No; he does not learn the law, which, by the way, is not very genteel.
I am not very rich," I replied, "but I think I can accommodate you with what you want.
For some reason or other, not very easy to analyze, there had hardly been so bitter a pang in all her previous misery about the matter as what thrilled Hepzibah's heart on overhearing the above conversation.
She stood by a window, holding a book in close contiguity to her nose, as if with the hope of gaining an olfactory acquaintance with its contents, since her imperfect vision made it not very easy to read them.
I'm afraid she is not very happy," said Lady Wharton.
Between Emily and her father a few letters passed, not very long; nor, as regarded those from Mr. Wharton, were they very interesting.
The subscription is not very good, only £1500, and it would cost him ever so much a year.
My statement is not very clear; but perhaps you will understand me better if I put the matter in another way.
But it’s not very difficult to know facts of that kind about a historical personage.
As to themselves they were the bohemian circle, not very wide—half a dozen of us led by a sculptor whom we called Prax for short.
Clennam said--not very plainly, seeing those tears glistening in her anxious eyes--that her wish should be sacred with him.
It's not very hard to divine whose friend Mrs Gowan is.
It appeared to ascend them, not very promptly or spontaneously, yet with a display of stride and clatter meant to be insulting.
As to the settlement of poor papa's affairs, my interest in that is not very selfish.
But is it not very natural," observed Edmund, "that Mrs. Grant should wish to procure so agreeable a visitor for her sister?
And the morning wore away in satisfactions very sweet, if not very sound.
In practice it is not very easy to identify any one spine with certainty: one method is to start from the prominent first thoracic and to count down; another is to join the lower angles of the two scapulae (fig.
The proof deals with each symbol separarately; as might be expected of its author, it is both scholarly and ingenious, but, it must be admitted, not very convincing.
As to the precise forms in which the idea of beauty reveals itself, Plato is not very decided.
The position of the British government was intelligible, if not very intelligent.
That is not verygrateful to me," said Mrs. Tristram, "who introduced you last year to every creature I know.
You had simply sat--not very straight--and stared at her.
I myself am not very sure at this hour of really possessing it.
The window at which he stood was at the other end of the room from where the two ladies were sitting, and though nearer to Captain Wentworth's table, not very near.
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice.
Not very well, but I haue met him oft, And he hath bought the Cottage and the bounds That the old Carlot once was Master of Phe.
It is not very high, and there is a balcony at the top on which some half dozen persons may stand at ease.
It is not very ennobling in its sentiment, seeing that it advocates a special virtue, not on the ground that that virtue is in itself a thing beautiful, but on account of the immediate reward which will be its consequence.
Over and beyond Sir William Logan, there is at Montreal for strangers the drive round the mountain, not very exciting, and there is the tubular bridge over the St. Lawrence.
The house isnot very large, but exceedingly comfortable and well regulated; the grounds are fine and extensive.
The Evangelical Alliance part is not very practicable, yet certainly it is more in accordance with the spirit of the Gospel to preach unity among Christians than to inculcate mutual intolerance and hatred.
Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last day or two, because he is now forced to abstain.
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