"Family circle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "hereditary loafer;" and having hurled the allegation, affirms "the dawn of a [Belgian] new era" wherein the pampered menial will loaf no more. There is to be no more sun-soaking on door mats having a southern exposure, no more usurpation of the warmest segment of the family circle, no more successful personal solicitation of cheer at the domestic board. The dog's place in the social scale is no longer to be determined by consideration of sentiment, but will be the result of cold commercial calculation, and so fixed as best to serve the ends of industrial expediency. ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce
... is the fate of all great organizers, military as well as civil, to occasionally suffer defeat in the family circle. ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... were very bold to say that, dear!" said Mrs. Van Winkle, when Harriet repeated this conversation, some hours later, in the family circle. ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... Christmases in Venice without learning any thing of their home celebration of the day. Perhaps a degree of like difficulty attends like inquiry everywhere, for the happiness of Christmas contracts the family circle more exclusively than ever around the home hearth, or the domestic scaldino, as the case may be. But, at any rate, I was quite ready to say that the observance of Christmas in Venice was altogether public, when I thought it a measure of ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells
... happily on, quite unconscious that he is treading on what has become forbidden ground in the Burton family circle. "The present man's name is Beaucourt, a very pleasant fellow! He told me some astounding stories. I wonder if you'd like to hear the ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
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