She was besides extremely shy and silent, as well as backward in most things.
He was extremely gracious and polite, and appears to be addicted to pleasantry.
She is very well bred, and expresses herself with much modesty upon all subjects; which in an authoress, a woman of known understanding, is extremely pleasing.
There are consequently scenes, in one of which Mrs. Delvile, after using extremely exaggerated expressions, exclaims “my brain is on fire!
He would also make himself useful in other ways, doing all the heavy work and was extremelyhandy in running to the greengrocer's for butter, had she forgotten to purchase any.
His wife, seated with some other ladies on an extremely low couch, rose every other second.
The ladies thought this extremely funny, and even Madame Deberle seemed disarmed.
When one reaches the age of eighteen he finds it extremely difficult to turn away from the sins that are mastering him, and when he passes beyond twenty years of age, the tide against him is extremely heavy.
Be so extremely kind, madam, as to give me my boots!
Now in his short coat, his fashionable narrow trousers which made his legs look disproportionately slim, with his big head and long mane he was extremely like a lion.
The president, a short-sighted man, not old but with an extremely exhausted face, sat in his armchair without stirring and held his open hand near his brow as though screening his eyes from the sun.
It was dark in the entry and nothing could be distinguished in the man who came in but medium height, a white scarf, and a large, extremely pale face, so pale that its entrance seemed to make the passage lighter.
Inside it is like a barn and extremely unattractive.
The book is extremely entertaining as well as useful: there is a wonderful freshness in the Roman scenes and characters.
A delight alike to the young people and their elders, extremely funny both in text and illustrations.
The second manifesto of the Duke of Brunswick appeared, therefore, to the world to be extremely ill-timed.
But the system of Europe is extensive and extremely complex.
To unite circumspection with vigor is absolutely necessary, but it is extremely difficult.
His dark, sunburned face, peeled in places, offered rather an extremely industrious aspect.
He told me that he was very ill, and in trouble, and invited me in extremely affectionate terms to come and make him a visit if it were possible.
The afternoon was warm and the spirits of the brethren extremely dull and depressed--did the shadow of their impending fate begin to fall upon them?
We respect the conscientious feelings of such men; for we know that with their ideas of such things, they must beextremely revolting.
And if the lives of her leading men be the history of the Church, as some aver, then that history would be extremely imperfect if the life of her third President in this dispensation were not written.
In preparing for this journey Elder Taylor was keptextremely busy.
He was among the earliest in North Carolina in denouncing the Stamp Act and kindred measures, and from that period until his death he was extremely active in public affairs.
They have four Companies of 08 men each, Comptent, who go throh their Exercises extremely Clever.
According to Mr. Jefferson, the location was extremely healthy.
He delighted in poetry and other light reading; was fond of music; loved the country; took peculiar pleasure in gardening; and had even an extremely happy taste in laying out grounds.
He wasextremely attentive to the state of the population, which he was anxious to increase by every possible means.
She bears the marks of a negress who at one time was extremely handsome, and her exterior must have been commanding: she is rather above the middle size of females, but not too tall, nor yet too large in proportion.
He has no concern for the appearance of his soldiers, and consequently they exhibit one so extremely outré, that I fear a description would scarcely obtain credibility.
He was extremely solicitous to introduce an organized system of cultivation which would eventually aggrandize his country.
The decrees against the people of colour, as they appear on the records of the colony, are extremely harsh and impolitic, and a relaxation, if not a repeal of them, would have been only an act of justice.
In another passage Caesar says that the Gauls as a people were extremely devoted to religious ideas and practices.
The whole people of the Gauls, even with their military aristocracy, were extremely devoted to religious ideas, though these led to the inhumanity of human sacrifices.
At any rate the majority were unanimous in making up their minds to regard the stranger, who, according to the statements of the few persons who had seen her, was of exceptional beauty, as an extremely ambiguous person.
In Gozzi the three riddles are about the Year, the Sun, and (extremely inapposite to the circumstances) the Lion of the Adriatic.
Upon his deathly pale countenance, and in his gloomy eyes, where a dim, restless fire gleamed, was to be read the full expression of the extremely baneful passion in whose toils he was entangled.
Meanwhile it was becomingextremely lively in Master Martin's workshop.
Reinhold sat down beside him, and after a while began, "I daresay you thought me extremely strange yesterday evening, good brother mine.
