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Gilbert could have struck him; but he replied quietly: "I'll just put on my hat and I'll be ready." But the literal-minded Hardy remarked: "Them crockery, and the rugs?" pointing to the articles significantly. "The rugs I'm presenting to a friend of mine. The crockery goes to the cook. He has a family, you know."
The painter uses oil, turpentine, and pigment to represent the wool of a sheep, the water of a pond, the green spears of grass. Some literal-minded person might say that he was lying because he pretented that his little square of canvas truthfully represented grazing sheep at the brook-side, but most of us recognize that he is really telling the truth only in another than an every day form.
"How can a war think, you chump?" asked the literal-minded Dick. Again Harry roared at him. "That's just one of our funny American ways of saying things, Dick," he explained. "I didn't mean that, of course. But what I do mean is that every-one over here in Europe seems to think that there will be a big war sometime a bigger war than the world's ever seen yet." "Oh, yes!"
"And you'd throw me, old and sick, a invalid, out into the streets?" Uncle Henry whined. No one could get more pathos into his tones than Uncle Henry when he wanted to do so. "No; I'd let you wheel yourself out," Jasper Hardy, again the literal-minded Hardy, said. It was one of the meanest remarks that even he had ever made. "Say, ain't you got no heart at all?" Uncle Henry wanted to know.
He was not able to tell Ernest as much about the lectures as he had meant to, and he felt that this was more Ernest's fault than his own; Ernest was such a literal-minded fellow. When they came upon the bittersweet, they forgot their discussion and scrambled down the bank to admire the red clusters on the woody, smoke-coloured vine, and its pale gold leaves, ready to fall at a touch.
Those were the days when poor men believed that "Repale" would release every one from the debts he owed; and Dan did not contradict it. When Dan was dead, the consequence of his not contradicting it was that a literal-minded fellow here and there shot the creditor who asked for payment of the coat, or the pig, or the meal. For all this delusion Patrick was sorry.
"She's only two years older than I am, and yet from the airs she gives herself you'd think she was Methuselah." "You don't look like her daughter," remarked Betty, who was literal-minded to a fault. Peggy made an eloquent grimace. "I'm an undutiful one, at any rate," she laughed. "I'm afraid Hilary will find me somewhat of a handful."
"Say," Angela said, watching him, "you seem to like that coffee a lot more than you like me! That brunette in the cup is my rival!" He looked at her in blank amazement. He hadn't much sense of humor. He was as literal-minded as a child. "You certainly are the funniest girl, Angy!" he said, "How could coffee be a girl's rival?" "Easier than a fellow in Bisbee maybe.
Laura always was ree-fined, but I wouldn't trust her to be proof against the feeling of wild dissipation you can get out of chewing gum, if you live in Winklehurst." They had rung the door-bell on the porch by now. "I'm so glad," said Ruth, "that Laura is gone. She is very literal-minded.
This waltzing and and such things ought to be stopped." "All right," rejoined practical Mrs. Hexter. "The quickest way to do it is to stop the music." She had meant the speech as a jeer, but literal-minded Lydia Sessions welcomed its suggestion. Hurrying down the long room, she spoke to the leader of their small orchestra. The Negro raised to her a brown face full of astonishment.
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