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The rigidity with which she had held herself, the automatic manner, the hard, off-hand tone, all disappeared at once; and it was a new, a transformed Carrie, the fascinating, wayward, irresistible girl he had remembered, who gave him a smile and a nod, as she said, in a voice full of the old charm he remembered: "You! Is it you?"
So when Jackie asked in an off-hand manner, "Shall you be going near Greenop's, father?" the squire knew that his answer was waited for with anxiety, and said at once: "Yes, I'm going to the gunmaker's next door." That was all right. Jackie screwed up his shoulders in an ecstasy.
Every one finds that one shape suits her better than another. The next point in making a bonnet is that the "artiste" should have a light hand, and should make it "off-hand," without letting it lie about to get soiled or tumbled. Things which are not expensive, but are made of common materials, should look fresh.
"Lathrop as supercargo? He's too young. He's only a lad." "We can get no one else off-hand who has so good an education," said Roger. "He can write a fair-copy, cipher, and keep books. I'll warrant, Mr. Johnston, that not even you can catch him napping with a problem in tare and tret. Above all, the Websters know him well and will be glad to see him climb." "Hm! I'm doubtful well, very well.
So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be: and all you should strive to do is to make use of this character in such a way as its kind and nature permit, rather than to hope for any alteration in it, or to condemn it off-hand for what it is.
The officers who hurried to and fro were mute, or gave short and unsatisfactory replies to the inquiries which poured in upon them. People did not pause to reflect that even an officer could hardly be expected to know off-hand what the cause of the sudden stoppage of the engine might be. By-and-by the captain appeared, smiling and bland. He told them there was no danger.
It was altogether too momentous a question for me to settle off-hand and upon my own responsibility, so I laid the matter before the whole boat's company, inviting them to decide it by a preponderating vote.
The last hope for his well-fed American humour flickered and died. He knew that it would never do to regale them in an informal off-hand way as he had planned with examples of native wit. Reverting to the precise moment of his entrance to the Castle, we find Mr.
The session begins with a brief off-hand discussion of the general characteristics and affinities of the group of arthropoda, of which the crawfish is a member.
George didn't know the tunes, either, which was also a drawback to his performances. I said: "Come, now, George, don't improvise. It looks too egotistical. It will provoke remark. Just stick to 'Coronation, like the others. It is a good tune you can't improve it any, just off-hand, in this way." "Why, I'm not trying to improve it and I am singing like the others just as it is in the notes."
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