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But glancing uneasily at his daughter and seeing her calm eyes fixed on the speaker without embarrassment, he folded his arms stiffly, and with a lofty simulation of examining the ceiling, said: "Ahem! Rosa! The gentleman's account." It was an infelicitous action.
As has been often enough pointed out, the actions and utterances of the two world-menders were so infelicitous as to lend color to the belief shared by the representatives of a number of humiliated nations that greed of new markets was at the bottom of what purported to be a policy of pure humanitarianism.
His work is not therefore what the original is, a Chrestomathia of the best Arabian jurists a succedaneum for their complete works an illustration of Arabic legal literature. Again, he is often loose and vacillating in the use of the English words he has selected as corresponding to the technical phraseology of the Arabian jurists, and sometimes infelicitous in the selection of his English terms.
Again, Hamilton was afflicted with embarrassment over the infelicitous results of his wife's benevolent activity, and again he changed the subject. "Well, boys," he said frankly, "I've put the matter to you straight. I'm sorry. But, unless you take the cut, I don't see any future for any of us.... It's up to you." "The men decide for themselves," Ferguson replied, glumly.
"Do you want me to?" Lance's reply was a kiss. Nevertheless he was vaguely uneasy. "Looks a little as if I were running away, don't it?" he suggested. "No," said Flip; "they think you're only a squaw; it's me they're after." Lance smarted a little at this infelicitous speech. A strange and irritating sensation had been creeping over him it was his first experience of shame and remorse.
Rousseau puts his vigorous remonstrance against pride of birth into the mouth of an English nobleman. This is perhaps an infelicitous piece of prosopopoeia, but it is interesting as illustrative of the idea of England in the eighteenth century as the home of stout-hearted freedom.
As Fairley had that infelicitous tendency of most weak natures, to unconsciously exaggerate unimportant details in their talk, the Postmaster presently became convinced that the butcher was a constant and assiduous suitor of Flip's. The absurdity of his sending parcels and letters by post when he might bring them himself did not strike the official.
The information, coupled with the infelicitous word 'proudly, caused Nicholas to flush with mortification.
On the contrary, on well-known scientific principles he added the impact of the bodies of the children projected over his head in his charge, and the infelicitous pedestrian found himself not only knocked off his legs by Billy, but bombarded by the whole nursery. Delightful as was this recreation to juvenile limbs, it was felt to be dangerous to the adult public.
The first part of the phrase is true and graphic enough, but the image offered by the last words appears to me a singularly infelicitous one.
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