My
accomplishments too, begin to fade--I can neither sing so well nor Dance so gracefully as I once did--and I have entirely forgot the MINUET DELA COUR.
"Is that an accomplishment?" asked Rose, while her face fell, for she had indulged in all sorts of vague, delightful dreams.
Besides, people would laugh at us, and make fun of my old-fashioned accomplishment. You promised to eat it, and you must; not all at once, but as soon as you can, so I can make you some more."
Inform the king that I thank him for his obedience to the wishes of the queen-mother, and that I will do everything for the
accomplishment of his will."
Owing to this education, if it really deserved such a name, she had superficial
accomplishments, superficially acquired--principles that scarce extended beyond the retenue and morals of her sex--tastes that had been imbibed from questionable models--and hopes that proceeded from a false estimate of the very false position into which she had been accidentally and suddenly thrown.
And accomplishments have their charm," returned his mother, looking at him through her silver spectacles.
"As to external accomplishments, what will be the use of them in the life I am going to lead?--while as to her reading, I can take that in hand.
"I will lay a wager," said Don Quixote, "that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a greater friend of Camacho's than of Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at vespers; he has introduced the
accomplishments of Basilio and the riches of Camacho very neatly into the dance." Sancho Panza, who was listening to all this, exclaimed, "The king is my cock; I stick to Camacho." "It is easy to see thou art a clown, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and one of that sort that cry 'Long life to the conqueror.'"
The fashions of the day were rapidly running into the attainment of
accomplishments among the young of her own sex, and the piano forte was already sending forth its sonorous harmony from one end of the Union to the other, while the glittering usefulness of the tambour-frame was discarded for the pallet and brush.
Norris, in promoting gaieties for her nieces, assisting their toilets, displaying their
accomplishments, and looking about for their future husbands, had so much to do as, in addition to all her own household cares, some interference in those of her sister, and Mrs.
I was so much indulged in my infant years that I was never obliged to attend to anything, and consequently am without the
accomplishments which are now necessary to finish a pretty woman.
With regard to the two boys, it was much the same; only instead of
accomplishments, I was to get the greatest possible quantity of Latin grammar and Valpy's Delectus into their heads, in order to fit them for school--the greatest possible quantity at least WITHOUT trouble to themselves.
The little lith e man, with his bright, restless eyes, and his long iron-gray hair falling in curls to his shoulders, his airy step and his cordial manner; his uncertain age, his innumerable
accomplishments, and his unbounded popularity--is he not familiar everywhere, and welcome everywhere?
It is one of the
accomplishments which no man of education would be found lacking.
She is unfortunately of a sickly constitution, which has prevented her from making that progress in many
accomplishments which she could not have otherwise failed of, as I am informed by the lady who superintended her education, and who still resides with them.