This fact, alone, will place us solely on our mutual esteem, and render the friendship that I hope is now brought within a covenant, if not now first established, more equal and frank.

THE SHAD.This is a salt-water fish, but is held in little esteem.

'I have loved you,' he continued, 'with virtuous affection; I have honoured you with sincere esteem.

The learned Calmet (1672-1757) writing of the universal esteem and study of the Psalms, said that then there existed more than a thousand commentaries on them.

"When I say I wouldn't touch Angela with a barge pole, I intend merely to convey that my feelings towards her are those of distant, though cordial, esteem.

His portrait gives you the impression of great fastidiousness, and almost feminine delicacy of face, as well as of considerable self-esteem.

The eminent counsel's success in the few criminal cases in which he had consented to appear had gained him the respectful esteem of those who considered themselves oppressed by the law, and the spectators on the pavement might have raised a cheer for him if their exuberance had not been restrained by the proximity of the policeman guarding the entrance.

[Sidenote:9] They hated him most of all, however, because he had demonstrated the fact that the imperial office was for sale and had put the city in the power of the boldest spirits; likewise because he held the senate and the people in slight esteem and had impressed upon the soldiers also this idea,that they could kill or again create a Caesar.

Or what if I were to seek for proofs of reciprocal esteem among unprejudiced African maids, in Monomotopa.

Women may disguise it if they think fit, and the more to do it, they may be angry at me for saying it; but I say it is natural to them, that they have no Manner of Approbation of Men, without some Degree of Love: For this Reason he is dangerous to be entertaind as a Friend or Visitant who is capable of gaining any eminent Esteem or Observation, though it be never so remote from Pretensions as a Lover.

You must be aware that, except at the moment when you caused me to do a nose dive into the Drones' swimming bath, an incident which I long since decided to put out of my mind and let the dead past bury its dead about, if you follow what I meanexcept on that one occasion, as I say, I have always regarded you with the utmost esteem.

It is a temple in which more sincere recognition, more genuine esteem, is given to the several excellencies of such folk, than to superiority of mind, even of a high order, which obtains from the great majority only a verbal acknowledgment.

Everybody knows the spirit of Madame Sandwich; I see her good taste in the extraordinary esteem she has for you.

No, Marquis, I could no longer withhold from her the sentiment of my most tender esteem, and without consulting your interests, I have united with her against you.

Yours, with unabated esteem and regards, Robert Southey.

Perhaps he had been afraid of the domination of his gentle wife with her soft insistence, and had girded at her throughout the years because of mere fanatic self-esteem.

With renewed expressions of my sincere admiration and profound esteem, I remain, Sincerely yours, Hamilton M. Brown, M.C. To Alice, and especially to her mother, this bold and flowery letter had very nearly the force of a formal declaration.

Mrs. Wilson pressed her hand affectionately, and assured her of her good wishes and unaltered esteem.

Perhaps he had been afraid of the domination of his gentle wife with her soft insistence, and had girded at her throughout the years because of mere fanatic self-esteem.

Casey Ryan too old to lick any man who gave him cause, too old to hold the fickle esteem of those who met him in the road?

Johnson, after justly censuring him for having 'nursed in his mind a foolish dis-esteem of Kings,' tells us, 'yet a little regard shewn him by the Prince of Wales melted his obduracy; and he had not much to say when he was asked by his Royal Highness, how he could love a Prince, while he disliked Kings?'

There are even not a few cases where hatred of a person is rooted in nothing but forced esteem for his qualities.

how much he would have given to recover some of their forfeited esteem!

" Cuffe now repeated his apologies; and after a few expressions of friendly esteem on both sides, Raoul returned to his little room, declining the captain's offer to occupy one of the cabin state-rooms.

" He always treated his lady with a manly tenderness, giving her the most natural evidences of a cordial, habitual esteem, and expressing a most affectionate sympathy with her under the infirmities of a very delicate constitution, much broken, at least towards the latter years of their marriage.