" "Don't begrudge me the pleasure, I implore you.

He begrudged his time even when tempted by the calls of friendship.

That left Uncle John to take his after-dinner nap in the big Morris chair in the living room, where Major Doyle sat smoking-sulkily while he gazed from the window and begrudged the moments Patsy was being kept from him.

My natural assiduity is thus continually stimulated, and I find myself begrudging a single hour, spent in gossiping hum-drum societyfor even here there is society, or an apology for society.

" "Nevertheless, sir, you would not have it thought that she begrudged you an equal share of her possessions.

If he dies he will die like a brave man, and not begrudge the life he gives for his country.

But when he opened the telegram he did not begrudge the money.

"In short I shall begrudge no reasonable expence that will contribute to the improvement and neatness of my Farms;for nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order, and everything trim, handsome, and thriving about them.

"I shall begrudge no reasonable expense that will contribute to the improvement and neatness of my farms," he wrote one of his managers, "for nothing pleases me better than to see them in good order, and everything trim, handsome, and thriving about them; nor nothing hurts me more than to find them otherwise.

There is too much wonderful phenomena in spiritism to begrudge the explanation that the occultist offers for certain of its phases.

"I'll be dead soon," went on the malicious, purring voice from the bed. "Don't begrudge me my last fling.

Then Percival said, "Certes, they would be uncourteous to begrudge food to a hungry man"; and thereat the damsel laughed again.

So surely they would not begrudge the necessary funds to release the unhappy prisoner from bondage.

After the owner has taken from them his last sheaf I come in and gather my harvest alsoone that he did not see, and doubtless would not begrudge methe harvest of beauty.

Because this poor Prince of a tiny country does not begrudge the heir to a World-Power his fleet, his army, nor his treasures; but he refuses to yield one treasure to him except at the price of his heart's bloodand that treasure is the hand of Princess Wilhelmine, whom he loves.

And, faith, this pleasure I begrudge him not! HOHENZOLL.

He is plainly getting bored, and when she keeps it up, and begrudges the husbandman more than "two oxen and a cow," he loses his temper, and presumably there is a matrimonial tiff.

Mr. Skinner had a singularly annoying, mirthless laugh, as if he begrudged himself such an unheard-of indulgence.

Subscriptions came in freely during those first days, for farmers and villagers alike were proud of their local daily and the price was so low that no one begrudged the investment.

I erected a tomb to her at considerable personal expense, but I don't begrudge itno, I don't begrudge it, Miss Hugonin.

"Well, sir, you're an old man and you've been good to me, so I do not begrudge you your little joke, but Mr. Ricks, I can't stand things like I used to.

Thou hast her: may no god begrudge your joy.

None gave ostentatiously, for they were simple, kindly folk who gave for the pure joy of giving and begrudged all knowledge of their acts to anyone outside their own little circle.

Outside, the modern structures crowd upon the low adobe building, staring down upon it with unsympathetic eyes and begrudging it the very land it stands on, while inside, hand-hewn rafters, massive grey walls, and a red tiled floor slightly depressed in places by years of service, point mutely to the past, to the days when padres and neophytes knelt at the sound of the Angelus.

Sometimes a man marries a woman who is so narrow and so selfish and so jealous that she begrudges the husband's mother her son's affection.