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"You can't imagine how he used to bore the life out of me about Gerty but Gerty, you know," he added in a burst of confidence which impressed her as almost childlike, "isn't exactly the kind of woman to a a lift a fellow." Before his growing earnestness she resorted quickly to the defence of flippancy. "Nor is Perry, I suppose, exactly the kind of man that is lifted," she observed, with a laugh.
To carry the weight of the ship it's smaller! fifty tons maximum!" "I see...," said Sally, frowning. He looked at her suspiciously, but there was no mockery in her face. "It'd take a six-hundred-ton rocket to get a full-sized man to the moon," he said with sudden flippancy, "but a guy my size could do the same job of stranglin' in a fifty-ton job.
"I am quite sure of that, Sir Percy and I can but repeat what I had the honour of saying to Lady Blakeney just now I do not desire the death of so accomplished a gentleman as yourself." "Strange, Monsieur," retorted Blakeney, with a return of his accustomed flippancy.
Now he is apostrophising Ruin; now he is wallowing in the mire of village scandal; now he is addressing a mountain daisy in words of tenderness and purity; now he is scarifying a garrulous tailor, and ranting with an alien flippancy; now it is Beelzebub he addresses, now the King; now he is waxing eloquent on the virtues of Scotch whisky, anon writing to a young friend in words of wisdom that might well be written on the fly-leaf of his Bible.
It will be well to open the seance with a few moments of earnest, silent meditation a few moments of dwelling "in the silence," as some have well called it; and these moments should be observed in a religious and devotional state of mind, all frivolity and flippancy being carefully avoided.
Even those, and there were some, who thought that his gaiety bordered on flippancy, that his genial self-content often came near to shockingly bad taste, and that his reminiscences of poor Mr.
Towards the synod thus somewhat at a standstill there approached through the growing haze and gloaming a short dark figure with a walk apparently founded on the imperfect repression of a negro breakdown. Something at once in the familiarity and the incongruity of this being moved Michael to even heartier outbursts of a healthy and humane flippancy. "Why, here's little Nosey Gould," he exclaimed.
It seems that with that foolish flippancy which distinguishes him he told his friend's secret to other friends of his as a good joke. But you must remember that Mr. Brown's friends were not the prisoner's friends that they rather were in such different circles, that what was said in one, would be very little likely to find its way into the other; and above all, that those to whom Mr.
"Besides, didn't you see the car? I motored over this morning. That reminds me " She played with self-possession, it came so easily to her. "That reminds me. Garrett wants a clean collar. Did you see Garrett?" "Yes." "Well, did you ever see such a filthy collar as he's wearing in all your life?" "I don't know " He crushed her flippancy with the tone in his voice, the look in his eyes.
I was amazed at his flippancy and his evident willingness to swear to anything that would screen those who had received him." "I am not surprised that you were, Mr. Brown; for we know that Dr.
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