 | Mary Ann Evans - 1866 - 352 pages
...the back of his chair. He looked quite impassive : it was not the first time he had seen Mrs Transome angry; but now, for the first time, he thought the...averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless—nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Harold continued his walking a moment longer,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...the back of his chair. He looked quite impassive : it was not the first time he had seen Mrs Transome angry; but now, for the first time, he thought the...useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Harold continued his walking a moment longer, and then said to Jermyn, "You smoker' " No,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...the back of his chair. He looked quite impassive : it was not the first time he had seen Mrs Transome angry; but now, for the first time, he thought the...useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Harold continued his walking a moment longer, and then said to Jermyn, " You smoke ?" " No,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1871 - 568 pages
...back of his chair. He looked quite impassive : it was not the first time he had seen Mrs. Transome angry ; but now, for the first time, he thought the...they could repress the speech they know to be useless ; nav, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Harold continued his walking a moment longer, and... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...dingy house of the minister in Malthouse Yard, there was a light-footed, sweet-voiced Queen Esther. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...useless— nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. In this way poor women, whose power lies solely in their influence, make themselves like... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...dingy house of the minister in Malthouse Yard, there was a light-footed, sweet-voiced Queen Esther. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter, [ In this way poor women, whose power lies solely in their influence, make themselves like... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...— the* looke weel enoof, but the' woon t wear, the woon't wear. — Mr. Giljiis Love Story. 70. " Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter." — FeHjc Holt. 7!.. " She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life, involving... | |
 | Methodism - 1881 - 790 pages
...needle-case always at hand.' ' A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams ; a shadow annihilates them.' ' Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.' A woman's love is always freezing with fear. She wants everything ; she is secure of nothing.'... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...vanquishes the grave, and transfigures death itself into life. — Gail Hamilton. 2050 2052 Half the sorrow of women would be averted if they could repress the...useless, — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. — George Eliot. Love gives no account of itself ; it acknowledges no higher court ; it... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...and of love ; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. In this way poor women, whose power lies solely in their influence, make themselves like... | |
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But half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. 
