He lacked them entirely, and as he could not, fronting his master, supply the defect with oaths, he drew up and let out on the dead old lord, who wanted a few pounds of blasting powder, like anything else in everybody's way.

Chillon expected the lowest of his countrymen to show some degree of chivalry upon occasions like the present.

He was too young to perceive how it is, that a block of our speech in the needed direction drives it storming in another, not the one closely expressing us.

Carinthia liked the man; she was grieved to hear of his having got the sack summarily, when he might have had a further month of service or a month's pay.

Had not the workmen's forbearance been much tried?
And they had not stolen, they had bought the powder, only intending to startle.
She touched her brother's native sense of fairness and vexed him with his cowardly devil of impatience, which kicked at a simply stupid common man, and behaved to a lordly offender, smelling rascal, civilly.