"Laconically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... writing to keep up a good understanding with the officers and troops, adding, as a final warning: "If this is not the case you will be unhappy." Unfortunately for one of the deputies, Richard Winston, he failed to keep up the good understanding, and, as Todd had laconically foretold, he in consequence speedily became very "unhappy." We have only his own account of the matter. According to this, in April, 1782, he was taken out of his house "in despite of the civil authority, disregarding the laws and on the malitious alugation of Jno. ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Two - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 • Theodore Roosevelt
... (physician), said Alessandro's guide, laconically addressing herself to the negro, who bowed in silence and threw open the door. The female slave conducted the pretended physician into a small but splendidly furnished ante-room, in which there were ...
— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds
... we doesn't want to," said Coombs laconically. "No fun staying out all night if the wind ...
— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith
... acquired over the mind of the Queen. They also consulted people of acknowledged talent, but belonging to no council nor to any assembly. Among these was M. Dubucq, formerly intendant of the marine and of the colonies. He answered laconically in one phrase: ...
— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan
... actually curly, seemed to be so vehemently alive that it rippled a bit in its length, as a swift-flowing brook does over a stone. It rose up around her brow in a roll that was almost the fashionable coiffure. Those among whom she had been bred, laconically called the colour red; but in fact it was only too deep a gold to be quite yellow. Johnnie's face, even in repose, was always potentially joyous. The clear, wide, gray eyes, under their arching brows, the mobile lips, held as it were the smile in ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... post, Sept. 14, 1777). Mr. Langley asked Johnson's help 'in procuring him a place in some eminent printing office.' Davenport wrote to Mr. Langley nearly eight years later:—'According to your desire, I consulted Dr. Johnson about my future employment in life, and he very laconically told me "to work hard at my trade, as others had done before me." I told him my size and want of strength prevented me from getting so much money as other men. "Then," replied he, "you must get as much as you can."' The boy was nearly sixteen when he was apprenticed, and had learnt ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... me as she said this, and his eyes glistened. "Esther is Esther," he replied, laconically; but I knew ...
— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... officer riding a pony and smoking a cigarette, but very pale and with his left arm covered with bloody bandages. Brooke greeted him and asked, 'Bone ?' 'Yes,' replied the subaltern laconically, 'shoulder smashed up.' We expressed our sympathy. 'Oh, that's all right; good show, wasn't it? The men are awfully pleased;' and he rode slowly on up the hill—the type of an unyielding race—and stoical ...
— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill
... tired of vulgarity," returned Maskull laconically. He intentionally avoided mentioning his fellow voyagers, in order that Krag's name should not come ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay
... to get a horse and cart," said Brogard, laconically, as with a surly gesture, he shook off from his arm that pretty hand which princes had been proud ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... Laconically, "I am the Boy at Mugby," he announces. "That's about what I am." His exact location he describes almost with the precision of one giving latitude and longitude—explaining to a nicety where his stand is taken. "Up in a corner of the Down Refreshment ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
... looked hideous in the dim light of the Ramadan lamp. This is the third scorpion within a fortnight the Rais has killed in his own house; one of enormous size he killed a few days ago. The Rais called for more coffee, and said coolly and laconically, "It's all maktoub between you and the scorpions; if they are to bite you, they will." His Excellency thought the sting often deadly. My taleb joins the rest in their notions of fatality. In coming home with me afterwards, I said to him, "I am alarmed ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... taking tea in the advertised drawing-room. Gathering together his courage, he penetrated into a corridor lighted by pink electricity, and then up pink stairs. A pink door stopped him at last. It might have hid mysterious and questionable things, but it said laconically 'Push,' and he courageously pushed... He was in a kind of boudoir thickly populated with tables and chairs. The swift transmigration from the blatant street to a drawing-room had a startling effect on him: it caused him to whip off his hat as though his hat ...
— Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days • Arnold Bennett
... acquiesced. 'He's dead,' he added laconically. 'I'd have broken it to you more gently had I known. Your pardon, Prince.' ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
... Borrow, laconically, and turned up his face and gazed into the sky. "The magpie is waiting till the hawk has caught his quarry and made his meal. I fancy he has himself been 'chivvied' by the hawk, as ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... the Princess," said Britt laconically. Chase looked up quickly, but the other's face was as straight as could be. "If you were a real gentleman you would come around once in a while and give her something to talk to, instead ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon
... returns not; and the third-class Dodo will call again to-morrow. Now, Abu-Najma brings out his rope, soaps it well, nooses and suspends it from the rafter in the ceiling. And when his daughter returns from the spring, he takes her by the arm, shows her the rope, and tells her laconically to choose between his Excellency and this. Poor Najma has not the courage to die, and so soon. Her cousin Khalid is in prison, is excommunicated—what can she do? Run away? The Church will follow her—punish her. There's ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... hard," he said laconically; "too damn soft! I don't know what I'm looking for—pretty dumb: got a lot to learn!—but it'll be a job that needs to take a ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
... by laconically insinuating-raising his moody face, and winking at Graspum-that it was all moonshine to talk about trouble in that kind of business; "It's the very highest of exhilarating sport!" he ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... I get the chance," laconically replied Gowan, looking from the girl to Ashton with the characteristic straightening of his lips that marked the tensing of ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... "Neither," he answered, laconically, returning to the survey of the swearing, sweating crew. Several bystanders laughed, ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... did not appear to trouble his head about Sturk. He eat his dinner energetically, chatted laconically, but rather pleasantly. Sturk thought he might be eight-and-forty, or perhaps six or seven-and-fifty—it was a face without a date. He went over all his points, insignificant features, high forehead, stern countenance, abruptly ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... "Mebbe so," returned Buggins laconically,—and closing his door he barred it across for the night, while Dan Ridley, full of the half- poetic, half philosophic thoughts which the subjects of religion and religious worship frequently excite in a more or less untutored ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... he remarked, laconically; "I must go and have a bit on the mare, and then take a look at her before she ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... the 9th was carried, and on the 29th the announcements were made in the lords and commons that ministers had resigned. The Duke of Wellington made it known to the lords, as the ministerial leader in that house, and never was a similar communication so laconically delivered. Sir Robert made a long speech, vindicating his policy and his personal consistency, and declaring his unabated confidence in the measures in favour of free-trade, which he had been enabled to carry, and which he averred would bring peace, contentment, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... Hickathrift, laconically; and, stooping down, they each took a hand, and half ran half waded through the black boggy mud, till they reached the path from which the young man ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... obliged him to think of place and poverty in another land. He looked in vain for aid, and among others Scrope Davies was written to to lend him 'two hundred,' 'because his money was all in the three per cents.' Scrope replied laconically— ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... "Thank you," said I, laconically, and he moved as if my tone had stung him, which I did not intend, because even in a war parley ...
— The Black Colonel • James Milne
... clothes I wore before I was married and he'll wear overalls and boots with run-over heels. A dollar will look a shade smaller than a full moon and I'll cry for joy when I get a clothes-wringer or a washing machine for a Christmas present. That," she concluded laconically, "is my finish." ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart
... the Portagee!" Abel answered, as laconically as the hero of Lake Erie in his famous dispatch. "Go in ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various
... surprise. He looked at the position of the sun. "Reckon we might overtake him an' get home before sundown," he said, laconically, as he turned his horse. "We'll make a short cut across here a few miles, an' strike ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
... taking the paper from John's hand and contemplating it attentively, "it is written quite laconically indeed. But, no matter, you have complied with my order ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... made a fortune easily he gets rid of it easily," said Louis, laconically. "Potts thinks that all his applicants are leading men of the county. I take good care that they go there as baronets at least. Some are lords. He is overpowered in the presence of these lords, and gives them what they ask on their own terms. In his letters ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille
... they said laconically, and they were taking him down to the hospital. I took a look and saw in that mask of terror and agony the familiar face ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... box," said Kent laconically. He turned to the girl. "I couldn't get the sidesaddle," he explained apologetically. "I looked where Mrs. Hawley said it was, but I couldn't find it—and I didn't have much time. You'll have ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... for the order to be repeated; she returned to her room, wrote an answer to Malicorne, and slipped it under the carpet. The answer simply said: "She is going." A Spartan could not have written more laconically. ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... and broke his neck," Lone told him laconically. "Brit's pretty sick yet; I don't guess you'd better go inside. There's been a lot of excitement already for the old man. He only sees folks he's used ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... bedtime I got a message that a man wanted to see me at the jail immediately. It was urgent. Would I come down there at once? I had a foreboding, and I went down. It was as I suspected. "No. 4" was there behind the bars. "Drunk again," said the turnkey, laconically, as he let me in. He let me see him. He wanted me to see the judge and get him out. He besought me. He wept. "It was all an accident;" he had "found some of the old boys, and they had got to talking over old times, and just for old times' sake," etc. He ...
