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'The State has hence facetiously been called Coconutcore, says its historian; which charmingly illustrates the true Anglo-Indian notion of what constitutes facetiousness, and ought to strike the last nail into the coffin of a competitive examination system.
The crows and birds of prey shall feed upon their tongues, and the wrath of God shall wither up their hands." The demolition of D, the devout, only whets X's appetite; and heedless of his coming doom, M, the moderate, enters the lists. As a specimen of Papal mild facetiousness, I quote the commencement of the second dialogue. M. "Great news! a great book!" X. "Where from?" M. "From Paris."
Perchance, Greenacre's prosperity at this moment resulted from a skilful appeal to the widowed lady. Inclined to facetiousness by a blend of choice beverages, Gammon could not resist a joke at the moment when he took leave. "Been out with the 'Saponaria' van to-day?" he enquired innocently. Greenacre looked steadily at him with eyes of gentle reproach.
"I never deal in jokes," he said, with a smile of sad sympathy for those who do; "my life is one perpetual peril, and that restrains facetiousness. But I can make allowance for those who like it." Miss Dolly, the pet child of the house, and all the people round it except the gardener, Mr.
The tribulations of the wanigan were as the salt of life to the spectators. Billy Camp tried to keep back of the rear in clear water, but when the wanigan so disposed, he found himself jammed close in the logs. There he had a chance in his turn to become spectator, and so to repay in kind some of the irony and facetiousness.
"Propitious moment for getting a monopoly of door-knobs at the Cape, I suppose?" said Louis quizzically. His cousin manufactured, among other articles, white and jet door-knobs. "No need for you to be so desperately funny!" snapped Julian, who detested Louis' brand of facetiousness. It was the word "propitious" that somehow annoyed him it had a sarcastic flavour, and it was "Louis all over."
Cissy argued that she could not alter Etty's composition; she reproved him for his facetiousness, and was visibly annoyed at the glances he bestowed on Mildred. A moment after Ralph appeared. 'Don't let me disturb you, he said, 'I did not know where you were, Miss Lawson, that was all. I thought you might like me to see how you're getting on.
Mebbe it's larst year's calendar you're thinkin' of. Look sharp, now!" "But !" With an effort Kirkwood mustered up a show of dignity. "Am I to understand," he said, as calmly as he could, "that you deny knowing George B. Calendar and his daughter Dorothy and " "I don't 'ave to. Listen to me, young man." For the time the fellow discarded his clumsy facetiousness.
"Have you got any money?" said Mr. Spriggs, after a long pause. "I left it behind me in Australia," said Mr. Price, with ill-timed facetiousness. "Getting better, ain't you?" said his brother-in-law, sharply. "How's that broken 'art getting on?"
For contributions to the leading reviews, boiled pork and cabbage may be eaten, with bottled beer, followed by apple dumpling. This effectually suppresses any tendency to facetiousness, or what respectable English people call double entendre, and brings you en rapport with the serious people who read these publications. So soon as you begin to feel wakeful and restless discontinue writing.
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