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Updated: June 12, 2025
Gibney, batting the skipper across the cabin with an affectionate slap on the shoulder. "I did," said Scraggs and cursed Mr. Gibney's demonstrativeness. "Here's the bill o' sale all regular. McGuffey has the change.
Two days later there leapt up the cement steps of a neat old-fashioned house in the suburbs of Baltimore a man who had come home to "feel like a kid again," and with a shout bolted inside to be received by a gentle gray-haired woman whom he picked up in his arms and kissed with boyish demonstrativeness. "By Gosh, Maw!
At first she had liked him exceedingly; he had seemed to her ardent, natural, and generous. She had liked his affection for his mother and his demonstrativeness in showing it; she had liked his well-bred swagger, his manner with servants, his impulsive courtesy to herself.
The very weaknesses of Charley's character his love of pleasure, his credulity, his wayward impulsiveness, of all which Balfour had made use for his own purposes were foreign to the nature of the elder Coe; while the lad's high spirit, demonstrativeness, and geniality were all his own.
The attenuated chaperonage of the lady of the house may have been moved by a certain demonstrativeness of her son's at this point, to say from afar: "I hope we are going to have some 'Ifigenia in Aulide. Because I should have enjoyed that." Which carried an implication that the musical world had been palming off an inferior article on a public deeply impressible by the higher aspects of Opera.
Lady Diana had done her utmost to suppress demonstrativeness, but unless she could have made those eyes less transparent, the corners of that mouth less flexible, and hindered the colour from mantling in those cheeks, she could not have kept Viola's feelings from being patent to all who knew her.
The host and hostess restrained themselves from demonstrativeness in parting with her; they were sparing of words, but lavish in little attentions for her comfort.
She looked after her very well and once when she had a bad cold proved herself a devoted nurse; but the child bored her, and she spoke to her sharply when she bothered; she was fond of her, but had not the maternal passion which might have induced her to forget herself. Mildred had no demonstrativeness, and she found the manifestations of affection ridiculous.
At the time she had not thought twice of the omission, but now to her awakened suspicion it seemed ominous. Edna had up to this time treated her with a frank demonstrativeness very sweet to Sylvia. Twenty-four hours ago she would have been certain that in departing even for this little trip of half a day her friend would have given her some slight caress.
It was not her habit to caress any one or any thing, not even her little brother, and this unusual demonstrativeness puzzled and surprised the old lady who said, fondly, "I presume Ulpian is brave enough to encounter all the risks of standing security for your obedience and docility."
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