The Misamis branch were extremely aristocratic, and so proud of their blue blood that since the arrival of the American troops they have associated with no one else in the village.
It was extremely important that his nephew should not be restored to his uncle in Barcelona, for reasons which Henry would explain if necessary.
The country was desolated by the strife, and the sufferings of the people were extremely severe.
Really," said the clergyman at parting, "I am extremely glad to have met you this morning, and you may depend upon finding us in better order at your next visit.
Extremely little," with a bow and a smile; "most successful operation.
Such occurrences are extremely annoying to his Majesty, who does not relish having his commands so flagrantly disregarded.
I amextremely irritable; and I might throw you out of the window.
People wondered who my husband was, and where he kept himself; some of the extremely curious had the hardihood to come here and question me.
In that event, Mr. Daney, I charge that their manners would have been extremely bad.
He's a lovely child, Nan, and I have been the recipient of some of his extremelymoist kisses.
That was a matter on which Englishmen were extremely jealous.
When Grenville brought in his stamp bill the debate, Burke says, was extremely languid.
Exhibitions of combats with swords became extinct, and made way for the scarcely less dangerous prize-fights of bruisers which from about 1788 became extremely popular.
His route, though not more than twenty miles, was extremely difficult; it was obstructed by trees felled by the enemy and lay through swamps and forests, and at least forty bridges had to be constructed in its course.
Such are the main outlines of this extremely complicated affair.
It will be observed that the loss of officers was extremely heavy; they fearlessly exposed themselves, as the British officer always does, in order to encourage their men.
In Scotland, where the government business was managed by Dundas, the parliamentary representation was extremely unsatisfactory; the reformers were violent, and belonged to revolutionary societies.
Sandwich had official experience, and was neither idle nor incapable, though unprincipled and extremely profligate; Hillsborough was deficient in tact and judgment.
By that time the inferiority of the British fleet rendered Cornwallis's situation extremely perilous.
He had nothing of Fox's winning power, yet he became extremelypopular in the house of commons, for he showed himself worthy to lead men and able to lead them successfully.
Bernard, an upright and fairly able man, though too apt to dispute with his disputatious opponents, was extremely unpopular, for it was known that he advised the ministers to take strong measures.
Their merchants, especially in New England, carried on a brisk and extremely profitable contraband trade.
His prejudices were strengthened; he put too high a value on his own opinions and wasextremely stubborn.
They are extremely susceptible to any fall of temperature, and as you have, of course, noticed, sleep with their heads covered completely up.
The fort of Masulipatam stood in an extremely defensible position.
The natives of India, however, wereextremely clumsy gunners.
Previously to this, there had been intermittent shelling just to the north of the village, and on the commencement of the rifle-fire this increased in intensity until things began to look extremely awkward.
Needless to say that as much work as possible was done in the early morning and evening, but even this was extremelytrying for all.
From this vantage-point he kept up a brisk fire, both with machine-guns and rifles, and it was an extremely risky undertaking to show one's head above the particular rock behind which one was taking cover.
Sara was extremely anxious to please the Plynck, because she thought her so pensive and pretty; but, try as she would, she couldn't think what she had forgotten to do.
Sara noticed that her voice and manner were extremely quiet and controlled; but she had a suspicion that it was because her eyes were so very wild.
They were extremely pretty, and by far the pleasantest things she had seen in this Vale; but even they had a sad little fragrance, and each eye had a dewdrop on it.
The book, in spite of his untrustworthiness, is sought after by curious book-lovers, as the copies of it are extremely rare, and few perfect.
But apart from Mollie, who pouted and flushed, and wasextremely uncomfortable, nobody seemed to be either chilled or overwhelmed.
She is a very quickwitted, pleasantly natured girl, and I am extremely fond of her.
It was extremely hot, and the very air seemed laden with heavy languor.
Certainly not," answered Dolly, who knew very well what was coming, though poor Phemie evidently thought she was going to impart an extremely novel and unexpected piece of intelligence.
But Mollie at sixteen wasextremely liberal-minded, and almost Arcadian in her simplicity of thought and demeanor.
M115) The comparative indifference with which the Chinese regard their lives is attested by the readiness with which they commit suicide on grounds which often seem to the European extremely trifling.
They value themselves extremely for their affinity to the English, and are ready to do them all friendly offices.
