Indeed, I may say that, being a peaceful man, I wanted to remain in Washington, for I believed that Seward was sincere in pleading for a compromise; but the woman I speak of had her own opinion convinced me that she was right, and I came to my own people.

Mrs. Garrick, whose grief for the loss of her husband was, I believe, as sincere as wounded affection and admiration could produce, had this day, for the first time since his death, a select party of his friends to dine with her[310].

Byron never wrote anything more sincere than the Curse of Minerva; and he has recorded few incidents more pathetic than that of the old Greek who, when the last stone was removed for exportation, shed tears, and said "[Greek: telos]!"

It was followed by a pantomime, called Lun's Ghosta satiric touch, I apprehend, upon Rich, not long since deadbut to my apprehension (too sincere for satire), Lun was as remote a piece of antiquity as Ludthe father, of a line of Harlequinstransmitting his dagger of lath (the wooden sceptre) through countless ages.

I confess that I am not free from grave scruples of conscience, foreseeing that I can scarcely be sincere without slandering my own sex a little.

I can only say, with regard to yourself, that I am quite contented and ought to be so, as long as you are sincere with me, and treat me in the same gentlemanly tone.

Arabic flatteries are of a superior order because sincere at the time being and addressed to girls whom the flatterer desires to marry.

It is not in the power of woman, says he, to be altogether sincere on these occasions.

Over the years, I have learnt to respect the large number of rural correspondents, who have been sincere to the journalism.

But she provided a fine supper, to which the menfolk paid the most practical and sincere of all compliments.

This caryatid has the limpid, innocent eyes of a child, and is unsophisticated and sincere like one.

"The tramp shuffled up a step closer to the bench where I sat The anxiety in his big slack face was sincere beyond question.

The communications of the Senators are proved to have been sincere by their subsequent speeches and by public events.

" She was quite sincere about this.

In such sentencesand it is not the prettiest, but the shortest that I have quotedresounds, however, the quieting wisdom, the noble love of that art which poor Kamionka "respected deeply and was always sincere toward."