The Friend suspected from this penchant for the city that the Professor must have been brought up in the country.
It was necessary also to have the cattle graze during the daytime owing to the fact that the Indians had a penchant for stampeding a herd at night and running it off to parts unknown for their own use.
This penchant for trading became an obsession with him, and there were times when he rendered himself a nuisance to everyone in the neighborhood by his continual proposals to make a trade.
He has a penchant as strong as cheap boarding-house butter, for mystification, and a free delivery of hard words, perfectly and unequivocally wonderful.
And, from messes therewith fulminated, by some of our professors of gastronomics that we have seen, we do not attach any wonder at all to the deacon's penchantfor the aforesaid shell-fish.
What a penchant the people have always felt for destiny and men of destiny!
Years of more or less familiarity with the English language had not been able to efface his racial penchantfor the labial.
Mr. Wellwood's mastery of the conditions of his business had never been especially deep, and during the past year a swelling penchant for fast horses, and indeed for acceleration of all kinds, had rather gotten the better of him.
It seems to me, indeed, that flies have a penchant for one's nose.
They are Americanized in dress, although the women have a penchant for highly colored clothes.
Because of American influences, the penchant for these bright colors has become more subdued in recent years.
He hailed from southern Minnesota, and what between a penchantfor journalism, verse-writing, and some dramatic work, was somewhat undecided as to his future.
From both her father and mother she had inherited a penchant for art, literature, philosophy, and music.
If he had a harder type, one with keener artistic perceptions and a penchant for just the right social touch or note, how much better he would do!
And yet a woman was a whore whose penchant for a parcel of land and a branch of a tree to build her nest was an instinct that was as fulsome as the worse of human hungers.
He was examining his mirrored face privately in the toilet as the train slowed down and then crept to the station with a jerky forwardness, as if it too were caught by a backward pull if not a penchant for backward inclinations.
I have no penchantfor strong expressions as a rule.
There was simply a penchant for him, in every class, for his organ-playing and his faded coat and his kidney-colic.
She wants me to be smart, with a penchant for flirtation, like Mabel," and her lips quivered with emotion.
The man of study had a penchant for the man of action, and the brothers-in-law were drawing together.
His penchant for fruit was generally known; but few persons, at the period we are describing, were at all aware that a love of whiskey lurked as a predominant trait in his character, to be brought out at a future era in his life.
The heroic penchant lay snugly latent in his heart, unchecked and unmodified.
Hiram had developed a penchant for burrowing into the confidence of every one and getting inside knowledge of their difficulties.
His weakest point is his penchant for pretty women.
So she gave me the preference; therefore she must have a penchant for me!
It is well known that young working girls, as a general rule, have a pronounced penchant for actors.
Perhaps the amateur explorer has a penchantfor old churches.
If he had a penchant for the police force or an itch for office among us, we would cultivate his acquaintance, and perhaps invite him to call.
But Paul did not anticipate the low-scoring soldier's penchant for reenlistment or the ability of some commanders, often on the basis of this fact, to justify the rejection of further black allotments.
If many of his associates questioned his personal commitment to the principle of integration, or indeed even his private feeling about President Truman's order, all recognized his political ambition and penchant for vigorous and direct action.
At any rate, Todd preferred to forego physical activity of the competitive nature, electing instead to pursue his penchantfor gadgetry, electronics and in general, anything that would spin or balance.
Months elapsed yet we were not introduced to the mysterious girl who had stolen Norm's penchant for solitude.
