That was perhaps the cause of the peculiar quality of Dirk's love for his wife.
That was perhaps the cause of the peculiar quality of Dirk's love for his wife.
He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
A man like Strickland would love in a manner peculiar to himself.
Our relations were peculiar.
It was an ideal that he painted—a poor one, common and shop-soiled, but still it was an ideal; and it gave his character a peculiar charm.
I discovered presently that a peculiar story was circulating among her friends.
I feel that by dwelling on some trick of speech or some queer habit I should be able to give them a significance peculiar to themselves.
For Catherine, however, the peculiar object of the General's curiosity, and his own speculations, he had yet something more in reserve, and the ten or fifteen thousand pounds which her father could give her would be a pretty addition to Mr.
Catherine's colour rose at the sight of it; and the indignity with which she was treated, striking at that instant on her mind with peculiar force, made her for a short time sensible only of resentment.
In the high-arched passage, paved with stone, which already she had trodden with peculiar awe, she well remembered the doors of which the general had given no account.
The windows, to which she looked with peculiar dependence, from having heard the general talk of his preserving them in their Gothic form with reverential care, were yet less what her fancy had portrayed.
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.
Also there seemed a peculiar merit in being a man of property so young.
Wilkins began too to believe there was something peculiar, as Lotty had almost at once informed him, in the atmosphere of San Salvatore.
She might also expound to her her peculiar dislike of people's husbands, and her profound craving to be, at least for this one month, let alone.
"Don't you think darling Scrap is growing a little, just a little, peculiar?
Wilkins, who had not been abroad since before the war, and was noticing with increasing disgust, as week followed week of wind and rain, the peculiar persistent vileness of the weather, had slowly conceived a desire to get away from England for Easter.
Allan took a mouthful of hers and a most peculiar expression crossed her face; not a word did she say, however, but steadily ate away at it.
"The most visible and peculiar trait of New York folks," answered Bud, "is New York.
