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They occupied a secondary position in the Ohio Valley because they were newer and were not as fierce and tenacious in war as the older tribes. Ottawa chiefs did not thrust themselves forward, and when they spoke it was in a deprecatory way. Next to the Wyandots were the Illinois, who lived in the valley of the Illinois and who were not numerous.
Leighton, who made a deprecatory motion to let him pass to the chair beyond her; "I can find my way." He bowed a bulk that did not lend itself readily to the devotion, and picked up the ball of yarn she had let drop out of her lap in half rising. "Yo' worsteds, madam." "Yarn, yarn, Colonel Woodburn!" Alma shouted. "You're quite incorrigible. A spade is a spade!"
"And why, pray, did you not inform me of the fact, instead of having me travel away down here from London?" queried Bangletop. "You forget, Baron," replied De Herbert, with a deprecatory gesture "you forget that there is no system of telegraphy by which you could be reached.
He bowed low with elaborate and sinuous grace. His smile revealed brilliant teeth, enhanced the brilliance of his eyes. He slowly spread deprecatory hands. "Senoritas, I beg a thousand pardons," he said. How strange it was for Madeline to hear English spoken in a soft, whiningly sweet accent! "The gracious hospitality of Don Carlos has passed with his house."
As he went towards them Gaspare was speaking vehemently. He threw up one arm in a strong, even, and excited gesture, and was silent. Then Artois heard Ruffo say, in a voice that, though respectful and almost deprecatory, was yet firm like a man's: "I cannot take it away, Gaspare. When I go home my mamma will ask me if I have put it in the house." "Dio mio!" cried Gaspare.
They watched it, horrified, for a moment or two; and said nothing for a brief space when it vanished altogether into the obscurity. The sight was more unpleasant because they knew that they had seen only the commencement of that awful journey. Then Devine, who was white and gasping, made a deprecatory gesture. "I don't know whether it was my fault," he said.
This is the finale of the performance, and the luti comes and sets his skull-cap in front of me for a present; my next neighbor, the bridegroom's father, takes it up and hands it back with a deprecatory wave of the hand; the luti replies by promptly setting it down again; this time my neighbor lets it remain, and the luti is made happy by a coin.
"You see, Ned," Mac would say, in a deprecatory tone that amused me vastly, "I really pity the poor little devil, and can't help doing all in my power for him. He's such a soft little ass, confound Thorne! he makes me mad with his cursed suspicions! and then the boy is out of place here in this rough-and-tumble tiltyard.
In truth, thought Dickie, seeking even now with his deprecatory smile for likenesses and words, the city was full of beasts, silent and stealthy and fanged. That spirit, aloof, maintained its sweet detachment. Beneath its observation Dickie fought with a grim, unreasoning panic that was very like the fear of a man pursued by wolves.
Yeh ain't at all like yeh was. I remember when you an' that Irish feller " He stopped and laughed again. "No, I didn't use t' be that way," said his friend thoughtfully. "That's true 'nough." "Well, I didn't mean " began the youth. The friend made another deprecatory gesture. "Oh, yeh needn't mind, Henry." There was another little pause.
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