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Adister turned her head to the colonel, who was then looking down the features of Mrs. Rockney. Patrick said: 'I'm ready, for a year, Miss Mattock. She answered him, half jocosely: 'A whole year of free service? Reflect on what you are undertaking. 'It's writing and accounts, no worse? 'Writing and accounts all day, and music in the evening only now and then.
The squadron of Admiral Holmes above Quebec had now increased to twenty-two vessels, great and small. One of the last that went up was a diminutive schooner, armed with a new swivels, and jocosely named the "Terror of France."
Finally a cool breeze blew in his eyes, when the creaking doors of the stable were opened with a crash; and the Bernardine, Father Robak, came in with his belt of knotted cord, calling out, “Surge, puer!” and plying jocosely over his shoulders his knotted belt.
They were in the dressing-room, no one else present but Grace and Max. "I'm pretty thankful myself," observed the latter jocosely, but with a telltale moisture about the eyes; "I shouldn't like to have a sister with a fingerless hand." "Oh don't, Max! don't talk so!" sobbed Grace, "I just can't bear to think of such dreadful things!" Her father turned toward her and held out his hand.
Peterborough remarked to me, 'We shall have many things to talk over in England. 'No tobacco allowed on the premises at Riversley, I 'm afraid, said I. He sighed, and bade me jocosely to know that he regarded tobacco as just one of the consolations of exiles and bachelors. 'Peterborough, my good friend, you are a hero! cried my father. 'He divorces tobacco to marry!
She had made up her mind that at the first sign of danger she would turn Nabob and make a dash back down the trail for safety. After that the silence became so pronounced that Mollie noticed it and laughed nervously. "Why all the noise?" she asked jocosely. "It nearly breaks my ear drums." "Hush," cried Amy warningly. "I thought I heard something."
Now the parts were reversed, and the younger man found great solace in jocosely rallying his senior on his unwonted zeal and activity. Ayre accepted his friend's jocosity and his own excitement with equal placidity. Reproaches had never stirred him to exertion; ridicule would not stop him now.
They had had between them often in talk the refrain, jocosely, descriptively applied, of "old Roman." It had been, as a pleasantry, in the other time, his explanation to her of everything; but nothing, truly, had even seemed so old-Roman as the shrug in which he now indulged. "Why in the world not?" "The occasion. This ramble that we shall have had together and that we're not to speak of."
"Won't he need to try them on?" asked her sister. "No," said Priscilla. "They don't need to fit as exactly as boots." So the two sisters made their way to the village store, and asked to look at their stock of skates. "Are you going to skate, Miss Priscilla?" asked the shopkeeper, jocosely. "No; they are for Sophia," answered Priscilla, who could joke occasionally.
The wounded man, without betraying any concern, excited the laughter of the company by jocosely putting his arms akimbo, and inserting his thumbs into the orifices of the wounds as if they had been armholes. This having in a measure restored good humor, the party joined hands and formed a circle preparatory to dancing.
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