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"This," he interrupted rather flippantly, "is something little girls can't understand. They'd better not try. This isn't a woman's problem, to be solved by argument. It's a man's fight!" "But if you would just make up your mind, you could win." "Could I?" His tone was amusedly skeptical, but his eyes were still somber.
"A week's rest here will do you all kinds of good." "Do you find the grub as good as we told you it would be?" asked Jimmy. "It's simply heavenly," said Larry, solemnly. "Say!" exclaimed Bob, suddenly, "have any of you Indians happened to think what next Monday is?" "Sure," said Herb, flippantly. "It's the day after next Sunday. Ask me something harder next time."
I heard Charley call her 'a jolly old party, and Metelill respond that she was 'a sweet old thing. Why, we should have thought such expressions about our grandmother a sort of sacrilege, but when I ventured to hint as much Charley flippantly answered, "Gracious me, we are not going back to buckram"; and Metelill, with her caressing way, declared that she loved dear granny too much to be so stiff and formal.
I hardly thought that I should have to do it, whether I would or not, under these circumstances. Indeed, it appears that you have the right to demand of me the explanation I so flippantly offered you an hour ago.
She was sick to death of the circle of City people, of what she flippantly called "Square milers," and that had been the main reason she had given to her husband in urging him to give up business and go into the country. "Let's go amongst people who don't have to catch trains, Billy," she had urged.
"Fancy that!" she returned flippantly. "But I don't see, my lady, what that has to do with me." "You will see, Jenny," Lady Splay continued with gentleness. "He got an answer." Jenny turned that announcement over in her mind. "An answer, did he?" "Yes, Jenny, and an answer in a woman's voice." A startled cry broke from the lips of Jenny Prask.
Our method was simply one of question, by one of ourselves, and of answer by Miss Jeremy. These replies were usually in a querulous tone, and were often apparently unwilling. Also occasionally there was a bit of vernacular, as in the next reply. Herbert, who was still flippantly amused, said: "Don't bother about your knee. Give us some local stuff. Gossip. If you can."
The elderly young man straightened in his chair, removing his eyes from Miss Williams with the air of one returning to masculine worldliness. "I don't know about that," he said. "It's all very well to talk about such things flippantly. But when the time comes, we must admit ..." "That talk is foolish," interrupted Warren. He looked at Rachel and laughed.
He very often attempts to be humorous, and yet we do not remember a single occasion on which he has succeeded further than to be quaintly and flippantly dull. In one of his works he tells us that Bishop Sprat was very properly so called, inasmuch as he was a very small poet. And in the book now before us he cannot quote Francis Bugg, the renegade Quaker, without a remark on his unsavoury name.
The master, one day, incurred his displeasure, and he very flippantly told the poor man to go to hell. "I hope, sir," said the master, "I have as good a chance of going to heaven as yourself." "You go to heaven!" said the captain, "you go to heaven! Let me catch you there, and I will come and kick you out." This was, indeed, showing how far he would have carried his tyranny if he could.
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