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It seemed so right and simple a suggestion that even Winifred was surprised when she said: "No, I'll keep him now he's back; he must just behave that's all." They all looked at her. It had always been known that Winifred had pluck. "Out there!" said James elliptically, "who knows what cut-throats! You look for his revolver! Don't go to bed without. You ought to have Warmson to sleep in the house.
I have to admit, in view of the results, that we have assumed too ready an intelligence, and consequently in many places used a language too slipshod. We should never have spoken elliptically. The critics have boggled at every word they could boggle at, and refused to take the spirit rather than the letter of our discourse. This seems to show a genuine unfamiliarity in the whole point of view.
They talked disjointedly, elliptically, and of course mainly of the clay; and yet Bertha grew each moment more clearly aware that they considered her not merely interesting but beautiful, and this was a most momentous and developing assurance. They spoke as freely in discussion of her charm as if she were deaf and dumb. The painter, who had been introduced in a careless way as "Mr.
If only they would mention surnames! But their talk leaped elliptically from allusion to allusion, their unfinished sentences dangled over bottomless pits of conjecture, and they gave their bewildered hearer the impression not so much of talking only of their intimates, as of being intimate with every one alive.
For, to quote a remark which I once made myself in print, the 'Essay on Man' in one point resembles some doubtful inscriptions in ancient forms of Oriental languages, which, being made up elliptically of mere consonants, can be read into very different senses according to the different sets of vowels which the particular reader may choose to interpolate.
"If she hasn't come back..." he said. "I don't see that we can do anything more till to-morrow," I replied. "No use trying to find her, of course," he agreed, irritably, "but we'd better talk things over with the governor." "If I can be of any help..." I remarked elliptically. "You won't be if you start that transcendental rot," he returned, as if he already regretted his condescension.
Only I am punctilious upon one demand, viz., that the answer shall be comprehensive. We are apt in such cases to answer elliptically, omitting, because silently presuming as understood between us, whatever seems obvious. Under what angle, under what aspect, or relation, to the field which it concerns did the term religion originally come forward?
Ut inter Germanos, i.e. pro ingenio Germanorum, Guen. So we say elliptically: for Germans. Praeponere, etc. A series of infinitives without connectives, denoting a hasty enumeration of particulars; elsewhere, sometimes, a rapid succession of events. Cf. notes, A. 36, and H. 1, 36. The particulars here enumerated, all refer to military proceedings. Disponere noctem.
'Now, that is very clever, and very wicked of you, she purred. 'That topic is not to be approached even elliptically. But really and truly, my poor Paul, you are not well, and I shall see that you take proper care of yourself. You will take a glass of wine at once. 'No, he said, waving a hand against her as she made a motion to rise.
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