Farebrother, like another White of Selborne, having continually something new to tell of his inarticulate guests and proteges, whom he was teaching the boys not to torment; and he had just set up a pair of beautiful goats to be pets of the village in general, and to walk at large as sacred animals.
She could bear that the chief pleasures of her tenderness should lie in memory, and the idea of marriage came to her solely as a repulsive proposition from some suitor of whom she at present knew nothing, but whose merits, as seen by her friends, would be a source of torment to her:—"somebody who will manage your property for you, my dear," was Mr.
In the interview at the Bank, Raffles had made it evident that his eagerness to torment was almost as strong in him as any other greed.
Bulstrode had not yet fully learned that even the desire for cognac was not stronger in Raffles than the desire to torment, and that a hint of annoyance always served him as a fresh cue.
Raffles on most occasions kept up the sense of having been educated at an academy, and being able, if he chose, to pass well everywhere; indeed, there was not one of his fellow-men whom he did not feel himself in a position to ridicule and torment, confident of the entertainment which he thus gave to all the rest of the company.
I should have made Strickland's marriage a long torment from which escape was the only possible issue.
" I supposed that for some reason or other—and Heaven knows what ingenuity men exercise to torment themselves—Dirk had got it into his head that his wife cared for Strickland, and with his genius for blundering he might quite well have offended her so that, to anger him, perhaps, she had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
" "If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate; and though I know it is all very right and necessary, I have often wondered at the person's courage that could sit down on purpose to do it.
No need now to be ashamed of his figure, and to make jokes about it so as to forestall other people's and show he didn't mind it; no need now to be ashamed of getting hot going up hills, or to torment himself with pictures of how he probably appeared to beautiful young women—how middle-aged, how absurd in his inability to keep away from them.
The hours wasted away, and hunger came to torment the captives again.
And you said, 'Don't torment me so—I'll tell!
" "Well, Sid don't torment a body the way you do.
He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick.
（） The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
An hour later, I was thinking of Thomas Jefferson's line in a letter to his daughter: "Politics is such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Don't torment yourself.
Their torment is real.
