As for the earl, Gower inclined to plead hesitatingly, still to plead, on behalf of a nobleman owning his influence and very susceptible to his wisdom, whose echo of a pointed saying nearly equalled the satisfaction bestowed by print.

The titled man affected the philosopher in that manner; or rather, the crude philosopher's relish of brilliant appreciation stripped him of his robe.
For he was with Owain Wythan at heart to scorn titles which did not distinguish practical offices.

A nation bowing to them has gone to pith, for him; he had to shake himself, that he might not similarly stick; he had to do it often.

Objects elevated even by a decayed world have their magnetism for us unless we nerve the mind to wakeful repulsion.

He protested he had reason to think the earl was humanizing, though he might be killing a woman in the process.