Here was Louisa on the night of the same day, watching the fire as in days of yore, though with a gentler and a
humbler face.
It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their menage on a
humbler scale than heretofore.
Nancy came out now to welcome her father and sister; and the wedding group had passed on beyond the Red House to the
humbler part of the village.
I defy thee, Hell, to show On beds of fire that burn below, A
humbler heart - a deeper wo -
Poetic scholar!--If we must reserve the sacred name of "poet" to a very small number, that
humbler but perhaps still rarer title is due indisputably to Mr.
Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on
humbler principles; attributing them to the loud reports made by the disruption and fall of great masses of rock, reverberated and prolonged by the echoes; others, to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.
It was Madame Nilsson's first appearance that winter, and what the daily press had already learned to describe as "an exceptionally brilliant audience" had gathered to hear her, transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the
humbler but more convenient "Brown coupe" To come to the Opera in a Brown coupe was almost as honourable a way of arriving as in one's own carriage; and departure by the same means had the immense advantage of enabling one
When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to adventure on life now, his vacation from
humbler toil having commenced.
While the regular and trained hirelings of the king marched with haughtiness to the right of the line, the less pretending colonists took their
humbler position on its left, with a docility that long practice had rendered easy.
WHEN I told the king I was going out disguised as a petty freeman to scour the country and familiarize myself with the
humbler life of the people, he was all afire with the novelty of the thing in a minute, and was bound to take a chance in the adven- ture himself -- nothing should stop him -- he would drop everything and go along -- it was the prettiest idea he had run across for many a day.
When their places were determined on, and they were all properly arranged, she looked round to see if he should happen to be in the same part of the room, but he was not; her eye could not reach him; and the concert being just opening, she must consent for a time to be happy in a
humbler way.
Also into rooms high in the roof, and into offices in court-yards, and over stables, where
humbler ambition dreams of bliss, in keepers' lodges, and in holy matrimony with Will or Sally.