Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the mostaccomplished girl in the neighbourhood; and Catherine and Lydia had beenfortunate enough never to be without partners, which was all that theyhad yet learnt to care for at a ball.
She likedhim too little to care for his approbation.
Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoiltby my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, allthat was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taughtme to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own familycircle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at leastto think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.
Ah! poetry makes life whatlight and music do the stage--strip the one of the false embellishments,and the other of its illusions, and what is there real in either to liveor care for?Very true, Sir,' replied Mr. Snodgrass.
We eats our biled mutton without capers, anddon't care for horse-radish ven ve can get beef.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'For lone people as have got nobody to care for them, or take careof them, or as have been hurt in their mind, or that kind of thing,'observed Mr. Raddle, plucking up a little cheerfulness, and lookinground, 'the country is all very well.
Frankly, I don't care for spiritualpowers much myself.