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"You seem to know enough not to answer questions about yourself," observed Buck "try and be as clever if anybody quizzes you about this wagon." "Why should they?" "Oh, they may. If they do, you're from let me see Blackberry Hill, remember?" "All right with a load of garden truck, eh?" propounded Bart ingeniously. "You hit it correct.
The matrons, instead of their tongues, had other instruments to convey their ideas: each of them had three quizzes, one quiz pendent from the string that sewed up her mouth, and another quiz in either hand.
His Excellency, taken by surprise, asked abruptly, "How? Why?" The Governor at once dropped the subject, thinking I was going to bring upon the tapis Ouweek. His Excellency often quizzes me about having no money, evidently not believing a word of my alleged poverty.
Bertram was, that he never detected the most gross attempt at imposition, so that the Laird, whose humble efforts at jocularity were chiefly confined to what were then called bites and bams, since denominated hoaxes and quizzes, had the fairest possible subject of wit in the unsuspecting Dominie.
If he quizzes in the rime of Sir Thopaz the wearisome idleness of the French romance he retains all that was worth retaining of the French temper, its rapidity and agility of movement, its lightness and brilliancy of touch, its airy mockery, its gaiety and good humour, its critical coolness and self-control.
The method of writing, and the use of the fashionable amusement quizzes Wauwau arrives from the country of Prester John, and leads the whole Assembly a wild-goose chase to the top of Plinlimmon, and thence to Virginia The Baron meets a floating island in his voyage to America Pursues Wauwau with his whole company through the deserts of North America His curious contrivance to seize Wauwau in a morass.
Eliza laughs at me and quizzes me; she is forward and scornful, and and perfectly self-possessed, which Lucy could not be, under the circumstances." "Have you seen her closely?" asked the detective. "Yes, sir." "And are still unable to decide who she is?" "That's it, sir; I'm unable to decide. It's Lucy: and yet it isn't Lucy." "Who is Eliza Parsons?" "She refuses to say where she came from.
She quizzes us, forsooth!" The romantic assistant came to the front. "Does madame wish for real Indian shawls or French, something expensive or " "I will see." "How much would madame propose " "I will see." The shopman went in quest of shawls to spread upon the mantle-stand, giving his colleagues a significant glance.
You know how inquisitive Amy is, and how she stares, and takes in everything, and quizzes it afterwards? Well, my dear, she sat there, and her eyes simply roved round and round the whole time, until she must have known the furniture by heart. I suffered," sighed Lorna plaintively, "I suffered anguish! I wouldn't have minded anyone else so much but Amy!"
Bertram was, that he never detected the most gross attempt at imposition, so that the Laird, whose humble efforts at jocularity were chiefly confined to what were then called-bites and bams, since denominated hoaxes and quizzes, had the fairest possible subject of wit in the unsuspecting Dominie.
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