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The inflection was scathing. Mrs. Flynn, who was smiling complacently over the evident confusion of Cicily, now stood up to instruct that unhappy presiding officer: "No, indeed, Mrs.
Then Ethel had come along. She had not fitted in with the diamonds and portraits and silver, but she had stirred his pulses. "Anywhere else but in Georgetown," old Molly Winchell was saying, "those girls would have been snapped up long ago. It's a poor matrimonial market." Murray was complacently aware that he was geographically the only eligible man on the Merryman horizon.
But, by Jove! those sheep at first were enough to plague a man out his wits. What with the wild dogs, just as the sheep had been washed and ready to shear; then that cursed scabby sheep of Joe Timmes's, that we caught rubbing his sides so complacently against our unsuspecting poor ewes. I wonder we did not run away. But Patientia fit, what is that line in Horace? Never mind now.
But a civilised European is as little able to accomplish this, as to appreciate the feelings of those strange creatures, which, when a drop of water is examined under a microscope, are revealed amiably gobbling each other up, and being themselves complacently devoured.
"There is certainly a fate in these matters," she said to herself, complacently. "One thing always follows another." Mrs. Argenter was apt to make to herself a "House that Jack built" out of her providences.
He had been on parole. He had imagined that his word was all that McEachern had to rely on. But if the policeman had been working secretly against him all this time, his parole was withdrawn automatically. The thought that, if he did nothing, McEachern would put it down complacently to the vigilance of his detective and his own astuteness in engaging him stung Jimmy.
Between we three, confidential, I'm startin' a couple of lads down into the Lower Country next week to buy up five hundred of the best huskies they kin spot. Think so! I've limbered my jints too long in the land to git caught nappin'." Frona burst out laughing. "But you got pinched on the sugar, Dave." "Oh, I dunno," he responded, complacently. "Which reminds me.
The giant continued to devour his larks, as complacently as the ogre to whom he was likened might have devoured the Greeks in his cave.
The Jews of this great city persuade themselves that my blessing will bring them God's grace; they flock to welcome me. Can I stay them?" "Thou art a seditious knave." "An arrant impostor," put in the Sub-Pacha, "with the airs of a god. I thought to risk losing my arm when I cuffed him on the ear, but lo! 'tis stronger than ever." And he felt his muscle complacently.
Lemuel Shackford had laid up a competency as ship-master in the New York and Calcutta trade, and in 1852 had returned to his native village, where he found his name and stock represented only by little Dick, a very cheerful orphan, who stared complacently with big blue eyes at fate, and made mud-pies in the lane whenever he could elude the vigilance of the kindly old woman who had taken him under her roof.
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