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They do the business accordingly, that is, very ill: they never get into the secrets of these courts, for want of insinuation and address: they do not guess at their views, for want of knowing their interests: and, at last, finding themselves very unfit for, soon grow weary of their commissions, and are impatient to return home, where they are but too justly laid aside and neglected.
His habit and his white band show him to be an ecclesiastic; and his begging, which he does very earnestly, proves him to be of a mendicant order; which, added to his flattery and insinuation, make him supposed to be a Jesuit, and have acquired him the name of Loyola. I must not omit too, that when he breaks wind he smells exactly like the Sultan.
Putting one hand on his forehead he rocked back and forth as though about to fall, declaring that he was striving to keep back the tears wrenched from him by the injustice of his son's insinuation and, shouting so that his voice carried far down the street, he declared with an oath that the town of Caxton should ring and echo with his bugling as the sleeping camp had echoed with it that night in the Virginia wood.
'What? said he, 'you know that pamphlet about Ambrose Gwinett? 'Know it? said I, in a hurt tone, as though he had asked me if I knew 'Macbeth'; 'of course I know Ambrose Gwinett, Mr Borrow, don't you? 'And you know the play? said he. 'Of course I do, Mr Borrow, I said, in a tone that was now a little angry at such an insinuation of crass ignorance.
"Well, well; we shall see, Brutus," answered the Deputy, laying his hand upon the fellow's shoulder. "But I am afraid that this time I am going farther than you would care to come." The man's ferrety eyes were raised of a sudden to La Boulaye's face in a very searching glance. Caron's tone had been laden with insinuation. "You are running way," cried the official. "Sh! My good Brutus, what folly!
She blushed violently, gasped, and rolled her handkerchief into a tight ball. Mr. Fitzroy ignoring the insinuation, changed his line. "The part we really wanted you to take, Mrs. Shaw, was that of a nymph in an Elizabethan masque which Lumley has written, with music by Stephen Bampton. It's to be played in the rose garden and there's a chorus of nymphs who sing and dance.
"You offend me, Senor Cuchillo," said Baraja, "my word has always passed for its value in cash." "Especially when you don't happen to lose," sneeringly added Cuchillo. "That is not a very delicate insinuation," said Baraja gathering up the cards. "Fye, fye! Senor Cuchillo to get angry about such a trifle!
"You should," she smiled, "go as far as there for the sake of her, who drives the mosquitoes away from you." Pao-yue could not make out the drift of her insinuation. "What about driving mosquitoes away?" he vehemently inquired. Hsi Jen then explained to him how while he was fast asleep the previous day and no one was about to keep him company, Miss Pao-ch'ai had sat with him for a while.
Passing over the self-evident point that whoever is "unaware that he is sinning" cannot be "sinning" at all, since "sinning" consists in being aware of the wrong we do, and, consequently, that Dr. Royce comes here as near as he dares to a direct insinuation that my plagiarism is conscious, and not "unconscious," let me call your attention to the more important point, that Dr.
Of course the fair Nootka was beside them, for was not Oolalik one of the players? She would have scorned the insinuation that that was the reason. Nevertheless there is reason to believe that that had something to do with her presence. Our friend Adolay, however, was not there.
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