"You see," said Aunt Elizabeth triumphantly, liking to be right even in this small matter.
"What is the use of liking a lady who won't like me?
You can have the run of the house and pick a beau to your liking from the Priest boys—not that the young fry are what they were in my time.
Isn't it funny, dear Father, how many kinds of ways of liking there are?
" Consequently Emily felt quite astonished when, after going to school a few days, it dawned upon her that she was liking it.
You can't help liking God.
Hungry-looking fish lay in wait for them, and Longlegs the Blue Heron seemed to have a special liking for them.
John till I was fit to die for liking him, that alone could not license me to be otherwise than dumb—dumb as the grave—dumb as you, Lucy Snowe—you know it—and you know you would despise me if I failed in self-control, and whined about some rickety liking that was all on my side.
Who could help liking him?
I heard some French fops, yonder, designating her as 'le type du voluptueux;' if so, I can only say, 'le voluptueux' is little to my liking.
Most of her other faculties seemed to be in the same flimsy condition: her liking and disliking, her love and hate, were mere cobweb and gossamer; but she had one thing about her that seemed strong and durable enough, and that was—her selfishness.
But one day a youth came through the wood; he was as beautiful as the spring; he cut the brown reed and fashioned it according to his liking; and then he put it to his lips and breathed on it; and, oh, the music that floated through the forest!
I noticed it, because I had heard the girls say that Miss Reade never wore rings, not liking them.
The First Mate was at home in the little house, beloved by Anne and Gilbert and Leslie, and tolerated by a Susan who had small liking for cats.
George was a real nice fellow, though he was a scalawag for mischief, and some said he had a liking for a glass even then.
If he were rather inclined to be lazy, liking better the fishing he had been born for than the farming he had not, and if he had a harmless eccentricity for doing fancy work, nobody save Miss Cornelia seemed to hold it against him.
" "And yet you went on liking me and being my friend.
So jest you throw overboard any idea of her not liking you.
Desiring to have his reasons for liking him, I could only gather the sentences—"I known't: he pays dad back what he gies to me—he curses daddy for cursing me.
Not liking to show him that I had heard the conflict, I continued my toilette rather noisily, looked at my watch, and soliloquised on the length of the night: "Not three o'clock yet!
