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Updated: May 18, 2025
If that gentleman had offered to the friends who generally dropped in on him on Wednesday afternoon the paper bag of cigars sold at five cents each when bought singly, but half a dozen for a quarter of a dollar, they would have been quite as thankfully received; but it better pleased his deprecative soul to put them in an empty cigar-box, and thus throw around them the halo of the presumption that ninety-four of their imported companions had been smoked.
There was Speedwell, the young naturalist ... a queer, stooping, gentle, shy thing, who talked almost as an idiot would talk till he got on his favourite topic of bird and beast and flower. In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed ... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
How come it doesn't work?" "Just a second, laddie," said Harry. He scuttled to the rear of the shop and came back with a ready-wrapped package measuring five by five by four. He handed it to Mike the Angel and said: "It's a present. Thanks for helping me out of a tight spot." Mike said something deprecative of his own efforts and took the package.
"Here is the bathroom ... if you don't mind my saying it, when you throw the toilet seat up, let the water run from the tap over the wash basin ... my mother and sisters!" he trailed off in inaudible, deprecative urge of the proprieties. Ally was anything but a small-town product. Suave, socially adroit, an instinctive creature of Good Form.... He came into the room he had given me to stay in.
At nine-thirty he pulled the edge of Anthony's blanket and spoke a few terse words Anthony never remembered clearly what they were and rather suspected they were deprecative; then he served breakfast on a card-table in the front room, made the bed and, after asking with some hostility if there was anything else, withdrew. In the mornings, at least once a week, Anthony went to see his broker.
But the ladies in the court-room were shocked for her, as ladies the world over are shocked when one of their sisters does an unaccountably human thing. They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads. The male portion of the audience was moved in another direction.
His public speeches were little mosaics in the finesse of their art; and the intricacies of inflection, insinuation, jovial innuendo which Mark Twain threw into his gestures, his implicative pauses, his suggestive shrugs and deprecative nods all these are hopelessly volatilized and disappear entirely from the printed copy of his speeches.
I am taking some stock in it, of course; but I have nothing to do with the organization of the company, since I have sold the ground to Mr. Gamble." "Gamble?" repeated Gresham. "Oh, is that so?" His tone was so deprecative that Courtney was sharply awakened by it. "Do you know anything against Gamble?" he quite naturally inquired. "Not a thing," Gresham hastily assured him.
He wore a closely curling salt-and-pepper beard.... He commented on my "military carriage" asked me if I had ever gone to a military academy.... I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
His eyes, after hovering hawklike, settled, in a grey, level, impersonal glance, on me. "Come in here," he bade, not even calling me by name. I stepped inside, trying hard to be bold. But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
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