He watched the color rising in her cheeks with a curious mixture of pride in her pride and regret at its consequences.

When he was in this peculiar condition of mindthe odd mixture of self-reproach, satisfaction, amusement and boredom that he felt now he always went to see Edith, throwing himself into the little affairs of her life as if he had nothing else on his mind.

His whole manner was a singular mixture of satisfaction and anger.

Indeed, the small waif by the fire was emitting a series of noises that seemed a queer mixture of low growls and whinesevidence unimpeachable that he had been correctly named.

And the guests were, without exception, the most extraordinary mixture in London.

" Emily smiled at the casualty of her grace, and they proceeded slowly through the table until their passage was stopped by a party at the game of whist, which, by its incongruous mixture of ages and character, forcibly drew her attention.

Sir William Temple in his essay on poetry, says, "that the religion of the Gentiles had been woven into the contexture of all the ancient poetry with an agreeable mixture, which made the moderns affect to give that of christianity a place also in their poems; but the true religion was not found to become fictitious so well as the false one had done, and all their attempts of this kind seemed, rather to debase religion than heighten poetry.

It was pretty dark inside, after the glimmer of the snowy streets, and he was groping forward with outspread hands, when he stumbled over some substance which offered an indescribable mixture of resistances, hard and soft, firm and loose.

"It is the negro dialect," says Joel Chandler Harris, "in its most primitive statethe 'Gullah' talk of some of the negroes on the Sea Islands being merely a confused and untranslatable mixture of English and African words.

" Miss Sessions had smiled upon the piteous little group with a judicious mixture of patronage and mild reproof, and her driver had shaken the lines over the backs of the fat horses preparatory to moving on, when Stoddard's car turned into the street from the corner above.

In his essay on Machiavelli he writes: "The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature, and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed.

Originally, a gland meant something in the body which was seen to make something else, generally a juice or a liquid mixture of some sort.

A learned Benedictine[AJ] first starts the conjecture, and then maintains it against the attacks of an anonymous writer, that the vulgar Latin became the universal language of Gaul immediately after Caesar's conquest, and that its corruption, with very little mixture of the original language of the country, gradually produced the Romance towards the eighth century.

Those warm, balmy nights on the piazza, with the moonlight quivering through the vines, and turning the terraced lawn with fantastic mixture of light and shadow into a fairy scene, while the cultivated traveller discoursed of all things beautiful in nature and art, were full of witchery.

What an heterogeneous mixture of fine old sport, black legs and consciences, panting steeds and hearts bursting with expectation and despair, and the grand machinery of chance working with mathematical truth, and not unfrequently beneath luxury and the mere show of hospitality.

A smile of unaffected pleasure lit up his features as he removed the stopper from one particularly pungent mixture.

There they experienced so much difficulty in the search for their master's body, in consequence of the horrible mixture of the corpses, that they might have searched till the perilous return of daylight, had not the moon, at the close of a prayer of Medoro's, sent forth its beams right on the spot where the king was lying.

These poems differ from others as ottar of roses differs from ordinary rose-water, the close-packed essence from the thin, diluted mixture.

See, the tiny waves that curl before our boat are like thin ink; a thousand roots and herbs and who knows what mysterious vegetable mixture colors these dark deeps?

Messrs. Müthel & Lütche, of Berlin, recommend the following process for the manufacture of varnish: The oils are treated by gases or gaseous mixtures that have previously been submitted to the action of electric discharges.

" Taking the two little osier baskets, laden with yellow and purple clusters, Casimer offered them, with a charming mixture of timidity and grace, to the girls, saying, like a grateful boy, "You give me kind words and good hopes; permit that I thank you in this poor way.

Of the explosive mixture of conflicting elements in conflict, a new chemical body will be born.

Make a stiff mixture as for nut roast, add a tablespoonful savoury herbs if liked.

So it is in Apulia and Naples, which have likewise a considerable mixture of Grecian blood.

They may be regarded as the present postulates of a new science of the whys and wherefores separating and setting apart, as so recognizably distinct, those peregrinating chemical mixtures: men and women.