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There was something in his tone perhaps a faint suggestion of irony which made his elevation of his obstructor to exalted rank less agreeable to that worthy warrior than promotion is commonly found to be. "You-all have to be purty pertickler, I reckon," he added, in a more conciliatory tone, as if in half-apology for being halted.
Its wrappings were old and loose so that as Beryl flounced her burden toward the suitcase, the content of the package slipped out and down to the floor. Robin stared in amazement for there lay a doll in faded satin finery. With a short, ashamed laugh, Beryl picked it up. "That old thing," she exclaimed, in half-apology. Robin caught her arm. "Wait oh, wait let me see it!"
"This ain't much of a pleasure resort, and a stranger's a pretty unusual thing," said the big man by way of half-apology for his curiosity. "Up buying, I suppose or maybe selling?" Bob looked up with a beginning of resentment against this apparent intrusion on his private affairs. He met the good-humoured, jolly eyes. In spite of himself he half smiled. "Not that either," said he.
Dreading a repetition of the penalty if he repeated the offence, fearing that silence would imply acquiescence in charges of persistent calumny, he blurted out a kind of awkward half-apology. He confessed, in The Contemporary Review for May, 1879, that he had criticised in The Saturday all the volumes of Froude's Elizabeth.
The girls allowed no dissimilarity in their costumes, to the smallest detail, but for convenience' sake had selected their traps and luggage as unlike as possible. When Hope reached the drawing-room Mrs. Rollston was making to Faith a half-apology for her early visit. "I knew, if I could time my call exactly right, I would not bother you.
Fourteen thousand copies of the Corsair wore sold in a day. But hear the author's own half-boast, half-apology: "Lara I wrote while undressing after coming home from balls and masquerades, in the year of revelry 1814. The Bride was written in four, the Corsair in ten days.
"You see, Miss Owen," he said in half-apology for asking her to begin work so soon, "the pile gets larger every day; and, if we don't do something to reduce it at once, it will get altogether beyond bounds." Miss Owen turned her sparkling dark eyes upon her employer. "Oh, Mr. Horn," she exclaimed, as she took her seat at the table, "the sooner we get to work the better!
Don't I copy 'em out plain for her, so as folks won't know her handwrite? Go 'way! you're loony!" Then, possibly doubting if this latter expression were strictly diplomatic with the business in hand, he added, in half-reproach, half-apology, "Don't ye see I don't want ye to be fooled into losin' yer chance o' buying up that Summit wood? It's the cold truth I'm tellin' ye." Mr.
BOSWELL. Johnson, after a half-apology for 'these diminutive observations' on Scotch windows and fresh air, continues: 'The true state of every nation is the state of common life. Works, ix. 18. See ante, p. 40. A protest may be entered on the part of most Scotsmen against the Doctor's taste in this particular.
"Oho!" he cried in his great voice when he had drawn near. "This is not so bad! It is Culbertson!" "I am sorry about this," said Kingozi briefly "a man of your eminence very disagreeable." Winkleman dropped heavily to the ground. "That is nothing," he waved aside the half-apology, "though it would not be bad to have the bath and change these clothes.
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