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He occasionally took his cup of chocolate at the 'Northumberland, occupying himself in reading, and preserving a provoking taciturnity to the gentlemen in the room; though his manner was stern, his deportment was that of a gentleman." and our college intimacy was fully renewed. I was not very well off, and adversity was hanging heavily on him; his resources frequently failed him.
He was at one time very rich, but lost all his fortune in some untoward speculation, and he used to come and pay us long, sad, silent visits, the friendly taciturnity of which I always compassionately attributed to that circumstance, and wished that he had not lost the use of his tongue as well as his money. While we were living at Craven Hill, my father's sister, Mrs.
The Elder paused but did not answer; he saw nothing remarkable in the landscape except the Indian corn and the fruit, and the words "fine view" conveyed no definite meaning to him; he went on towards the stables. The taciturnity of the Elder annoyed Bancroft excessively.
It is a phase of the same lawlessness, the same reliance on self, that makes for his taciturnity and watchfulness. In essence, his dress is an adaptation to the necessities of his calling; as a matter of fact, it is an elaboration on that.
As soon as the good dame had satisfied herself as to Ellinor's meaning, she could no longer be accused of unreasonable taciturnity; she wrung her hands and poured forth a volley of lamentations and fears, which effectually relieved Ellinor from the dread of her unheeding the admonition.
He could not but feel that in similar circumstances he himself would have been tempted to enlarge his replies, but his instinct told him that this taciturnity was the very thing. He sighed with relief, however, when Soames, slowly turning, and without any change of expression, descended from the box.
But the obstinate Canadian refused, and I saw that his taciturnity and his bad humour grew day by day. After all, I was not sorry for his obstinacy under the circumstances. Indeed, there were too many seals on shore, and we ought not to lay such temptation in this unreflecting fisherman's way. Breakfast over, we went on shore. The Nautilus had gone some miles further up in the night.
His was not a bad face far from it but the features were stern and set, the cheeks furrowed with deep lines that bespoke hardship and fatigue in the struggle with Nature and the elements. That glance out of the tail of his eye meant: "Let me alone and I will let you alone, but let me alone!" Taciturnity becomes habitual to men accustomed to vast solitudes.
As if any thinkable sensible snobbish law-abiding Englishman would ever have defied all the drawing-rooms by disdaining the House of Commons! Despite the difference between taciturnity and a torrent of fluency there is much in common also between Shaw and Parnell; something in common even in the figures of the two men, in the bony bearded faces with their almost Satanic self-possession.
What is up?" "We don't speak," said the frank Zoe; "that is up." "Why, what is the row?" "No great matter, I'll be bound. 'Toll, toll the bell. Here goes one more immortal friendship quenched in eternal silence." Both ladies bridled. Neither spoke. "And dead silence, as ladies understand it, consists in speaking at one another instead of to." No reply. "That is well-bred taciturnity."
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