I may chance have some oddquirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage.
Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame, One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, And in the essential vesture of creation Does tire the ingener.
Pray you, gentlemen- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief That the first face of neither, on the start, Can woman me unto 't.
And accordingly quirks did not prove undevisable on behalf of the Kaiser.
There may be some unco quirks to be performed, and some sore hearts to confer at the doing of them, but Heaven itself, for all its puissance, must shorten the pigeon's wing that the gled of the wood may have food to live on.
They might have known, the MacNicolls, that mischief was forward in that black silence, but they were, like all Glen men, unacquaint with the quirks of urban war.
Elegies and epitaphs were its favorite method, and the "most elaborate and painful jests," every conceivable and some inconceivable quirks and solemn puns made up their substance.
Mrs. Fenwick had many quips and quirks with her husband as to those tidings to be made in a pleasant spirit which were expected from Turnover Castle.
The birds will be only a first instalment," said the Vicar,--and then there were more quips and quirks about that.
They took a certain grim amusement in these quirks of abnormal depravity that had begun to manifest themselves in Ray.
An actor to be a success must have the power, the ability to throw off his own ways and character, to assume whatever queer quirks marking the role of the person he is pretending to be.
Up to that time I should have declared to any one that I was up in all thequirks and kinks of the stock game, but this move puzzled me.
The brainwashing techniques and hypnotism can introduce such quirks temporarily, but as soon as a normally sane person regains his balance, the quirks tend to fade away.
And when between his quirks he'd drawn the piteous tale entirely from him, he doubled up with laughter and smote his sides.
Thou couldst at least put on my grotesque garb, couldst learn the quips and quirks by which I make men laugh.
It transports us quite as much to the manners of the court, and the quirks of courts of law, as to the scenes of nature or the fairyland of his own imagination.
I may chance to have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have rail'd so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter?
As a result, I began to foster unwanted feelings of intolerance toward little quirks and mannerisms, as often will accompany deeper grievances and unsettled disputes.
We looked on as the anxious quirks of our classmates became personal trademarks which would either be overcome in time or rage without end.
I am disgusted with my own selfish quirks which occasionally spill out, but at the same time I feel fortunate that I am able to be aware of them.
Thus from self-love or wilfulness or vanity they work their own humours and crotchets and fancies into the matter, or overlay it with some self-pleasing quirks of peculiarity.
He takes nothing for what it is in itself, but only for the odd quirks of thought he can twist out of it.
The Quirks were at breakfast on the day that followed the scene in the Council Chambers; only Denis was absent.
The stockings were adorned "with quirks and clokes about the ancles" of gold withal, and curiously and richly wrought.
I will make thee very shortly proceed doctor in the jovial quirks of gay learning, and that, by G--, for thou hast more wit than age.
I understand you, answered Homenas; this is one of the quirksand little satires of the new-fangled heretics.
He drove us out: either iniquity or ignorance in the quirks of the law shall [do the same] him: certainly in the end his long lived heir shall expel him.
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