If you think a lad of thirteen would not have been so childish, you must be an exceptionally wise man, who, although you are devoted to a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rather than formidable, yet never, since you had a beard, threw yourself into a martial attitude, and frowned before the looking-glass.
" He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:—"if I have herein transgressed.
" "Yes, the life of a medical man is very arduous: especially when he is so devoted to his profession as Mr.
"A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain.
The residue of the property was to be devoted to the erection and endowment of almshouses for old men, to be called Featherstone's Alms-Houses, and to be built on a piece of land near Middlemarch already bought for the purpose by the testator, he wishing—so the document declared—to please God Almighty.
"Of course she is devoted to her husband," said Rosamond, implying a notion of necessary sequence which the scientific man regarded as the prettiest possible for a woman; but she was thinking at the same time that it was not so very melancholy to be mistress of Lowick Manor with a husband likely to die soon.
"I did not think of comparing you: such power of persevering devoted labor as Mr.
I have devoted myself to this object of hospital-improvement, but I will boldly confess to you, Mr.
Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies' school literature: here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile complete knowledge with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint.
She proved herself not only a capable, but a devoted nurse.
They seemed devoted to one another.
"While you were riding about the country in expensive motor-cars, and galloping proudly on blood-horses, and breakfasting on the fat of the land, those two poor devoted animals have been camping out in the open, in every sort of weather, living very rough by day and lying very hard by night; watching over your house, patrolling your boundaries, keeping a constant eye on the stoats and the weasels, scheming and planning and contriving how to get your property back for you.
He looked ashamed and entreating, like a guilty but devoted dog.
He would have adored a sister and spoilt a mother, and was beginning at this time to think of marrying; for though he had been very happy with his various loves, each of whom, contrary to the usual experience, turned ultimately into his devoted friend, he was fond of children and thought he had perhaps now got to the age of settling if he did not wish to be too old by the time his eldest son was twenty.
For one, he was very devoted to his mother, and that was sufficiently odd to deserve notice.
Then he would betake himself to that ravishing, radiant roadway devoted to Thespis, Thais, and Bacchus.
" "Those of a devoted son, Wendy.
The rest of the balance of housing money is devoted to utilities, household supplies, furniture, and appliances.
It is devoted to a sophisticated, seductive, and dazzling woman, which at the same time strives to simplicity.
She was a dedicated and devoted Christian.
