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He has the shrewd, inquisitive look, the spare frame, the sharp features, of a Connecticut farmer, and constantly reminds me of Henry Clay when he moves about.
We should strive, during our brief sojourn on this inquisitive earth, to put our fellow creatures to as little discomfort as possible."
Barbara did not know that her father meant to go to the Abbey that morning, for Attorney Case was mysterious even to his own family about his morning rides. He never chose to be asked where he was going, or where he had been; and this made his servants more than commonly inquisitive to trace him.
She insisted on it, and I presumed to guess that she deemed it necessary for the sake of peace in that home. Lord Romfrey appeared merely inquisitive; his eyebrows were lifted in permanence; his eyes were mild. She continued: 'They leave England in a few hours. They are not likely to return. I permitted him to address me with the title of countess. 'Of Romfrey? said the earl. Rosamund bowed.
Talleyrand, in similar circumstances, had already replied, 'You are very inquisitive, my dear fellow! To imitate the inimitable great man was out of the question. La Palferine, generous as Buckingham, could not bear to be caught empty-handed.
The count sprang forward instantly, offered his hand to the beautiful woman with every mark of profound respect, and led her through the inquisitive crowd to the marquis and Madame du Gua. "Believe the one now made," he replied to the astonished young leader.
She also certainly recognized this gentleman, whose wife, proud of being able to suckle her own children, had evinced such little inclination to help others to do business. She pretended, however, that she saw him for the first time; for she was discreet by profession and not even inquisitive, since so many matters were ever coming to her knowledge without the asking.
Accordingly I left all these inquisitive people unsatisfied, and busied myself solely with my fallen antagonist. Quitting him at last in a state of quiescence, I knocked over a person who had been attacking me in the rear, and then blundered into a passage, which I suppose to have been the front-hall, just as a light glimmered up in the rooms behind me.
At once shy and bold, solitary and gregarious; restless as a cloud, yet clinging to his feeding grounds, spite of wolves and hunters, till he leaves them of his own free will; wild as Kakagos the raven, but inquisitive as a blue jay, he is the most fascinating and the least known of all the deer.
There was nothing in that for a man to get uppish about, but he turned and actually glared at me. "I might be an inquisitive son-of-a-gun and ask you the same thing," he growled. "Yes, you might," I agreed. "But, if you did, I'd be apt to tell you to depart immediately for a place called Gehenna which is polite for hell."
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