The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the
consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.
He only remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the faces laid by in his memory in the immense class of the falsely
consequential and poor in expression.
On summing up the considerations stated in this and the last paper, they seem to amount to the most convincing evidence, that the powers proposed to be lodged in the federal government are as little formidable to those reserved to the individual States, as they are indispensably necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Union; and that all those alarms which have been sounded, of a meditated and
consequential annihilation of the State governments, must, on the most favorable interpretation, be ascribed to the chimerical fears of the authors of them.
Catherine was the immediate object of his gallantry; and, while they waited in the lobby for a chair, he prevented the inquiry which had travelled from her heart almost to the tip of her tongue, by asking, in a
consequential manner, whether she had seen him talking with General Tilney: "He is a fine old fellow, upon my soul!
'No matter--you MUST come; I shall allow of no excuses,' replied the
consequential little gentleman.
If we are pretty quick in catching our men, we are not so quick in condemning them." It was amusing to notice how the
consequential Jones was already beginning to give himself airs on the strength of the capture.
Well, I was even envying this dumb brute, when the door fell open and there issued forth a shrewd, ruddy, kindly,
consequential man in a well-powdered wig and spectacles.
If A, is the penny sufficient, or may he claim
consequential damages in the form of additional money to represent the possible profit which might have inured from the dog, and classifiable as earned incre- ment, that is to say, usufruct?"
Because he's a proud, haughty,
consequential, turned-up-nosed peacock.'
"We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in his
consequential way.
Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good philosophy, always supposing the drone to be willing to be on good terms with the bee, which, so far as he knew, the easy fellow always was, if the
consequential creature would only let him, and not be so conceited about his honey!
The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and
consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs.