"Emily, you must understand right now that you are to be grateful and obedient and show your appreciation of what is being done for you.
Rebecca kept glancing up at her companion, her eyes sparkling with appreciation.
' This appreciation of Agnes brought them into closer intimacy, and they talked the more easily of other things.
Little Agnes seized Anna's left arm, silently holding up the prize, and Anna nodded appreciation.
John's eye: it reminded me of old days, it reminded me of his picture: it half led me to think that part, at least, of his professed persuasion of Miss Fanshawe's naïveté was assumed; it led me dubiously to conjecture that perhaps, in spite of his passion for her beauty, his appreciation of her foibles might possibly be less mistaken, more clear-sighted, than from his general language was presumable.
In addition to Tito's generous inheritance, Tata's will ensures that his former butler, Konar Subbiah, and chef, Rajan Shaw, are also taken care of, indicating a strong sense of appreciation for their devoted service over the years.
In truth, it was partly for your own sake that I did it, and it was my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led me to come down and examine the matter for myself.
Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation.
I thought she might have shown a little more appreciation of Cecily's gallant efforts to entertain.
Nothing will afford a more durable satisfaction than the constantly cultivated appreciation of this.
It is pleasant to know that a new ministry just come into office are not the only fellow-men who enjoy a period of high appreciation and full-blown eulogy; in many respectable families throughout this realm, relatives becoming creditable meet with a similar cordiality of recognition, which in its fine freedom from the coercion of any antecedents, suggests the hopeful possibility that we may some day without any notice find ourselves in full millennium, with cockatrices who have ceased to bite, a
He had never lost his appreciation for the romantic atmosphere of a studio, and though now the sight of it was like a stab in his heart, without thinking what he was at, he changed slightly the position of a Louis XV.
He had not only a true appreciation of the old masters, but sympathy with the moderns.
Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness.
I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
How warm, though, things like admiration and appreciation made one feel, how capable of really deserving them, how different, how glowing.
The kitchen was on this floor, and passing its door, which was open a crack, they were observed by the servants, whose thoughts, communicated to each other by looks, may be roughly reproduced by such rude symbols as Aha and Oho—symbols which represented and included their appreciation of the inevitable, their foreknowledge of the inevitable, and their complete understanding and approval.
She pressed his arm tight in her gratitude and appreciation; and though he did not withdraw his, neither did he respond to her pressure.
Gilbert was merely smiling with appreciation of the whole affair in general and of the effect produced by Anne's slender white form and spiritual face against a background of palms in particular.
But it was not such a bad arrangement after all; a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
