She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief.
I would have you to know that I am a Toad, a very well-known, respected, distinguished Toad!
Happy the glance that first distinguished Catherine!
As they were surveying the last, the general, after slightly naming a few of the distinguished characters by whom they had at times been honoured, turned with a smiling countenance to Catherine, and ventured to hope that henceforward some of their earliest tenants might be "our friends from Fullerton.
" "That little boys and girls should be tormented," said Henry, "is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny; but in behalf of our most distinguished historians, I must observe that they might well be offended at being supposed to have no higher aim, and that by their method and style, they are perfectly well qualified to torment readers of the most advanced reason and mature time of life.
The company began to disperse when the dancing was over—enough to leave space for the remainder to walk about in some comfort; and now was the time for a heroine, who had not yet played a very distinguished part in the events of the evening, to be noticed and admired.
In the train he had selected the words of his greeting, going over them with care—some slight expression of his gratification in meeting one of whom he, in common with the whole world, had heard—but of course put delicately, very delicately; some slight reference to her distinguished parents and the part her family had played in the history of England—made, of course, with proper tact; a sentence or two about her eldest brother Lord Winchcombe, who had won his V.
She could not give up believing in good and not liking evil, and it must be evil to live entirely on the proceeds of adulteries, however dead and distinguished they were.
As though justice can really be distinguished from vengeance.
There is a distinguished oculist coming to the Island the last of June and the doctor says I must see him.
Josie Pye says he is a distinguished artist, and that her mother's cousin in Boston is married to a man that used to go to school with him.
I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished.
" The distinguished detective went to a wall telephone, and stood with the receiver to his ear for probably ten minutes.
In the field he had been distinguished for his decisiveness and energy.
The major, in spotless linen, with his extraordinary coat showing only where it was closely buttoned, and his white hair smoothly roached, looked really fine and distinguished.
Now and then in the hotels Corny had managed conversation and temporary acquaintance with substantial, if not distinguished, guests.
Though I must say there is something rather distinguished about him, now that he has cut his hair and put on decent clothes.
Now that he was distinguished, maybe she would be wanting to "make up.
Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school's distinguished slouch.
