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Updated: June 30, 2025
The style of the whole article is rich, fluent, picturesque, with light touches of humor here and there, and perhaps a trace or two of youthful jauntiness, not quite as yet outgrown.
"Me?" demanded the man with an assumption of jauntiness. "I'm Donley, Dick Donley, that's who I am!" "When did you get here?" "'Bout an hour ago." "What did you come for?" "Lookin' for a job." "Did Carson say he hadn't anything for you?" "No, he didn't. You're askin' a lot of questions, if you want to know," he added with new surliness. "Then why are you going in such a hurry?
That embodiment of jauntiness, Frenchy, still under the delusion that there was a "jump" left in him, had insisted on joining us; but mindful of discipline, had laid himself down as far on the forepart of the poop as he could get, alongside the bucket-rack. And I steered, too tired for anxiety, too tired for connected thought.
'Voorwärts, said a voice, and, forming in a miserable procession, two wretched officers, a bare-headed, tattered Correspondent, four sailors with straw hats and 'H.M.S. Tartar' in gold letters on the ribbons ill-timed jauntiness some fifty soldiers and volunteers, and two or three railwaymen, we started, surrounded by the active Boer horsemen.
NO one would have suspected Edward of being in love, but that after breakfast, with an over-acted carelessness, "Anybody who likes," he said, "can feed my rabbits," and he disappeared, with a jauntiness that deceived nobody, in the direction of the orchard.
Howard Bemis, who was sitting next to it, edged away imperceptibly till he nearly crowded Ann off her chair. Presently Willie returned. He picked up the test-tube, put it in his pocket with a certain jauntiness, and left the room again. "Now, if you hear a sudden bang and find yourself disappearing through the roof," said Jimmy, "that will be it."
He crossed to the mirror and carefully brushed a stray lock of hair into place; then he took up his hat and gloves and turned toward the door. "I think it is waiting for me now," he added lightly; "a pleasant evening to you." But she stood straight before him and as he met her eyes his affected jauntiness dropped from him.
His rough woolen suit, leather-lined, hung loosely on him, but he wore it with a jauntiness that matched the bravado of his song. Cadillac came forward in welcome. He was always an orator that the Indians themselves envied, and now his rhetoric was as unhampered as though he thought that the prisoner was following each flowing syllable.
Hardly any of them, I am sorry to say, had a brisk or cheerful air, though it often stirred them up to a momentary vivacity to be accosted by the governor, and they seemed to like being noticed, however slightly, by the visitors. Her jauntiness and cackling merriment were really wonderful. She had gone quite round the circle of human existence, and come back to the play-ground again.
But he had to speak, and did so after such gasping and stammering as spoiled his false bravado. "I came to speak of that," he protested, forcing a jauntiness that he was far from feeling. "I feared you might misunderstand " "Indeed," interrupted Brilliana, "I think there is no misunderstanding." Sir Blaise made an appealing gesture. "Hear me out," he pleaded. "Hear me and pity me.
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