Such a matter as this may at all events speak of the style in which our young woman could affect those who were near her, may testify to the sort of interest she could inspire.
She hadn't given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.
What it came to was that the sort of twaddle that was not in his chords was, unexpectedly, just what they happened this time not to want.
The sort was all the newer by reason of its containing a small element of anxiety: when she had gone in for fun before it had been with her hands a little more free.
They do as they like, say whatever comes uppermost, and behave at table in any sortof outrageous fashion that pleases them; while the father and mother sit unmoved, apparently surprised at nothing their progeny may see fit to do.
It is the same with all the rest of her work; you have long ago found it impossible to make her understand a thing once for all, or to establish any sort of regular routine.
What sort of training did the pioneer boy receive in school and at home?
We can be sure, therefore, that James was the right sortof boy, and that he would have mastered books if he had been given the chance, just as he mastered the wilderness in later life.
How strange a train of this sort would look beside one of our modern express-trains, with its huge engine, and its sleeping, dining, and parlor cars!
As I do none of these things, I am convinced they regard me as a poor sort of creature.
Machiavelli about Zanobi del Pino, a sort of Admiral Byng of the early fifteenth century, who was locked up and given nothing to eat but paper painted with snakes, so that he died, fasting, in a few days.
I should like to assure you, as representing her friends and society and that sort of thing, as I have assured her, that I have not taken this step without earnest prayer and seeking the counsel of Almighty God.
I had an idea, like an eminent personage of the period, that a sort of war was going on, but it failed to interest me greatly.
The hereditary qualities are there, though they have been forced into the channel of sex, and become a sort of diabolical witchery whereof I am not quite sure whether she is conscious.
To these queer minds that live on facts (I myself could as easily thrive on a diet of egg-shells) this sort of pictorial information is peculiarly fascinating.
Alexandretta is the port of Aleppo and Hamdi is a sort of boss policeman there.
They are signs of some sort of madness--whether that of a Jaques or a dingo dog matters very little.
There is a kindly brown bear who pleads humanly for buns, and her I have fed into a sort of friendship.
Our cicada stood alert and spruce, waving his antenna with a sort of cavalier swagger, and every now and then making his corslet vibrate passionately.
There are delicately fibred novelists who satisfy a sort of secondary Berserkism by writing books whose pages reek with bloodshed.
He fell into a sort of meditative slumber, from which he would rouse himself only now and then.
It was in a way a sort of penance, he said, through which he would be humbled to be in readiness for a still greater, sweeter imprisonment, the bond of matrimony.
Don Quixote then had to explain that affairs of this sort were not of the every-day kind, and that whenever one went on a trip like this, the voices from the Earth would reach thousands of leagues away.
Yes, and it's a horrible one-eyed sort of a place.
About a twelvemonth ago, when this sort of thing began--" "What sort of thing?
Then, with a half-laugh, "Broken hearts are not so easily mended, and Marie can only feel a sort of pity and contempt for a fellow who preferred her sister.
I wanted to spite you a little, darling, in a kindly sort of way, and I could not have behaved better to you than to help you do your duty to our dear aunts and win a rich husband and a title.
It was a curioussort of smile, Joseph thought, exactly like that which Buddy's old horse gave, drawing back its teeth before it tried to bite, and it made Joseph shiver.
Is it a sign of manhood to grow into a Diogenes sort of fellow, who sneers at every woman he sees?
Very pleased to find that the object of our search still lived there, Polly and I got out of the fly and went in; while Harry, who said he hated this sort of thing, stopped outside to look after the boxes.
It is most singular and looks like a deep plot of somesort or other.
So they blew up the fort, which the last mail said they were fortifying, and all retired into the Residency: it appears to be a fortified sort of place, and they think they can hold out until relief comes.
Not so well you know, Polly, and in a different sort of way, but still very much.
I think I kissed Charley violently, and then, for the first time in my life, went into a sort of hysterics.
No, no," Harry said; "we should find some difficulty in getting the sort of house we want there.
I trust that that penalty is now paid in full, and that her future life may in somesort atone to her for the unhappiness of the past.
I visited this particular piece of country but once afterward, having in the mean time discovered a better place of the same sort along the railroad, in the direction of Palatka.
