In my doubt and perplexity, in my vague suspicion of something hidden which I was left to find by my
own unaided efforts, I examined Miss Halcombe's looks and manner for enlightenment.
Give him his helmet, shield, and a couple of lances, and if he is the man he was when I first knew him in our house, drinking and making merry, he would soon lay his hands about these rascally suitors, were he to stand once more upon his
own threshold.
And he appealed to me, whether in those countries I had travelled, as well as my
own, I had not observed the same general disposition.
The postmaster was a short man, and consequently a man with a proper idea of his
own importance.
The benevolence of Providence is extended to all its creatures, each receiving it in a mode adapted to its
own powers of improvement.
When she had spoken it, she recollected herself, and wished it unsaid; but there was no need of confusion; for her brother saw her only as the supposed inmate of Mansfield parsonage, and replied but to invite her in the kindest manner to his
own house, and to claim the best right in her.
Because you fancy that the shepherd or neatherd fattens of tends the sheep or oxen with a view to their
own good and not to the good of himself or his master; and you further imagine that the rulers of states, if they are true rulers, never think of their subjects as sheep, and that they are not studying their
own advantage day and night.
poor Miss Taylor,' when they left her at Randalls in the centre of every domestic comfort, or saw her go away in the evening attended by her pleasant husband to a carriage of her
own.
There was pride in his voice,--pardonable pride, I thought, for who of us would not be proud to be able to build his
own house from floor to chimney?
Mosey was too resolutely bent on asserting her
own importance, by making the most of the alarm that she had suffered, to be repressed by any ordinary method of remonstrance.
I don't know what is worse," cries Deborah, "than for such wicked strumpets to lay their sins at honest men's doors; and though your worship knows your
own innocence, yet the world is censorious; and it hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe; besides, why should your worship provide for what the parish is obliged to maintain?
Jennings, one so earnestly grateful, so full of respect and kind wishes as seemed due to her
own heart from a secret acknowledgment of past inattention, and bidding Colonel Brandon farewell with a cordiality of a friend, was carefully assisted by him into the carriage, of which he seemed anxious that she should engross at least half.
