 The womanly grace of temperament merely enhanced the unusual manliness of his character and impression. It was like a delicate carnation upon the cheek of a robust man ; for his humor was exuberant. He seldom laughed loud, but his smile was sweet and...  A Child's History of the United States - Page 277by John Gilmary Shea - 1872Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 1050 pages
...the least a sentimentalist. The womanly grace of temperament merely enhanced the unusual maulines^of his character and impression. It was like a delicate...neighborhood was so expert, so agile as he. For, above all thing-", he had what we Yankees call faculty, — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a... | |
 | Theodore Winthrop - 1861 - 386 pages
...delicate carnation upon the cheek of a robust man. For his humor was exuberant. He seldom laughed load, but his smile was sweet and appreciative. Then the...what we Yankees call faculty, — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 412 pages
...ill-health from which he always suffered, and a flower-like delicacy of temperament, the yearning desire to be of some service in the world, coupled with the...what we Yankees call faculty — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
 | Theodore Winthrop, George William Curtis - Gay men - 1862 - 392 pages
...least a sentimentalist. The womanly grace of ternperament merely enhanced the unusual manliness of hia character and impression. It was like a delicate carnation...what we Yankees call faculty, — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
 | Theodore Winthrop - 1864 - 360 pages
...a sigh of sadness. But he was not in the least a sentimentalist. The womanly grace of ternperament merely enhanced the unusual manliness of his character...we Yankees call faculty, —• the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
 | William Augustus Croffut, John Moses Morris - Bookbinding - 1869 - 1298 pages
.... . . The womanly grace of his temperament merely enhanced the unusual manliness of his character. In walking and riding, in skating and running, in...in the neighborhood was so expert, so agile, as he. Often, after writing a few hours in the morning, he stepped out of doors, aud, from pure love of the... | |
 | Theodore Winthrop - 1871 - 384 pages
...a sigh of sadness. But he was not in the least a sentimentalist. The womanly grace of ternperament merely enhanced the unusual manliness of his character...what we Yankees call faculty, — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - Authors, American - 1899 - 510 pages
...in " Canoe and Saddle ". Spite of persistent ill-health, Theodore Winthrop was physically active. " In walking and riding, in skating and running, in...in the neighborhood was so expert, so agile as he," says Curtis. " Often, after writing for a few hours in the morning, he stepped out of doors, and, from... | |
 | American essays - 1861 - 908 pages
...unusual manliness of his character and impression. It was like a delicate carnation upon the check of a robust man. For his humor was exuberant. He seldom...what we Yankees call faculty, — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
 | American essays - 1861 - 908 pages
...refined nature and paralyzes action, overcast his life and manner to the common eye with pensivenes and even sternness. He wrote verses in which his heart...what we Yankees call faculty, — the knack of doing everything. If he rode with a neighbor who was a good horseman, Theodore, who was a Centaur, when he... | |
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