Although Lamb had the most cordial disliking for Mrs. Godwin, he always stood by his old friend her husband.

"Perhapsnow that I reflect upon it," continued the clever woman, disliking the clever man's silence, "the person who said all would be intolerable.

The servant had remained at the drawing-room door, hesitating, disliking to intrude on all that mourning; but the child good-humoredly waved her fat little fists, and laughed lightly.

Sir Edward smiled at the simplicity of Johnson, but disliking the idea attached to the refusal of his daughter, said, "Perhaps, after all, uncle, there has been some misunderstanding between Emily and Denbigh, which may have driven him from us so suddenly.

Lady Chatterton, really forgetful of the persons of her B acquaintance, and disliking the vulgarity of her air, drew up into an appearance of great dignity, as she hoped the lady was well.

Moving toward them, with Di, Bobby was suddenly overtaken by the sense of disliking them all.

Disliking opposition to a plan or policy which he had originated or made his own by adoption, he preferred to consult those who without debate accepted his judgment and were in sympathy with his ideas.

Disliking domestic employments.

Adj. disliking &c v.; averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick^; queasy. disliked &c v.; uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful^; offensive; disgusting &c v.; disagreeable c. (painful) 830.

Adj. hating &c v.; abhorrent; averse from &c (disliking) 867; set against. bitter &c (acrimonious) 895; implacable &c (revengeful) 919. unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned^, uncared for, unendeared^, un-valued; disliked &c 867. crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted.

This object he had attained; but the Romans, who saw very clearly that the Macedonian was influenced not by friendship for Rome, but by enmity to Antiochus, and who moreover were by no means in the habit of regulating their policy by such feelings of liking and disliking, had carefully abstained from bestowing any material advantages on Philip, and had preferred to confer their favours on the Attalids.

Who ever heard of a man's really disliking women!

She put it from her, disliking herself as of the trivial things in letting it suggest itself at all.

Now, instead of blaming and disliking, will you not pity and love the unlovable and neglected lad?

or are we alienated from it, careless about it, disliking it?

Dr. Conwell has not forgotten those wearisome Sundays of his boyhood when, too young to appreciate the church service, he fidgeted, strove to keep awake, whittled, and ended it all by thoroughly disliking church.

She had some coquetry, and more caprice, liking and disliking almost in the same moment, and had not been three days in the abbey before she threw out all the lures of her beauty and accomplishments to make a prize of her cousin Scythrop's heart.

The most exact estimation possible of a political problem may have been contrived when a group of men, differing in origin, education, and mental type, first establish an approximate agreement as to the probable results of a series of possible political alternatives involving, say, increasing or decreasing state interference, and then discover the point where their 'liking' turns into 'disliking.'

He crossed Leicester Square and went down Bedford Street, disliking every well-dressed person he met.

The Grey One, too, had her tragedy; and Kate Wilkes had hers long ago, a strong woman, whose cup of bitterness had overflowed in her veins; who had come so to despise men, as to profess disliking children.

Diana Vernon and I enjoyed much of our time in our mutual studies; although my vanity early discovered that I had given her an additional reason for disliking the cloister, to which she was destined if she would not marry any of Sir Hildebrand's sons, I could not confide in our affection, which seemed completely subordinate to the mysteries of her singular situation.

Nor do we forget what often offended even equitable judges, disliking all appearance of management and mere adroitnessor what was often objected against his proceedings by opponents at least as unscrupulous as they wished him to be thought.

He then lived at the Middle Temple, London; but after the death of Strafford, disliking the unsettled state of England, he spent three months in the Low Countries.

" "But of course," said Bohun, disliking more and more this uncomfortable scene"of

She bestowed great care too on her enunciation, disliking the slipshod mode of pronouncing which is so common.