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This had the advantage of somewhat concealing his face, though when he leaned his head back, in order to obtain clearer vision of what was before him, the boiler slid off and fell to the pavement with a noise that nearly caused a runaway, and brought the hot-cheeked William much derisory attention from a passing street-car.
Emitting a long streamer of smoke, he summed up the whole thing in a nutshell with a derisory Pouf! Kirtley was inwardly fired up with resentment. Then he had to smother a laugh. This exhibition of the family taken off its guard was more instructive than volumes of discussion he might read about the true German attitude toward America toward everyone.
It is sadder still, in many parts of Monti to see the modern ruins of houses which were not even finished when the crash put an end to the building mania, roofless, windowless, plasterless, falling to pieces and never to be inhabited landmarks of bankruptcy, whole streets of dwellings built to lodge an imaginary population, and which will have fallen to dust long before they are ever needed, stuccoed palaces meant to be the homes of a rich middle class, and given over at derisory rents to be the refuge of the very poor.
He's sick and it won't do to trouble him; but honest, Corliss if you don't slack off in that neighbourhood a little, I'll have to have a talk with the young lady herself." A derisory light showed faintly in the younger man's eyes as he inquired, softly: "That all, Mr. Pryor?" "No. Don't try anything on out here. Not in any of your lines." "I don't mean to." "That's right.
"Well, then, I think I think..." she began, on a note of deliberation. "But I 'm afraid, just now, it would take too long to formulate my thought. Perhaps I'll try another day." She gave him a derisory little nod and in a minute was well up the lawn, towards the castle. Peter glared after her, his fists clenched, teeth set. "You fiend!" he muttered.
It was a suit in equity brought on the ground that Mr. Moon had paid a derisory price for what he got, in other words but is Mr. Moon a personal friend of yours, apart from his business? 'A friend! cried Mrs. Rushmore in horror. 'Goodness gracious, no! 'Very well, continued Logotheti. 'Then we will say that he cheated Miss Donne's maternal grandfather is that the relationship? Yes. Very good.
Both as a pretended French officer, and as an English agent of the Secret Service, Rust was the most derisory of frauds. During the day the pair of plotters were inseparable, and Madame played continually with unfailing deftness upon the two strings of Rust's poor heart and of his intense curiosity, which she clearly perceived though she did not know it to be professional.
Now his derisory speech began to make the Franks who were standing there feel shame, and with difficulty they restrained the angry man from speaking. Tempering his severity, the illustrious man spared the wretch, and was content to exact from him the oath to continue the journey to Jerusalem, whether prosperity or penury attended them.
And it proved, too, a thing quite puny and derisory, since here it is laid low, after having subsisted barely four negligible thousands of years. An hour later we arrive at Luxor, and what a surprise awaits us there!
Well, the jury held that he could; for without troubling to leave the box they gave their verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at one hundred pounds. Towards the close of the case we all felt ashamed of Pretyman. His defence had been weak; it struck us as almost derisory; and Mr.
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