This was the man for whom she had gladly risked want and poverty, the displeasure of her own people, almost half a century ago.

Once and once only in these later days has the Buddha evinced his displeasure at the modernization of his ancient shrine.

" She turned quickly and faced him with a suggestion of displeasure in her eyes.

She sat in the back seat of the car with Jakean arrangement very gratifying to the cowboy, but received with ill-concealed displeasure by the driver, Nash.

Dost thou not deceive me, man, to gratify thine own displeasure against the Hebrews?" "I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian.

This was pretty plain speaking, but Olivia soon explained herself still more plainly, and openly confessed her love; and when she saw displeasure with perplexity expressed in Viola's face, she said, "O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip!

Not that I am askin' for any long delay," he added, quickly, observing a faint expression of displeasure on the general's face.

Roger Williams was already a marked man, and an object of suspicion and displeasure to the rising power of Boston.

John eyed the strangers with a displeasure for which he could not account at once, and saw, in the ancient lady, the bridesmaid Lord Henry had so unwillingly admitted to that distinction.

No rank was high enough to protect the objects of his displeasure from his insolence; even ladies were not safe from it; while his extravagance was beyond all bounds since he considered himself entitled to claim from, the national treasury whatever he might require in addition to his stated income.

Had not her grace discovered some displeasure towards me, I should have suspected her of insensibility or dissimulation.

It is related that Beethoven shed tears of displeasure over his first music lessons; nevertheless, it was obvious from the beginning that he had a special gift for music.

"A country on which God hath laid his finger in displeasure as on this, needs have some such consolation as the phantom with which the honest Pierre appears to be so well satisfied.

Without a legitimate heir, the house of Pericles, one branch of the great Alcmaeonid gens by his mother's side, would be left deserted, and the continuity of the family sacred rites would be brokena misfortune painfully felt by every Athenian family, as calculated to wrong all the deceased members, and provoke their posthumous displeasure toward the city.

'Can Sir John Ligonier (the commander-in-chief) allow His Majesty to remain unacquainted with the merit of that officer, and can he see such a mark of displeasure without endeavouring to soften or clear the matter up a little?

It was not her tongue, though that could be bitter enough, but a certain way she had of infusing her displeasure into attitude, tone, and manner, which insensibly sapped your self-confidence and forced you to accept her bad opinion of you as your rightful due.

"'Yes, but I am afraid that he will,' I replied, thinking more of my father's displeasure than of the evil of disobedience.