"Evasively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Adam seriously, "you answer me evasively, and that is not well. We two are made to support each other, and to go hand in hand in the difficult path which lies before us. For you know as well as I do that our safety is imperiled when the Electoral Prince again makes his appearance at court, and we will henceforth find ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... glance that fluttered evasively under Bessy's lashes. "You knew he was coming—and you chose that time to go ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
... place by laws, Rosendo," the priest replied evasively. But as he made answer he revolved in his own mind that the laws by which an infinite universe is created and maintained must ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... the physicians came to him next morning, the High Protector said, "Why do you look sad?" To which the man of lore replied evasively, "So it becomes anyone who had the weighty care of his life and health upon him." Then Cromwell to this purpose spoke: "You think I shall die; I tell you I shall not die this bout; I am sure on't. Don't think I am mad. I speak the words of truth upon surer ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy
... news grows out of the war," I answered evasively. "I heard every word spoken by the herald and Castleman. The burgher is wise to hasten home. If he delays his journey even for a day, he may find Burgundy—especially Lorraine—swarming with lawless men going to the various rendezvous. He also tells me he has important ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... bad men, I hope," answered Aubrey evasively, as if he were unwilling to respond by a direct promise ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... shoulders. "Nothing in particular," he answered evasively. "By the way, Hawke, when are ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... understand who you mean by it," he says, a little evasively; "which, after all, is the ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... we get on very well together," said Lucy somewhat evasively, for she did not want to say that she would make the widow an intimate friend, "and, as you know, I am quite pleased that you should ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... rose, resumed her jewellery, and took the chair which Stanway had left. She smiled invitingly, evasively, inscrutably at ...
— Leonora • Arnold Bennett
... mistake, sir," replied the editor, evasively. "The Herald is really independent, but in political campaigns we adopt the side we consider the ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... right thing this evening all round: that came out for him in a word from Kate as she approached him to wreak on him a second introduction. He had under cover of the music melted away from the lady toward whom she had first pushed him; and there was something in her to affect him as telling evasively a tale of their talk in the Piazza. To what did she want to coerce him as a form of penalty for what he had done to her there? It was thus in contact uppermost for him that he had done something; not only caused her perfect intelligence ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James
... also contrive to get home. Winterfeld once home, and the King's consent had, the Fraulein applied to Princess Elizabeth for leave of absence: 'A few months, to see my friends in Deutschland, your Highness!' Princess Elizabeth looked hard at her; answered evasively this and that. At last, being often importuned, she answered plainly, 'I almost feel convinced thou wilt never come back!' Protestations from the Fraulein were not wanting:—'Well then,' said Elizabeth, 'if thou art so sure of it, leave me thy jewels in pledge. Why not?' The poor Fraulein ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... her love," replied Helen, evasively; "but, Miss Thusa, I am coming every day to take spinning lessons of you. I really want to learn to spin. Perhaps father may fail one of these days, and I be thrown on my own resources, and then I could earn my living as you ...
— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz
... in your power, sir, I suppose," replied Peters evasively, and in a tone of affected submission, as, avoiding the burning gaze of the other, he threw a significant glance to the tory who had reserved his charge at the fruitless fire just made by the ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... with no more approval from us than from you, Mr. Morris," said the Duke of Leeds, evasively; "but a remedy will be hard to find because of the difficulties of distinguishing between a seaman of two countries so ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... about it," he answered evasively, "and it would be very foolish to jump at the worst conclusions. It will be our best plan to start down the creek at once, and I have no doubt we'll find the camp before very long. It's not at all likely the ...
— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon
... "Nerve ain't in not bein' afraid," he answered evasively, "but in not lettin' folks ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... it," answered the other evasively; "but I say, Elmsley, I am devilish hungry, that breakfast you invited me to last night is over long ago, of course." This last sentence was uttered in a ...
— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson
... be?" queried the keeper evasively. "This day perished more of the conspirators against the queen. ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... short cut," growled the other evasively. "Mind how you step. Hit's a fur ways down thar ef a ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... there's that version," Halson said, evasively. "The engagement is only just out, as you know. As to the offer—the when and the how—I don't know that I'm exactly at ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells
... somebody would go," returned Brace, evasively, patting the impatient Buckskin; "but come in and take a drink before ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... old days," replied Craig evasively. "My friend here does not know him, but I was in this part of Westchester visiting and having heard he was here thought I would drop in, just for old time's sake. ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... that it was to speak to him about his sister Fanny," Sally replied evasively. "I would not care if I never saw him again; but I couldn't get on if I weren't allowed to see Fanny. Father wanted me to promise never ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... replied Rebecca evasively, yet with an answering gleam of ready response to the other's curiosity in the quick lift of her ...
— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
... and some say that," Watson replied evasively, "and I have enough to do without thinking about the lawyer's work. When I hear lawyers talk I can't tell right from wrong. You have to be trained to understand ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... or so most people say," I answered evasively. "Still, sometimes these Inyangas tell ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... whit to hear the disgusting Dobson, but she felt the reason for her reluctance mightn't be understood—might even arouse hateful merriment, for Aunt Nettie was sitting there listening. So she said evasively: ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... press her to uncover to him her poor starved past? A vague feeling of loyalty, a desire to spare what could no longer harm her, made her answer evasively: "There will probably be no 'meanwhile.' Owen ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton
... trembled. She remembered that Mr. Stoddard was, as Shade had said, one of the bosses in the Hardwick mill. It seemed too terrible to offend him. He certainly thought no ill of having children employed; she must not seem to criticize him; she answered evasively: ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... "Well," he replied evasively, "I—I've been told so, and wished to know whether it was a fact. You and he were friends, eh?" ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
... sure, I can not tell now," answered Hornigold evasively; "but with this clew the rest should be easy. Trust me, and when we can discuss ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... England, and offered a million to further the plan. He was most desirous to be informed if the project was, resolved upon, and, if so, when it was to be accomplished. The King took the Pope's million, but refused the desired information. He answered evasively. He had a very good will to invade the country, he said, but there were great difficulties in the way. After a time, the Pope again tried to pry into the matter, and again offered the million which Philip had only accepted for the time when it might ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... now, Grandfather,' she replied evasively, and then, to turn the old man's thoughts in the right direction, 'thou hadst already left the army by ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... somewhat evasively answered Mr. Carlyle; "I have been out myself nearly all day. We received a communication from London this morning, relative to your affair, and I am sorry to say anything but satisfactory. They will ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... am afraid, to be strictly watched," the lawyer answered evasively. "Still, I think you ought to be told that time does not seem to have lessened her ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... thin in heated London," he replied evasively, as he walked to the window, and stood there. ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... washing the dishes, hung up the soap-shaker and cast her eyes upward as in an effort of memory. She reached for a dish-towel, replying, somewhat evasively, "Where my mother come from they had 'em a-plenty; there ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... hesitated. "I don't know that much ails her, Eben," she said, evasively. "Girls often get run ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... not appear other than I am," replied La Corriveau evasively, "and I come in this secret manner because I could get access to ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... Miss Emily Moseley, I believe, last evening, that I knew some of the name," replied the gentleman evasively; then pausing a moment, he added with great emphasis, "there is a circumstance connected with one of that name, I ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... the orchard gate. The twins expressed a polite but quite sincere hope that they would have the pleasure of seeing Malvina again; but Malvina, seized maybe with sudden doubts as to whether she had behaved with discretion, appears to have replied evasively. Ten minutes later she was lying asleep, the golden head pillowed on the round white arm; as Mrs. Muldoon on her way down to the kitchen saw for herself. And the twins, fortunate enough to find a side door open, slipped into the ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... inquired Mr. Jones, looking amused. He had noticed that Vava spoke a little evasively of the school and its pupils as being 'all right,' which sounded qualified praise, and he was, or appeared to be, very much ...
