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'Want a little change, I s'pose? says I, an' he laughed good an' clipped it out o' the door and down towards the landin'." "I wonder what he's after now, Serena?" said Betty sagely, but Serena shook her head absently. It was evident to Betty's mind that papa had shaken off all thought of care, and was taking steps towards some desired form of enjoyment.
Emory was wont to remark sagely and a trifle severely, "prowls about that pond half of the night, a-chasing of things what he calls 'moonlight effecks, it ain't to be wondered at that he's sleepy in the morning. And it ain't the convenientest thing, nuther and noways, to keep the breakfast table set till the farm folks are thinking of dinner.
A chorus of bystanders took up the shout of Count Smorltork's praise, shook their heads sagely, and unanimously cried, 'Very!
In fact, the weak point is that even with the watering we intended to give the stock after we got it, the profits would still be so big that the public would notice." "There should be no difficulty in fixing that," remarked Covington, sagely, amused by the frank confidence extended to him in spite of his warning. "The only difficulty is in selecting the means," Harris continued.
"Oh, Uncle Amos, you're a dear!" and she kissed him, somewhat to his confusion. "So I got a man to build this boat to suit my ideas," went on the old seaman. "It's equipped for salt water, if so be you should ever want to take a trip to sea." "Never!" cried Mollie. "Well, you never can tell," he said sagely. "After she was finished I had him ship her here, and then I got her into the water.
Miss Hart, her head on one side, looked playfully at Mr. Lovegrove. "What about a subsequent summons for over-crowding?" he chuckled. The whole breadth of the room, well understood, was between him and the wife's feelings, not to mention the august presence beside her upon the sofa. "No doubt that has to be thought of!" Eliza nodded sagely. "But is she not looking sweeter than ever to-day?
The man became, once more, as keen as a gossip. "What cannon? When dey shoot him off?" "Can't tell," said his friend. "That's to be their signal." "I do not know," The conical hat wagged sagely. "I go find out." He pointed across the moonlit spaces. "Ofer dere iss your house. You can no more. Schlafen Sie wohl." The two men wrung each other's hands. "Shan't forget this, Wutz."
"There is a whole lot in getting accustomed to things," remarked J. Elfreda Briggs sagely, as she stood with a hammer and nail in one hand, a Japanese print in the other, her round eyes scanning the wall for an appropriate place to hang her treasure.
Much biography, perhaps we might say most, is hardly above the level of that 'personal talk, to which Wordsworth sagely preferred long barren silence, the flapping of the flame of his cottage fire, and the under-song of the kettle on the hob. It would not, then, have much surprised us if George Eliot had insisted that her works should remain the only commemoration of her life.
Let us talk no more about her.’ The censorious young gentleman purses up his lips, and nods his head sagely, as he says this; and it is forthwith whispered about, that Mr. Barker’s manner.
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