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"Nothing at all, dear, but what you see," she replied, without lifting her head from her work; then she added, "Do those children come here often?" "Two or three times a week, I think," answered Emily, with a degree of carelessness that attracted Miss Fairbairn's attention.
The wretches who constituted the schooner's crew were a very noisy set, laughing, chattering, and shouting at the top of their voices, and altogether exhibiting by their utter carelessness a perfect consciousness of the fact that there were no men-o'-war just then anywhere near the river.
But, had he asked it, it would not have been superfluous; for though the money he had saved proved to be more than his friends imagined, or than I believe he himself, in his carelessness concerning worldly matters, knew it to be, had he travelled upon the Continent, an augmentation of his income would by no means have been unnecessary. On Thursday, June 24, I dined with him at Mr.
There was nothing for it but the blunt truth so Bruce wrote: Sprudell boasted that he would down me and he has. Villainy, incompetency and carelessness have been too strong a combination for my inexperience to beat. I've failed. I'm broke. I've spent $40,000 and have nothing to show for it but a burned-out plant of an obsolete type. You can't imagine how it hurts to write these words.
Crooked cloth, forks and spoons looking as if they had been tossed upon the table; as likely as not, no cruets nor water-bottles; and a general air of slipshod carelessness, which would more than defeat all her arrangements. "I er think I ought to look after it myself," she said apologetically; "but please help me, dear!
"Poverty, inelegance, and poorness of diction," will be no longer so "generally observed," and even hearers of taste will cease to be offended. A want of order, a rambling, unconnected, desultory manner, is commonly objected; as Hume styles it, "extreme carelessness of method;" and this is so often observed, as to be justly an object of dread.
"Surround the base of the tree. They're in the cave," cried Tad. "Wait, wait!" commanded the Ranger. In the cave the outlaws were beginning to think. Tad's shots had been laid to the carelessness of one of the men. Each one denied that he had fired them. "That was a signal. Somebody here is a traitor!" cried the leader.
Eggs, by storage in old musty cellars, or in rooms, with lemons, onions and cheese, may become so badly flavored as to be seriously objected to by a fancy trade, and yet there is no means of detecting the trouble without destroying the egg. Such eggs occur most frequently among the held stock of the fall season. The Loss Due to Carelessness.
At length, with clumsily affected carelessness, I had to say, 'Oh, just down south a bit from Milton. 'H'm! Port Lawson way, like? suggested the curious bullocky. 'Yes, that's it, I said hurriedly. 'Port Lawson way. 'Ah, well, I've got a brother works in the y saw-mills there.
Well, now I am beginning to think that I might write something on the carelessness of Englishwomen in fastening up their hair, and the phenomenal consumption of hairpins in England. For the consumption must be enormous since the loss is so great, as I will show you. Then he proceeded to ocular demonstration.
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