— A City Schoolgirl - And Her Friends • May Baldwin
... Chancellor was slowly walking to the gate of one of his Encome turnip-fields when a stranger of clerical garb and aspect hailed him from a distance, asking, "Where is Lord Eldon?" Not anxious to declare himself to the witness of his ludicrously bad shot, the Chancellor answered evasively, and with scant courtesy, "Not far off." Displeased with the tone of this curt reply, the clergyman rejoined, "I wish you'd use your tongue to better purpose than you do your gun, and tell me civily where I can find the Chancellor." "Well," ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... highly conservative!" explained Haredale evasively. "But Mrs. Rohscheimer is a recognised ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... and for a moment changed color. What did she mean? Was it possible that she suspected the substitution, or was she alluding to some past history of his brother's life, of which he knew nothing? Evasively, he answered: ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... can be," says Mrs. Reilly, amiably but still evasively, "an' a bit of a scholard into the bargain, an' a very civil tongue in her head. She's seventeen all out, ma'am, and never yet gave her ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown
... many homes, I conjecture," said the host evasively. "But—but I think I may say, Monsieur, that he is, I believe, at present staying at the Chateau ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... a good deal," she replied evasively. "But this correspondence. We wrote to each other twice a week all the time I was away. I have all his letters—there, ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... questions," he answered evasively. "Carg is considered a bit taciturn, I believe, but he has my best interests at heart and you will find him ready to serve me ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne
... some domestic difficulties—in a whisper, of course. No one took up his hat; all were waiting. I don't know what Yulia Mihailovna managed to do, but five minutes later she came back, doing her utmost to appear composed. She replied evasively that Andrey Antonovitch was rather excited, but that it meant nothing, that he had been like that from a child, that she knew "much better," and that the fete next day would certainly cheer him up. Then followed a few flattering words to Stepan Trofimovitch simply from civility, and a loud invitation ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... replied evasively, "I thought it was just an ordinary little social dinner. That's what Mr. Murtha told me it was. I didn't think anyone outside was interested in it or in who was there or what went on. But, this morning, a—a friend—called me up and told me—something that made me think others besides ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... so long!" evasively. And Carmichael lifted his feet to the opposite seat and prepared to go ...
— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath
... did it," said Mr. Standish, evasively. "I know it as well as if he had been advertised. He's uncommonly good at ventriloquism, and he did it uncommonly well, by God! Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund of talent ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... negro brigade at this work, and in the order was particular to quote General Phelps's own opinion, previously delivered, on the necessity of the project. General Phelps, who was determined that the negroes should be soldiers or nothing, evasively declined obeying the order. General Butler then wrote him a letter presenting fresh arguments, showing how essential it was that the soldiers, who would soon be obliged to defend the city, should be spared as far as ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... the girl undertake a sea voyage, he replied rather evasively at first; that the air of Sydney disagreed with his patient, and a sea voyage was more likely to do her good than harm, provided the weather was ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... you ask me such a question, Pluma?" he asked, evasively; "any man ought to be proud of winning so peerless a treasure as you are. I shall be envied by scores of disappointed lovers, who have worshiped at your shrine. I am not as demonstrative as some might be under ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... circumstances," said the boatswain, evasively. "I am in command of this ship, and intend to keep it, unless the captain and mate ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... then reappeared. The course was being cleared, and the pealing of a bell announced the first race. Amid the expectant murmur of the bystanders she questioned him about this sudden rise in her value. But he replied evasively; doubtless a demand for her had arisen. She had to content herself with this explanation. Moreover, Labordette announced with a preoccupied expression that Vandeuvres was coming ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... "Well," said Abe evasively, "I hain't kindled no fires yit, but you better b'lieve I'm a-gwine to keep my beer from sp'ilin'. The way I do my countin', one tub of beer is natchally wuth ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris
... possible," answered Zanoni, evasively, "to the few; but for one who attains such secrets, millions may ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... York before she went to Bermuda and Nassau; before that, from England," replied the commander evasively. ...
