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I believe just because he's clever in his own line that he's been spoilt. As if everybody couldn't do something!" "Ah! That's the point," said Nick sententiously. "Everybody can, but it isn't everybody who does. Now this young man apparently knows how to make the most of his opportunities. He plays a rattling hand at bridge, by the way." "I wonder if he cheats," said Olga.
"We've had lots of lessons," replied Octavie, "but I don't think we've studied; at least I haven't!" she confessed. "Don't count on me! I know nothing; absolutely nothing!" volunteered Charlotte. "Well," said Von Barwig sententiously, "that is something at all events! Many musicians take years to discover that." "I only want to know enough to do a few stunts," said Charlotte to him gaily.
"Who goes slowly goes surely," said the maestro sententiously; and he stopped to light a cigar as black and twisted as his moustache. Then he continued, standing still in the middle of the piazza to talk at his ease, for it had stopped raining and the air was moist and sultry, "They are Prussians, you must know.
He wouldn't lose his Shelley for the world! How like twenty! And how many things that he wouldn't lose for the world will he have to give up before he is thirty, I reflected sententiously, give up at last, maybe, with a stony indifference, as men on a sinking ship take no thought of the gold and specie in the hold.
To the Station Agent: "Reported Perry gang will try wreck and rob No. 17 near xth mile-post, Denver Division, about nine Thursday night. Troops will await train at Fort . Car ordered ready for them. Keep everything secret, and act in accordance with orders of Mr. Sinclair." "It's worth about ten thousand dollars," sententiously remarked he, "that Sinclair's on that train.
"It's an ill wind dat blow nowhar, dat ar a fact," said Sam, sententiously, giving an additional hoist to his pantaloons, and adroitly substituting a long nail in place of a missing suspender-button, with which effort of mechanical genius he seemed highly delighted. "Yes, it's an ill wind blows nowhar," he repeated.
"I wish I'd thought to bring a prune pie," he told her daringly, in his eagerness half strangling over a crumb of cake. "Nobody wants prune pie at a picnic," declared one of the fat women sententiously. "You might as well bring fried bacon and done with it." "Picnics," added the other and fatter woman, "iss for getting somet'ings t' eat yuh don'd haff every day at home."
Then what good is it discussing the matter? You have pledged your word, and cannot retract. 'But say whether I should have done so do! she exclaimed in an irritated tone; chafing her hands together, and frowning. 'There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly, I said, sententiously. 'First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar? 'Who can help it?
"Hush, Janie; these are not things in which to interfere." "Then," quoth Jane sententiously, "I am not astonished at the dissipation of the university." And away she flounced in tears of wrath. Her mother went after her, and we laughed a little, it was impossible to help it, at the bathos of the chocolate creams; but, as Mr.
"Indians," remarked Scott sententiously, looking wisely down upon the sphinx-like quicksand. "Indians, Dan. They must have loaded the engine on their ponies during the night did you hear anything?" he demanded, turning to Bucks. Bucks shook his head. "I thought I did," continued Scott. "Thought I heard something what's that?" Baggs jumped.
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