"She has been unkind to you, no doubt; because you see, she
dislikes your cast of character, as Miss Scatcherd does mine; but how minutely you remember all she has done and said to you!
You know that old Prince Nicholas much
dislikes his son's marrying.
In former days my rascally colleagues used to tell me that I was unfit even to be seen; in fact, they so disliked me that at length I began to
dislike myself, for, being frequently told that I was stupid, I began to believe that I really was so.
"I think she took a
dislike to me at the thought of my being her father: I could see a change in her manner after that."
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether
dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
The doctor remonstrated to him privately concerning this behaviour, but could obtain no other satisfaction than the following plain declaration: "If you
dislike anything in my brother's house, sir, you know you are at liberty to quit it." This strange, cruel, and almost unaccountable ingratitude in the captain, absolutely broke the poor doctor's heart; for ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
Honest and hearty was Charles's
dislike, and the past spread itself out very clearly before him; hatred is a skilful compositor.
If you do not
dislike it, come to me and we will drink it together." The Grasshopper, who was thirsty, and pleased with the praise of her voice, eagerly flew up.
Women especially, of course, have been taught to
dislike them, because it has been rumoured that his views are unfriendly to themselves.
But like or
dislike "the people" as something apart he could not, not only because he lived with "the people," and all his interests were bound up with theirs, but also because he regarded himself as a part of "the people," did not see any special qualities or failings distinguishing himself and "the people," and could not contrast himself with them.
Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial
dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl.
"You
dislike an argument, and want to silence this."