To be sure, it was in the night, and nobody saw it go, [think of that, conceited Worldling!]

But he was essentially a worldling, and, as such, a superficial critic.

I've been teasing him, pretending to be a worldling, but foreign travel and entertaining in London are just about as unsuited to me as to Peter.

You ought to be aware of the fact, that when a woman has lost the freshness of her first youth, and takes a special interest in a young man, everybody says she desires to "make a worldling of him."

The question was answered in a moment by the young worldling of sixteen: he would enter a crack regiment and invest his guineas in the thousand per cents.

Fancying Thurnall a merely mean and self-interested worldling, untouched by those higher aspirations which stood to him in place of a religion, he imagined him making every possible use of his power; and longed to escape to the uttermost ends of the earth from his old tormentor, whom the very sea would not put out of the way, but must needs cast ashore at his very feet, to plague him afresh.

What a worldling, and what a destroyer of a young mind that man was.

ON THE DEATH OF A CERTAIN JOURNAL {282} So die, thou child of stormy dawn, Thou winter flower, forlorn of nurse; Chilled early by the bigot's curse, The pedant's frown, the worldling's yawn.

But the worldling will stand mute, or evade its declaration, whenever his interests are to be unfavorably affected by it.

WORLDLING By pious people, it is true, No medium is rejected; Conventicles, and not a few, On Blocksberg are erected.

And for this dear, this precious hour, I would not, if I had the power, Exchange a worldling's life of ease, Whom all around him seek to please.

The holy Saint Monica thus saw the blessed Augustine standing clothed in white among the angels while he was yet a worldling and unbeliever, and thereby received the grace to continue her prayers for thirty years, till she saw him a holy bishop.

Great God, consider All she has done and suffered, and forbear To smite her like a worldling! Eliz.

she was but a worldling!

There is a decided incongruity between Theodore as a manas Theodore, in fineand the dear fellow as the intellectual agent, confidant, complaisant, purveyor, panderwhat you willof a battered old cynic and dilettantea worldling if there ever was one.

I acted like the worldling boy, With heart to every feeling vain: I smil'd with all, yet felt no joy; I wept with all, yet felt no pain, Nothough, to veil thoughts of gloom, I seem'd to twine Joy's rosy wreath, 'Twas

To him, such an expedition had the charm of the novelty and change which a journey from country to town could bring to the wearied worldling, who sighed for the enjoyment of his old haunts, after a season passed in the ennui of his country-house.

We've no abiding city here: This may distress the worldling's mind, But should not cost the saint a tear, Who hopes a better rest to find.

"He is the worshipper of an hour, but the worldling for life.

He had a fixed idea that the man who had stolen his treasure was some dissipated worldling, altogether unworthy so sacred a trust.

Speech, the worldling and the falseoftener the dark veil than the bright mirror of man's thoughtsis banished from the spot consecrated to purity, unselfishness, and truth.

Christian and worldling within a day.

The hard, energetic, prose experience of old Jocunda, and the downright way with which she sometimes spoke of things as a trooper's wife must have seen them, were repressed and hushed, down, as the imperfect faith of a half-reclaimed worldling,they could not be allowed to awaken her from the sweetness of so blissful a dream.

It is the very language of an evangelical piety applied to the manufacture of a worldling.

She preached Ruskin and the simple life; no worldling ever believed more fiercely in the gospel of success.