If it wasn't to be Matilda, I should rather have called her something out of MaeterlinckYgraine, or Ysolynsomething like that.' 'Yes, dear, Mygraine's a nice name, too,' said Mrs Ottley, in her humouring way, 'and so is Vaselyn.

You will never regret humouring me in this.

This expression, when I heard of it, convinced me, as I believe it did some others, that her act of self-denial in not humouring my whim and flying from home and duty that night, had made a stronger impression on her mind than all that came after.

It was Colonel's Esmond's nature always to be led by a woman, and he spoiled his daughter; laughing at her caprices, but humouring them; making a joke of her prejudices, but letting them have their way; indulging, and perhaps increasing, her natural imperiousness of character, which asserted itself to an unusual degree after her father's death.

"But, perhaps this prince proved unworthy of Miss Eve, after all?" "Not he, sir; he made her a most kind and affectionate husband; not humouring all her idle wishes, if Miss Eve could have had such wishes, but cherishing her, and counselling her, and protecting her, showing as much tenderness for her as her own father, and as much love for her as I had myself.

Lamb wrote of him to Coleridge in 1796, after the tragedy at his home, at a time when friends were badly needed, "Sam Le Grice who was then in town was with me the first 3 or 4 days, and was as a brother to me, gave up every hour of his time to the very hurting of his health and spirits, in constant attendance and humouring my poor father.

He, Sylvanus Power, his supplanter, was occupying the place that belonged to him, ordering her supper, humouring her little preferences, perhaps sharing with her that little glow of relief which comes with the hour of rest, after the strain of the day's work.

Your utility therefore, it is plain, depends upon your popularity; and popularity cannot be attained without humouring the taste and inclinations of men.

'Yes,' answered Logotheti, humouring him, 'the room is warm.

Hilda had done little but the humouring.

The root of his disease is a self-humouring pride, and an accustomed tenderness not to be crossed in his fancy; and the occasion commonly of one of these three, a hard father, a peevish wench, or his ambition thwarted.

Both consuls then vied with each other in humouring the commons.

Not daring openly to oppose his wishes, they set about mitigating his ardour by humouring it.

But he guessed that she was humouring him.

So he had lent him books, corrected his taste in many matters, and, by dint of petting and humouring, had kept the wayward youth half-a-dozen times from running away from his father, who was an apothecary in the town, and from the general practitioner, Mr. Bolus, under whom John Briggs fulfilled the office of co-assistant with Tom Thurnall.

" Perhaps Mrs. Talbot scented some such reflection in Jenny's expression; at all events, she answered it with an "Eh, but all men are alike, my dear, under their skins,all alike, and they need humouring and managing just in the same way, prince or peasant.

Humouring her, Theophil raised her and packed up the pillows at her back.

Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible.

"We'll go wherever you pleaseyou make every place the one place," he said, as if he were humouring an irresistible child.

He was naturally generous and genial, and as Mayor of a large and important town he found many ways of humouring his bent, and he did not mind paying the piper pretty handsomely for his pleasure.

Is it that I may now tell them to you, howadji?" "Go ahead," adjured Kirby, humouring the wistful eagerness of the man.

He complains that even in his time our British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, loved to deviate from it as much as possible.

Louis became her abject slave, humouring her caprices and submitting to her will.

he suggested, in the indulgent tone of one humouring a fractious child.

"Well, John," said the gentleman, humouring the quiet vanity of the beadle, "what inference could ye draw frae this text, 'A wild ass snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure?'" (Jer. ii. 24).