W. Black
Cited as W. Black. — 33 quotations
Abstract
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
Approve
They approved of the political institutions.
Assumption
That calm assumption of the virtues.
Avenue
An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts.
Bohemian
Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays.
Bovine
The bovine gaze of gaping rustics.
Brazen
Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
Bronze
The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger.
Buffet
You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
Churchwarden
There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens.
Cockleshell
To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters.
Condone
A fraud which he had either concocted or condoned.
Conundrum
Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that?
Crocket
The antlers and the crockets.
damper
Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
Deal
She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
Demure
Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
Determine
Something divinely beautiful . . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life.
Glamour
The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley.
Heap
He had heaps of friends.
Infectious
The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious.
Languid
Their idleness, aimless flirtations and languid airs.
Lot
He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
No-man's land
That no-man's land of twilight.
Obliterate
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated.
Open
Then we got into the open.
Ride
“Will you ride over or drive?” said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning.
Smarten
She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat.
Stampede
She and her husband would join in the general stampede.
Straight
Everything was going on straight.
Stretch
A great stretch of cultivated country.
Tremble
I am all of a tremble when I think of it.
Wench
He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue-eyed little wench.