With a figure, voice, and deportment, that seemed to preclude him from all personal influence and authority; and with no mental acquisitions, except those which are common to every cultivated mind, he secured to himself not only universal admiration, but, I may venture to say, the just and moral idolatry of the world.

Especially was this vain hope cherished by his younger brother Jyanough, to whom he had been an object of the fondest love and most unbounded admiration; and who daily, as the evening closed, took fresh food and water to the grave, and sat there till night closed in, calling on Uncas, and listening for his coming footsteps.

No words of mine can adequately convey the intense admiration which I felt, and which I know was shared by the whole Navy, for the manner in which their arduous and perilous work was carried out.

For many decades the party professed enthusiastic admiration of British institutions and our ideals of personal freedom.

The views entertained by the friends on literary matters were almost identical; they both fought under the standards of the classic school; they resented the same criticisms, they applauded the same successes, and were bound together by the strong tie of mutual admiration.

Mr. Van Torp watched her with genuine admiration, and when she looked at him and nodded her thanks again, he unconsciously smiled too, and answered by a nod of approval.

I have a profound admiration for your police; the results which they accomplish are wonderful, when one considers the difficulties under which they labour.

Still it is something to have tried, and we are left with a respectful admiration for those who could so easily do without matches.

Then he remembered the frank admiration the cowboys had shown toward Carolyn June.

"Thanks; I shall not be long away;" and giving her a glance that made her turn scarlet with anger at its undisguised admiration, he walked away, humming gayly to himself Goethe's lines, "Maiden's heart and city's wall Were made to yield, were made to fall; When we've held them each their day, Soldier-like we march away.

" I glanced at Rogers and was astonished to see that he was regarding the woman with affectionate admiration.

We have a passionate admiration for France, and a real devotion to her, but that is a love affair, not a family tie.

There was not a little admiration for German efficiency and strength.

Yet he bore with me like the sweet-blooded kindly angel that he is, and when at the end it appeared that I was right after all, Cary was the first to pour congratulations and honest admiration upon me.

" "What a damned cunning scoundrel he is," exclaimed Rolfe, in unwilling admiration of the completeness of Hill's scheme.

Roland had long ago won the sincere admiration of the rugged woodsman, who stood ready to do anything to show his regard.

He had already conceived the greatest sort of secret admiration for the extraordinary woods boy, even before he had glimpsed that remarkable fur farm which the other was successfully running.

Well, you are a sagacious woman," looking at her with unfeigned admiration.

As she moved towards Mrs. Marston, Sir Wynston rose, and, observing her with evident admiration, said in an undertone, inquiringly, to Marston, who was beside him "And this?"

The confused and imperfect account which travellers have given of their grandeur, their sciences, and their policy, have, hitherto, excited admiration, but have not been sufficient to satisfy even a superficial curiosity.

He expects no appointment or other appreciable gain through Tulpian's favour; he has no doubleness towards Felicia; there is no sneering or backbiting obverse to his ecstatic admiration.

And you have come to me!" Gloria met his rather too ardent admiration with that cool little laugh which had been her weapon in other days.

" "No'm, it's paint, and dirt, and glue, and it won't come off," said Toady, stroking his variegated countenance with grateful admiration for the stains that saved him.

No one can object to this boundless admiration which the Greeks had for art in its highest forms, in so far as that admiration became worship.

I watched her with reverent admiration.