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But 't was jest as you'd cuff the kitten for snarlin' up your yarn." "Well, what's Isabel goin' to do?" asked Mrs. Ellison. "S'pose she'll marry him?" "Why, she won't unless he tells her to. If he does, I dunno but she'll think she's got to." "I say it's a shame," put in Mrs. Robbins incisively; "an' Isabel with everything all fixed complete so 't she could have a good time.
Panshine replied incisively and irritably, declared that clever people were bound to reform every thing, and at length was carried away to such an extent that, forgetting his position as a chamberlain, and his proper line of action as a member of the civil service, he called Lavretsky a retrogade conservative, and alluded very distantly it is true to his false position in society.
Dean, to put a coronet on the head of that young !" The word which we have not dared to print was distinctly spoken, more distinctly, more loudly, more incisively, than any word which had yet fallen from the man's lips.
I had never heard him talk better or more incisively before; one could feel sure, as he spoke, that the arteries of his own acute and teeming brain at that moment of exaltation were by no means deficient in those energetic and highly vital globules on whose reparative worth he so eloquently descanted.
She spoke the words deliberately and incisively, as if hoping that the sound of their utterance would stifle the whisper in her bosom. Sophy's only answer was a vague murmur, and a movement that brought her nearer to the door; but before she could reach it Owen had placed himself in her way.
"I shall put this in the safe," he said incisively, "for, while I admire your stanchness in friendship, even for such an unworthy object as Polly Roberts, I do not propose that my wife shall be selling or pawning her jewels for any reason whatever. Think over the proposal I made downstairs. If Polly is willing I'll lend Roberts the money to-morrow."
How do you regard their position at this latter end of the nineteenth century, Evadne?" "I do not regard it at all, if I can help it," she answered incisively. Mr. Hamilton-Wells dropped his outspread hands upon his knees. "If I remember rightly," he said, "you take no interest in politics either. That is quite a phenomenon at this latter end of the nineteenth century."
"Well" incisively "it will do him a whole heap of good. He's much too inclined to think the entire world is his for the taking." Involuntarily Ann laughed outright at the palpable truth of the statement, and with that spontaneous laughter was borne away much of the hurt pride and resentment which had been galling her.
It is known that in the Prince de Conde, the aquiline nose rose out sharply and incisively from a brow slightly retreating, rather low than high, and according to the railers of the court, a pitiless race even for genius, constituted rather an eagle's beak than a human nose, in the heir of the illustrious princes of the house of Conde.
Dorset, meanwhile, had stepped back to his wife's side. His face was white, and he looked about him with cowed angry eyes. "Bertha! Miss Bart . . . this is some misunderstanding . . . some mistake . . ." "Miss Bart remains here," his wife rejoined incisively. "And, I think, George, we had better not detain Mrs. Stepney any longer."
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