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"Smash your chronometer, get mixed up with a hurricane, and then keep your eyes open for cocoanuts rising out of the sea." "And what is your name?" Hall asked, after he had laughed perfunctorily. "Anstey Phil Anstey," Grief answered promptly. "Bound on the Uncle Toby from the Gilberts to New Guinea, and trying to find my longitude. This is my mate, Mr.
It was made in 1838, since when opinion has raised Gibbon to the top, for he actually lives while Hume is read perfunctorily, if at all. Moreover among the three Gibbon, Macaulay, and Carlyle whose works are literature as well as history, modern criticism has no hesitation in awarding the palm to Gibbon.
The young man laughed perfunctorily, and led his horse to the stable after the ostler who had taken mine. "A pleasant young man," said I, staying with the landlord. "He lives in this town, he tells me." "Yes, an excellent youth. He owns his bit of land, and though his father was a miller, his children may come near being gentlemen." I went into the kitchen, and ordered dinner.
On her return to the house she sought the seclusion of the little den and wrathfully consumed a half dozen cigarettes. When dinner was announced she ate perfunctorily and at its conclusion sought the den again. It was far into the night when she finally arose and sought her bedchamber.
They had the custom in the seminary, of course, but it was observed perfunctorily, the men taking it by turns. It had never seemed the holy recognition of the Presence of the Master, as Father Marshall made it seem. There was Bonnie, like a daughter of the house, getting up for a second pitcher of cream, running to the kitchen for more gravy.
"How dull England will seem to you when you go back to it!" he said to her, after a moment. His tone had an under-note of bitterness which Elizabeth uncomfortably recognised. "Oh! I have a way of liking what I must like," she said, hurriedly. "Just now, certainly, I am in love with deserts flat or mountainous tempered by a private car." He laughed perfunctorily.
The words had the calm conventional cadence, and instantly extorted from him amid all his dazedness the corresponding 'Goodbye'. When he turned and saw it was Mr. Glamorys who had come in, his heart leapt wildly at the nearness of his escape. As he passed this masked ruffian, he nodded perfunctorily and received a cordial smile.
Housewives on their way to fetch Gargantuan loaves or tiny bottles of milk for the matutinal café-au-lait cast searching glances as they passed, to see if among the rubbish something of use to them might not be lurking. And at one alluring mound an old gentleman of absurdly respectable exterior perfunctorily turned over the scraps with the point of his cane.
He made the beds, brought up the meals and water, laid the tables and emptied the slops; but, while thus engaged, he never made any remark, and when spoken to replied in monosyllables. The ground floor front was let to a third-rate Hebraic music-hall artiste, who perfunctorily attended his place of business.
The servants a horde of them stalked into the room, each one being formally, but perfunctorily announced by the butler, and each one flushing painfully in return for the attention.
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