— The Burial of the Guns • Thomas Nelson Page
... Pliny, laconically, remembering how far removed from a temperance lecture was the scene in which he had mingled the evening before. He was spared the trouble of further answer by his father's ...
— Three People • Pansy
... of Madame de Maintenon herself, who up to that juncture had always approved of her manner of acting and her system of government, but who now, seizing the occasion of Orry having established some imposts upon the Catalans, did not hesitate to say very harshly and laconically: "We do not think Orry fit for his post, for ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... behind his mother and glared back. Bill moved over to Sam's side. For a moment the air was heavy with signs of an affray. Rosalie crouched in her corner, her hand over her ears, her eyes closed. There was murder in Davy's face. "I'll break every bone in your body!" added Sam; but Bill laconically ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... Lady Roseville well?" said I. "Very," answered Glanville, laconically, and changed the conversation. As we were leaving the Park, through Cumberland Gate, we were stopped by a blockade of carriages; a voice, loud, harsh, and vulgarly accented, called out to Glanville by his name. I turned, ...
— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... number were missing. The quick sight of the jungle people soon spied the trail of a man and a woman, and, following it, they crowded down to the place where the boat had been moored. Here they squatted on the ground and began to smoke. 'Rej-a-roj!'—'She is lost!'—they said laconically, in the barbarous jargon of the jungle people, and then ...
— In Court and Kampong - Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula • Hugh Clifford
... 'Better,' he said laconically, and turning, took from the desk at his back a glass which he held before me. 'Can you lift your head and ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch
... slackened and not a word was spoken until after several hours the first tilt came suddenly into view, when Dick said laconically: ...
— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace
... agreed laconically, "I suppose not. Let us go, then, as soon as we can, please. I'll stay overnight with Mrs. Hawley, and you can bring me back to-morrow, can't you? And you'll remember not to ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... for him," the doctor laconically remarked. "Lungs, heart, throat, all have got into the game. You had better get rid of him—he will never be ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... figure. It was the indomitable Yik Kee, who had crawled all the way from the stack on his stomach, so that he could not be seen, after lying in the ditch till the blaze had faded out. "Hump! no catchee Chinee; heap sore," he said, laconically rubbing his stomach. ...
— The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various
... not have it otherwise," said Ulrica, laconically, as she found herself again alone. "If she is without ambition, so much the worse for her—so much the better for me! And now, it is high time to think of my toilet—that is the most important consideration. To- day I must ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... a third writer, and the contest raged so keenly about the power of monkeys' muscles that it was almost taken for granted that a monkey was the guilty party. The bubble was pricked by the pen of "Common Sense," who laconically remarked that no traces of soot or blood had been discovered on the floor, or on the nightshirt, or the counterpane. The Lancet's leader on the Mystery was awaited with interest. It said: "We cannot join in the praises that have been showered upon the coroner's summing up. It shows again ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... "Luck," I said laconically. Jack Ballard had clasped his big congested hand, "Proud of you, Jerry, old boy! You ought to have won. Why the Devil did you let him ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... he remarked laconically. "There's twenty before you, and Mr. Earles is going out at twelve sharp—important engagement. ...
— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... laconically; "what did you suppose? You didn't think I was going swimming in the Seine, ...
— Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica • John Kendrick Bangs
... returned Blaine laconically. "You've heard of them, haven't you, Carlis? When you asked me if we were alone, if any of my operatives were spying about, I told you that no human ear overheard our conversation. But this little concealed instrument—this unseen listener—recorded ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... laconically. "The mistake was in the emancipation proclamation. Domestic servants ought ...
— Mam' Lyddy's Recognition - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
... with the indifference of one used to adventures and movements, and having laconically dignified his assent, he drew his horse back again into his station ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... "Eight," said Harry laconically. The starters were all mustered in one enclosure, and were on the worst of terms. "We'll need more jockeys—if you call ...
— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce
... gave him my hand and asked Dr. Blackwell to be seated; the other took a seat at the same time. I addressed all my conversation to Dr. Blackwell; the other all his to me, to which I only gave negative or affirmative answers as laconically as I could, except asking him how Mrs. Logan did. He seemed disposed to be very polite, and while Dr. Blackwell and myself were conversing on the late calamitous fever, offered me an asylum at his house, if it should return or I thought myself in any danger in ...
