And yet, how lovable, how well worth serving!" The Germans with their "special gas" and with other factors in their favour, counted on breaking, not only the line of the Second Army, but the morale of the Italian people.

It was passionate, tender if she wished, fascinating; but it was not lovable.

Contrast, for example, the character of Mark Fieldes with that of Marmaduke Lemarchant, and it will be clear that the strength and straightness of the latter is closely associated with the absence of that versatility of intellect and affection which make the former a more interesting but far less lovable and estimable personality.

He fully repaid them for all his care, for he turned out to be one of the prettiest and most lovable dogs that I ever saw.

He was indeed one of the most lovable of men.

In some respects he was no greater than some of these; but he had a broader and more lovable nature than any of them, for he had what not one of them had in anything like the same degreea great and noble generosity.

And yet, I think it is just that diffidence that makes him so lovable.

Beth was really a lovable and sunny-tempered girl, very democratic in her tastes in spite of the fact that she was the possessor of an unusual fortune.

The mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous intelligence.

In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable.

"Slight and pale, with dark hair, long nose, and straightly-featured face, blithe of countenance, keen of thought, winning and lovable in conversation, frank of speech, but slightly stuttering in his talk," he had a singular gift of winning affection; and even from his youth he was "a prudent son of the world."

And ever and anon a lull would fall and the world would shudder to the iteration of a word that spelled calamity to all things fair and sweet and lovable in life, the word Bolshevism....

There were moments of happiness when in the damp horror of his death-chamber there came before him visions of Meleese, grown even sweeter and more lovable, now that he knew how she had sacrificed herself between two great lovesthe love of her own people and the love of himself.

"I would try and make him lovable," so said and so acted Emilie Schomberg, and for that effort had the orphan cause to thank her through time and eternity.

Don't you remember Emilie's saying, "I would try to make him lovable."

He is lovable now, I assure you.

We have one trouble, and that is in the temper of this newly arrived German boy, but we are going to try and make him lovable.

He exploits a quaint and lovable egoism with extraordinary skill; and though his delicately figured and latinized sentences commonly sound platitudinous and trivial when they are translated into rough Saxon prose, as they stand they are rich and melodious enough.

Addison, though less open to the onslaughts of the conventional moralist, was a less lovable personality.

If Marmaduke is a noble and warmhearted man, and Constance a lovable, innocent girl, all I can say is that it is not worth while to be noble or lovable.

Then you will be sure of what you learn; and ever afterward, though you may follow strange birds all over the known world, you will come home again, to find that there are none more charming and lovable than those few whose acquaintance you will make this summer.

"They are very gentle, lovable little birds too, and sing all through the summer when many of the better singers have grown silent.

The lover's heroine is as fictitious as any heroine of romance; he considers her the most beautiful and lovable person in the world, though to others she may seem ugly and ill-tempered.

It is not a little curious that one so little realised in his own day, one so little lovable and so little loved, should now speak to us from his pages with something of the force of personal utterance, as if he were actually with us and as if we knew him, even as we know Charles Lamb and Izaak Walton, personalities of such a different calibre.

The, pleasure of causing emotion in so many lovable persons moved me myself to tears.