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Updated: May 11, 2025
He believed he had a sense of humor and he chose this unfortunate moment to exhibit it. "Did you take this for a dispensary, young man?" he asked; "or," he continued, with added facetiousness, "a foundling hospital?" The young man made a savage spring at the barrier in front of the high desk.
Cagatinta, and some others, complimented, with a laugh, this little bit of magisterial facetiousness. "But, senor alcalde," spoke out Don Juan, disgusted with this ill-timed pleasantry, "a proof that there has been a forced entry into the chamber is this broken glass of the window, of which you see some pieces still lying on the balcony."
She was worried, disturbed, and not in the way to be expected from the announcement of Jeremy Braxton's death. From Graham, Ernestine could glean nothing. He was quite his ordinary self, his facetiousness the cause of much laughter to Miss Maxwell and Mrs. Watson. Paula was disturbed. What had happened? Why had Dick lied? He had known of Jeremy's death for two days.
Rodney found himself being led up to a group in the far corner of the bar, and guessed rightly that the young man with the high voice and the seemingly permanent smile, who greeted Jimmy with a determined facetiousness, "Hello, old Top! Drunk again?" was the man they sought. "Not yet," said Jimmy, "but I'm willing to help you along. What'll it be?" Then to Rodney: "This is Mr.
We seem to break off at the point where we're caught, and escape, and go on again as before. I was only wondering how many times a glass snake can leave its tail in its enemy's teeth, and still grow another one!" And although she laughed again Durkin knew how thinly that covering of facetiousness spread over her actual sobriety of character.
My Father used to watch this performance from an upper window, and, in moments of high facetiousness, he was wont to parody the poet Gray: How jocund doth George drive his team afield! This is all, or almost all, that I remember about George's occupations, but he was singularly blameless.
He grew unjustifiably hilarious, cracked jokes with the servants, and repeated to Jenny humorous stories, with the attitude of facetiousness carefully preserved throughout the entire narration, and the point utterly ignored and forgotten. Certain incidents reminded him of funny things, which invariably turned out to have not the slightest relevancy or application.
The stranger laughed. The fair lady of the night illumined his face, like one who recognized a subject. Evan thought he knew the voice. A curious struggle therein between native facetiousness and an attempt at dignity, appeared to Evan not unfamiliar; and the egregious failure of ambition and triumph of the instinct, helped him to join, the stranger in his mirth. 'Jack Raikes? he said: 'surely?
On one occasion a party of Arab merchants, not understanding the "fun of the thing," shot two Somal: the tribe had the justice to acquit the strangers, mulcting them, however, a few yards of cloth for the families of the deceased. In reply I fired a pistol unexpectedly over the heads of my new hosts, and improved the occasion of their terror by deprecating any practical facetiousness in future.
They heard him also, and so did the dozen reporters of the morning papers who were present some to describe, with the subtle facetiousness of the newspaper reporter, the amusing occurrences incidental to the church service of the day, and others to take down his sermon to the extent of half a column to be headed "The Rev. George Holland Defends Himself."
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