The contemporaneous popularity may be ascribed to the ability of Toyokuni to shift and veer with every change in the public taste, while Toyohiro was unable or unwilling to move with these fluctuating winds.
They have, however, a stereotyped quality that makes one unwilling to take Yeisho very seriously as an artist.
It took much care and time, and was therefore expensive, to produce such work; and probably the majority of purchasers were unwilling to pay the additional price entailed by this degree of attention.
Most recruits are as eager for the honor of making the team as a freshman is to get into college football; but occasionally it was thrust upon an unwilling candidate.
He had been unwilling to call in more of the militia, for fear of a failure of supplies.
He was grudgingly permitted to enter, and then discovered who his unwilling hosts were.
The king also commanded two canoes to be launched, the first for the use of himself and his attendants, the second for his sister and her followers, but Anacaona was unwilling to embark on any other than the boat which carried the Adelantado.
You are aware that I was ill at the time, yet, unwilling to refuse, I resolved to continue.
What else is there left to the large majority of willing and unwilling celibates, in order to satisfy their natural wants, than the forbidden fruit of the Venus Pandemos?
I have just learnt that Charley is idling about in Dublin, his regiment having been disbanded, and he himself, having passed some bills and contracted other debts, being probably unwilling to face us here at home.
Of Glencore' he says: "I am unwillingto suffer this tale to leave my hands without a word of explanation.
When Charles Lever died (in 1872), his daughters were anxious that his biography should be written by Major Frank Dwyer, but Dwyer was unwilling to undertake the task, and Dr W.
Some of our prosperous men may say that the pressure is not yet severe enough to justify emigration, and that every forcible expulsion shows how unwilling our people are to depart.
The Christian bourgeoisie would not be unwilling to cast us as a sacrifice to Socialism, though that would not greatly improve matters.
Only those who are ignorant of the conditions of Jews in many countries of Eastern Europe would venture to assert that Jews are either unfit or unwilling to perform manual labor.
Let's go after them, father," said John, unwilling to let this chance slip.
Of these forty only one, Coja the headman, had been a member of the first expedition, the rest of that party being unwilling to do any more work until they had spent their wages.
In case you are unwilling to see your unhappy sister-in-law, send me, at least, the money to end my days.
Seeing that their colonel was surrounded, these men, who were at some distance, were unwilling to perish uselessly in attempting to rescue him.
I imagine he wasunwilling the first day of this to contest with Warren about the precise words.
But we are confident that as long as there may remain the hope of doing so much good as would, we trust, be done by the complete success of the present plan, you will not be unwilling to give your assistance to it.
Considerations of domestic calamity might sufficiently explain the silence I have hitherto observed; but in other respects I should have been unwilling perhaps to have addressed you sooner.
I persuade myself that this is a trust which you will not believe me capable of abusing, however unwilling I must be, on so many accounts, to see you driven to the necessity of taking this last and decisive step.
The physicians seem very unwilling to say anything with respect to his situation, and declare that it must still be eight or ten days before they can pronounce at all decisively as to the nature of his disorder.
I say nothing about myself in all this, because I am sure you believe me truly sensible of your constant and unvaried affection to me, and unwilling to intrude upon you repetitions which I must fear would be useless.
Among the Adelaide tribes, there is no circumstance but death that makes them unwilling to mention the name of any of their acquaintances, and this cause of unwillingness I believe extends equally all over the continent.
With the adversaries, unwilling celebrants, and those hired for pay, and very frequently only for pay, celebrate the Masses.
But we have been unwilling at this place to examine their contests with any very great subtlety.
For the holy Fathers were unwilling to receive the fallen or the notorious, unless as far as it was possible, their repentance had been first examined into and exhibited publicly.
But if ordination be understood as applying to the ministry of the Word, we are not unwilling to call ordination a sacrament.
We are unwilling to malignantly pursue these things, but we leave them to the judgment of the reader.
Because they are not ignorant of this, they were unwilling to exhibit to us a copy of their Apology, lest this falsehood and these reproaches might be exposed.
But then came the crushing thought: that army was no longer the same that had in one famous struggle forced the whole world to unwilling admiration.
They followed each other wearily like a band of slaves, unwilling and half asleep.
Perhaps the lord of the manor would offer more if one seemed unwilling to sell.
Occasionally, with a youth's eagerness for adventure, the younger man would ask the elder to recount those military experiences to which the decorations in the cash-box bore testimony; but the father gave only scanty and unwilling replies.
She was unwilling to do so until she had made every effort to reconcile them with that sovereign.
When the troops first made their appearance before the walls, Champagny was unwilling to grant them admittance.
Unwilling to take the responsibility of a farther refusal, he admitted the troops through the Burgherhout gate, on Saturday, the 3rd of November, at ten o'clock in the morning.
I was unwilling to decide a matter where Lucy's happiness was involved, without obtaining your evidence in the case.
Being unwilling to interrupt you, I contented myself at first with putting my eye to the Keyhole; But as I could see nothing by this means, I undrew the bolt, and while your back was turned to the Alcove, I whipt me in softly and silently.
Lucifer, whom I summoned to my assistance, was at first unwilling to obey my commands: To enforce his compliance I was constrained to have recourse to my strongest charms.
This request Ambrosio expected and desired; Yet He affected to raise objections, and to seem unwilling to keep his word.
Amidst all her foibles her heart was truly warm and affectionate, and She was unwillingto quit her Sister in so dangerous a state.
She would not be removed from the Vaults, fearing lest motion should only hasten her death; and She was unwilling to lose those moments which She past in receiving proofs of Lorenzo's love, and assuring him of her own.
The Nuns who had belonged to it were obliged in consequence to disperse themselves into other Societies: But the prejudice against them ran high, and the Superiors were very unwilling to admit them.
Both seemedunwilling to begin the conversation, and to labour under the influence of mutual embarrassment.
By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a familyunwilling to receive her.
He had commissioned Lorenzo to supply her liberally with money: But Elvira, unwilling to receive obligations from that Nobleman, had assured him that She needed no immediate pecuniary assistance.
I hesitated not to obey her: but unwilling to leave the Baroness a victim to the vengeance of the Robbers, I raised her in my arms still sleeping, and hastened after Marguerite.
She seemed to insist upon something which the Daemon wasunwilling to grant.
They therefore had dinner early, and Helen went again to her brother's room, unwilling to leave him a moment until she gave up her charge to her aunt.
But he felt unwilling to go home, which at first he was fain to attribute to his having drunk a little more wine than was good for him, whence this feverishness and restlessness so strange to his experience.
His modesty made him unwilling to awaken the belief that he asked the betrothed bride of the man--you understand and her sister into his house, to set an example of Christian reconciliation.
The Knight Heideck, the uncle and faithful teacher of the boys, wasunwilling to let them go to the city.