— Taken by the Enemy • Oliver Optic
... not at liberty to discuss," the younger man replied, evasively. "However, just to make your loan absolutely sure, I have taken steps to sell my season's output in advance. The commission men will be in town shortly, and I shall contract for the entire catch at a ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... Bateson feeding her fowls," said Elisabeth evasively; "and, I say, have you ever noticed that hens are just like tea-pots, and cocks like coffee-pots? Look at them now! It seems as if an army of breakfast services had suddenly come to life a la Galatea, and were pouring libations at ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... about his having everything. I think Ben must have been disappointed, some time," said Clara, evasively. ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... him all the spending money he needs," returned Squire Paget, evasively. "He has probably saved the amount and had some one change his small ...
— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield
... brother," said Henry, "tell me, I implore you, the meaning of this. You look ill and distressed, and yet from you I did not hear of sickness, nor do I know any reason for grief." George smiled evasively; then, as if recollecting himself, struck his forehead. He pressed his brother's arm, and led him towards a room adjoining the one in ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... demands of France respecting the candidature for the Spanish throne, and they were unjustifiable, had been presented on July 4, and answered by our Foreign Office evasively, though in accordance with truth, that the ministry knew nothing about the matter. This was correct so far, that the question of Prince Leopold's acceptance of his election had been treated by his ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... did not answer her look. "I haven't spent much time here for several years. Paris has absorbed me," he said evasively. "One forgets a good deal; but if you want to see a really charming valley, we had better go farther on. Then I think ...
— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson
... kissed the Judge on his withered cheek. "You are so good to me," she said, evasively, and with another kiss, she ran ...
— Judy • Temple Bailey
... write him a boyishly sarcastic and sincerely bitter letter. He never replied. Then, believing it to be the only way of escape for me, I set myself far more grimly and resolutely to my studies than I had ever done before. After a time I wrote to him in more moderate terms, and he answered me evasively. And then I tried to dismiss him from my mind and ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... always shall, you know,' he said evasively, and with all the strategy love suggested. 'But I have not seen her for so long that I can hardly be expected to love her. Do you love ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... attack on Grahame, and was replied to evasively. Don Grahame wanted to punch Jones's head for what he called slurs cast ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... caught in the rebound sometimes, if for once a proverb can be right," said I evasively; though a few weeks ago, when Molly had been constantly alluding to her friend Mercedes, I had told myself that no one could achieve such a feat ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... voice, the sad pleading in her look, shook Crayford's self-possession at the outset. He answered her in the worst possible manner; he answered evasively. ...
— The Frozen Deep • Wilkie Collins
... of the native young ladies, both French and Indian, are considered quite attractive," replied the lieutenant, evasively. ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... threshed the whole thing out," I evasively replied, "gives me an extraordinary notion of the point ...
— The Coxon Fund • Henry James
... and that it appeared nothing was decided. Count Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had gone to Ischl, where Emperor Francis Joseph was recovering from the shock of the assassination, to report to him. Count Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister, had replied evasively to interpellations made in the Hungarian Parliament by the Opposition. Owing to the absence on leave from his post of the War Minister and his chief of staff, the Bourse ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) - Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers • Various
... left Nina for the moment speechless; then presently, "I have what father gives me," she answered evasively. ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... act hastily often," he said evasively. "And I think you are often so concentrated upon the person who stands, perhaps suffering, immediately before you, that you forget who is on the right, who ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... vociferous, and only discontinued when a box of Havanas stood open on the table. During the momentary lull thus occasioned, I caught the Major's twinkling eyes glancing evasively toward me, as he leant whispering some further instructions to Tommy, who again took up his desultory ballad, while I turned and fled for the street, catching, however, as I went, and high above the laughter of the crowd, the satire ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley
... found at last, when Senta ecstatically exclaims: "I will be his wife!" At this moment her father's ship is announced. Senta is about to run away to welcome him, but is detained by Erick, who tries to win her for himself. She answers evasively; then Daland enters and with him a dark and gloomy stranger. Senta stands spell-bound: she recognizes the hero of her picture. The Dutchman is not less impressed, seeing in her the angel of his dreams and as it were his deliverer, and ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... I evasively echoed; and then, carried away by the profound and melancholy interest of this question, 'Think?' I queried, 'do I ever really think? Is there anything inside my head but cotton-wool? How can I call myself a Thinker? What am I anyhow?' I pursued the sad inquiry: ...
— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith
... induced to speak a word upon the occurrence. Their most intimate friends continually questioned them, but without being able to draw forth a syllable. The ministers either affected to laugh at the matter or answered evasively. This was the case whenever I questioned M. de Beauvilliers or M. de Pontchartrain, and I knew from their most intimate friends that nothing more could ever be obtained from M. de Pomponne or M. de Torcy. As for the farrier himself, he was equally reserved. ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... replied, evasively. "When you paint him with the ropes dropping from his hands. May it not agitate, upset him, to see himself as he stands ringing those bells each night? ...
— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens
... yesterday and to-day," the doctor replied evasively, "you didn't hear ... oh, there's nothing in it if you didn't. I heard that Simmons had had you taken off the stage. Did you have trouble with Buckley, cut him with a whip? Buck has been blowing about showing you a ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... you a little, later?' he asked of Dora, with only a few seconds for the question, as people were pressing behind him. She answered evasively that there would be very little talk—they would all have to listen—it was very serious; and the next moment he had received a programme from the hand of a monumental yet gracious personage who stood beyond and who had a silver ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James
... deviated from his usual rule of answering evasively, and replied: "No; that was not it either. I wanted nothing for myself personally, or at most only to prove my fitness for ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... began evasively, "it's a simple matter, but I can't very well—no, by Jove!" I added, looking at my watch, "I must run, or I shall keep the multitude waiting." And with this I bustled away, leaving her ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... the large institutions of the ancient Oracles. To satisfy them, the Oracle should resemble a modern coach-office—where undoubtedly you would suspect fraud, if the question "How far to Derby?" were answered evasively, or if the grounds of choice between two roads were expressed enigmatically. But the to loxon, or mysterious indirectness of the Oracle, was calculated far more to support the imaginative grandeur of the unseen God, and was designed to do so, than to relieve the individual suitor in a perplexity ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... story o' Mr. Dishart's murder, no many hours auld yet," the kirk officer replied evasively, "we should be wary o' ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... many things worse than death," she said evasively, and deliberately turned the conversation into ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... was received. By 7.30 Becker arrived in person, inquired for Laupepa, was evasively answered, and declared war on the spot. Before eight, the Germans (seven hundred men and six guns) came ashore and seized and hoisted German colours on the government building. The three chiefs had made good haste to escape; but a considerable booty was made of government papers, fire-arms, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... had left Borden's pier the girls had been tactfully trying to find out where he lived, and why they couldn't drive him directly to his place. But to all their inquiries he answered evasively, and was most positive in declaring they could not fetch ...
— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis
... King of Prussia in an autograph letter to accept my resignation," said Mueller, evasively; "I want, above all, a categorical reply whether I must ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... Frithiof answered evasively that he was fostered in penitence, that he inherited want, and that he came from the wolf; as to his name, this did not matter. The king, as was the courteous custom, did not press him further, but invited him to take a seat beside him and ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... believe that story, and asked him to tell me the gentleman's name. And he only answered me, evasively: "I didn't say ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... her," continued Florine, "if they had seen M. Rodin at the hotel lately. She answered evasively. Then despairing of getting anything out of her," continued Florine, "I left Mrs. Grivois, and that my visit might excite no suspicion, I went to the pavilion—when, as I turn down the avenue—whom do I see? why, M. Rodin himself, ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... out of a pail and another out of a lamp," the old man answered evasively. "Every man to his own taste. . . . You drink out of the pail—well, drink, and may it do you good. ...
