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Impersonal though it seemed, through it Hal felt a growing tensity of intercourse; a sense of pregnant and perilous intimacy drawing them together. "Since you're taking such an interest, I might get you to help Mr. Ellis run the paper when I go away," he suggested jocularly. "You're not going away?" The query came in a sort of gasp. "Next week." "For long?"
After that she nodded prettily to us all, and casting a tender glance at her lover, glided off into the darkness like a beautiful vision. When we got back to our quarters, which we did without accident, Curtis asked me jocularly what I was thinking about.
If he asked you, in his innocently shameless way, to belong to his hareem, you boasted of it afterward; jocularly, to be sure, but you felt pleased just the same. The thing that had given the final cachet of distinction to Rose's social success that season, had been the fact that he had shown a disposition to flirt with her quite furiously.
He held a $2500 position in a publisher's office, and felt himself as good as any man in Banbridge, with the possible exception of this new-comer, and he accosted him with regard to his sheaf of newspapers. "Going to have all the news there is?" he inquired, jocularly. Carroll looked up and smiled and nodded. "Well, yes," he replied. "I find this my only way read them all and strike an average.
They said, it was annually proved by M'Leod's steward, on whose arrival all the inhabitants caught cold. He jocularly remarked, 'the steward always comes to demand something from them; and so they fall a coughing. JOHNSON. 'That is out of tenderness to you. Bad weather and he, at the same time, would be too much. Joseph reported that the wind was still against us. Dr.
In the newly uncovered tract Shelby spied Bernard Graves pecking about with a little hammer. "Prospecting for gold?" he asked jocularly. "No; fucoids." "Eh?" "Fossils, you know; a sort of seaweed. The only kind we can discover in this formation." "My little freshwater college wasn't strong on the sciences," said Shelby, speculating whether this particular crotchet required humoring.
Johnson jocularly proposed me to write a Prologue for the occasion: 'A Prologue, by James Boswell, Esq. from the Hebrides. I was really inclined to take the hint. Methought, 'Prologue, spoken before Dr. Samuel Johnson, at Lichfield, 1776; would have sounded as well as, 'Prologue, spoken before the Duke of York, at Oxford, in Charles the Second's time.
I don't know by what caprice it was that this wish, however jocularly expressed, rather jarred on Edward's feelings, notwithstanding his growing inclination to Flora and his indifference to Miss Bradwardine. This is one of the inexplicabilities of human nature, which we leave without comment. 'Yours, brother? answered Flora, regarding him steadily.
Park how he had been treated since he left the Gambia, and jocularly asked him how many slaves he expected to take home with him on his return. He was, however interrupted by the arrival of a man mounted on a fine moorish horse covered with sweat and foam, who having something of importance to communicate, the king immediately took up his sandals, which is the signal for strangers to retire. Mr.
During their evening meal that day, Ned Sinton and his comrades had speculated pretty freely, and somewhat jocularly, on the probable result of the captain's hunting expedition expressing opinions regarding the powers of the blunderbuss, which it was a shame, Larry O'Neil said, "to spake behind its back;" but as night drew on, they conversed more seriously, and when darkness had fairly set in they became anxious.
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