It spoils a horse to be always tugging at his mouth, but he will go very badly if he does not feel that there is a hand on the reins.
"I have said the same thing to the squire.

He spoils that boy of his, for whom, between ourselves, I have no great liking.

The old man will have trouble with him before he is done, or I am greatly mistaken." Nothing came of Mr.Allanby's visit.

Mrs.Walsham told James that he had been there to remonstrate with her.
"I do not want to stop you from going out sailing, Jim; but I wish you would give up your mischievous pranks, they only get you bad will and a bad name in the place.

Many people here think that I am wrong in allowing you to associate so much with the fisher boys, and when you get into scrapes, it enables them to impress upon me how right they were in their forecasts.