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Examples
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Indeed, I had grown so used to the story of my lamentable pursuit of the eumoirous that I rattled it off mechanically after the manner of the sturdy beggar telling his mendacious tale of undeserved misfortune.
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How could I explain my precious pursuit of the eumoirous to a French
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Dale has just been elected for the Fensham Division of Westmoreland, and he has already begun the line of sturdy young Kynnersleys, of which I had eumoirous dreams long ago.
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Is there any drug I wonder which can restore a eumoirous tone to the system?
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He can thus hoist Destiny with its own petard, and, besides, being eumoirous, can spend a month or two in a peculiarly diverting manner.
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I regarded the failure of my eumoirous little plans with more than satisfaction.
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I had no clear notion of the means whereby I was to accomplish this; but I knew that it would be a philanthropic pursuit far different from my previous eumoirous wanderings abut London when, with a mind conscious of well-doing, I distributed embarrassing five-pound notes to the poor and needy.
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It sounded glorious and eumoirous and quixotic and deucedly funny, during the noble moment of inspiration, when Lola's golden eyes were upon me; but now -- well, I shall have to persuade myself that it is funny, if I am to carry it out.
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Then I would have ended my eumoirous task, and my last happy words would be a paternal benediction.
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Was it in order to further my designs -- Machiavellian towards the lady, but eumoirous towards Dale?
pavonine commented on the word eumoirous
happy because innocent and good.
December 8, 2007
pavonine commented on the word eumoirous
happy because innocent and good.
July 12, 2009