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When they had finished commenting on the reports, the scientists pointed out the seriousness of the decision they had been asked to make. They said that they had tried hard to be objective and not to be picayunish, but actually all we had was circumstantial evidence.
In her daughter's blue eyes there lingered that gleaming exultation, not completely softened as yet by the sweeter and now due love-light. "He wants me to marry him next month." "Oh, Cally!..." Fairly tumbling forward from the door, Mrs. Heth gathered her daughter in a convulsive bear-hug, murmuring ecstatic nothings. Little she thought of Settlements or picayunish donations now.
The highlight of his lecture, when he awes his audience, is when he whips out his proof: a blood smear on a slide genuine Venusian blood, an affidavit from his landlady stating he wasn't home on three occasions, and a photo of a Venusian walking in Los Angeles' McArthur Park. The mere fact that the Venusian looks like any Joe Doakes walking down the street is a picayunish point.
Some of them even accompany me down to the ferry and order the ancient ferryman to take me across for nothing. This worthy individual, however, enters such a wordy protestation against this that I hand him a whole handful of the picayunish tsin. The soldiers make him give me back the over-payment, to the last tsin.
I have become what I am, because to me the broad canvas alone is interesting, and picayunish prejudices are contemptible. You bring into my house a visage of disapproval, and when you overhear private talk permit yourself to sneer. It is intolerable." There was such a ring of sincerity in the voicing of this distorted reasoning that Edwardes almost smiled.
The Nashville American. "It would be better for Tennessee to groan on under present laws and let the Legislature meet no more in ten years if it were possible under the Constitution." Lebanon Banner. "Mediocrity was in the saddle, and picayunish partisan politics held the center of the boards." Franklin Review-Appeal. "The Legislature has adjourned.
He talked of the sinners who did not attend confession, who died in prisons without the sacraments, of families accursed, of proud and puffed-up little half-breeds, of young sages and little philosophers, of pettifoggers, of picayunish students, and so on.
The major was a mighty decent, tender-hearted little old scout, a gentleman by birth and breeding, even if he was down and out and dog-poor. It was a shame that Devore kept him skittering round on little picayunish jobs running errands, that was really what it was. Still, at that, the old major was no reporter and never would be.
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