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Apparently unmindful of the child's presence, Mary stood still, staring thoughtfully up and down the moonlit street. It was an unusually mild night for that time of year, and the ground was bare of snow. March was in a deceptive, springlike mood, smiling and sunny by day, with the merest touch of snappiness by night.
He bought pumps which cost exactly twice as much as the largest sum which he had allowed himself. He bought a newspaper, and in the want-columns found the advertisement: Silberfarb the Society Tailor DRESS SUITS TO RENT Snappiest in the City Despite the superlative snappiness of Mr.
"Clear decks for action!" The divisions responded to the notes of the bugle with a snappiness that delighted the officers on the bridge. As they had gone through the manoeuvres a thousand times in practice, so now they faced the enemy with the same precision. Ventilators, life-lines, parts of the superstructure and deck woodwork came down and were stowed in their proper place.
She didn't look, though, as good-natured as she talked keeping on being straightened up, and having a kind of setness in her jaws and a snappiness in them big black eyes of hers that made everybody but Hart's nephew, who was too drunk to know anything, dead sure she still was mad all the way through. "If he'll lend 'em to you, and I guess he will, why don't you get into Mr.
Lonely seamen all the night Sail astonished amid stars. The remembered lines gave me the divine itch for quoting verses. I did so, until the poor tired Kid swore drowsily in his sleep under the mast. The air was of that invigorating coolness that makes you think of cider in its sociable stage of incipient snappiness. Sleepy dogs bayed far away.
Fine enough for Low-Lowers and Mid-Lowers to sign up with this outfit, as opposed to that, motivated by no other reasoning than the snappiness of the uniform and the stock shares offered, but an old pro considered carefully such matters as budget. Baron Haer was watching every expense, was, it was rumored, figuring on commanding himself and calling upon relatives and friends for his staff.
What is called vivacity abroad may easily degenerate into snappiness by the hearth. "I think it is rather ridiculous being called plain Mrs. Howard-Alexis," added Etta, with a pout. They were going to a ball the first since their marriage. They had just dined, and Paul had followed his wife into the drawing-room.
There was an atmosphere in the tremendous offices a tension, a SNAPPINESS, an alertness, an efficiency that made Bonbright Foote, Incorporated, seem an anachronism; as belonging in an earlier, more leisurely, less capable century.
Accents of dark produce such snappiness as is commended by the publisher who esteems the brilliancy which a rapid interchange of lights and darks always yields, a sparkle, running through the whole and easily printed. The works of Mr. Wenzell as a single example of this quality, or of Mr. Henry Hutt, in lighter key, will be found to gain much of their force from a very few accents of dark.
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