— The Bishop and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... who isn't Claude Heath," he answered evasively, with a little covering laugh. "Of one thing I am quite sure, that I wish I were a male Miss Fleet. She ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... you throw a main?' he answered evasively. 'Good! Lieutenant, find a glass, and the gentleman a seat. And here, for my part, I will give you a ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... cross, and observe whether he repeats it, (as, on Whitsunday,[17] he surely ought to do.) Look! he does repeat it; but the driving showers perplex the images, and that, perhaps, it is which gives him the air of one who acts reluctantly or evasively. Now, again, the sun shines more brightly, and the showers have swept off like squadrons of cavalry to the rear. We will try ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... answered the cowboy, evasively, "hold still, an' in a minute you can open your eyes." Very gently he continued to sponge at her lids. Her eyes opened and she started back with a sharp cry. The three men before her were unrecognizable ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... force between the two ships, to which for the moment he gave no thought, or he would not have entertained hopes for a release from confinement by recapture,—a patent impossibility to a seaman. So he answered the captain evasively, returning the glass and pleading his ignorance of nautical matters to ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... to spare, you boys, hev ye?" asked Mosby, evasively, glancing at Percy Briggs without looking at the stranger. We all looked at Briggs also; it was HIS affair after all—HE had originated this opposition. To our ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... of unusual sagacity and prudence," said Dennis, evasively. "What any man could do, he could. And now, Miss Ludolph, I will try to find you a resting-place. There are such crowds here that I think we had better go nearer that side, where early in the evening ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... too deep for me," said Morgan, evasively. "I suppose they ought to be contented to see us enjoying ourselves. It's all in the way ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... very busy," I replied evasively; "Mr. Carvel cannot attend to his affairs." I longed to tell her the whole truth, but ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... to tea when their cousin reappeared, covered with dust, and looking very hot and tired. He refused to say what he had been doing, and in answer to a fire of questions as to where he had been he replied evasively, "Oh, only along the ...
— Soldiers of the Queen • Harold Avery
... that," Jack replied, evasively. "But the construction of a submarine torpedo boat is a secret. It is a general rule with our owners that strangers shan't be allowed on board, unless they're very especially vouched for. Now, I hate to appear disobliging; yet, if you've ever been employed ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
... Holmes will take care of her; she doesn't need money," he answered, evasively. "I wouldn't like Prue to be a ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... stood her kisses passively, but gave none in return, until she asked him to kiss her. "When you are my wife," he said, evasively. And then—she must have loved him—she burst out into passionate sobs and fell at his feet in the quiet cabin and told him of her debased life in Fiji. "But, as God hears me, Will, that is all past since your last ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... are young and fiery, but Ajax is an excellent driver," he replied, evasively; adding, "You may be sure that if I had thought the danger very great I would ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... before answering, and then said, rather evasively: "I have no wish to obtrude my opinions. What I do is for our common good, and I am ready to start the moment his honor gives the signal." And he crossed ...
