Duchesses are made of hard stuff, my dear Armand; there is a sort of feminine nature that is only softened by repeated blows; and as suffering develops a heart in women of that sort, so it is a work of charity not to spare the rod.
She must have a carriage; angels ofthat sort have no wings.
We know women of that sort--the thorough-bred Parisienne.
If you don't mind my saying so," observed Laura, "Egbert is a circumstance that would warrant any amount of that sort of thing.
Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people.
Of course there are individuals of weak mental balance who do that sort of thing, but they seldom conceal their handiwork; they are more generally inclined to parade it.
You're surely not going to make coins disappear, or something primitive of that sort?
Yes, he said, that sort of thing is certainly very blamable; but what are the stories which you mean?
Clearly, with a fellow of that sort, and in the peculiar relation they were to stand to each other, it would not have done to blurt out everything.
There was a worldly suppleness in bluff Ned Eliott that would serve him well in that sort of official appointment.
But how could you bargain with a man of that sort?
He could remember as a boy how frequently waiters at the inns, country tradesmen and small people of that sort, used to "My lord" the old warrior on the strength of his appearance.
The sober second thought of the country had rather sickened people of that sort of thing; still, there was quite enough of it, especially as shown in caricatures and songs.
I greatly respect many of the men who have gifts of that sort, but have recognized the fact that my influence in and on politics must be of a different kind.
In those days the air was full of that sort of onslaught upon every one supposed to be friendly to General Grant, and the effect in one case was revealed to me rather curiously.
Beautiful, radiant, tender as she was, she chilled his old affection; that sort of feeling was not appropriate.
He has a big worthless ranch down in Arizona, near a Navajo reservation, and there's a canyon on the place they call Panther Canyon, chock full of that sort of thing.
Landry's the only fellow I know in this country who can do that sort of thing," Fred went on.
The memory of that sort of thing hurts you worse and makes you jerk your head more impatiently than the thought of a past crime would, I think.
She saw that the infatuation had been created, the mischief settled, long before her quitting Bath, and it seemed as if the whole might be traced to the influence of that sort of reading which she had there indulged.
That is, I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels.
The carriage is safe enough, if a man knows how to drive it; a thing of that sortin good hands will last above twenty years after it is fairly worn out.
And I'd like to see my girl married to a fellow of that sort, and settled.
It took more courage for you to do that sort of thing than it would for a woman," said Jane.
But her expression changed when Davy went on to say: "She'd look at a thing of that sort much as I--or Victor Dorn would.
Why yes,' said Doctor Blimber, yes, but not of that sort.
The course of study here, is very far removed from anything of that sort.
Semple tells me that when our squeeze really begins and they realize the desperate kind of trap they're in, they'll simply shower attentions of that sort on me.
Even Julia spends hours looking for button-hooks or corkscrews or something of that sort, every day of her life!
My whole outfit of that sort of thing went astray or was stolen at some station or other--the first part of the week--I think it must have been Leeds.
But he was nice to me at a time when that meant everything in the world to me--and I don't forget things of that sort.
No; but music of that sort I should enjoy," said Dorothea.
I made some attempts to draw her into conversation, but she seemed a person of few words: a monosyllabic reply usually cut short every effort of that sort.
You ran downstairs and demanded of Mrs. Fairfax some occupation: the weekly house accounts to make up, or something of that sort, I think it was.
I ought to have replied that it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is of little consequence, or something of that sort.
Quoth Pantagruel, That sort of lottery is deceitful, abusive, illicitous, and exceedingly scandalous.
I know so little about kisses," he said; "I am such a greenhorn at that sort of thing.
A citizen of the intellectual world should be above soiling his thoughts with mean curiosities of that sort, and he drove the impertinent query down again under the surface of his mind.
In almost every case where their wives were remembered at all, it was on account of their abnormal stupidity, or bad temper, or something of that sort.
A cold leg of mutton, or some comfortable trifle of that sort.
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