Even in Cathedrals musical services were looked upon with great disfavourby many, and by many others with a bare tolerance nearly allied to disapproval.
It has not sprung from vanity, but from anxiety for his reputation, lest the disfavour of a Court should by some be considered as an indication of general disesteem or a proof of professional demerit.
But before it could be put in practice, its essential features were distorted; through no fault of his the plan failed of its full effect; disfavour followed; and war on Spanish commerce again became the prevalent policy.
Payne's opinions were decidedly in disfavouramong that gathering.
He was Kreli's principal councillor and at that time was reported to be somewhat in disfavour by reason of having been strenuously opposed to a war with the whites.
The disfavour with which it was regarded by the heads of the Church was largely due to fear of the activity of the Lollards, which had brought all popular harangues and discourses under suspicion.
He made his life a terror through that latent dread, he was a burden on his pocket, he brought him into disfavourwith the neighbourhood, he treated him with cavalier insolence, and now had set his ricks on fire.
Presently the chairman spoke--and it is very possible that the general disfavour in which Mr. Chattaway was held had insensibly influenced their decision.
The railway companies also protested, and the measure was received with such generaldisfavour that it was withdrawn before it reached a second reading.
Even as he spoke he noticed with strong disfavour the change which had taken place in his late first officer.
Mr. Wilks's ears quivered anxiously, and he eyed with unwonted disfavour the evidences of his late debauch.
Parliament, which had sat for the unusual space of four months, was prorogued on the 14th of May; two days later, More resigned the chancellorship and Gardiner retired in disfavour to Winchester.
He presented the young Parliament soldier, a cousin of Fairfax, to Cecily and Tony, the latter of whom eyed with disfavour the posse of grave Ironside troopers.
He had liked the cavalier treatment of the lean parish priest, a sour dog who brought his calling into disfavour with the rich and godly.
Another race shared among my fellow-passengers in the disfavour of the Chinese; and that, it is hardly necessary to say, was the noble red man of old story - over whose own hereditary continent we had been steaming all these days.
In those days of liberty and health he was the constant partner of the Arethusa, and had ample opportunity to share in that gentleman's disfavourwith the police.
Up above in the trench the disfavour was repeated in that picturesque phraseology for which Thomas is famous.
In one place the wall had fallen in, a mound of chalk filled the corner, and from a score of vantage points elderly rodents watched with increasing disfavour this unexpected human invasion.
It is notorious that many capitalists regard political agitation with disfavour because of its effect on the markets.
These men are among the most devoted adherents to the Imperial cause, and would regard with more disfavour and alarm than any one the failure of the British nation to carry out its avowed policy in the most complete manner.
They regarded with disfavour plays which did not uphold their notions of amusement and morality.
More renowned for his affability and courteous behaviour than for learning, he entertained at times with semi-regal state; but once fell into some disfavour because "his lady was in the habit of holding routs on Sundays.
He came into disfavourwith the king by his opposition to the marriage of his sister Eleanor to Simon de Montfort.
It was part of the same insularity, often prompted by a sound instinct, which led him to look with disfavour on foreigners and foreign ways as likely, if encouraged, to denationalize the British fibre.
The most injurious attack of this kind came from Mr George Jacob Holyoake, who had long been on strained terms with Bradlaugh, and avowedly regarded him with disfavour as a too militant Atheist.
Augereau, half cured of his Jacobinism by the disfavour of the Directory, was now drilling a small French force and Irish volunteers at Brest.
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