| What on earth can it be that two people so dissimilar as you and Strickland could aim at? |
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| Here Strickland lived, coming seldom to Papeete, on the produce of the land. |
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| Strickland had downed the mulatto twice, and the mulatto, sober, was a man to be reckoned with. |
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| I don't know of any other relatives she's got except Strickland Morley's tribe. |
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| Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective. |
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| I could not believe that Strickland had fallen in love with Blanche Stroeve. |
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| Long and long ago, when Devadatta was King of Benares, I wrote some tales concerning Strickland of the Punjab Police, and Adam, his son. |
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| Strickland had the directness of the fanatic and the ferocity of the apostle. |
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| This showed that Bahadur Khan, his body-servant, had waked from sleep and wished to put Strickland to bed. |
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| The post office was opened in 1860, with seely Strickland as postmaster. |
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| I enquired at my hotel for that in which Charles Strickland was living. |
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| Strickland asked me for my address, and a few days later I received an invitation to luncheon. |
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| I condoled with Tiare, and remarked feelingly that men were deceivers ever, then asked her to go on with her story of Strickland. |
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| Indeed, I was unconvinced that Robert Strickland did not share their illusion. |
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| Strickland was taking her family to the coast of Norfolk, so that the children might have the sea and her husband golf. |
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| Strickland was not a conversationalist, and he had no gift for putting what he had to say in the striking phrase that the listener remembers. |
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| In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music. |
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| I went to Strickland and told him I thought he was quite well enough to go back to his own place. |
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| There was a sardonic sincerity in Strickland which made me sensitive to anything that might suggest a pose. |
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| Strickland gave the polite little laugh with which people acknowledge a facetiousness in which they see nothing funny, but did not speak. |
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| We heard the chuff of the motor in the porch, and the first to enter was Agnes Strickland, whom the Infant makes no secret of adoring. |
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| Strickland ordered dinner without comment, and since it was a real dinner, with white tablecloth attached, we sat down. |
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| But Strickland, think of it, she had been suffering for my sake! |
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| Everyone liked and trusted Strickland Morley at first sight. |
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| But how was I to know that Strickland Morley was a persecuted saint? |
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| A man like Strickland would love in a manner peculiar to himself. |
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| It was not here that Charles Strickland lived in guilty splendour with the unknown charmer for whose sake he had abandoned honour and duty. |
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| Strickland used to come here now and then to have a square meal or to play chess with one of the boys. |
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| Twice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle. |
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| A week later I heard by chance that Strickland had gone to Marseilles. |
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| Accustomed to the drawing of the old masters, and convinced that Ingres was the greatest draughtsman of recent times, I thought that Strickland drew very badly. |
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| Colonel MacAndrew had a very sketchy knowledge of business matters, and I had none at all, so I did not quite understand under what conditions Strickland had left his affairs. |
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| When I saw that Strickland was really indifferent to the blame his conduct must excite, I could only draw back in horror as from a monster of hardly human shape. |
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| I could not help thinking that Colonel MacAndrew might have some difficulty in doing this, since Strickland had struck me as a hefty fellow, but I did not say anything. |
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| Perhaps Stroeve's passion excited without satisfying that part of her nature, and she hated Strickland because she felt in him the power to give her what she needed. |
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| I asked Strickland if it did not irk him to live in that promiscuity. |
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| They said that Charles Strickland had become infatuated with a French dancer, whom he had first seen in the ballet at the Empire, and had accompanied her to Paris. |
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| Strickland was the most harmless of all the lion-hunters that pursue their quarry from the rarefied heights of Hampstead to the nethermost studios of Cheyne Walk. |
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