The little old gray house of the Vlasovs attracted the attention of the village more and more; and although there was much suspicious chariness and unconscious hostility in this notice, yet at the same time a confiding curiosity grew up also. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
His chariness of speech often saved him much breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods] Reference
She had tried to make him divine all this in the chariness of her promise to write. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Men and Ghosts] Reference
I said, with a tone and manner whose consummate chariness and frostiness I could not but applaud. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
He had the Scottish chariness of bestowing praise or approval, and could surely give Emerson the sense of being. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
One great thing undoubtedly was, the chariness of herself and her conduct, which an unmarried female always observes. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
To preserve however the chariness of their reputation, they insisted upon conducting me with them for a few miles on the outside of a stage-coach. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
His principal limitationhis chariness of passion and tragedydid not entirely reveal itself in the novels which he wrote during the Atlantic period. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Howells and Realism. Section 2. William Dean Howells] Reference
Perhaps the lessons learned are showing up again in bold print, and a natural chariness about Obama's 'new order' is only healthy if not over-blown in some instances. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
But when the goldfields 'grand drama of progress opened, when thousands promptly flowed into Victoria from neighbouring colonies, and, a little later on, ten thousands from Home, this chariness of action, this resolute irresolution, or, in Ollivier's description of his master. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria] Reference
There was nothing of the deliberate purpose characterizing the "Chesapeake" affair; yet Mr. Foster, with the chariness which from first to last marked the British handling of that business, withheld the reparation authorized by his instructions until he had received a copy of the proceedings of the court. From Wordnik.com. [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1] Reference
I’m not in the mood to write tonight and ask forgiveness for my chariness; rest I’d try if you were here – basking in the glow of knowing why. From Wordnik.com. [Knowing Why] Reference
Yet here it seems the wend of seasons really never ends you found the space to wear my chariness – a coffee shop, a superette where sausages were real, not imitations of the fare I feared to never see again – and yet you found and bought them there a thousand streets as if each one was sparkling new, the never-ending panoply of views you drank with effervescent eyes – but I, in truth, missed all the views for simple wont of watching you. From Wordnik.com. [Watching You] Reference
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