— George Washington, Vol. II • Henry Cabot Lodge
... seemed intended to make up for the defective eloquence of their chief. Mr. Welwyn-Baker was too old and too stout and too shaky for the toil of personal electioneering. He gave a few dinners at his big house three miles away, and he addressed (laconically) one or two select meetings; for the rest, his name and fame had to suffice. There was no convincing him that his seat could possibly be in danger. He smiled urbanely over the reports of Quarrier's speeches, called his adversary "a sharp lad," ...
— Denzil Quarrier • George Gissing
... laughter would damn the play. Hence it is that so many dull pieces have had a decent run, only because nothing unusual above, or absurd below, mediocrity furnished an occasion,—a spark for the explosive materials collected behind the orchestra. But it would take a volume of no ordinary size, however laconically the sense were expressed, if it were meant to instance the effects, and unfold all the causes, of this disposition upon the moral, intellectual, and even physical character of a people, with its influences on domestic life and individual deportment. A good document upon this subject ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge
... mouse-colored dust churned by the wheels of blackguard beach-wagons blurred a hard, blue sky from which pricked a soft, hanging star. An operatic sun had just set with all the majestic tranquillity of a fiery hen; and the two friends felt laconically gay. "Let's eat ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... the steep stair, into a high, small room, lighted by a narrow window over which cobwebs ran. "Here you may eat," he said laconically. ...
— Unfinished Portraits - Stories of Musicians and Artists • Jennette Lee
... laconically. "There's an idea, of course, that communications are carried on with the enemy from somewhere down this coast. Sorry to leave you, old fellow," he added. "Don't sit up. I never fasten the door here. Remember to look after your ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... down on one of the rocks. From underneath he drew forth a lantern and prepared to light it. "This is my home," he said laconically. ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... with the greater earnestness, partly because I was only speaking my real convictions, and partly because I remembered in my own younger years finding myself in the same unfortunate case. I was listened to with attention, but as soon as I had ended, the presiding examiner said to me very kindly but laconically, 'We presume capabilities: they are to be converted into accomplishments. This is the aim of all education. It is what is distinctly intended by all who have the care of children, and silently and indistinctly by the children themselves. This also is the object ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... it," he answered, laconically. "We'd better give in handsomely for three days. It'll pay us in the end. Get into your 'glad rags' and ...
— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell
... my poor fellows with me, stranded upon the top of our late antagonist, but no sign of the boat to be seen. Bewildered at the state of affairs, I looked appealingly from one to the other for an explanation. I got it from Abner, who said, laconically, "When yew fired thet ole gun, I guess it mus' have bin loaded fer bear, fer ye jest tumbled clar head over heels backwards outen the boat. Et that very same moment I suspicion the bomb busted in his belly, fer he went clean rampageous loony. He rolled right ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... laconically, after the first swift glance of inquiry. "It is doubtless a fairy tale, handed down by tradition. I take no stock in it. My principal object in acquiring Rothhoefen is to satisfy a certain vanity which besets me. I have it ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... doing," he imparted laconically. "No one expected—no one away who would be coming back—and then wanted to know who in thunder I was. They almost dropped dead when I told 'em. No question about it, that address was a stall. This dame had something up her sleeve, and took care to see ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... laconically answered the carpenter, whose trick it was at the wheel, obeying the captain's ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... influence of the generous brandy and soda, exhausted nature is quickly recuperated. While not an advocate of indiscriminate indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, after an enervating ride through the wilting heat of an Indian day I am convinced that nothing is more beneficial than what Anglo-Indians laconically describe as a "peg." ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... Tarling laconically, and pushed back the catch, threw up the window, and stepped into the little room where he ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... Lynch has done his work well," and he pointed with his club to a lamp-post on the other side of the street from which two dark bodies were hanging. "Simply hanged 'em," he added laconically. ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... all its horrors, laconically described by General Sherman as hell, is not without its comedy. The marching through rain and mud; camping in marshes; digging in trenches, using the bayonet for a pick and the meat-ration can for a shovel; wading rivers by day and sleeping exposed to the elements by night, are all sandwiched ...
