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A history ensued, more pathetic than any of the previous occurrences in the life of Pius Aeneas, and the poor princess had reason to rue the day when she listened to that glib and dangerous orator.
I was going by, I'm sure, without thinking or expecting a nod from men of that glib kidney when in my working clothes 'You always will go poking into town in your working clothes. Beg you to change how I will, 'tis no use. 'Well, however, I was in my working clothes. Werrington saw me. "Ah, Mr.
I have to stand the stare of a crowd of people at every new place for hours: all usually talk as quickly as their glib tongues can; these certainly do not belong to the tribes who are supposed to eke out their language by signs!
I find you somewhat changed, too." "I did not know that I shewed it; but it is true. I feel as if Marian Lind was a person whom I knew once, but whom I should hardly know again." "The change in me has not produced that effect. I feel as though Marian Lind were the history of my life." "You have become quite a master of the art of saying pretty things. You are nearly as glib at it as Ned."
Husbands and wives, sisters and friends, all soon to be scattered like the chaff of the threshing floor, look sadly on each other with poor nature's last tears; and among them walk briskly, glib, oily politicians, and thriving men of law, letters, and religion, exceedingly sprightly, and in good spirits for why? it isn't they that are going to be sold; it's only somebody else.
'Though I be young in years and though my frame be delicate, the wee rat expostulated, 'my devices are unlimited, my talk is glib and my designs deep and farseeing; and I feel convinced that, on this errand, I shall be more ingenious in pilfering than any of them. 'How could you be more ingenious than they? the whole company of rats asked.
He felt the gulf that separated their two oddly diverse lives the one the youth eager to dip into experience, the other a fugitive from a many-sided past that still shadowed and menaced him. He listened with only half an ear as the Chicagoan expounded some glib and ancient principle about the fairy tale being even truer than truth itself.
And in this way, doubtless, his knowledge grew and his glib, random criticism took a wider range. But my library was not the first he had drawn upon: at our first encounter, he was already brimful of Shelley and the atheistical Queen Mab, and "Keats John Keats, sir." And I have often wondered how he came by these acquirements; just as I often wondered how he fell to be a beggar.
But old Hutchins would not hear of it; he seems to have taken a dislike to the signalman from the first, and latterly he had forbidden him to come to his house or his daughter to speak to him." "Excellent, Louis," cried Carrados in great delight. "We shall clear your man in a blaze of red and green lights yet and hang the glib, 'greasy' signalman from his own signal-post."
He was glib enough now, but his shifty eyes were moving about, as though looking with a certain apprehension for someone to arrive. "I saw smoke and sparks coming out of the tower as I came up to the door," I said, doubtful about accepting this halting explanation. The fellow flushed to the roots of his black oiled hair as I watched him. "Did you see that, sir?" he exclaimed, ingenuously.
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