" The garden was a beautiful place, well worthy Cousin Jimmy's pride.
All that remained in her mind, as she and Henry walked quickly down the road, was the tonic sensation of high resolves to be a worthy wife.
Banks, glancing up the long vista of the table and pretending to descry some object in the distance, called out: 'Worthy host, I doubt not you are there, but I can only see you with the eye of faith.
' 'Seven hundred and fifty pounds,' she said, getting the correct answer by a superhuman effort worthy of that occasion.
I had not been seated five minutes, ere I became aware that chance and my worthy burgher friend had brought me once more within view of a familiar and domestic group.
But the worthy father was obviously a Frenchman born and bred (I became more and more persuaded of his resemblance to my confessor)—he was a true son of Rome; when he did lift his eyes, he looked at me out of their corners, with more and sharper subtlety than, one would have thought, could survive the wear and tear of seventy years.
At his estrade I paused, just in front; of course I was not worthy of immediate attention: he proceeded with his lesson.
That worthy directress had never from the first treated me otherwise than with respect; and when she found that I was liable to frequent invitations from a château and a great hotel, respect improved into distinction.
—it seemed to be the fashion to think there that the Professor of Literature was not worthy of a reply!
" "Women who are worthy the name ought infinitely to surpass; our coarse, fallible, self-indulgent sex, in the power to perform such duties.
Perhaps the worthy man might, half unconsciously, have blent in this proceeding some little of the subtlety of his class: it might have been his resolve to learn the locality of your home—did you impart that in your confession?
Did I, do you suppose, reader, contemplate venturing again within that worthy priest's reach?
He is not worthy of your beautiful young friend.
By degrees, as I acquired fluency and freedom in their language, and could make such application of its more nervous idioms as suited their case, the elder and more intelligent girls began rather to like me in their way: I noticed that whenever a pupil had been roused to feel in her soul the stirring of worthy emulation, or the quickening of honest shame, from that date she was won.
I told you in London, Watson, and I tell you now again, that we have never had a foeman more worthy of our steel.
" "No, they are the homes of our worthy ancestors.
I tell you, Watson, this time we have got a foeman who is worthy of our steel.
" "Yes, the setting is a worthy one.
Was he worthy of her?
Yet these two worthy ladies were not enemies of Anne; on the contrary, they were really quite fond of her, and would have defended her as their own young had anyone else attacked her.