— Bamboo Tales • Ira L. Reeves
... feather'"—said Mrs. Derrick laconically. And she drew out some of the glowing and winking embers, and set thereon the tiny gridiron with its purplish plump pigeon. "Sam's home now, Faith, and you'd think he'd been through every degree of everything. But the first thing he did was to go off ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner
... the Federal Convention of 1787, a friend remarked to Gouverneur Morris, "You have made a good constitution." "That," replied Morris laconically, "depends on how it is construed!" From Washington to Jackson the process of construing the Constitution had gone on, intermittently by the executive and legislative, steadily by the judiciary. "The judiciary of the United States," wrote Jefferson in 1820, "is the subtle corps ...
— Union and Democracy • Allen Johnson
... again," came laconically from Songbird. He had taken the lamp from Harold Bird and was sending the rays over the surface of the lake ...
— The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - or The Deserted Steam Yacht • Arthur M. Winfield
... laconically. 'Vest,' he added, doing the same to his other pocket. 'Shoes,' he concluded, 'you will observe I am carrying in a handy brown paper parcel, and if anybody wants to know what's in it, I shall tell them it's acid drops. Sure you ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... laconically, lowering his voice. "Let 'em pass. If we show ourselves now, they'll think we're highwaymen or something, an' begin screechin' ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
... at Monsieur the judge's orders," returned the detective, laconically. As everyone was getting up, he took the opportunity to offer M. Plantat ...
— The Mystery of Orcival • Emile Gaboriau
... laconically, and started to the house of another friend, where a few words secured a boy of his age a holiday. Junior drove fast as he dared and hurried with his work; so he reached home a little before two, where he found ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... crowd!" he remarked laconically. "I'm afraid you'll find it a bit of a crush this time. I suppose you'll not let ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... ask why everybody who knows me is my friend? I might answer laconically that it was because they did not know me thoroughly, but, dismissing that defensive assumption of modesty, and making such self-inquiry as I can, I think I have a capacity for companionship from the fact that I was painfully poor as a kid. My consecutive schooling stopped when ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura • Augustus Thomas
... their business," Macloud replied, laconically. "If they're not proficient in it, they ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott
... said Manning laconically. "For one thing we are out to bust Interplanetary Power. Bust them ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak
... laconically. 'And I'm puzzled,' I added, still looking at him as he walked over the grass, 'as to whether he's a little man who looks middle-sized, or a middle-sized man ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... took his pipe from his lips. "It's Mr. Jefferson," he answered laconically. "He's the one man in this country to ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... "Bad," the other answered laconically. "They sent to Stenton for help. His head's cracked. It's funny," he commented, "with a hundred people around nobody saw ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... the other laconically. "Well, you know more about it than I do, I suppose. Come on; we go ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable
... wrinkled and shrivelled, true Domine Dolittles. Of Turkistan we know little, but what we know confirms my statement. Mr. Schuyler in his Turkistan (i. 132) offers an illustration of a "Batchah" (Pers. bachcheh catamite), "or singing-boy surrounded by his admirers." Of the Tartars Master Purchas laconically says (v. 419), "They are addicted to Sodomie or Buggerie." The learned casuist Dr. Thomas Sanchez the Spaniard had (says Mirabeau in Kadhesch) to decide a difficult question concerning the sinfulness of a peculiar erotic perversion. The Jesuits ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
... laconically, "and a tough case at that." Then he looked keenly at the fine specimen of manhood before him, noting with alert eye that there had been no blanching of panic in the beautiful face, no slightest movement as if to get out of the room. The young man ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... over the Artist's shoulder and incidentally to suggest that we might have cigarettes. A veteran of two years at twenty, his empty left sleeve told why he was reforme. Glad to get out of the mess so easily, he explained to us laconically; and now he was eking out his pension by driving a cart for the Vallauris pottery. The express train "burned" (as he put it) the pottery station, and he had come to put on grande vitesse parcels at Antibes. Cannes was a hopeless place for the potters: baskets of flowers always took precedence ...
— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons
... said Peter laconically. His mind was pretty full just then, and there was a note of confidence in Purvis's voice which gave him the idea that their search was nearly over. He began to wonder how much money he had, and whether there was any chance of the Scottish place being his. Bowshott, of course, would pass away from ...
— Peter and Jane - or The Missing Heir • S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
... I guess," remarked Dubois laconically, as Jacques and Leon entered the dug-out. Earl ...
