Hugh, so his well-meant offer failed to soften her. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
King log, however, interfered with my well-meant intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Kindly and well-meant advice, but Levy would have none of it. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
I am afraid your well-meant sympathy will not help me much just now. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
One of our reasons for not taking this well-meant advice was that June. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917] Reference
The Irish youth sported a well-meant, but not very successful attempt at. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Refusing a well-meant invitation for no reason can mean the end of a friendship. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
Their well-meant efforts proved fruitless; but the fact is notable and significant. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
Naturally, I rejected all the well-meant and kindly advice, and did this in presence of my. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Another infliction, harder to bear, was the well-meant intrusion of old friends from the North. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Captain Galsworthy was more concerned than I was at the failure of his well-meant intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Owen never knew that his well-meant words caused Toni to shed tears before she slept that night. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
These instructions were a well-meant attempt to provide a "sealed pattern" for naval engagements. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Let us turn then from such well-meant but inaccurate testimony, and face the facts as they exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
Notwithstanding these well-meant hints, the gauger made his way across the hills to Stokoe's house. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
One is continually upsetting some frail structure, or tumbling over some well-meant æsthetic convenience. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
We regret that a well-meant enterprise on the part of one of The Tacuru party met with such a poor reception. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina from a British Point of View] Reference
Ours is the gift of factory seconds, well-made & well-meant through to a public we detest if you think about it. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
Steve Schoger The Woodlands, TexasJane Bryant Quinn's well-meant proposals run the risk of financial paternalism. From Wordnik.com. [Letters: Fixing America's Looming Retirement Cris] Reference
The conscientious and well-meant answer to this question, from the majority of persons is, the health of the pupils. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
But when it comes to petty office conditions that are unfortunate but well-meant, it is well to speak with one voice. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Manners: Polite evasion required with election-day snoops] Reference
Nor did the well-meant observance of established forms on the part of the Court do anything to modify his sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
Something of the same kind would, we fear, be the effect on a large number of persons of well-meant expositions of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
The proud, nervous irritability of the boy's nature was fostered by his guardian's well-meant but ill-judged indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Having given the subject such careful thought, I am not disposed either to minimize obstacles or to cavil at well-meant efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The American Government's abstinence from proselytism in dealing with the Moros is more likely to succeed than Spain's well-meant. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
I have not been quite well for some days past, and poor old Jup annoys me, almost beyond endurance, by his well-meant attentions. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
It looks new; this is the result of well-meant restoration undertaken some years ago; it is really of great and historic antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
If any woman of that time had blazed up in anger at the well-meant speech, she would have astonished and grieved her contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
They showed, at least, even to the well-meant officiousness of the Hazeldeans, the small account in which the fallen family was held. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
One hour later the girls of Dalton school were crowded around Dorothy, asking all kinds of well-meant questions concerning her health. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
Zillah looked at him with a faint smile, appreciating his well-meant reference to that famous town, and Obed left her with his sister. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
There was sound sense in this even with the woeful prophecy and Tom, though with many inward protests, followed the well-meant advice. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
The woodsman, rough as he was, had a sensitive disposition, which chafed under the rebuff with which his well-meant advice had been met. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
It's not that there aren't plenty of well-meant and well-executed articles and TV programs about the candidates and their stands on the issues-there are. From Wordnik.com. [A Scorecard For The Game] Reference
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