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I say, would you like to see my den?" added he, as they passed the door in question. Mr Ratman being of an inquiring turn of mind, accepted the invitation, and gave a cursory glance at the chaos which formed the leading feature of the apartment. "It's not such a swagger crib as Roger's," said Tom; "but it's snug enough. That's Roger's opposite. Like to look?"
I was going the round of the estate, hearing no end of complaints from my tenants, reading over with an unwilling eye and in a cursory fashion the accounts for I have been consecrating my energies to papers and books of quite a different style and I had even begun to make preparations for my journey.
'Much the same as his last effusion, I think' he observed, as far as I can judge from so cursory a review.
From even a very cursory examination of the literary result of a parliamentary session, the previously uninformed investigator could not fail to rise with a greatly augmented estimate of the functions of the great ruling body of the state the guarding and directing power in the multitudinous affairs of the British Empire an empire that extends over every possible variety of country and climate, and includes under its powerful, yet mild and beneficent sway, tribes of every colour of skin, and of every shade of religious belief.
The most cursory study of the map showed that the only practicable road by which the army could be supplied was along the river from Bridgeport. Lookout Mountain commanded this; and not to hold Lookout was practically to announce a purpose to retreat into middle Tennessee.
Our system of inspection had become cursory instead of painstaking. Everything had been running along so smoothly we forgot that everything must wear out in time if it isn't looked after properly. A previous chapter entitled, "Taking Stock of Ourselves," has a specific bearing upon the subject in hand.
A fugitive glance from the count strayed across to the ladies, while he bowed low before them, but, however cursory this glance, it gave him full opportunity for perceiving Princess Charlotte Louise's deep blush, and the joyful flashing of her eyes. "She loves him," he said softly to himself, "yes, she loves him, and my son will be Elector of Brandenburg."
In this the Gosi-Ute Indians had deposited their dead, surrounded with different articles, until it was quite filled up; at least it so appeared from the cursory examination made, limited time preventing a careful exploration.
I thought myself skilled in physiognomy, and concluded that she was not only perfectly happy, but also the cause of happiness. But here let me say how vain a thing it is for anyone to pronounce a man or woman to be happy or unhappy from a merely cursory inspection. Conti's wife did not cut any figure at all, and I was all eyes for the marchioness, whose name was Charlotte.
The tall sergeant bowed slightly and with a graceful wave of his hand, stepped to the edge of one of the nearest scows. With a cursory glance at the mixed cargo of boxes, barrels and bags hardly to be made out in the twilight he turned and waved his hand again toward Colonel Howell. Then, quite casually, he faced the two steersmen. "Bon jour, gentlemen," he exclaimed and lifted his big white hat.
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