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Jump off directly, and walk him home." "Shan't!" was the laconic refusal, accompanied by a grin. "What!" cried Fred, doubling his fists threateningly. "Shan't come off, sir. There!" "Oh, won't you!" cried Fred, seizing Samson by the leg, and proceeding as if to tilt him over. "You leave your father's special messenger alone, Master Fred, or you'll get into trouble."
The hopeful clamour and push and mortify themselves, whilst highly indifferent and laconic Magyars chuckle among themselves and throw ink across an inky table asking foreigners in Hungarian their mother's maiden name and their natal town.
As usual, he's laconic." George's curtness was accounted for by the fact that he had been afraid of saying too much, but Sylvia carelessly handed the letter to her companion. "After all, he shows a nice feeling," Mrs. Lansing remarked. "He seems to regret very much his inability to send you a larger check." "So do I," said Sylvia with a petulant air.
Carlyle as they walked back to their car. "How do you propose to get that telegram, Max?" "Ask for it," was the laconic explanation. And, stripping the artifice of any elaboration, he simply asked for it and got it. The car, posted at a convenient bend in the road, gave him a warning note as the telegraph-boy approached.
"I am glad, however, you pronounce her safe; for, although seamen love a fast-sailing vessel, these ladies will not like her the less for the security. I presume, sir, you will not dispute her being safe." "The very quality I should most deny," was the laconic answer of Wilder. "It is remarkable! This is a veteran seaman, sir, and he appears to think differently."
Long-Hair kicked his victim heavily, uttering laconic curses meanwhile, and led him back again to the starting-point. A genuine sense of humor seems almost entirely lacking in the mind of the American Indian. He smiles at things not in the least amusing to us and when he laughs, which is very seldom, the cause of his merriment usually lies in something repellantly cruel and inhuman.
Elizabeth did know him, but even to her the ensuing explanation, which did not explain, was, through his very anxiety not to offend her, provokingly laconic. "But you don't go on duty at the hospital until April," she said hotly. "Why do you leave Mercer the first of March?" "Materna wants time to get settled." "Mrs.
Ringtail Pete was obviously an undesirable acquaintance; therefore Omar Ben held his tongue, and became interested in the bullfrog. Curiosity, however, conquered refined reserve. "What is it?" he asked presently. "Frawg," said the street cat, with laconic candor, as he gracefully mauled the subject of discussion. "I gets 'em over to the frawg-pawnd up back of Lumkins's tannery. Have a piece?"
Moreover, on Garibaldi's return to Rome, Mazzini made a last effort to induce him to unburden his mind, at least to himself, by asking him in writing to tell him frankly what were his wishes. Here is the laconic answer, characteristic of the writer; frank and unabashed as the round, clear handwriting of the original, from which we copy: "ROME, June 2d, 1849.
"Give me what you have in that roll, and I'll take your word for the rest." The merchant gave something that sounded very much like a groan. "Well, I suppose if you insist on it, I must," he said. "I'll give you what I have, but I won't promise you any more." "Hand it over," was Stumpy's laconic reply. He probably thought half a loaf better than no bread, at all. With a heavy sigh Mr.
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