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Trent drove the car steadily enough through town, but, as soon as they emerged on to the great London main road, he let her out and they swept rapidly along through the lingering summer twilight. "Are you nervous?" he asked. "Do you mind forty or fifty miles an hour when we've a clear stretch ahead of us?" "Eighty, if you like," she replied succinctly.
With his chin in his hand and his head bent, he stared out over the autumn garden with eyes which did not see its flaming flowers. Of a sudden his shoulders twitched; he laughed aloud. "What are you laughing at?" I was startled out of a revery of my own. "Everything," said the Butterfly Man, succinctly, and stood up and shook himself. "And everybody. And me in particular. Me!
Joyce's book shows comprehensively and succinctly the history of the changes which have brought matters to their present point, and the look which they wear in the eyes of a zealous Churchman, disturbed both by the shock given to his ideas of fitness and consistency, and by the prospect of practical evils.
To put the date quite succinctly, I should say it was most likely about 244,000 years before the creation of Adam according to Ussher. The work of the old master is lightly incised on reindeer horn, and represents two horses, of a very early and heavy type, following one another, with heads stretched forward, as if sniffing the air suspiciously in search of enemies.
What Tom said, or the precise wording of it, Caleb could never remember. But the staccato sentence or two had the effect of instantly electrifying Mr. Dyckman. Certainly; whatever Mr. Thomas desired should be done. He Dyckman had had no notice of the change in the plans of the company, and Mr. Farley's instructions Tom cut the oath of fealty short and stated his desires succinctly.
I am Daniel Daniels, of Odessa, Marseilles, and elsewhere, and an introduction to my correspondent nearest where you sojourn is not to be despised." Impressed with his tone, the young man related his life-story succinctly.
Tolstoi has often been called a Realist by those who are eager to label everything and everybody succinctly; but Tolstoi is one of the representative Idealists of his time, and his "Master and Man" is one of the most touching and sincere bits of true Idealism which has been given the world for many a day.
I was led into the parlour, where I found the proprietor at breakfast with his wife and his daughter, a little girl nine years old. By this time I had recovered myself, and on being interrogated, told my story clearly and succinctly, while the big tears coursed each other down my dirty face. "How strange and how horrible!" said the lady to her husband; "I cannot understand it even now."
"H'm!" said Star, with a disdainful little sniff. "You'd better get Daddy to steer your boat. He doesn't mind fog. Are there many people on board?" she added, with an air of interest. "Heaps!" replied Bob, succinctly. Then, after a pause of meditative chewing: "Like to go aboard? take ye boat Cap'n willin'." "No, I don't want to go aboard, thank you!" said Star. "I don't like people.
Davis expressed his approval as Stafford mounted and went off on a splendid creature, remarking as he started: "Beautiful mouth, Davis!" "Yes, Pottinger," said Davis, succinctly, "he's worthy of him. That's what I call 'hands' now. Dash my aunt if you'd find it easy to match the pair of 'em! There's a class about both that you don't often see. If you'll step inside my little place, Mr.
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