— In Search of the Castaways • Jules Verne
... altered appearance, he readily divined the cause; indeed, all tongues were eager to proclaim it to him. Passionately attached to her, Lionel Vavasour implored an explanation of the cause of his sister's griefs. The bewildered lady answered evasively, attributing her woe-begone looks to any other cause than her husband's cruelty; and pressing her brother, as he valued her peace, her affection, never to allude to the subject again. The fiery youth ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... inscrutable for her very frankness and assurance. She was frank, poor darling, because she had nothing to conceal, assured because she knew of nothing to be on her guard against; and with no better preparation than this, she was to be plunged overnight into what people evasively called ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton
... Lord Dunmore first answered evasively; but learning that the citizens had assembled under arms, he raged and threatened. He said: "The whole country can easily be made a solitude; and by the living God, if any insult is offered to me, or to those who have obeyed my orders, ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson
... ago theirs had been the first part in Virginia, and, as they still believed, theirs had been also the centre of all things. Now the high places were laid low, and the greatness had passed as a trumpet that is blown. Kingsborough persisted still, but it persisted evasively, hovering, as it were, upon the outskirts of modern advancement. And the outside world took note only when it made tours to historic strongholds, or sent those of itself that were adjudged insane to the hospitable shelter of the ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... said evasively.—"Yes, friends," he said, in answer to a challenge in Spanish, "I want to ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... she answered a little evasively, 'when your late brother introduced me to the members of his family. I wonder if you have quite forgotten my big black eyes and my hideous complexion?' She lifted her veil as she spoke, and turned so that the moonlight rested ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... my lord," replied Hurst evasively, throwing open the door of the morning-room. Victoria was disclosed; pacing up and down, her hands in the pockets of her tweed jacket. Tatham saw at once ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... among your friends already if you could only think so," he answered, evasively, still caressing his potato knees with large ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... This was an evasively pretty girl, or such was my first impression. That is to say, that whilst her attractiveness was beyond dispute, analysis of her small features failed to detect from which particular quality this charm was derived. The contour of her face certainly formed a delightful ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer
... here nor there, sir," Mr. O'Leary replied evasively. "He's safe, an' never knew they were afther him. T'ree o' thim, sir, the naygur and two Greeks. I kidded thim into thinkin' I was Misther McKaye; 'tis all over now, an' ye can find out what two Greeks it was by those knives ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... the yachtsman announced that he would lunch at Parker's, and evasively asked the Spaniard if he would mind being ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... Bob, evasively. "Didn't I know as you'd remember the best bargains you've made in your life was made wi' packmen? Why, you see even a squintin' packman's better nor a shopman as can see straight. Lors! if I'd had the luck to call at the stone house wi' my pack, as lies here,"—stooping ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... rein and faced the Squire with a solemnity presently yielding to his natural desire to grin at any form of joke, and his belief that when the Squire indulged such flagrant irreverence as this he must be joking. Yet he answered evasively: "You hearn't he says now he hain't never go'n ...
— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells
... change in her father's manner dated, but she could not speak of it even to her sister. "Perhaps the cold weather tries him a great deal just at first; it has come so suddenly, and we are not seasoned to it yet, you know," she answered evasively. ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant
... and physically she was changed. Her former gayety had disappeared. In a few weeks she became thin and seemed to be wasting away. Madame Desvarennes, deeply troubled, questioned her daughter, who answered, evasively, that she was perfectly well and had nothing to trouble her. The mother called in Doctor Rigaud, although she did not believe in the profession, and, after a long conference, took him to see Micheline. The doctor examined her, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... merchant evasively. "If it concerns the detail of the reduction of your monthly adequacy, my word ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... that she had slipped into self-betrayal. "My son and I have not spoken of the matter," she said evasively. She caught the flash of ...
— Sanctuary • Edith Wharton
... in vain to obtain more light from his friend. Brevan answered evasively; perhaps because he did not dare to speak out freely, and reveal his real thoughts; or because it lay in his plans to be content with having added this horrible fear to all the ...
— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau
... "Momentary betimes," answered Connor evasively. "Are you eatin' at this bloomin' swaree, then?" "I'm niver aff me forage-cake," answered Connor, and he ate as if he had had his tooth ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... not do that. "No, I'll stay and work toward getting something for myself about here," he said, a little evasively. "It would be nice for you too, to have a home that you could visit now and then; and if you didn't get on out there, it wouldn't be bad to have something to fall back upon. You might fall ill, or something else might happen; the ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... Otho in my childhood," said Leoline, evasively; "therefore, his kindness of late years seemed ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... friends in New York," returned Crystal, evasively; "but she does not mean to stay there long. She wants to see Niagara and Colorado, and I forget the route she has planned; but a companion she must have, and she offers such handsome terms, and after all she will not, be away more than five or six months, ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... as I thought evasively. "It is the light of the Under-world which we know how to use. The earth is full of light, which is not wonderful, is it, seeing that its heart is fire? ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... after their disposal of the horses, is his brain busy in the conception of some scheme suited to the changed circumstances; and hence, on Cypriano asking him to tell the way he knew of, he but replies evasively, saying: ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid |
