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That made her practically irresistible. Would it come off if he kissed her? He had to find out. Finally he said, so helplessly, passively, that it would be more accurate to say it was said by him: "Say, Miss Adair, I'm a dead-goner if you don't gimme a kiss." Kedzie was horrified. Skip Magruder would have been eleganter than that. She answered, with dignity: "Certainly, if you so desire."
Just then our attention was attracted by a pine-apple; which, suddenly opening, discovered a nest of birds, which immediately began to sing. "Well," cried Madame Duval, "this is prettier than all the rest! I declare, in all my travels, I never see nothing eleganter." "Hark ye, friend," said the Captain, "hast never another pine-apple?" "Sir?"
PURE ATQUE ELEGANTER: 'sinlessly and gently'. Pure implies moral stainlessness, eleganter, literally 'in choice fashion', implies daintiness combined with simplicity in regard to the external conditions of life. The same ideas are put together in Sull. 79 cum summa elegantia atque integritate vixistis. AETATIS: see n. on 5.
Why, he built Fort Reliance six miles below the mouth of the Klondyke in '73; he discovered gold on the Stewart in '85, and established a post there. Everybody knows Jack McQuestion; an" quickly, as he saw he was about to be interrupted "you heard about that swell watch we all clubbed together and give him? No? Well, sir, there ain't an eleganter watch in the world. Is there?"
They who loved her best in life, and now lament her most, have reared this tributary marble over her place of rest. "Infra sepultum est Id omne quod sepeliri potest, Mulieris quondam pulcherrimæ. Ingenium suum summo studio coluit, Aliorum pari adjuvit. Benefacta sua celare novit, ingenium non ita. Erga omnes erat largâ bonitate, Peregrinis eleganter hospitalis.
It would be much eleganter to keep herself to home " "Oh, don't talk that sort of rot; I hate to hear you." "I must when you talk that kind of well, let us say 'rubbish. 'Rot' is one of our choice terms which hasn't got over to the States yet. You're as opiniated and 'narrer' as the little island itself. What do you know about America, any way? Did you ever see an American in your life, child?"
QUIETE ET PURE ATQUE ELEGANTER: the enumeration consists of two branches connected by et, the second branch being subdivided into two members connected by atque. Had each of the adverbs been intended to stand on exactly the same footing Cic. would have written et instead of atque, or else would have omitted the copula altogether; see n. on 53 capitum iugatio.
'I like to see them 'ere cobwebs, says he, as he brushed 'em off, 'they are like grey hairs in an old man's head; they indicate venerable old age. As he uncorked it, says he, 'I guess Sam, this will warm your gizzard, my boy; I guess our great nation may be stumped to produce more eleganter liquor than this here. It's the dandy, that's a fact.
"I never see nothin' no eleganter, mum," said Mary Anne: "she wants nothin' but a veil to make a bride out of her an' a becominer thing she never has wore." They heard the soft sweep of skirts at that moment, and Octavia came in. "There!" she said, stopping when she had reached the middle of the room. "Is that simple enough?" Miss Belinda could only look at her helplessly.
As he uncorked it, says he, I guess Sam, this will warm your gizzard, my boy; I guess our great nation may be stumped to produce more eleganter liquor than this here. Its the dandy, that's a fact.
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