By the reigning God it is true; the paltry earldom of Windsor shall no longer content him, who will inherit the rights which must for ever appertain to the person who possesses it.
Among the paltry subterfuges contrived by dulness to palliate the want of invention, the laborious pedantry of emblems ranks foremost, by which arbitrary and conventional signs have been substituted for character and expression.
A Mannerist is the paltry epitomist of Nature's immense volume; a juggler, who pretends to mimic the infinite variety of her materials by the vain display of a few fragments of crockery.
The paltry price of artistic degradation," said he.
The hour was now close at hand when the French admiral should feel, even if he did not admit, the consequences of this mistake, by which he had won a paltry island and lost an English fleet.
Because if you lessen it, it may be reduced to a paltry farthing.
Before this the fellow-slave bore dead corpses thrown out of their narrow cells to this place, in order to be deposited in paltry coffins.
Was two thousand dollars to be lost--and because of a paltry ninety-nine dollars and ninety-five cents?
Now, Edith, surely it need not take all your time for a month before Christmas to buy a few paltry presents, and all of it for two months afterward to get over buying them!
No paltry theme shall form my lay To such a friend at such a time.
No party motives sway my soul, Nor thirst for paltry worldly fame; But feelings I need not control Prompt me to dwell on her dear name.
Not the independence of the State, that gratifies the paltry ambition of thousands, not that social independence whose meaning has of late been so shamefully misapplied, not even the individual independence that satisfies many.
Think of all that Guy had encountered to gratify the paltry ambition born of a moment s passionate desire; a soul so young, almost fresh from the hands of the Creator, and yet to be so covered with iniquities!
Her imitators, even when at their best, are not her equals, and they have degraded her methods oftentimes to paltry uses.
They who only strive for this paltry prize, like the Pharisees, who prayed at the corners of streets, to be seen of men, verily obtain the reward they seek; for the heart of man cannot be read by man!
For a paltry thousand francs, which with much difficulty I had induced Rochez--nay, forced him!
A paltry ten francs," I replied, "and I may as well give you your share of it now.
Three hundred instead of the hundred thousand which I had so richly deserved: that, and a paltry two hundred francs a year, which was to cease the moment that as much as a rumour of the whole affair was breathed in public.
I have got done with all my press-correctings, editionings, and paltrybother of that kind: Vol.
What scrap of hearsay about contents of Sterling's letters to me, or that I had letters, this paltry journalist swelled into this puff-ball, I know not.
The poets proceeded, wrapt in thought, till they heard another voice of a nature that made Dante start and shake as if he had been some paltry hackney.
Old mongrel, to kick up a fuss over a few paltry oranges!
Lots of boys take a few paltry oranges out of the gardens and no one makes such a fuss but that old creature.
It's like a year the pumpkins is scarce, you can sell little things you'd hardly throw to the pigs another time, and that's the way it is with the few paltry fellers round here.
I hate those dirty, paltry equivocations, which go by the name of puns, and pieces of wit.
In a word, he frightened Ferdinand into an abdication, his father into renouncing forever his claim to the throne, in return for a pension and paltry honours, and Godoy he dropped as unworthy of attention.
A paltry song," he said, and leaned over towards Klaus Heinrich.
Sometimes his calling seemed to him a wretched and paltry one, although he liked it and gladly undertook every expedition required of him in his representative capacity.
The yellow-wash on the wall was a paltryreflex of the ghastly yellow of his faded visage; for the iron face was the face of a corpse.
To think that they had suffered him to slip through their fingers and leave them some paltry bribes of fifty pounds!
What were the paltryexcitements of life to me now?
Small solace, therefore, in the thought that if the worst befell me, and my boy at home died for want of his father, who lay robbed and murdered in those desolate wastes, my Government would exact a claim in paltry dollars.
From the wisdom of God the Papists detract when they consider divinely enjoined tasks as paltry and attempt to undertake something better or more difficult.
He who observes him that gives the command will conclude that what is very paltry in appearance is very great.
When we, therefore, remember him who gives the command, that which is paltry and common becomes a responsibility too great to discharge without divine aid.
They announced with infinite applause a new production of Tickell:--it has appeared, and is a most paltry performance.
