"Self-indulgent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of mood came once more and his eyes darkened into seriousness. "Well, if it amuses him, why not?" he demanded, almost as fiercely as though someone had contradicted old Tom Burton's right to mellow into a self-indulgent decay. ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... get well, this tyrannical, hot-tempered, short-haired Zingara, who led her people such a merry dance, and she left the self-indulgent land of convalescence and the bed in the ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... than self-indulgent years The outflung heart of youth, Than pleasant songs in idle ears The tumult of ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... we felt a great discrepancy between the memory of this guileless man and some of the self-indulgent priests, once his pupils, in the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various
... am so sorry that I have disturbed you; excuse me; and let me lie here for half an hour to recover myself. I do not wish to be self-indulgent; but I am exhausted. I ran all the way from Brudenell Hall to Baymouth to get—to see—to see—" His voice broke down with a sob, he covered his face with his hands, and ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
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