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Confound Guy Darrell's ancestors, they have spoilt Queen Victoria as good a young soldier as ever wore a sword by his side! Six months ago, and how blithely Lionel Haughton looked forth to the future! all laurel! no cypress! And now I feel as if I had shaken hands with a victim sacrificed by Superstition to the tombs of the dead.
Dost thou not travel thitherward thou of all men?" "Even now I hasten, lest my unworthy eyes should fail to behold the deliverance of that Holy Sepulchre whence my designation is taken. We will travel together, so will thy journey be safer, for these Turks hang like carrion upon the skirts of the grand army." "Blithely do I accept thine offer.
On hurried François, blithely unconscious of any dark prospect on his hopes of Josephte, but in visions, as he walked, of a little snow-white cottage known to him, with only one window in front, green-shuttered, but a dear little opening in the attic gable, and a leafy honey suckle creeping over the door way. "The veil of mist that held her eyes was rent As by a lightning flash...."
From the time when his daily drives were likely to be interrupted by holdups, and once by a grizzly that reared up in the road fairly under the nose of his leaders and sent the stage off at an acute angle, blazing a trail by itself amongst the timber, Casey drifted from mountain to desert, from desert to plain and back again, blithely meeting hard luck face to face and giving it good day as if it were a friend.
The sun might be a bit hot later on, but just then the air was fragrant with the odor of new-mown grass, the neighbors' lawns having been attended to on the preceding day, but not raked up; the birds sang blithely in the hedges and among the branches of the trees, and in Hugh's soul there rested the joy that a tired high-school scholar finds when the end of the week brings a well-deserved holiday.
It was his pleasure and seemingly the pleasure and privilege of all lineman's gangs the world over to whistle blithely and to call impudently to any passing petticoat that caught his fancy. Perched three feet from the top of the high pole he would cling protected, seemingly, by some force working in direct defiance of the law of gravity.
In September her son, Jock McChesney, just turned eighteen, went blithely off to college, disguised as a millionaire's son in a blue Norfolk, silk hose, flat-heeled shoes, correctly mounted walrus bag, and next-week's style in fall hats.
'Oh yes, certainly, if you wish it, she said, quite blithely; and she gave him her fan to hold, and arranged her train, and a couple of seconds thereafter they were lost in that slowly circling whirlpool of muslin and silk and satin.
Bartley, then, has the character for the obstructive, and he rose blithely on the waves of the Parliamentary tempest. But he had to face a continuous roar of interruption and hostility from the Irish benches those converted sinners who have abjured sack, and have become the most orderly and loyal, and steadfast of Ministerialist bulwarks.
India is full of such men; they don't play for safety, they take their lives in their hands at a moment's notice, and go blithely to grapple with death.
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