1 She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris.
2 Two of these, on opposite sides of the area, were now occupied by brilliant and talented gentlemen, enthusiastically forcing up, in English and French commingled, the bids of connoisseurs in their various wares.
3 The true nobility laughed at him, the talented repelled him, and the honorable instinctively despised him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 86. The Trial. 4 He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
5 The beauty, fashion, and exclusiveness of Port Middlebay, flocked to do honour to one so deservedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular.
6 I shouldn't have troubled you; but it's a pity, he is such a talented youngster.
7 "Little Raphael," as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art.
8 Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
9 Yes, he has had an excellent education, and has much talent.
10 So did mine, but I proved to her that I had talent by taking a few lessons privately, and then she was quite willing I should go on.
11 It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
12 The girls do care for me, and I for them, and there's a great deal of kindness and sense and talent among them, in spite of what you call fashionable nonsense.
13 That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so.
14 I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
15 You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.