I thought your optimism was as deep as a well, and as wide as a church.

" Poor Johnnie surely had need of such optimism as Stoddard had ascribed to her.

" "Oh well," said Mr. Pitman, with easy optimism, "if Mrs. George Maule's a cat!"

" Slowly, for a great weariness was on him, he began to think of Pearl, the red-cheeked shining-eyed Pearl, who had singled him out for her favor ever since he came to the village six years ago; Pearl, with her contagious optimism and quaint ways, who had the good gift of putting every one in good humor.

CHAPTER VII Something of his overnight's optimism remained with Philip when at eleven o'clock on the following morning he was ushered into Elizabeth's rooms.

As the hour of meeting the Doctor approached, my courage oozed from every pore, distilling a malignant dew of mistrust that not even the optimism of Ajax could evaporate.

Tennyson's immature work, like that of the minor poets, is sometimes in a doubtful or despairing strain; but his In Memoriam is like the rainbow after storm; and Browning seems better to express the spirit of his age in the strong, manly faith of "Rabbi Ben Ezra," and in the courageous optimism of all his poetry.

His strength, his joy of life, his robust faith, and his invincible optimism enter into us, making us different and better men after reading him.

Because of his invincible will and optimism, Browning is at present regarded as the poet who has spoken the strongest word of faith to an age of doubt.

The undue optimism of one man will be balanced by the undue pessimism of another; and, if there is no prevailing bias in either direction, the errors of judgment will not affect the results for the industry as a whole.

If I could just show our people how badly we fare here, how ill housed, and unsanitary" The girl pressed Peter's fingers with a woman's optimism for a man.

And there's been such a fine note of optimism in the exercises.

(speaks with the heartiness of one who would keep himself assured) HOLDEN: I didn't seem to want a fine note of optimism.

There are so many Julians and there's need of so many Stellas these sad days that it is well to have such wholesome doctrine stated with so courageous an optimism.

It is this stuff planted in virgin soil and inflated to an immense and buoyant optimism by colossal and unanticipated material prosperity and success.

But Mr. F. C. Gould, forbidden by modesty to adduce this excellent ground for optimism, fell back upon saying a thing which is said by numbers of other people, but has not perhaps been said lately with the full authority of an eminent cartoonist.

But along with that truth and with that geniality there is a streak of that erroneous type of optimism which is founded on the fallacy of which I have spoken above.

We have grown to associate morality in a book with a kind of optimism and prettiness; according to us, a moral book is a book about moral people.

The whole strength of their appeal to members of the Church lay in men's weariness of the high and dry optimism, which presents the existing order of things as the noblest possible, and the undisturbed way of the majority as the way of salvation.

The optimism of Hollingsworth Chase lightened the shadows but little.

So he became feared on the course, not only for his actual prowess but for his matchless optimism in casting up his score.

And all makes for the most glowing optimism.

She, on the other hand, was laughing at her memories surveying across the years, with a flattering optimism, this far-away adventure of her Bohemian days, and growing very merry on recalling the remains of the Inca on his passage from hotel to hotel.

Her tragedies always seemed to lose their sting in the light of Nyoda's optimism.

Perhaps his optimism would have been more marked had the information he possessed concerning Shelburne been less disturbing.