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For there is no contract more carelessly made, more ridiculed, more lightly broken; no sacred subject that is oftener blasphemed; and nothing else in life affecting the dignity and welfare of man which is oftener attacked with vulgar ribaldry in public, or outraged in private by the secret conduct of it. No.
Cæsar had carelessly dropped a writing tablet that he was holding, and now he stooped slowly and picked it up again. "The messenger is here?" he inquired, after a pause. "He is," replied the centurion. "Has he been duly refreshed after a hard ride?" was the next question. "He has just come." "Then let him have the best food and drink my butler and cellarer can set before him."
'It's nothing else, says she, quite carelessly; 'I'm just sending word home to my father not to be waiting breakfast for me; just to keep him from being uneasy in his mind. 'And who's your father, my duck? said Dick. 'What! said the Merrow, 'did you never hear of my father? he's the king of the waves to be sure!
Now, contrary, I wonder as much how there should be any: he that shall consider how many thousand several words have been carelessly and without study composed out of twenty-four letters; withal, how many hundred lines there are to be drawn in the fabric of one man, shall easily find that this variety is necessary; and it will be very hard that they shall so concur as to make one portrait like another.
They went round the red farmhouse, along a grassy path carelessly bordered with flowers that grew as they would, and at the back came to a little white spring house in which were many pans of milk on shelves, and a big churn. The interior was cool and dim, and a stream of clear water trickled along a passage in the cement floor.
"That's a well-read, intelligent fellow," said he to his wife. "We allers heard they knowed nothing but ignorance and idolatry," she carelessly remarked. "I guess those who represented the Catholic priests as such are the most ignorant," was the remark of Ephraim.
I asked carelessly, for I was tired and his talk amused me while we rested. "We worship the Grasshopper, Master, because he jumps with men's spirits from one life to another, or from this world to the next, yes, right through the blue sky.
So about half a mile of this comprises my earthly possessions." "Do you keep up the taxes?" she asked. "No. I've never paid them," he said carelessly. "Then don't be too sure it is yours," she said. "Someone may have paid them and taken the land. You had better look it up." "What for?" he demanded. "It is beautiful. It is the shadiest, coolest place in town.
What kind of fellows are they?" "Oh, not a bad sort," said Reginald carelessly. "Lots of the needful, you know, and free with it. Not very fond of the grind, but always up to date when there are any good times going. What do you suppose put Sultan in such a lather, John?
The thin hair hung over his forehead as if restless fingers had ploughed carelessly through it, and, as he kept one finger on a half-copied paragraph, the cold blue eye said very plainly, "This is a busy time with me; despatch your errand at once." "Good morning, Mr. Campbell; are you particularly engaged?" "How-d'ye-do, Aubrey. I am generally engaged; confoundedly busy this morning.
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