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"Sow-see, sow-see, hun-gay," Mr Gibney saluted the Chinaman in a facetious attempt to talk the latter's language. "Hello, there, John Chinaman. How's your liver? Captain he allee same get tired; he no waitee. Wha's mallah, John. Too long time you no come. You heap lazy all time." Gin Seng smiled his bland, inscrutable Chinese smile. "You ketchum two China boy in box?" he queried.
Billy Camp did not mind rain or cold he would cheerfully cook away with the water dripping from his battered derby to his chubby and cold-purpled nose but he did mind the wanigan. And the worst of it was, he got no sympathy nor aid from the crew. From either bank he and his anxious struggling assistants were greeted with ironic cheers and facetious remarks.
"And the bee, which gives one hundred and ninety-two per second " "One hundred and ninety-three!" said the facetious individual. "And, the common house fly, which gives three hundred and thirty " "And a half!" "And the mosquito, which gives millions " "No, milliards!" But Robur, the interrupted, interrupted not his demonstration. "Between these different rates " he continued.
Awaking with a start under the impression that he was falling off the tree, he threw out both his arms violently and recovered himself. "Come, Larry," he muttered to himself, with a facetious smile of the most idiotical description, "don't give way like that, boy. Ain't ye standin' sintry? an' it's death by law to slaip at yer post. Och! but the eyes o' me won't kape open.
Of the night's storm remained no trace save slippery mud when his horse struck a patch of clay, which was not often, and the packed sand still wet and soggy from the beating rain. Rock City showed black and inhospitable even in the sunlight. The rock walls rose sheer, the roofs slanted rakishly, the signs scratched on the rock by facetious riders were pointless and inane.
Certain "witty and facetious persons who call themselves the town," continues Davies, brought to the first night copies of the old ballad on which the jeweller's play was based, meaning to mock the new tragedy with the old song; but so forcible and pathetic were Lillo's scenes that these merry gentlemen were obliged "to throw away their ballads, and take out their handkerchiefs."
And he has clicked a packet if he gets into trouble generally. Not all army slang is lacking, indeed, in a facetious irony. Miserable conditions in the desert or in the trenches, bad accommodation, doubtful food anything which cannot arouse the faintest enthusiasm of any sort these, in the lingo of our now much-travelled and stoical troops, are "nothing to write home about."
For what is better than to have a pleasant companion to sing and tell merry tales, songs and facetious histories?" "You appear to be something of a fool," Bracciolini considered, "but all do not sleep who snore. Come, tell me what are your accomplishments."
The facetious young villain had indeed declared that she had sent him the puppet as a piece of scathing irony, illustrative of his character as she conceived it. But though such an illustration would have been apt beyond question, yet it seemed improbable that the aunt would have chosen such a means of impressing it upon her nephew's mind.
The applause wasn't entirely facetious. Gimp's whole self had borrowed hard lines and an air of competence from the Archer Five. For a second he looked like somebody who could really cross millions of miles. There was a tiny, solar-powered ionic-propulsion unit mounted on the shoulders of the armor, between the water-tank and the beam-type radio transmitter and receiver.
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