When the doubt that I had hushed asleep first laid its weary weight on her heart, the true face
owned all, and said, in its
own frank, simple language--I am sorry for him; I am sorry for myself.
My mother," answered Telemachus, tells me I am son to Ulysses, but it is a wise child that knows his
own father.
What wonderful discoveries should we make in astronomy, by outliving and confirming our
own predictions; by observing the progress and return of comets, with the changes of motion in the sun, moon, and stars
At last Bob brought her a letter, without a postmark, directed in a hand which she knew familiarly in the letters of her
own name,--a hand in which her name had been written long ago, in a pocket Shakespeare which she possessed.
In a minute more, Captain Wragge's
own observation informed him that one among the passengers who left Aldborough that morning was -- Mrs.
It is even supposed that the tinge of the latter is that of reddish sand-stone, like much of that known in our
own world, but more decided in tint, while two brilliant white spots, at its poles, are thought to be light reflected from the snows of those regions, rendered more conspicuous, or disappearing, as they first emerge from a twelvemonths' winter, or melt in a summer of equal duration.
I could name three people now, who would give me my
own terms and thank me.
Then, I said, Thrasymachus, there is no one in any rule who, in so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what is for his
own interest, but always what is for the interest of his subject or suitable to his art; to that he looks, and that alone he considers in everything which he says and does.
He had never been an unhappy man; his
own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how delightful a welljudging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
I'm my
own contractor, my
own carpenter, and my
own bricklayer, and I shall be sixty-seven come Michaelmas," he added, by no means irrelevantly.
I
own I was getting tired of listening--when she burst out plain again, in that one horrid word--Oh, miss, don't be impatient
It will not be wondered at that a creature who had so strict a regard to decency in her
own person, should be shocked at the least deviation from it in another.
