Reader, as we proceed to these extracts, remember our motto--'True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear.
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear, but in listening to the story of human suffering and endeavoring to relieve it.
I stepped over the skeleton with a shudder, being already made squeamish by the horrible things in the cellars, and we went slowly along the passage, I half-expectant of discovering some further horror.
My own happiness and the life of the man I loved were at stake--what true woman would have let squeamish notions about nice points of honour stand in her way at such a time?
I know--being squeamish doesn't mean I've gone soft in the head.
I never thought I was the squeamish type, but there's something about this kind of violence that bothers me, even when I know it's necessary.
Truly in no squeamish age was the marriage-service composed!
Then comes the fine, though horrible tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, in which the misdeeds of Queen Brunehault find chroniclers who are neither squeamish nor feeble.
But though that paper, a hundred and thirty-three years ago, was probably thought as edifying as one of Smallridge's sermons, we dare not indicate it to the squeamish readers of the nineteenth century.
He was not squeamish in pecuniary transactions; but he was neither sordid nor rapacious.
And so squeamish as he is, and so particular about the cider!
And in the evening he sent that fair one, all whose limbs were of faultless beauty, splendidly adorned, to the second Bráhman, who was so squeamish about the fair sex.
You were not so squeamish last night at the Chapter Coffee House.
She had, as Mrs. Squeamish in Wycherley's play, once acted with Quin on the occasion of his benefit and she well remembered his stiff, stilted style and how he domineered over everybody.
Why should you and I be more squeamish than the rest of the world?
Why should you be more squeamish than the first men, and the most honorable men, and men of the highest birth and position in the country, begad?
Now by his Hollidame, for I can't forbear that Oath now, what can a squeamish Critick, that would make Remarks upon the Remarker call this?
Why should you be more squeamish than the first men, and the most honourable men, and men of the highest birth and position in the country, begad?
If he's squeamishabout it I'll give YOU the money.
Philip had a squeamish appetite, and the thick slabs of poor butter on the bread turned his stomach, but he saw other boys scraping it off and followed their example.
The squeamish Fair One who takes it on the sly, merely to cure the vapours, politely names it to her friends as White Wine.
I would not have touched it for a champagne supper, and there have been times when he has shown himself more squeamish on some subjects than I.
I ought to have run you through," I said, "except that I amsqueamish about taking human life.
As I turned and went into my lodgings I felt how futile a thing I had done; the dog should have been killed, but as I said, I am squeamish about taking human life.
That squeamishdelicacy which shrinks from the most disgusting offices when affection or humanity lead us to watch at a sick pillow, is despicable.
You were squeamish about something or other he wanted it for.
Less squeamishthan Lombroso or Mr Barry, I gather aloud that the tortures have to do with the organs of generation.
One wonders why the Duc should have been squeamish on this point.
Strange to say, I dreaded more to appear squeamish before Ben, whom I looked upon as an inferior, than I did either of the others, and with a blush for my weakness took a cigar.
While a Fresh, you would feel quite honored by an invitation to the room of a Senior, and you would find it very hard to refuse a drink with him, lest you should appear squeamish in his eyes.
No sooner was her shop shut up than the bills came in, and with Mrs. Shambles' bill the copy of a writ, so that Miss Squeamish was on the high road to a prison.
After Miss Squeamish became Mrs. Mumbles she determined to endeavour to 'civilize' her husband, as she called it.
The tales which took the fancy of the Honourable Miss Languish, and which were echoed from the mouth and mind of Miss Squeamish were those of 'high romance,' as it is termed.
A woman that's squeamish about her virtue can't hope to win--unless she's in a position to make a good marriage.
The theory which grants political power to the ignorant white foreigner need not be squeamish about granting it to the ignorant black native, for the gist of the matter is in the dark mind, and not the more or less dusky skin.
