He hung on to the loaded sled, examining, praising, while the dogs, after the merest affectation of trying to make a start, looked round at him over their loose collars and grinned contentedly.

There is no affectation in the expression of the wish, "O that the desert were my dwelling-place!" though we know that the writer on the shores of the Mediterranean still craved for the gossip of the clubs.

The enthusiasm in her face, the frankness of her manner, seemed to please him, for there was no affectation about either.

He was content to shine in reflected light: and the affectations with which he is charged seem to have been unconscious imitations of his great idol.

In these little visual interpretations, no emblem is so common as the heart,that little three-cornered exponent of all our hopes and fears,the bestuck and bleeding heart; it is twisted and tortured into more allegories and affectations than an opera hat.

If Semanthe would have been satisfied with her natural Complexion, she might still have been celebrated by the Name of the Olive Beauty; but Semanthe has taken up an Affectation to White and Red, and is now distinguished by the Character of the Lady that paints so well.

When educated women "mistake vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality," she is not surprised that men regard rhodomontade as the native accent of woman's intellect, or that they come to the conclusion that "the average nature of women is too shallow and feeble a soil to bear much tillage.

The general Affectation among Men, of appearing greater than they are, makes the whole World run into the Habit of the Court.

He enjoyed every circumstance of his good fortune, and had no affectation on that subject.

I hope you won't think this dab of Italian, that slid involuntarily from my pen, an affectation like his Gallicisms, or a rebellion against Providence, in imitation of his lordship, who I never saw but once in my life: he then appeared in a corner of the drawing-room, in the exact similitude of Satan when he was soliciting the court of Heaven for leave to torment an honest man.

The sentiment of the "Vita Nuova" is separated by the wide gulf that lies between simplicity and affectation from the sentimentality of Petrarch's sonnets.