An exquisite yellow butterfly, of a sort strange to my Yankee eyes, flits past, followed by a red admiral.
I never heard them utter a sound, or saw them make a movement of any sort (I speak of what I saw at Daytona) except to fly straight on, one behind another.
There was an uncanny sort of fascination in watching him, as he peered and probed into the mechanism of those wonderful bodies, whose mysteries he understood so well.
It seemed a David and Jonathan sort of friendship.
Partly that, but more from a settled sort of look you have; a look which young men seldom get until they marry.
Then I went to my usual refuge, and, fully intending to keep awake, as a sort of vigil appropriate to the occasion, fell fast asleep and dreamed propitious dreams till my rosy-faced cousin waked me with a kiss.
On deck, trying to wake up and enjoy an east wind and a morning fog, and a twilight sort of view of something on the shore.
We often passed colored people, looking as if they had come out of a picture book, or off the stage, but not at all the sort of people I'd been accustomed to see at the North.
My own experiences of this sort began when my first man died.
And she has been trained to this sort of campaigning from her babyhood.
In the first place, though I can understand from his antecedents and from his surroundings at the time, that he should have lived a loose sort of life when he was out there, I don't think that he is a rascal or even a liar.
I don't care a damn for that sort of tucker,' he said, as though he despised potatoes from the bottom of his heart.
I knew it just as well as he from the first, because I attend to these sort of things; but I thought it best to go to the fountain-head.
But the mother, though in some sort she returned the caress, said not a word as her daughter left the room.
They could not understand the sort of combat she would carry on if an attempt were made to take from her her liberty,--an attempt made by those who had by law no right to control her!
A man of ordinary common-sense would know how the mark made by a die on a letter would be affected by the sort of manipulation to which the letter bearing it would be subjected;--and so on.
Them sortof traps ain't never any good, in my mind,' said Mick.
Chapter XLVII Curlydown and Bagwax There had been a sort of pledge given at the trial by Sir John Joram that the matter of the envelope should be further investigated.
Those Cromptons were very unwillingly persuaded to take a sort of interest in me, though they really know nothing about me.
If you only knew the sort of roughing I've had in my time!
The mother had come there to speak burning words, and she had in some sort prepared them; but now she found herself almost silenced by the energy of her daughter.
He's a sort of chum who, when he has a bottle of pickles, somebody else is sure to eat 'em.
It is hard work, perhaps but very thoughtful, if you can digest that sortof thing.
This he said, nodding his head about in a maudlin sort of way, and refusing to allow himself to be moved.
I don't know what sort of folk they can be, so unfeeling and heartless, that rather than bestow a glance upon a worthy man they leave him to die or go mad.
There were more and more people of the sort that there can never be enough of, such as young girls beautifully dressed in airy muslins and light silks, sheltered but not hidden by gay parasols floating above their summer hats.
The other sortof Englishmen, the sort that never liked our ideal or our character, probably now like us as little as ever, except as they have noted our change of ideal, and expect a change of character.
One always regrets these acts of justice, especially towards any class of fellow-beings whose habits of prey are a sort of vested rights.
But if one happened to be walking in Pall Mall on the morning of that levee, one saw merely a sort of irregular coming and going in almost every kind of vehicle, or, as regarded the spiritual and temporal armies, sometimes on foot.
The sentiment of London was quite different at the end of September from the sentiment of London at the beginning, and one could imagine the sort of secondary season which it revisits in the winter.
The new sort of hotel is apt to be large, but it is of all sizes, and it offers a home reasonably cheerful on inclusive terms not at all ruinous.
It is wholly mean as to the ordinary structures which line its course, and which are mainly the dwellings of the simple sort of plebeian folks who have always dwelt in Tooley Street, and who so largely form the ancestry of the American people.
Still it was not just the sort of day when one could have wished them given the pleasure of an outing to Greenwich.
One is promptly told that Americans are not regarded as foreigners in England, and is left to conjecture one's self a sort of compromise between English and alien, a little less kin than Canadian and more kind than Australian.
That is often the case with us in the simpler sort of eating-houses, where it is the neat hand of Phyllis that serves rather than that of the white-aproned or dress-coated Strephon of either color or any nationality.
