'You do not mean,' said Rose, turning very pale, 'to tell me that this was said in
earnest?'
Lord George, who had been walking up and down before the house talking to himself with
earnest gestures, mounted his horse; and returning old John Willet's stately bow, as well as the parting salutation of a dozen idlers whom the rumour of a live lord being about to leave the Maypole had gathered round the porch, they rode away, with stout John Grueby in the rear.
amid the
earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path --(Drear path, alas!
So often have you asked me about my former existence--about my mother, about Pokrovski, about my sojourn with Anna Thedorovna, about my more recent misfortunes; so often have you expressed an
earnest desire to read the manuscript in which (God knows why) I have recorded certain incidents of my life, that I feel no doubt but that the sending of it will give you sincere pleasure.
The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, "It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in
earnest what he can do."
Thinking it might possibly be in the enjoyment of the elective franchise, he gave it a cordial and
earnest grasp.
'My dear,' says he, 'I have been considering very much upon it, you may be sure, and though it is a piece of advice that has a great many mortifications in it to me, and may at first seem strange to you, yet, all things considered, I see no better way for you than to let him go on; and if you find him hearty and in
earnest, marry him.'
Some have considered the larger part of mankind in the light of actors, as personating characters no more their own, and to which in fact they have no better title, than the player hath to be in
earnest thought the king or emperor whom he represents.
I thought a shade passed over the features of the pretty Julia Monson as she answered her friend, with a seriousness to show that she was now in
earnest, and with a propriety that proved she had great good sense at bottom, as well as strong womanly feeling.
The reputation that I made as a speaker during this campaign induced a number of persons to make an
earnest effort to get me to enter political life, but I refused, still believing that I could find other service which would prove of more permanent value to my race.
"It is very flattering." She glanced up again at his
earnest, questioning face, with its Saxon eyes and drooping flaxen mustache, in some doubt as to whether he might be joking.
Some girls, addressed with this reckless intermingling of jest and
earnest, would have felt confused, and some would have felt flattered.