She had fastened the boy's collar for him at two o'clock the night before, when he had rather absurdly pretended that he could not make it stay buttoned; and she had tapped him on the cheek reprovingly for his sentimental looks.
In the course of several seasons at Bar Harbor, Tuxedo, Palm Beach, and in New York itself, she had spent much of her time foiling and discouraging the ardour of a series of sentimental youths who had laid their unwelcome hearts at her feet.
I used to be as sentimental as any one a few years ago," said Ann, returning to the dropped subject.
You couldn't blame her for writing sentimental verse at that age.
Of all the royal parks and palaces in the neighbourhood of Paris, Versailles has the most popularly sentimental interest.
He wasn't a sentimental man, but he did want to go away with a picture of her smiling.
He couldn't tune his whole existence to a sentimental craving for any woman--even such a woman as Sophie.
To strive to forget the great war, for the sake of sentimental politics, is to cast away our dearest experience and invite, in some troubled future, the destruction we so hardly escaped in the past.
It is said that during the Crimean War this sentimental ditty was sung by the English forces more frequently than any other melody.
On both sides a sentimental importance was given to the occupation of Harper's Ferry, which was not warranted by its significance as a military stronghold.
It loads the evidence for him one way or the other, making for a more sentimental or a more hard-hearted view of the universe, just as this fact or that principle would.
It's your sentimental trifler, who has just missed being nothing at all, who is enterprising, simply because it is easy to appear enterprising when one does not mean to put one's belief to the test.
His poems read like sentimental novels told in verse of a really superior quality.
He and the chief mate started a dialogue about the alarming change in the captain, the sallow steward looking down with a sinister frown, Franklin rolling upwards his eyes, sentimental in a red face.
The other lingered, his sentimental eyes gleamed silvery in the shadowy face.
We may be sure that with so practical a man it was more than a sentimental reverence for venerated sites that led Nehemiah to undertake the great work of fortifying the city of his fathers' sepulchres.
Their grief was more than a sentimental reflection of the scribe's distress, for the Jews could see plainly that it was for them and for their miserable condition that this ambassador from the Persian court was mourning so piteously.
The man who either disdains or fears to walk up a dark entry may be an excellent good man, and fit for a hundred things, but he will not do to make a good Sentimental Traveller.
It was an incident of good fortune which will never happen to any traveller but a Sentimental one, that I should be at Rennes at the very time of this solemn requisition: I call it solemn;--it was so to me.
The very woman who at times could be sentimental and moan at the thought of social inequalities and the suffering of the poor, could, by her fiery impetuosity, reduce the stoutest and most firmly steeled will.
Don Marcos started on hearing his voice; it was a solemn voice such as he had never heard, a tremulous voice like a sentimental song in the depths of which lay teardrops.
He could not understand sentimental love affairs with women of that class.
Mere traditional fiction, inventions of story writers, to flatter the public in a sentimental love of equality!
The poem abounds with conceits that a neurotic and sentimental pupil of Propertius--not too well practiced in verse writing--would be likely to cull from his master.
There is little of the sentimentalrapture that the eighteenth century discovered for us.
Nothing thrived in Germany during that period, except a sickening patriotism and sentimental romanticism, perniciously misleading the people and giving them no adequate outlook upon life and the social struggle.
And though she is beginning to appreciate that all this incense has befogged her mind and paralyzed her soul, she hates to give up the tribute laid at her feet by sentimental moonshiners of the past.
Who would then care, for any sentimental reasons, to go to Mount Vernon?
De Saussure did not climb the Alpine mountains for sentimental reasons; his purpose was purely scientific, but occasionally in his writings there are passages of charming freshness and humanity.
But we must not suppose that everyone there was always either sentimental or solemn; very often they were simply gay; Corinne had days of abandon, when she resembled the signora Fantastici.
Now be sentimental and give me all your attention.
I would," says Dicky, with a sentimentalglance at Portia, "if I might only remain here.
By guarding against any insidious advances on the part of the enemy, by being ever at Dulce's side to interpose between her and any softly worded sentimental converse, he may conquer and drive the foe from off the field.
You've no sooner got used to the gnats when another plague begins: downstairs your wife begins practising sentimental songs with her two friends.
I'm not a little boy or a sentimental puppy; I don't care about this "softer sex.
When Christianity is unsupported by some such solid trunk of rationality, it easily drops into a sentimental asceticism.
Nothing could be more absurd than that a hearty and strong young man in the full tide of his life and with a good breakfast before him should receive a shock from that innocent little letter as if he had been a sentimental woman.
Twould be well if he had a hold of the father's hand just at this time," drily observed Thorward, who was not gifted with much of a sentimental temperament.
It is only your mawkishly sentimental people who are perpetually tumbling into love, and out of it, and can't help showing it.
After him a sentimental youth sang, in a sweet tenor voice, an Icelandic air, and then Tyrker was called on to do his part, but flatly refused to sing.
Business is business, and admits of no sentimental considerations.
Here was no simple, sentimental case he might formerly have imagined, of trusting innocence betrayed, but a mixture of good and evil, selfishness and unselfishness.
What does he expect us to do,--allow our real estate to remain unproductive merely forsentimental reasons?
He had no sooner landed than he was greeted with a number of epistles from sentimental ladies, or authors of a single publication, who claimed a spiritual kinship with him, because of their admiration for his writings.
It is safe to say that since La Parisienne no French dramatic author has had the courage to revive the sentimental triangle as it was before this comedy was written.
And for suppressing the sentimental married harlot let us be thankful to the memory of Becque.
He is first cousin to Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck, one of those egotists of the self-pitying, elegiac kind who weeps when he regards in the mirror his own sentimental features.
Love me, love my truth, the playwright says in effect; and we are forced to make a wry face as we swallow the nauseous and unsugared pill he forces down our sentimental gullets.
The figures are life-size, or nearly so, as well as I can remember, and the sentimental dramatic treatment is quite Venetian.
In general, these poems are good in proportion to the sparing use of the sentimental and the general.
But the ruins within and outside Rome awakened not only archaeological zeal and patriotic enthusiasm, but an elegiac of sentimental melancholy.
And, with something like a blush for his sentimental weakness, as he mentally termed it, he sprang up and took his letters.
You've always got to play the sentimental with them; nothing short of making love or offering to marry 'em is any use.
