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He looked towards the trees, and then round at the closed houses. With a shrug of the shoulders, he rode towards Denise and dismounted. "Mademoiselle", he said, "they have been frightening you." "Yes", she answered. "They are not men, but brutes." The colonel, who was always gentle in manner, made a deprecatory gesture with the great riding-whip that he invariably carried.
And because from what I know of that stupid Pasmer pride it would be perfectly impossible for any one who was a Pasmer to take her deprecatory manner toward me of herself. You ought to have seen it! It was simply perfect." "Perhaps," said Brinkley, with a remote dreaminess, "she was truly sorry." "Truly stuff! No, indeed; she hates me as much as ever more!"
Crawford had said of his big project. And in spite of his own deprecatory answer to Mr. Crawford's straightforward question, Greek Conniston had not forgotten all of the engineering he had absorbed during four years in the university.
"Have a drink, b-b-boys?" he asked, looking over the crowd with an air of superiority and waving his hand with an inclusive gesture. The motley throng of loafers sidled up to the bar with a deprecatory and automatic movement. They took their glasses, clinked them, nodded to their entertainer, muttered incoherent toasts and drank his health.
A letter was then formally addressed to his Majesty, in the name of the Archduke Matthias and of the estates, demanding the recal of Don John and the, maintenance of the Ghent Pacification. De Seller, in reply, sent a brief, deprecatory paper, enclosing a note from Don John, which the envoy acknowledged might seem somewhat harsh in its expressions.
'And Limeton, Mary; it's such a splendid city quite different from this place. Mary fancies she detects a slight deprecatory tone in the way he says 'this place. 'Yes, I suppose it is very different. Horridly dirty, isn't it? 'Not more dirty than a prosperous manufacturing city must inevitably be, and within a mile all round there is the loveliest scenery you can imagine.
The lay-brother made a gentle deprecatory gesture of his hands and retired, and Varillo was left to his own reflections. He lay still, thinking deeply, and marvelling at the unexpected rescue out of his difficulties so suddenly afforded him. "With Gherardi to support me, I can say anything!" he mused, his heart beating quickly and exultingly. "I can say anything and swear anything!
Whereupon, clearing his throat and glancing round on the audience with a deprecatory air just as amateur scalds of the present day are wont to do Thiodolph hinn Frode of Huina stood up to sing. His voice was mellow, and his music wild. The subject chosen showed that he understood how to humour both King and people, and if the song was short it was much to the point. Song of the Scald.
As I looked at poor Parnell, with that deprecatory smile of his which so often lit up the flint-like hardness, the terrible resolution of his face as varied in its lights and shadows as a lake under an April sky I thought of the contrast there was between the small annoyances, the squalid cares of even the greatest leaders of men and the brave outward show of their reception by the masses.
"It may," said Raffles Holmes, pursing his lips into a deprecatory smile. "I think," said Raffles Holmes, as he ran over his expense account while sitting in my library one night some months ago, "that in view of the present condition of my exchequer, my dear Jenkins, it behooveth me to get busy.
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