Now if Peggy had one trait more striking than another, it was her perfect, simple faith in what people said; irony was a mystery to her; lying, a myth,something on a par with murder.

Emerson once related to us a striking anecdote connected with this work, which gives us another glimpse of Carlyle's character.

Will had his mind bent upon one subject, and could not bear to think of anything else; in camp and out, he kept his eyes on the alert for subjects suitable for striking pictures with which to embellish his account of the outing trip.

Well, here I'll lie, with my buckler thus, lest striking up and down at randall[406] the rogue might hurt me, for I cannot see to save it, and I'll hold my peace, lest my voice should bring him where I am.

I do not find this quotationif it be one; but when John Lamb once knocked Hazlitt down, during an argument on pigments, Hazlitt refrained from striking back, remarking that he was a metaphysician and dealt not in blows but in ideas.

In the manners of the two there was a striking difference; although the Donna was not vulgar, she was far from possessing the polish of her more juvenile friend, and Mrs. Wilson considered her to be in a station between that of a housekeeper and that of a companion.

What have you got to say to me?" "This," Sylvanus Power declared, striking the desk with his clenched fist.

Through the little mist of smoke he saw a spasm of pain in his assailant's face, felt the thundering crash of his other arm, striking him on the side of the head.

There's a harsh, clarion-like note about it, like metal striking upon metal.

Thenperhaps, if you don't hate him any moreyou like him a bit,jest ateeny bit, you know?" "Whythere's the clock striking half-past eight, Georgy!"

The slaves often acquired great skill in these operations, running plows within two inches of the stalks, and striking down weeds within half an inch with their hoes, rarely touching a leaf of the cotton.

And they began striking other stones around, and men came from them, that had been turned to stones, hundreds and thousands of them.

As it had run during the last winter, it quite altered the character of the river for quarter of a mile, filling the pools with water, and giving the grass and trees a freshness which formed a most striking contrast with the brown and parched appearance of the rest of the valley.

There is nothing very striking about the exterior; indeed it looks cold, and sad, and forsaken, and its associations don't improve it.

But now, doubtless because of the weight of the line, it made nowhere near so good a flight as on the previous occasion, the arrow striking the weed some two hundred yards short of the hulk, and at this, I could near have wept with vexation and disappointment.

This book has been prepared, as have all the predecessors in this series, by the help of many who have written most delightfully of striking things in Norwegian life.

In the Carolines, a series of short stories connected by the red thread of history which runs through them, he gives a new conception, but a wonderfully graphic and striking one, of Charles XII and his times.

That even the latter movement may be a considerable thing, the present population of the United States is a striking testimony.

And therefore, should Des Cartes's globules strike never so long on the retina of a man who was blind by a gutta serena, he would thereby never have any idea of light, or anything approaching it, though he understood never so well what little globules were, and what striking on another body was.

A silent and a striking watch are but one species, to those who have but one name for them: but he that has the name WATCH for one, and CLOCK for the other, and distinct complex ideas to which those names belong, to HIM they are different species.

When so stuffed, the bags would weigh on an average of 10 pounds, and was used by the contestants in striking their antagonist.

This circumstance, though trifling in itself, showed his Majesty's great reverence for that best of all books; and his example is a striking reproof to those who suffer their Bibles to lie covered with dust for months together, or who throw them about as if they were only a piece of useless lumber.

During the retreat of the famous King Alfred at Athelney, in Somersetshire, after the defeat of his forces by the Danes, the following circumstance happened, which shows the extremities to which that great man was reduced, and gives a striking proof of his pious and benevolent disposition:A beggar came to his little castle, and requested alms.

The most striking difference, however, between the eastern and western animal is in colour.

In a moment, the reflection of the moonbeams in the vapours of the night changes the picture, anticipating the imagination, now astounding by its marvelsnow striking by its novelty.