Of late the old man's bodily health had mended suddenly, almost marvellously; but he remained vacant, childish in mind, and so far the authorities had retained him, hoping to probe in some way to the obscure, moving cause of his malady.

The modern peoples surely are growing out of dreams so childish as that.

"For God's sake, stop!" "How childish of you, Beatrice.

Rather duller, perhaps, because schoolgirls were more childish than schoolboys, the problems of their upbringing less portentous.

Edward, as he advanced in life, had retained something childish about himself, which corresponded singularly well with the youthfulness of Ottilie.

I have seen all sorts of , from a trivial childish to a grim of mountaineers.

Mrs. Ochiltree had grown steadily more and more childish after that time, and her niece had never succeeded in making her pick up the thread of thought where it had been dropped.

I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars, Only to fail again! XI. COMPENSATION.

I in consequence enjoyed with new zest the epistles of St. Paul, which I read as with fresh eyes; and now understood somewhat better his whole doctrine of "the Spirit," the coming of which had brought the church out of her childish into a mature condition, and by establishing a higher law had abolished that of the letter.

Still, if it be childish on the one hand to deplore that the Christian earnestness of the earlier masters had failed, it would be even more ridiculous to complain that paganism had not been more entirely recovered.