What is "emmet"

Usage examples of "emmet".

During the walk home he tried Cardington on the subject of Emmet, but found him uncommunicative, almost brusque, in his reticence.

Doubtless Emmet, had he been content with that station of life in which it had pleased God to place him, would have found no more affable acquaintance than Bishop Wycliffe.

It occurred to Leigh that this man might know Emmet well, and when the car came in, he stood on the back platform for the purpose of engaging him in talk that might help him in his project.

He learned that Emmet had already resigned his place as a conductor to devote his whole time to the work of the campaign, and he began to appreciate the difficulty of meeting him naturally.

Upon a mental review of his trip, he was inclined to doubt that he would hear from Emmet, but in so doing he forgot to reckon with one of the most powerful of human motives, curiosity.

It was impossible to guess whether Emmet were surprised or disappointed at this disclosure of the comparative futility of his visit.

It was some time before Emmet, feeling his way by little and little, realised the anomaly of a professor in St.

It was evident that Emmet regarded colleges and universities as identified with entrenched privilege everywhere, and with corruption in local politics particularly.

To Emmet, Cobbens and the bishop loomed much larger in the general scheme of things than their intrinsic importance warranted.

It was now that Emmet discovered a greater possibility of likeness between the bishop and his host than he had suspected so short a time before.

As he reviewed the conversation of the evening, he wondered which were really the more dangerous to the state, Emmet, full of personal grievances and undigested theories, or his opponent, Judge Swigart, the cynical and aristocratic politician.

If Emmet desired at present to turn the existing order of things topsy-turvy, it was because such a revolution would place him at the top.

Whatever poetical or imaginative suggestions might lie in this scene for others, it made no such appeal to Tom Emmet as he strode along, passing belated pedestrians in his course.

Meanwhile, Emmet was striding along the gleaming street, regardless of the increasing rain that soaked him to the skin.

Lost in this mood, the voice of Emmet came to his ears with a shock, a mere succession of sounds with scarce a meaning.