1 Thick of waist, large of limb, and, save for her hair, fashionable in the tight modern way, she never looked like Sappho, or one of the beautiful young men whose photographs adorned the weekly papers.
2 Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
3 In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage.
4 The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns.
5 Add to all this, Cedric had fasted since noon, and his usual supper hour was long past, a cause of irritation common to country squires, both in ancient and modern times.
6 Yet let not modern beauty envy the magnificence of a Saxon princess.
7 He had never been one of the modern ladylike young men: rather bucolic even, with his ruddy face and broad shoulders.
8 Connie and he were attached to one another, in the aloof modern way.
9 And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychology, that is.
10 They appeared in the most modern magazines, and were praised and blamed as usual.
11 Her room was the only gay, modern one in the house, the only spot in Wragby where her personality was at all revealed.
12 He seemed the most modern of modern voices.
13 Because, after all, like so many modern men, he was finished almost before he had begun.
14 He dreaded her will, her female will, and her modern female insistency.
15 But she had that queer sort of bossiness, endless assertion of her own will, which is one of the signs of insanity in modern woman.