly.
But there was weakness expressed in his very attitude as he stood now talking to Charles Edward Stuart: the kindly, pleasant expression of his good-looking face in strange contrast to the glowering moodiness of his princely friend.
He was speculating on the identity of that mysterious stranger, and would not allow his moodiness to yield to the joys of good cheer.
After Boss Stobart's last visit to Tumurti Station, when Pat and he had arranged for the trip to the Musgraves in search of gold, the old cook had been attacked by fits of moodiness which he could not shake off.
Suddenly rebounding from his half hour of petulance in his typical good nature, Nawin Biadklang chuckled quietly at his irascible hubris and abjured this moodiness that was part of the curse of his insomnia.
Fanshawe talked and laughed gaily all the way back; Harry on the contrary was decidedly glum; and when Sherebiah came to him at night as usual for orders his master's unaccustomed moodiness did not escape him.
Since his return to camp, he had remarked a strange and unaccustomed moodiness in Sherebiah.
Dangerfield’s moodiness had closed over him again.
But the depression and moodiness on Dangerfield’s face belied the surmise.
Although she was not his daughter, he loved the girl, and her recent moodiness bothered him.
And it so happens, that his strange moodiness is marked by abhorrence of all womankind.
Perhaps the bitter moodiness on the face opposite had infected her.
There only was a moodiness about that table then; but the moodiness of Doda was noticeable to Rosalie.
His strong health, his renunciation of selfish claims, his habitual preoccupation with large thoughts and with purposes independent of everyday casualties, secured him a fine and even temper, free from moodiness or irritability.
The theatres were crammed with men seeking distraction, yet bored with their pleasures and relapsing into a deeper moodiness afterwards.
He was comforted, and when he plunged into the woods his moodiness was gone.
Although he was embarrassed, to know Laura had bothered to remark his moodiness was flattering; the strange thing was, when she crossed the veranda he had not thought she saw him.
Her moodiness seemed to have increased, and, what was most remarkable, in proportion as she grew more and more reserved, the intenser were the bursts of affection which she exhibited for me.
He said nothing, however, and his conduct greatly astonished me; yet I thought it prudent not to exacerbate the growing moodiness of his temper by any comment.
Not a bit of it," said Rames, and then he woke from his moodiness to a savage outburst of contempt.
But both the moodiness and the bluster were phases of the one deep-seated feeling--a reluctance to go up the hill and meet his wife.
John's former abstraction andmoodiness seemed to have returned with an increased force.
His pallor was as remarkable as before, but he was visibly thinner; and his strange mental abstraction and moodiness seemed little if any abated.
Shaking off the moodiness that had for a moment overcome him, Henry asked with vivacity what that was.
Did I never contrast his sunny temper, his unselfish disposition, his happy, genial temperament, with the darkness and moodiness and despotism of Ernest?
They rose even to gaiety; and again I wondered what had become of the reserve and moodiness whose dark shadow had preceded his approach.
The character of Ernest for eccentricity and moodinesswas so well known, that the peculiar situation in which he had placed himself did not attract immediate attention.
Her father's occasional moodiness she did not heed; for he often seemed gloomy merely from intense thought.
She even thought him a strange, moody youth; but yet there was something in his moodiness and eccentricity which excited her fancy.
Nearing the house the sudden sound of a window being raised made him look up, and in an instant, swift as a passing cloud-shadow, his moodiness was gone.
An irritated, inexplicablemoodiness as if the shadow of a disease had come into his blood.
Yet Matty had been of service and perhaps her moodinesswas caused by a suppressed affection.
On top of this moodiness a violence of temper, a stewing, cursing, fuming about.
Meanwhile Augustus Tomlinson, on finding himself surrounded by persons eager to gaze and to listen, broke from his moodiness and reserve.
Could you be subjected yourself to themoodiness of an evil memory and the gloomy silence of remorse?
Philip straightens himself, and his moodiness flies from him.
And as Luttrell comes by, with his head bent and a general air of moodiness about him, she is so far flattered by his evident dullness that she cannot refrain from tapping at the glass to call his attention.
For to all the moodiness and oddity of his nature she has been singularly lenient, bearing with him when others would have lost all patience.
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