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Yet he was by no means churlish nor coarse-looking, and this act was rather one of easy-going, selfish, youthful familiarity than of rudeness. The cabin of Uncles Billy and Jim was considered a public right or "common" of the camp. Conferences between individual miners were appointed there. "I'll meet you at Uncle Billy's" was a common tryst.
Eventually he brought forth a square sheet of paper it had a certain familiarity of aspect for Mrs. Pumpelly and handed it to her. "Sorry to disturb you, ma'am," he apologized, "but I was instructed to make sure and serve you personal." "That's all right! That's all right!" said Pierpont with an effort at bonhomie. "The er butler will give you a highball if you say so."
When her lips had touched the dirty little book, greasy with the kisses of innumerable perjurers, the Serjeant began to question her in a tone of odious familiarity.
The king immediately said all the obliging things to the Father which could be expected from a well-bred man; and, laying aside all the pomp of majesty, which the kings of Japan are never used to quit in public, treated him with the kindness and familiarity of a friend.
Do you still love me, excellent and good Josephine? Do you still love me, in spite of the relations I have again contracted, and which have separated me from you? But they have not banished you from my memory. "'Sire, I replied "'Call me Bonaparte, said he; 'speak to me, my beloved, with the same freedom, the same familiarity as ever.
Habitual indifference to the gospel, masked by an utterly unmeaning and unreal acceptance of it, and by equally habitual decorous attendance on its preaching, is the condition of a dreadfully large proportion of church-goers. Their very familiarity with the truth robs it of all penetrating power.
But familiarity breeds contempt, and as we gradually realised that the flares were much further to our front than we had thought, the necessity for this uncomfortable performance became less and less obvious until we discarded it altogether.
"I should be enchanted," he cried, as if with a prophetic instinct of his own destiny, "to be able to say all my life, 'The king my father, and the king my SON." Heavy in body as well as mind, living on terms of familiarity with a petty court, probably married to Mdlle.
"Anty," said Martin, making great haste to speak, before Daly could commence, and then checking himself as he remembered that he shouldn't have ventured on the familiarity of calling her by her Christian name in Daly's presence "Miss Lynch, I mane as Mr Daly here has come all the way from Tuam on purpose to spake to you, it wouldn't perhaps be manners in you to let him go back without hearing him.
"But his mother was but a wee bit of a woman," urged O'Kimmon; "the most of him is Frinch, look at the size of him!" For O'Kimmon was now bidding as high against the English aegis as earlier he had been disposed to claim its protection, when he had protested his familiarity with the Royal Governor of South Carolina.
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