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And so weightily did these improprieties in his own language lie upon his mind, that he conceived himself to have had an especial commission to correct them. The first alteration, which he adopted, was in the use of the pronoun thou. The pronoun you, which grammarians had fixed to be of the plural number, was then occasionally used, but less than it is now, in addressing an individual.
And he said to the Governor as he was leaving: "I see that the only way to see America is to see it when America is not seeing you." "Nine ten " The old clock paused as if in dramatic appreciation of the situation, and then slowly, weightily, it gave the final stroke, "Eleven!" The Governor swung his chair half-way round and looked the timepiece full in the face.
I merely beg to observe, sir, that the fact is the reverse." My guardian delicately dismissed this remark without making any verbal answer. "It has given me pain, Mr. Jarndyce," Sir Leicester weightily proceeded.
The words came weightily. "What's the good?" Opdyke asked lazily. The reply was unexpected, even to him who knew Professor Mansfield's downright ways. "To teach him what an ass he really is. Till he finds that out till you all find it out about yourselves, there's not much hope for any of you." Opdyke flushed. "Thanks," he said a little shortly.
Sprudell removed his eyeglasses with great deliberation and pursed his lips: "In my opinion," he said weightily he might have been an eminent geologist giving his opinion of the conglomerate of the Rand banket, or Agricola elucidating his theory of vein formation "in my opinion the gold found in this deposit was derived from the disintegration of gold-bearing rocks and veins in the mountains above.
No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power.
Good friend for Iesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare: Blest be ye man yt spares thes stones And curst be he yt moves my bones. Ben Jonson says of Bacon, as orator: His language, where he could spare and pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
"I have been hearing of his going on in exactly the same way with another." "Oh," sighed Deb, relieved that it was not Mary who had been the reviver; "then it's no business of ours, thank goodness." "Pardon me it is very much our business," he urged weightily. "I grieve to tell you that it is your sister, Mrs Ewing, who is implicated in the affair.
Thence with Creed to Westminster Hall, and there met with cozen Roger, who tells me of the great conference this day between the Lords and Commons, about the business of the East India Company, as being one of the weightiest conferences that hath been, and managed as weightily.
Not that he was a marrying man at all, of course.... Yes Dam had it weightily on his mind that he might come down from Sandhurst at any time and find Lucille engaged to some other fellow. Girls did get engaged.... It was the natural and obvious thing for them to do.
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