Yet this people, he added, veriest raggamuffins that they are, despise the negroes, and consider it quite degrading to put themselves on term of equity with them.
Until last night she had been but a child, the veriest child in the tragic drama of life, the sin and shame, the utter misery of the world to her a sealed book.
Could it be that yonder beautiful, stately creature had waited and watched for him in pale anguish, night after night, his veriest slave?
I had been four times passed over in promotion, distinct acts of service left unnoticed, and my claims as much ignored as if I was the veriest dolt.
As for the Abbe, he looked as coldly indifferent to the accident as though it were the veriest trifle he had destroyed.
Neither Dicky nor I spoke, except to exchange the veriest commonplaces.
Oscar had grown as expert in avoiding the rattling broughams and hansoms as the veriest mongrel that ever led a vagrant life in London streets.
You really waste far too much time over the veriest trifles: how can it matter what sort of mustard we have?
But there is abundance of excellent farce, and Nicette might reconcile the veriest sentimentalist.
Not the veriest pessimist who retains sense and senses can say that their results are always evil, ugly, and sordid.
I have heard that they can't even help showing it in the veriest trifles.
There should be good housewifery; everything, even the veriest scraps, may be turned to the best account.
You will find that the oil and the vinegar will last a long time, and that the cost of making a salad is actually the veriest trifle.
At the present time only the veriest few of our metropolitan population are able to afford the luxury of fish, and people in the country towns hardly see it at all.
And as then Mrs Fyne uttered an incisive "It's what I've said," which might have been the veriest echo of her words in the garden.
Rainford loves me so devotedly, that I should esteem myself the veriest wretch upon the face of the earth to desert him; and on this condition alone could I hope to obtain my father's pardon.
Were all men to entertain such an indifference, the people would be the veriest slaves that an unrestrained despotism and an unwatched tyranny could render them.
For even amongst such as you—such as I—such as the veriest wretches whose villany has helped to fill these stores,—the claims of kinship—the bonds of relationship have a recognition and a name.
Through the veriest scum of humanity he has made acquaintance with one of its fairest forms.
Oh, my tender-hearted little one, can you not see that the bondage is more humiliating, more craven than is the idea of the veriest chattel mortgage?
All other things, though, were but the veriest trifle compared with the adventure which came at last.
The veriest tyro in the matter of exercise knows that exercise develops a muscle; that repeated flexion and extension of the arm, for instance, will strengthen the muscles of that limb, not cause them to lose their contractibility.
Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio, I think thou hast theveriest shrew of all.
Fear not, my lord; we can contain ourselves, Were he the veriest antic in the world.
But the song-sounds in which they were lapt and with which they came winged from her lips, seemed the veriest outpouring of her whole soul.
If a man go any whit beyond God's appointment and the comfort of nature, I know not where he will stop, until he grows to be the veriest ruffian in the world.
Its rites foredone, its guardians dead, Its priestesses, bereft of dread, Waking the veriest urchin's scorning!
A generation has passed since the great struggle began, but not until within ten years has woman dared attack upon the veriest stronghold of her oppression, the Church.
But this is all vain--lying here, the veriest child might insult me at will.
The golden head turned, the veriest ghost of a smile came to the pinched face, and the thin little hands stretched themselves aimlessly into space with a sudden plaintive cry which sent a lump to Philip's throat.
The Pathan found him squatting over against a hookah and basking in the sunshine like the veriest villager.
No man more thoroughly could appreciate conventionalities; he would weigh the effect of appearances to the veriest nicety; but in practice he seemed either to forget his knowledge or despise it.
With women, too, he was especially a favorite; there was a Machiavelian subtlety which he could throw into small things, a mode of making the veriest trifles little Chinese puzzles of ingenuity, that flattered and amused them.
He could throw such an air of good fellowship into the smallest attentions, impart such a glow of kindliness to the veriest commonplaces, that the very craftiest and shrewdest could never detect.
Meanwhile the major, striding up and down and striking the tables wildly with his fists, continued: "So you have become a thief like the veriest scribbling cur of a clerk, and all for the sake of that creature here!
She overwhelmed him with questions, forgetting nothing and requiring the veriest details.
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