The upper story was even less inviting than the ground-floor—barer, more chill, utterly comfortless.
For now, she possessed her own fortune; to ask her father's bounty was therefore, she divined, a sure way of inviting a rebuff.
He told of a special service for the children, and the need of visiting them in their homes and inviting the parents also to this feast of God.
It is not sufficiently inviting?
On a certain morning a message came from my godmother, inviting me to attend some notable lecture to be delivered in the same public rooms before described.
"This is a quiet little château," he observed, after inviting me to sit near the casement.
But you observed that under the name of 'Isidore' she often spoke of me: may I—without inviting you to a breach of confidence—inquire what was the tone, what the feeling of her remarks?
I'll see to the pie and cake, and the other girls can have anything else they like," answered Merry, glad and proud that she could provide the party with her own inviting handiwork.
Now, thanks to Jill's timely suggestion, Frank had given him a fine one, and several friends had contributed a number of rare stamps to grace the large, inviting pages.
And just as she was wondering how it might be brought about, to her utter astonishment, she received a letter from her brother inviting her to come with her husband to Dorincourt.
"As Miss Deane didn't know she was excluding others by inviting me," said Philip, "I am bound to resign.
The Hard-Won Triumph Three weeks later, when Dorlcote Mill was at its prettiest moment in all the year,—the great chestnuts in blossom, and the grass all deep and daisied,—Tom Tulliver came home to it earlier than usual in the evening, and as he passed over the bridge, he looked with the old deep-rooted affection at the respectable red brick house, which always seemed cheerful and inviting outside, let the rooms be as bare and the hearts as sad as they might inside.
I suppose you have been inviting others, and they have refused too.
Brooke, who had gone through a great deal of inviting for the good of his country.
" "Doubtless; but I fear that my young relative Will Ladislaw is chiefly determined in his aversion to these callings by a dislike to steady application, and to that kind of acquirement which is needful instrumentally, but is not charming or immediately inviting to self-indulgent taste.
The Badger's winter stores, which indeed were visible everywhere, took up half the room—piles of apples, turnips, and potatoes, baskets full of nuts, and jars of honey; but the two little white beds on the remainder of the floor looked soft and inviting, and the linen on them, though coarse, was clean and smelt beautifully of lavender; and the Mole and the Water Rat, shaking off their garments in some thirty seconds, tumbled in between the sheets in great joy and contentment.
" said the Rat, and chirruped cheerily in an inviting sort of way.
Allen's side, without anything to say or to hear; and scarcely had she felt a five minutes' longing of friendship, before the object of it appeared, and inviting her to a secret conference, led the way to a seat.
" Catherine did not think the portrait a very inviting one, but it was too late to retreat, and she was too young to own herself frightened; so, resigning herself to her fate, and trusting to the animal's boasted knowledge of its owner, she sat peaceably down, and saw Thorpe sit down by her.
In inviting Mellersh she had intended to put him in one of the four spare-rooms that she imagined were there.
