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Here are a couple of remarks that could only have been made in the reign of Frederick the Great, and under the spell of a college lecture: "The statement that man is the noblest work of God was never made by anybody but man, and must therefore be taken 'cum grano salis." "We are told that God said He made man in His own image, but the remark was probably ironical."
He turned and kissed the little ragged stockings instead, and then he went out. He was going to play was it Santa Claus, indeed? The strange, illogical, ironical god of chance, or was it Providence acting through some careless maid, had left an area window unlocked in the biggest and newest house on the avenue.
Yet the man who waved his hand from the box-seat of the phaeton with a courtesy seemingly real, but, under the circumstances, brutally ironical, was Thorndyke, and the woman who sat by his side was Berenice! The carriage passed on down the broad drive, and Matravers stood looking after it.
The mother looked on with bitterness; she spoke of this transformation in her child with ironical disdain, She was sure Micheline was not in earnest; only a doll was capable of falling in love so foolishly with a man for his personal beauty. For to her mind the Prince was as regards mental power painfully deficient.
"That is all!" repeats my husband, with the slightest possible ironical accent. Then we go to church. It is too near to drive, so we all walk. The church-yard elms are out in fullest leaf above our heads. There are so many leaves, and they are so close together, that they hide the great brown rooks' nests. They do not hide the rooks themselves. It would take a good deal to do that.
Except for that one abrupt and sinister move of Gulden's that of a natural man beyond deceit there was no word, no look, no act at which Joan could have been offended. They were joking, sarcastic, ironical, and sullen in their relation to each other; but to Joan each one presented what was naturally or what he considered his kindest and most friendly front.
Many great paintings and poems are records of things discovered in this quietness of light. It is indeed ironical in our Ali Baba's cave to see sheer everydayness and hardness upon the screen, the audience dragged back to the street they have escaped.
Charles, when he says of him that he is a 'gentleman in a good state of preservation, means to be ironical. I doubt whether Charles at fifty would object to have the same said of Mr. Charles Everett. Mr. Pollingray has always looked to his health. He has not been disappointed. I am sure he was always very good.
You are ironical; but I've got a cane. An end to your jokes, you wretched fool." Gwynplaine became ashy pale. "You are a fool yourself, and you shall give me satisfaction for this insult." "In your booth as much as you like, with fisticuffs." "Here, and with swords?" "My friend Gwynplaine, the sword is a weapon for gentlemen. With it I can only fight my equals.
They would rather cover their strongest emotions under some veil of indirect insinuation, whether of playful caress or ironical depreciation, than write them down in explicit and unequivocal assertions. That, however, was not Fitzjames's style in any case. His words were in all cases as straightforward and downright as if he were giving evidence upon oath.
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