But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much
slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
She remembered the ball, remembered Vronsky and his face of
slavish adoration, remembered all her conduct with him: there was nothing shameful.
I had had brothers myself, and it was no revelation to me that little girls could be
slavish idolaters of little boys.
--that common highway all over dented with the marks of
slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
At last, being a better man than his corruptors, he was drawn in both directions until he halted midway and led a life, not of vulgar and
slavish passion, but of what he deemed moderate indulgence in various pleasures.
The traditional parts of this system are, as Cervantes tried to show, for the chief part, barbarous and obsolete; the modern additions are largely due to the novel readers and writers of our own century--most of them half-educated women,rebelliously
slavish, superstitious, sentimental, full of the intense egotism fostered by their struggle for personal liberty, and, outside their families, with absolutely no social sentiment except love.
This
slavish homage, instead of softening my heart, only pampered whatever was stern and exacting in its mood.
Yet I will not altogether blame it, for it made me know, as nothing else could, the resources of our tongue in that sort; and in the revolt from the
slavish bondage I took upon myself I did not go so far as to plunge into any very wild polysyllabic excesses.
For she remembered now that but for their
slavish devotion they might claim to be her equal.
Now, was it not the depth of absurdity - of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful,
slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her?
Her mind wandered over her hopes and fears, recurring to her other labors, and the prices she received for occupations so wearying and
slavish. By the milliner, she was paid merely as a common sewing-girl, though her neatness, skill and taste might well have entitled her to double wages.
The Cockney became more humble and
slavish to me than even to Wolf Larsen.