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If he takes to himself the credit and appearance of qualities he does not possess, he is said to affect or feign, or to pretend to, the character he thus assumes.
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Thus, for instance, a woman dreamt of herself carrying a tall flower-stalk, as in the picture of the Annunciation (Chastity-Mary is her own name), but the stalk was bedecked with thick white blossoms resembling camellias (contrast with chastity: La dame aux Camelias).
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My silence created an uneasiness that the physicians could not dispel, because they knew nothing of my distemper, and by their medicines rather inflamed than checked it.
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When the livelihood of nomad peoples is affected, when they are threatened with starvation, their tribes often collect round a tribal leader who promises new pasturage and better conditions of life for all who take part in the common campaigns.
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As soon as we hear it we connect it with an idea.
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"Again, correct."
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By it there stood the stoups and jars; dishes lay there, and dear-decked swords eaten with rust, as, on earth's lap resting, a thousand winters they waited there.
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At the base of the hill a thirty-foot swath of crushed shrubbery and saplings led steeply upward, and the seekers gasped when they saw that even the most perpendicular places did not deflect the inexorable trail.
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The only trace of his former self that I could detect reappeared, every now and then, in his manner towards Miss Fairlie.
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For little children do not compare; they receive direct enjoyment from what they have without relating it to something else or someone else.
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If one of us tried to overtake the entire crew, I’d disconnect before he could overtake you.
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Antonyms: clean, cleanse, disinfect, hallow, purify, sanctify, wash.
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“You’re in a government office, too,” cried Raskolnikov, “and you’re smoking a cigarette as well as shouting, so you are showing disrespect to all of us.”
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Though he never again upset Father's peace of mind, Master relentlessly continued to dissect me whenever and wherever he chose.
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On the other hand, a "crush" is very disagreeable, even though it always gives the effect of "success."
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Every deliberative assembly has the right to decide who may be present during its session, and when the assembly, either by a rule or by a vote, decides that a certain person shall not remain in the room, it is the duty of the chairman to enforce the rule or order, using whatever force is necessary to eject the party.
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The parents of the groom-elect are sure to give a dance, or a "party" of one kind or another "to meet" their daughter-to-be.
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She was tense, erect, pale and decidedly beautiful.
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One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry.
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Further: “The fundamental error of all association processes leading to incorrect connection of ideas, must be contained in their incompleteness.
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LAWS OF PSYCHIC ATTRACTION The third phase of Psychic Influence is that which may be called Indirect Psychic Influence, in which psychic induction is manifested in the minds of other persons coming in contact with the thought vibrations of the person manifesting them, although no deliberate attempt is made to influence the mind of any particular person or persons.
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You will infect everyone you meet, you'll kill the world even faster.”
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One night about eleven o’clock, knowing that my patient’s end was near, I went up to see him, proposing to inject some strychnine to keep the heart going a little longer.
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Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly HorrifiedANNE had been a fortnight at Green Gables before Mrs. Lynde arrived to inspect her.
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It was therefore evident that the line of advance of the powerful army moving south from the Mediterranean and of the tiny expedition moving east from the Atlantic must intersect before the end of the year, and that intersection would involve a collision between the Powers of Great Britain and France.
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And then --""And then we'll have to placate him, or misdirect him.
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And as the many tribes of feathered birds, wild geese or cranes or long-necked swans, on the Asian mead by Kaystrios' stream, fly hither and thither joying in their plumage, and with loud cries settle ever onwards, and the mead resounds; even so poured forth the many tribes of warriors from ships and huts into the Skamandrian plain.
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Returned by Caithness to Parliament, in which he remained for thirty years, rarely missing a division, his position gave him farther opportunities of usefulness, which he did not neglect to employ.
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In the ancient philosophy, the perfection of virtue was represented as necessarily productive, to the person who possessed it, of the most perfect happiness in this life.
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Both were things Nightblood had been created to protect.
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I rechecked the blotter when this investigation was brought up.
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Kant : “<U:>ber ein vermeintliches Recht, aus Menschenliebe zu l<u:>gen.”
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He was in the Orion at the same time as Master Frederick, I know; though I don’t recollect if he was there at the mutiny.’
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:yellow wire: IBM n. Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them, or to reconnect cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one.
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Redirect testimony of Gino Fangio.
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Before the West dismisses Gandhi's program as one of an impractical dreamer, let it first reflect on a definition of SATYAGRAHA by the Master of Galilee: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: {FN44-20} but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
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The most important thing, if something was to be achieved, was to reject in advance any idea that he might be in any way guilty.
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Regulated companies resemble, in every respect, the corporation of trades, so common in the cities and towns of all the different countries of Europe; and are a sort of enlarged monopolies of the same kind.
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He began, besides, to doubt his ability to resurrect the heroic dead in such a manner that they could revive the dropping spirit of the living.
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It was thought by some of my friends that, by my activity in these affairs, I should offend that sect, and thereby lose my interest in the Assembly of the province, where they formed a great majority.
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Each lady will select some nonentity of the masculine gender, and expect her lover to enter into a contest of rivalry.
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Not a word passed between Raskolnikov and her on the subject, but both knew it would be so.
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I am inclined to suspect that we see in these polymorphic genera variations in points of structure which are of no service or disservice to the species, and which consequently have not been seized on and rendered definite by natural selection, as hereafter will be explained.
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"Good morning, General," she said, falling into step beside Mala as she trekked to the community tap with a water-can in each hand.
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Thus the lad spoke and reasoned, unchecked by his companions.
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At hearing Bem’s last comment, the Wrackshees stopped wailing for help, and the gaze of those on the catamaran was toward the shore, not back to the wrecked ship.