← I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊
← It was rather the substance that eluded me. 🔊
← I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. 🔊
← I had rather gathered from the preface to 'Negations' that you were a—a Catholic." 🔊
← I was but able to say, rather coarsely, when next I did see him, that I hoped Fungoids was "selling splendidly." 🔊
← But I did, at the time of its publication, say to Rothenstein that I thought poor old Soames was really a rather tragic figure, and that I believed he would literally die for want of recognition. 🔊
← (I rather liked them, really.) 🔊
← "I don't say he's not rather different from what I expected." 🔊
← "I think I rather scared them. 🔊
← and we had a rather heated argument, in the thick of which it suddenly seemed to me that Soames saw he was in the wrong: he had quite physically cowered. 🔊