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"She is beautiful!" I said to myself; but up to that moment I had not suspected it. "War!" she exclaimed, speaking under her breath, but incisively. "Do not let us talk about it! War is the dirty work of a nation; it is one of the indecencies of life, and should never be mentioned!"
Those who sat near the Emperor could see that he followed the address with genuine interest, nodding his head, or smiling now and then with approval at some incisively expressed idea, or some phrase of interjected humor, or a characteristic gesture on the part of the speaker. In one respect the lecture was a tour de force.
"Do you know what that implies?" he asked. "It implies that you are willing to be friends. Do you mean that?" incisively. She nodded silently, not trusting herself to speak. "Thank you," he said curtly, and then Audrey Maynard's gay voice broke across the tension of the moment. "Mr. Trent, I simply cannot allow Sara to monopolize you any longer.
"Excuse me," said he, in undisguised confusion; "what I said was that the imputation that I had anything to do with the outrage myself was utterly and entirely false." "Which," said the doctor incisively, "is tantamount to admitting that the imputation that you are sheltering the real culprits is well- founded."
Wellesley is a very handsome man. Now, my cousin was about as plain and insignificant a chap to look at as ever I came across poor fellow!" "Your cousin was a damned clever chap!" said Tansley incisively. "He'd got brains, my dear sir, and where women cleverish women, anyhow are concerned, brains are going to win all the way and come in winners by as many lengths as you please! Mrs.
"For the sake of your health, my lord," said Mr. Jacobs, his innocent blue eyes fixed on Heyton. "You want a change and at once; in fact, it is absolutely imperative." He leant forward across the table, patted the Bradshaw and dropped his voice as he went on incisively, "You can catch the night mail from Charing Cross. When you reach Harbin, go right into the interior.
It made one want to shout with him. Then, too, she tremendously admired his efficiency. To look at the hard, clear eye, at the clean, well-packed build of the man, told the story. The movements of his strong, brown hands were sure and economical. They dissipated no energy. Every detail of his personality expressed a mind that did its own thinking swiftly and incisively.
But I can eject the torpedo from the tube, and perhaps the others. That will lighten us a good deal." He went forward, driving Foster before him for he did not care to leave him too close to the girl and pushed him bodily into the cramped space between the tube and the trimming tanks. "Stay there," he said, incisively, "until I want you."
The life of London political, social, artistic eddies round us. We assist at its most brilliant pageants, we hear its superficial, witty, and often empty chatter, we catch whiffs of some of its finer emotions.... The brilliantly sketched personalities stand out delicately and incisively individualised. Mr.
"Yes," replied Dave incisively. "Now, the question is, what can be done about it?" "I wish you had asked me an easier one," sighed the first classman. "You're mighty well liked, all through the Academy, Dalzell, and every one of us will hate to see you go." "But what can be done to ward off that fate?" insisted Darrin as impatiently as a third classman might speak to a venerable first classman.
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