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The precision, definiteness, and accurate limitations of the method of the one, are usually unfriendly to the brooding, tentative, uncircumscribed meditation which is the productive humour in the other. Turgot was essentially of the philosophising temper. Though the activity of his intelligence was incessant, his manner of work was the reverse of quick.
He had evaded David's question, or only half answered it, when he merely replied that the rector had called upon him. The truth was that some tentative advances had been made to him, and Mr.
He pressed her hand as she gave him his cup, sighed as though in weariness, took a paper from his pocket, and laid it on the table, giving it a tentative gentle push in the direction of her chair. "We've got the Alethea afloat at last," he said. "There's the prospectus, if you care to look at it."
Roger himself began at last to wonder. He submitted quietly while Sartorius felt his arm at intervals exploringly up to the shoulder, but he began to feel a little impatient when the examiner took hold of his face to turn it to the light and with a tentative finger commenced to prod his jaw.
Being in benign mood, she smiled at the big man who held her so gently, and put out a tentative fist toward his face. "Born flirt," he declared, "just like her mother! Well, Patty, she's a wonder-child, oh, I know 'em! and I hereby constitute myself her godfather, without waiting to be asked." "Good! We accept the honour. Make a bow, Fleurette." "No, the honour is mine.
A few commemorative medals, of neat outline but dull reference; a classic monument or two, things of the first years of the century; things consular, Napoleonic, temples, obelisks, arches, tinily re-embodied, completed the discreet cluster; in which, however, even after tentative reinforcement from several quaint rings, intaglios, amethysts, carbuncles, each of which had found a home in the ancient sallow satin of some weakly-snapping little box, there was, in spite of the due proportion of faint poetry, no great force of persuasion.
There was a tentative hoot from Fletcher's horn at that moment; and after a grateful farewell, and a vain attempt to pay, at least, for Fletcher's tea, Herrick took Toni out and installed her in the car.
The little Turdus Felivox, oho! ye ignorant children, that is he of the cat, it sits on the bough, ten feet from me, and sings and trills and whistles, and sends out little jets of music, little voluntaries, as if it were freely and irrepressibly singing a lovely hymn. This morning there is the slightest little drizzle, a mere tentative experimenting towards rain, no more,-I keep to facts.
Yet that was precisely the problem that was exercising the minds of the two white men all through that day and the succeeding night; and three times during that night did they make tentative efforts to escape the watchfulness of their gaolers, but without success.
He had not seen the name in years what on earth could Duncan Vyse have to say? He ran over the page and dropped it with a wondering exclamation, which the watchful Strett, re-entering, met by a tentative "Yes, sir?" "Nothing. Yes that is " Betton picked up the note. "There's a gentleman, a Mr. Vyse, coming to see me at ten." Strett glanced at the clock. "Yes, sir.