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"Tiens, tiens!" cried the soldier, "v'la qui parle le Francais peu s'en faut," and he seated himself by Gerard, and in a moment was talking volubly of war, women, and pillage, interlarding his discourse with curious oaths, at which Gerard drew away from him more or less.
When he accepted that interest he what do you call it? Oh! He tacitly renewed the note, which runs what they call concurrently with the mortgage. So the mortgage is good for another year." "Oh! Is that what daddy told your mother to do?" cried Janice. "Now I understand." exclaimed the delighted Gummy. "Oh! Daddy didn't mean it as a trick " "Not a tricky trick," explained Gummy volubly.
Preciosa McNulty, still a girl and giving no immediate promise of developing into anything more, shared with her the over-cushioned disorder of the Persian canopy and giggled too. Preciosa could laugh and chatter easily, volubly, spontaneously all this, as yet, was the natural utterance of her being. But Virgilia was keeping pace with her, was even surpassing her.
One man in one hand clutched a sponge, in the other an umbrella. With this he beat at those who blocked his flight. He hit a woman over the head, and I hit him and he went down. Finding himself on his knees, he began to pray volubly.
Stannard's beaming face welcomed them at the door, and both her hands were cordially clasping Ray's, and yet somehow, drawing him in and passing him along into the little parlor, while she herself remained volubly chatting with Blake, who did not pass the portals with any rapidity at all.
The mice play unconcernedly over the grave. Pisistratus, pointing first to the beasts, then to the instrument. "Which do you like best, the mice or the hurdygurdy?" Savoyard shows his teeth considers stretches himself on the grass-plays with the mice and answers volubly. Pisistratus, by the help of Latin comprehending that the Savoyard says that the mice are alive, and the hurdy-gurdy is not.
The girl is bringing up the tea, and I'm positively dying for a cup and a sit-down. Of course this" turning gaily round on me, standing there like a great gawk, volubly cursing my shirt-sleeves under my breath "is the incomparable Oliver! Charmed to meet you, sir!" I bowed, and Margaret said staidly, "Yes, my lady. This is Master Oliver Wheatman of the Hanyards.
We descant volubly upon the subjects of citizenship and civilization but, as yet, have achieved no adequate definition of either of the terms upon which we expatiate so fluently. Our books teem with admonitions to train for citizenship in order that we may attain civilization of better quality.
"Pardi! can none of you rid us of that turbulent baggage?" The crowd behind were pushing forward: the guard within the tent were jeering at those who were striving to drag Marguerite away: these latter were cursing loudly and volubly, until one of them, tired out, furious and brutal, raised his heavy fist and with an obscene oath brought it crashing down upon the unfortunate woman's head.
"Noyes " he cried and broke off to curse feebly but volubly. Cake did not even glance in his direction. She went away out of the room, too utterly stunned with fatigue to look at the letter in her dingy hand. The next morning the lodger was dead. He was buried in the potters' field quite near his old landlady.
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