I have an idea of engaging Frank Courtney as a sort of private secretary, upon whom I can at any time call.
What sort of a man is this Mr. Fairfield in private life?
He could not help wondering what sort of employment Mr. Percival was about to offer him.
Provided you have the right sortof company," rejoined Frank.
Then that will be a sort of surprise, for even if they expect us they won't expect Ben.
Very pretty, indeed; but not the sort of witticism which a dry man would be likely to appreciate--and Californians are sometimes extremely dry!
He gave a sort of superb groan:-- 'All my life I have been trying for this, and for what have I sacrificed it!
Nowhere are the poet's metaphors more nakedly material; nowhere does he verge more often upon a sort of brutality of phrase, a cruel coarseness.
It was upon the strength of works of this kind that his contemporaries recognised Voltaire's right to be ranked in a sort of dramatic triumvirate, side by side with his great predecessors, Corneille and Racine.
He is very old, was dressed in a robe-de-chambre of blue sattan and gold spots on it, with a sort of blue sattan cap and tassle of gold.
It is now dreary and desolate, with scarce any ruins save a confused mass of stones, which form a sort of cairn on the top.
The original inhabitants proved too strong for the Danites, who were compelled to maintain a sort of fortified camp in and between the villages of Zorah and Eshtaol, called "the camp of Dan.
And Hector looked down upon her, a sort of worship in his eyes.
She was going through the first moment of this sort in her life.
It would be most unladylike to read it, she decided--a sortof thing only the housemaids would do.
That such a large cow of a woman should want protection of any sort seemed quite ridiculous to Hector--maddeningly ridiculous at the present moment.
His pride and affection for her had turned into a sort of adoration as the days wore on.
And men don't care for those sort of things, except from some one else's sister or wife.
Private Bridges, of D, was especially active in thissort of barter.
Anticipating an attack of the same sort as was the one we then repelled, our division moved out across the intervening swamp Kautz left his guns in.
The night of the 15th our regiment took a position on the extreme left, where we threw up a sort of intrenchment in anticipation of an attack.
The old hands had kept the matter quiet from us greenhorns, so that, although we knew they were going to do somesort of mischief, we didn't exactly understand what it was to be.
I say, whatsort o' brute was that, that had hold of him?
Here I went up to several people and offered my services in a wild sort of way.
As they sort the seeds they put them in sacks and the men carry them to another ware-house, where they are packed in sacks and weighed ready to be shipped.
Martim exclaimed, "Well, she's a queer sortof a girl!
The earliest remembrance of this sort that I have goes back to the time of my arrival in Paris from Tarbes.
The handsome fellow lives in a sort of contemplative kief, like a theriaki under the influence of the drug, and makes one think of “The Ecstasies of Mr. Hochenez.
It was called Zamore, and was a sort of spaniel, of very mixed breed, small in size, with a black coat, save the tan spots over his eyes and the tan hair on his stomach.
Buckingham's motive was partly a sort of reckless daring, which made him love any sort of adventure, and partly a desire to circumvent and thwart a rival of his, the Earl of Bristol, who had charge of the negotiations.
The Scotch sent a sort of embassador to London to represent to the king that the hostility to the Liturgy was so universal and so strong that it could not be enforced.
The Scotch, besides organizing a sortof civil government, took measures for summoning a general assembly of their Church.
This plan of having two judges from the common law courts seems to have been adopted for the purpose of securing some sort of conformity of the Star Chamber decisions with the ordinary principles of English jurisprudence.
He is a sort of sheriff, to execute the various behests of the House, having officers to serve under him for this purpose.
He even thinks he has a sort of natural right to be so.
They established Presbyterianism in its place, which is a sort of republican system, the pastors being all officially equal to each other, though banded together under a common government administered by themselves.
He hates him, but there is a sort of good-nature in his hatred, after all.
Active hostilities had been suspended, as a sort of temporary truce had been concluded with the Scots, to prepare the way for a final treaty.
They sent delegates to Edinburgh, and organized a sort of government.
One would have thought that this sort of persecution would have awakened some sympathy in the archbishop's favor; but it was too late.
