She got her to Hartfield, and shewed her the most
unvarying kindness, striving to occupy and amuse her, and by books and conversation, to drive Mr.
But calm, snow-white, and
unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by
unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.
Utterson became so used to the
unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as
unvarying as the ship's chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck, he passed through the memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold indifference; did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf, which the old historians always spoke of with horror, and upon which the ancient navigators never ventured without propitiating the gods by ample sacrifices.
In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and
unvarying society."
That is all I have to say," and concealing his
unvarying emotion he would press his cheek against his daughter's and move away.
Political economy told him that the laws by which the wealth of Europe had been developed, and was developing, were universal and
unvarying. Socialism told him that development along these lines leads to ruin.
It was a monotonous land, with an
unvarying richness of soil and with only one landmark--Mt.
During the whole of this dialogue, Mr Chester had suffered nothing but his smile of
unvarying serenity and politeness to appear upon his face.
In the valley of Typee ice-creams would never be rendered less acceptable by sudden frosts, nor would picnic parties be deferred on account of inauspicious snowstorms: for there day follows day in one
unvarying round of summer and sunshine, and the whole year is one long tropical month of June just melting into July.
It was
unvarying, warm admiration everywhere; but this intimate footing was not more than established, when a certain Charles Hayter returned among them, to be a good deal disturbed by it, and to think Captain Wentworth very much in the way.