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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Oh, don't sit there like a stodgy old book-worm, reeling off nicely rounded sentences." "I hope it might impress you with the incongruity of addressing me as an infant." Hal looked up from her lowly seat with a mischievous, engaging expression. "You know you really are rather clever in a useless sort of fashion," she informed him. "Thank you," making a bow.
He was about to journey up to London, and had placed his bag in the corner of a third-class carriage. After his long travel, the flat-vowelled voice of the bookstall clerk offering the latest novel sounded pleasant pleasant the independent answers of a bearded guard, and the stodgy farewell sayings of a man and wife.
He paused and looked at Mordaunt hard. "It's curious, but I imagined Hodson was embarrassed when he said they meant to ask Watson. Why should they ask the fellow? He's not our sort." "After all, Jim is not our sort." "Rot!" exclaimed Dick. "Bernard is satisfied and I'd sooner trust him than Hodson. In fact, Bernard's a better judge than anybody in Hodson's stodgy lot."
She looked at him critically, her head a little on one side. "Because you're two men James Grierson, who is stodgy and respectable and ought to marry what the other Griersons call a good girl, that is one with money; and Jimmy, who is awfully sweet and unselfish, just the opposite to James.
But did they not lead such dull, stagnant, imbecile lives, moored here in this stodgy, out-of-the-world suburb, where so many idiots live who wonder how the world can come to an end when it's round? Friedrich truly hoped Herr Kirtley would not be bored to death. To-day the musician had finished with his final military examination and was at last free from ever having to serve.
She knew that she could dance better than some of those stodgy old men and block-bodied old women. But she had no clothes on for dancing. But there was one woman whom Kedzie felt she could not surpass, a dazzling woman with a recklessly graceful young man. The young man took the woman from a table almost over Kedzie's head.
It is the fashion among sundry to maintain that the English landscape is of no use for la peinture sérieuse, that it is wanting in technical accent and is in general too storytelling, too self-conscious and dramatic also too lumpish and stodgy, of a green d'un vert bête which, when reproduced, looks like that of the chromo.
Just after the Restoration, there was an attempt to introduce the rhymed couplet as the medium for heroic plays; but that, on the other hand, was too difficult to establish itself in general use. Tragedy soon fell back upon the fatally facile unrhymed iambic, and a reign of stilted, stodgy mediocrity set in.
This gilt-edged and double-columned octavo it was that first disclosed to me, forestalling a better ground of acquaintance, the great name of Balzac, who, in common with every other "light" writer of his day, contributed to its pages: hadn't I pored over his exposition there of the contrasted types of L'Habituée des Tuileries and L'Habituée du Luxembourg? finding it very serré, in fact what I didn't then know enough to call very stodgy, but flavoured withal and a trifle lubricated by Gavarni's two drawings, which had somehow so much, in general, to say.
There had even been a Christmas tree, hung with stodgy German angels and Pfeffernuesse and pink-frosted cakes. I found myself the bewildered recipient of gifts from everyone from the Knapfs, and the aborigines and even from one of the crushed-looking wives.
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