- Their Contempt of Beards- Ornaments- Armor and Weapons.-Mode of Flattening the Head.- Extent of the Custom.- Religious Belief.- The Two Great Spirits of the Air and of the Fire.- Priests or Medicine Men.- The Rival Idols.- Polygamy a Cause of Greatness- Petty Warfare.- Music, Dancing, Gambling.- Thieving a Virtue.- Keen Traders-
Intrusive Habits - Abhorrence of Drunkenness- Anecdote of Comcomly.
`I'll come back,' I said earnestly, through the soft,
intrusive darkness.
And how
intrusive you are, how you insist and grimace!
"No; still he is
intrusive. Did he not, on his arrival here, almost succeed in creating a disturbance between the English and ourselves; and, had it not been for you, for your admirable prudence, for your singular decision of character, swords would have been drawn in the very streets of the town."
I'm afraid you'll think me odiously
intrusive, but you know I MUST have a garden--upon my honor I must!"
The Secretary was as far from being inquisitive or
intrusive as Secretary could be, but nothing less than a complete understanding of the whole of the affairs would content him.
The sound of footsteps was not harsh, bold, decided, and
intrusive, as the gait of strangers would naturally be, making authoritative entrance into a dwelling where they knew themselves unwelcome.
We can't be happy together for five minutes in the evening, but some
intrusive female knocks at the door, and says, 'Oh, if you please, Miss Dora, would you step upstairs!'
You will kindly show the envelope of this letter to my man, Austin, when you call, as he has to take every precaution to shield me from the
intrusive rascals who call themselves `journalists.'
It was the woman who had been destined for Angel's life-companion by his and her parents, and whom he probably would have married but for her
intrusive self.
Since he has your orders to come, I will not interrupt you." Sir Leicester in his gallantry retires, rather declining to accept a bow from the young man as he goes out and majestically supposing him to be some shoemaker of
intrusive appearance.
Through Anne's mind drifted an
intrusive recollection of a funny story she had heard Philippa Gordon tell -- the story of some old man who had said very much the same thing about the world to come.