She had, therefore, double opportunities of acquiring a knowledge which seemed to interest her deeply; naturally, since it was so absolutely novel, and communicated by one whose very presence was the most marvellous of the marvels it attested.

If Acredale had not been for a century the ancestral seat of the Spragues, and in its widest sense typical of the suburban Northern town, there would be merely an objective and extrinsic interest in portraying its sequestered life, its monotonous activities.

The question scarcely interested me.

who evidently 'have a history,' and a strange one, which you never expect or attempt to fathom; who interest you intensely for a while, and then are whirled away again in the great world-waltz, and lost in the crowd for ever?

He told his new friends many things that interested them exceedingly, and which were connected with his struggle.

Suffice it to say that no Oriental city has interested me so profoundly as Aleppo, and in none have I received such universal and cordial hospitality.

"My son," he said, turning to me, "you made a statement a while ago which interested me strangely.

There was another question that interested him more keenly at this moment; when Messer Girolamo should know that his daughter was not in Venice, could he fail to comprehend the hint he had given a few hours before, and would he not follow them to Rome, as Piero devoutly hoped, for he wished to leave Marina in her father's care.

By his side sat a little girl busy with thread and needle upon another piece of clothing; one boy had his feet in a bucket of water washing them carefully; other girls and boys were standing round attentively looking upon the strange pictures of real life before them, and waiting for something to turn up to interest them personally.

But now: why should I, as a clergyman, interest myself specially in the spread of Natural Science?

We are one of the nations, and we as a nation have precisely the same interest in international law as a private individual has in the laws of his country."

For the present, he did as she wished, but he was longing to begin talking to her on the subject again, both because it interested him passionately from the psychological point of view, and far more, naturally, because he had hopes of persuading her in time.

Dr. A.W. Ives warmly interested himself in my behalf, and I had literary friends on every side.

She came into the hall with him, as do young wives, and kissed him good-by, and it pleased and interested me amazingly.

We had all been taken there for change of air, and next door there was an old gentlemento me at any rate he seemed oldwho interested me immensely.

He is the first of the Hellenic poets who interests us intellectually in the antagonism and affinity between the sexes.

Till this time it does not appear, that any bodies of men, had collectively interested themselves in endeavouring to remedy the evil.

The friendless state which he said he was in, and that he wished to die, made Rosalind think that he was like herself unfortunate; and she pitied him so much, and so deep an interest she took in his danger while he was wrestling, that she might almost be said at that moment to have fallen in love with him.

It interested me vastly, and I resolved to make him the most perfect of watchdogs.

you do not know human nature yet, my child," said Mr. Denton, gazing at her with an expression of almost fatherly interest, "but pray always that your trust may be as steadfast as nowthat it will never be shattered on the rocks of sorrow and misfortune.

As a medical man, their condition interested me enormously.

The last piece has, it is true, this great merit, that everything ceases to be political and becomes of purely human interest; nay, the historical element itself is but a light veil through which we have the purely human element shining forth.

One reason why it is so hard to get business men into the Church, or to interest them religiously in any way, is that ministers, in general, do not understand or appreciate business men.

On one momentous occasion, however, a person inimical to priestly interest officiously examined the grain, and found that those lying on the letters not wanted were made of wax, and the birds, preferring the true grain, left these untouched.

We are not among the least grateful to those foreign philanthropists who take so deep an interest in our welfare as seldom to let any republican foible pass, without applying to it, as it merits, the caustic application of their purifying pens.