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They were in the habit, it seems, of changing it from one to another, as if it had been a pair of spectacles, or which would have suited them better a quizzing glass.
I have given a case of Touarghee justice. During the Ghat Souk, all the Sheikhs assemble in the great square, the Shelly, for the arrangement of disputes; but it is mere form, and is more for gossiping and quizzing one another, the Touarick being fond of a good joke.
How often had she felt the controlling magic of it! Once she had even hotly resented it; but to-day to-day She saw his mouth go up at one corner in the old, quizzing way. "'If my heart by signs can tell " he began, and ended, openly smiling, "I should almost dare to fancy you were well, shall we say not annoyed? to see me."
A gold-headed stick, and a quizzing glass, with a black ribbon an inch wide, complete the toilet. In such a rig did the swells of the last generation stroll down Pall Mall or drive their tilburys in the Bois.
"Seven days is enough to know any person." "Or perhaps seven hours; eh, Mr Gresham?" "Seven hours well, perhaps seven hours, if they happen to be a good deal together during the time." "There's nothing after all like love at first sight, is there, Mr Gresham?" Frank knew well enough that she was quizzing him, and could not resist the temptation he felt to be revenged on her.
Roberts, who, after all, was the boldest man of the party, seized the tongs from the landlord, and, kneeling cautiously down, slowly raised the drapery that surrounded the bed. "Hold the light here, landlord." He did so, but at arm's length. Roberts peeped timidly into the dark void beyond, dropped the valance, and looked up with a comical, quizzing expression, and began to laugh.
"My daughter mentioned it in one of her letters to me. I confirmed, by quizzing Brandon, senior. Brandon is powerful and obstinate. If he should discover what our game is he would fight us to the last ditch. The whole thing would go to smash, perhaps." "You didn't tell him about his son being out here?" "Certainly not!" "Good!" "What do you mean?"
Andreas knew that MacGahan was quizzing him, but it was exceedingly droll how he purred and bridled under the light touch of that genial humourist, whose merits his own countrymen, to my thinking, have never adequately recognised. The old story of a prophet having scant honour in his own country.
She looked at him with her great grey eyes he couldn't tell whether she was quizzing him or not. "Is that all you know of Plato?" "I know he was a Greek philosopher. But I only learned Greek roots at the Convent. So Plato is Greek to me." "He has been beautifully Englished by the Master of my College. I wish you'd read him." "Is the translation in the library?"
This trifling tone in a magistrate, who was accused of being grave even to a fault, troubled the old man. Did not this quizzing hide a determination not to be influenced by anything that he could say? He believed it did; and it was without the least deception that he commenced his pleading. He put the case more calmly this time, but with all the energy of a well-digested conviction.
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