Like many others of their kind, they were thoroughly selfish at heart, and saw no good in running any personal risk to settle the quarrels of a third person.

But for him the National Game would have been syndicated and controlled by elements whose interests were purely selfish and personal.

If they work from selfish motives it is inevitable that eventually there will be a clash, as there was in the past.

"Can't you give Dad and me a chance to rest, and give us perhaps a cup of tea" "Oh, I'm a selfish old beast!" said Billie penitently.

No truly civilised Government could be so brutally selfish as to protect itself by inflicting the horrors of fearful war upon a helpless and unoffending people.

Consider the abruptness, Sir, of this questionthis selfish question, as it turned out, after a grim and gruff silence of an hour and a quarter.

Now, Miss Sharp was in no way like the gentle Amelia, but as keen, brilliant, and selfish a young person of eighteen as ever schemed to have events turn to her advantage.

But don't you dare to will your selfish hoard to me.

"I'm sure she had a good heart," said the girl, "and if she had lived more with her own family and cultivated her friends she would have been much less hard and selfish.

"But Aunt Martha has grown selfish, and does not care for me very much.

We are selfish enough to want your companionship.

Uncle John's nieces grew more and more indignant as they discovered the details of this selfish woman's crimefor Patsy declared it was nothing less than a crime to send a helpless child far into the West to search for an unknown uncle whose whereabouts were only conjectural.

"You're a selfish old beast, and don't wish Patsy to love anyone but yourself.

What these Tales have been to you in childhood, that and much more it is my wish that the true Plays of Shakespear may prove to you in older yearsenrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions, to teach you courtesy, benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these virtues, his pages are full.

And yet, these are but dreams, poor selfish fears, That scum-like float and dim Love's limpid tide.

The Seventeen Little Bears said in a sing-song way, "We really are not quite polite, We're selfish as can be, We sit on stools around the fire, Just singing merrily!" CHAPTER VII When Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes rode home with Grandpa Grumbles in his green cotton umbrella they sang a merry song, "Oh, ho!

I was mad, but there was no time for talk, and the selfish one went off and left that poor feller to run his one chance.

A struggle of course ensued, for every one wished to go on, and fear made many selfish.

All selfish considerations departed with the thought.

She felt as if a call had come to her, but somehowfor no selfish reasonshe hesitated to answer.

Darling, I'm a selfish brute to wear you out like this.

"Avery darling, I don't mean to be a selfish beast; but I've got to prowl for a bit.

And Cerinthy Ann, says she, 'Well, father, now I hope you'll own you have got some disinterested benevolence,' says she; and the Deacon he thought it over a spell, and then he says, 'I'm 'fraid it's all selfish.

Whether this is true or not, he seems to have been a selfish and incapable man.

Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd, Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects what they show to kings.