Larsen, so pleasant of face and so unbending of heart, was the first to speak.

It was the mark of a "perfect gentleman" to unbend to plainer folk, and to mingle with them in moments of relaxation.

It seemed an even match, however, for he kept his feet by sheer brute force, and his muscles seemed hard and unbending as steel.

He was not free him-self from a slight curiosity as to the reasons which had made the captain unbend in so unusual a fashion.

He was cold and unbending towards his aunt, who spoke with far too much unconcern about the "great day."

True talk should have more body and blood, should be louder, vainer and more declaratory of the man; the true talker should not hold so steady an advantage over whom he speaks with; and that is one reason out of a score why I prefer my Purcel in his second character, when he unbends into a strain of graceful gossip, singing like the fireside kettle.

And Constance, though she looks so stately, can unbend like a school-girl.

Then his dark eyebrows unbending with the reflection, maybe, that it was so much the better to his purpose that Moll could so act as to deceive him, he seats himself gravely, and replies to Jack: "Your family wit may get you a night's lodging, but I doubt if you will ever merit it so well as your daughter.

" "More can one not ask of thee," Fra Paolo answered, suddenly unbending from the stilted mood of his last words.

No one, who has deeply seated opinions of right and wrong, will ever abandon them, even in the courtesies of polite intercourse: they may be silent but never acquiescent: in short, my dear, the dread of offending our Maker ought to be so superior to that of offending our fellow creatures, that we should endeavor, I believe, to be even more unbending to the follies of the world than we are.

I doubt if he could unbend at the dinner-table like Disraeli and Palmerston, or tell stories like Sydney Smith, or drink too much wine with jolly companions, or forget for a moment the proper and the conventional.

She came down to see Mr. Bargrave's clerk that afternoon, pale, calm, collected, beautiful, but stern and unbending under the sorrow against which her haughty nature rebelled.

With fixed ideas of truth and the means of acquiring truth, it was to a considerable degree unbending in its attitude toward youth.

And, when unbending among friends from his exacting literary labors, the charm of his presence and conversation was perfect.