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His eyes rolled upward to Olga, and back to Nick. "Well, she ain't 'ere seemin'ly," he remarked. "Don't you know where she is?" demanded Nick. Briggs grinned foolishly. "That's tellin'!" he observed facetiously. Nick turned from him. "Come along, Olga! They are not here evidently. It's no use trying to get any sense out of this drunken beast." "But, Nick " said Olga in distress.
How these "educators" could argue that on account of the hopelessness of the endeavors to civilize the blacks they should be removed to a foreign country, and at the same time undertake to provide for them there the same facilities for higher education that white men enjoyed, seemed to Jay to be facetiously inconsistent.
To-night when she saw Eva enter the room, a lighted lamp illuminating her face fairly reckless with happiness, to light the fire in the courting-stove as her sister facetiously called it, she thought to herself that Jim Tenny was coming, that they would be shut up in there all alone as usual, and then she looked out at the storm and the night again, and the little home picture thrown against it.
Of course we are. You and me don't want no fuss. Of course we don't. Then look here: this is 'ow it is. You come along with me and 'ave a drop." It did not seem likely that my class would require any instruction in boxing that evening in addition to that which Mr. Blake had given them, so I went with him. Over the moisture, as he facetiously described it, he grew friendliness itself.
There was an officer in a Roman legion, at some period of the Republic, who bore the name either of Atrius Umber or Umbrius Ater: and this man being ordered on some expedition, the soldiers refused to follow him. They did right. We remember that Mr. Coleridge used facetiously to call the well-known sister of Dr. Aikin, Mrs.
'But he's been eating marrons glacés every day for a fortnight. Haven't you, sweetest? said Geraldine. 'I can believe it, Aunt Annie murmured, 'from his face. 'Oh dear! Women! Women! Henry whispered facetiously. 'He's only saving his appetite for dinner, said Geraldine, with intrepid calm. 'My dear girl, Mrs.
Emily, bringing in the hot sweet pudding to replace the cold meat, would wag a facetiously warning head at the young lady behind the back of the unconscious Mr. Gibbon. "Don't you go leading that nice young chap on to make a fool of hisself over you, Miss Bessie," she would caution the girl, the next day. "He can take care of himself. Make your mind quite easy," Bessie would answer, well pleased.
I'm plumb chuck-full o' y'r goin's-on! I'm stuffed with y'r fool pre-form-ances! I'm fed up t' the neck with 'em! and sick o' 'em! and right here, and now, you and me is a-goin' t' have this business O-U-T!" "He knows how t' spell it," remarked Barber, facetiously. "Heaven strengthen the arm o' ye!" cried the Father.
But Luke knew his peculiar smile, and presumed it; so he grinned facetiously as he put the coin in his breeches pocket and thanked him; and in another minute the captain, with a lighted cigar between his lips, mounted to the seat, took the reins, the horse bounded off, and away rattled the light conveyance, sparks flying from the road, at a devil of a pace, down the deserted street of Gylingden, and quickly melted in darkness.
A sudden thought struck him, that it would be as well for the driver and passengers to know how well educated he had been, so he began to give the driver a few words of geographical information about the roads they were going. "'Jump in directly, sir, if you please, was the driver's gruff reply. "'Certainly not, till I've made you understand what I mean, says Master Franz, quite facetiously.
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