"At bottom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she still was under the strain of her scene with Welby—so short, so veiled, and at bottom so tragic!—she showed herself glitteringly cheerful—almost gay—as she stood talking a few minutes with her father and Fenwick. The restless happiness in Fenwick's face and movements gave his visitors indeed so much pleasure that they found it hard to go; several times they said good-bye, ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the mood is melancholy, where the burden is the shortness of life and the unpermanence of felicity, his satiric rage breaks out in single lines of fire. And although his satire is often almost inconceivably coarse, the prompting instinct is healthy at bottom. He hates Vice, although his hand is too often in the kennel to pelt her withal. He lays his grasp on the bridle-rein of the sleek prelate, and upbraids him with his secret sins in language unsuited ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith
... tongue), and she had conserved nothing but her dignity. She knew that Gerald was sick of her, that he would have danced for joy to be rid of her; that he was constantly unfaithful; that he had long since ceased to be excited by her beauty. She knew also that at bottom he was a little afraid of her; here was her sole moral consolation. The thing that sometimes struck her as surprising was that he had not abandoned her, simply and crudely walked off one day and forgotten to ...
— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett
... at bottom, pure Theism. He thinks, however, that "true theism is not a dead religion that forgets precisely the fundamental attributes of God." It recognizes God as creator, preserver, and governor; it celebrates a providence; it ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... not look at bottom card; and the trump-card must be left, face upwards, on the table till the first trick be turned, or opponents may call a ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
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