— Fighting in France • Ross Kay
... in his conversation upon points which a due self-respect for those acquirements which he possessed, equal to any individual living, should have taught him to have observed. To describe this deficiency as laconically as possible, Mr. Colton wanted that mental firmness which the unfortunate Burns has aptly enough termed "Self-control." I once saw him, in the company of the above mentioned Mr. Tucker, seat himself, at Edmonton Fair, in ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, - Issue 553, June 23, 1832 • Various
... Sister's sick," Howe answered laconically. "House's all shipshape. Wanta eat here, ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... clay—black sand by itself—and then quartz reef," replied Seth, laconically, repeating the words as if he were saying a lesson he had learnt ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... saw off er chaw off," he would remark laconically, as he tried first one implement and then the other. "I wisht ter gracious thet theer scisser leg'd stay whar't war put; but Lide trum the grape vines with 'em las' week an' they is wus sprung then they wus befo'. But wimmen ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 • Various
... in the circumstances," replied Chrissie laconically. "We've got to outwit her somehow. It's a case of 'Greek meets Greek'. How else are we ...
— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... make mistakes," she said laconically. "And, what's more to the point, miss, he's a friend of George Remington, and why should he be giving his lady a vacation? You are E. Eliot, and your friends think you're workin' too hard, so they're goin' to give you a nice rest. Nothin' will happen to you if you ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... man said laconically, arranging the gardenia in his coat, and taking a comprehensive survey ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... Blakeney laconically. "Have you not yet learned the lesson of never putting your hand ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... as Assistant Adjutant," replied Wagstaffe laconically. "Ainslie, wake up and tell us what the war has done for you, since you abandoned the Stock Exchange and took ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay
... where the water would show their markings and beat itself to foam against them. Mrs. Holt looked on in breathless amazement and privately expressed to her son her opinion of him in terse and vigorous language. He answered laconically: "Has a fish got much to say about what happens to it after you get it out of ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter
... travel toward you. I can remember when you were more timid, amigo." He turned his head until his eyes fell upon Andy. "Say, Andy!" he called. "Come and take a look at this hombre. You'll have to think back a few years," he assisted laconically. ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... I said," laconically. "I can't afford to pay full tuition, so I wait on Prof. Seabrook and his wife, and do other kinds of work to make up the rest. You see"—the flush creeping higher, but with a secret determination to "sound" the new junior- -"I haven't any ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... laconically, waiting for her to precede him. He said nothing as to the office-boy, nor as to Mr. Karkeek. Hilda was now sure that something strange ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... replied the deputy laconically. "We didn't believe Tag would build such a large fire, but we took a chance and looked in. If you haven't anything else to do, young Long-legs, you might pick out three stout clubs for ...
— The High School Boys in Summer Camp • H. Irving Hancock
... shall we make for, then?" asked the doctor, while Rodd caught all he could of the conversation, as the wind kept coming in gusts and seemed to snatch the words and carry them overboard in an instant. "Havre," grunted the captain laconically. There was silence for some time, for it became too hard work to talk, but in one of the intervals between two gusts, a few words were spoken, the doctor asking the skipper if he was satisfied with the ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... openly stated that he would not long survive the insult to his professional authority. He intimated to his employer that it was his intention to forthwith hold a court-martial in his cabin, and requested him to take part in the investigation. The owner was a person gifted with a sense of humour. He laconically expressed his willingness to remain aboard, but refused to have anything to ...
— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman
... let somebody put eyes in that rope, Curly," remarked Phil, laconically, as he stepped aside ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... lunch, and they were soon seated at a table in a corner where they could talk without being interrupted. They spoke of ordinary things for a moment. Then Lord Tancred's impatience to get at the matter which interested him became too great to wait longer, so he said laconically: ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn
... which he put, first and last, as much labour as might have filled the whole of a creditable career. He began to take an active part in connection with the Aborigines Protection Society and presided at its Annual Meeting in 1870. This, says the Memoir laconically, 'threw on ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... gradually absorb his faculties, turns round with frenzied hatred on the accomplice of his fratricide. Bosola demands the price of guilt. Ferdinand spurns him with the concentrated eloquence of despair and the extravagance of approaching insanity. The murderer taunts his master coldly and laconically, like a man whose life is wrecked, who has waded through blood to his reward, and who at the last moment discovers the sacrifice of his conscience and masculine freedom to be fruitless. Remorse, frustrated hopes, and thirst for vengeance convert Bosola from this ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... "All ready—shoot!" Laconically. Cleveland also was constitutionally unable to voice his deeper sentiments in time ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... "Pike," he answered laconically, and left his luncheon to fasten a trolling hook on his trout line. After he had fixed a piece of cork to the line for a "bobber," he baited the hook with a small live trout and dropped it into the pool. "Now we'll have a pike," ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace
... "Go ahead," she said, laconically. Druse dragged a chair to the side of the couch, and for some minutes there was silence—that is, the comparative silence that might exist in the Vere De Vere—while she deftly touched the burning smooth flesh ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich
... Macdonald laconically, speaking for the first time. Then he added reluctantly: "If any of 'em tries ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... Holland House, is the residence of Addison, who became possessed of it in 1716, by his marriage with Charlotte, Countess Dowager of Warwick and Holland. It is said that he did not add much to his happiness by this alliance; for one of his biographers, rather laconically observes, that "Holland House is a large mansion, but it cannot contain Mr. Addison, the Countess of Warwick, and one guest, Peace." Mr. Addison was appointed Secretary of State, in 1717, and died at Holland House, June 17, 1719. Addison had been tutor to the young earl, and anxiously, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13, No. 374 • Various
... lady, somewhat laconically, "the happiest days of my life were spent among the chivalry of South Carolina. Indeed, Madam, I have received the attention and honors of the very ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams
... burn till she's too hot to hold us," he replied laconically; "and then it is not easy to say where five hundred people are to find standing-room. There is danger, Peter; but a stout heart ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... care of them right enough," she answered laconically. "But not because you've paid me, but because I'm ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... friend, and therefore, I must put in a word or two for him. Yes, he is a splendid writer. Again and again I assert that he writes magnificently. I do not agree with you about his works, and never shall. He writes too ornately, too laconically, with too great a wealth of imagery and imagination. Perhaps you have read him without insight, Barbara? Or perhaps you were out of spirits at the time, or angry with Thedora about something, or worried about some ...
— Poor Folk • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... & Oppenheim, on the receipt of this jocose instrument, immediately communicated with their once magnificent client, who laconically instructed them to put it away in a very safe place as it might come in handy some time. To their own and to his subsequent surprise, they DID put it away in a safe place, but forgot all about it until he walked in upon them fifteen years afterwards and revealed himself ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... thing I know well enough to make a living at it," she said laconically. "I think the fire needs some more ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... received no name. The French official communiques laconically refer to it as "operations in ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... "Thanks," laconically, laying the paper down on the desk. "One moment before you go," and from a well-filled wallet he extracted a treasury bill whose denomination caused Henry's eyes to beam ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... Office employes to approach the House of Commons directly, or to sign a petition to the House with reference to any grievance, after having unsuccessfully petitioned the Postmaster-General. Mr. Morley replied laconically, "There is no such rule." Then several of the Tory members attempted to corner Sir U.K. Shuttleworth about the quantity of coals consumed in the "Majestic" while going at full speed. Sir Edward Harland was cautious, and Mr. Gibson Bowles, ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor
... census.' And he began turning the leaves as if searching for a lost place, remarking, laconically: 'Sultry.' ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... the Company store and factor's quarters. They were on tolerably familiar ground. First they made for the cabin of Dougal MacPhee, an ancient servitor of the Company and a distant relative of Breyette's, for whom they had a gift of tobacco. Old Dougal welcomed them laconically, without stirring from his seat in the shade. He sucked at an old clay pipe. His half-breed woman, as wrinkled and time worn as himself, squatted on the earth sewing moccasins. Old Dougal turned his thumb toward a bench and bade them ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... years ago, that there WASN'T," Peaceful drawled laconically, and sucked so hard upon his pipe that his ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower
... admitted Bill laconically, "nabbed right off an' in the cooler waitin' his turn, yer won't be troubled by him fer quite a spell, I'll give yer ...
— The Angel of the Tenement • George Madden Martin
... replied Cynthia, laconically. There was no need of further explanation. Joyce giggled at its shorn appearance, and then relapsed into another long silence. There were times when these two companions could talk frantically for hours on a stretch. There were other seasons when they would ...
— The Boarded-Up House • Augusta Huiell Seaman
... Mr. Gladstone had taken to his bed, but was known to be strongly in favour of sending Zebehr. The Cabinet were unanimous the other way, and Hartington was sent to see Mr. Gladstone, we waiting till he returned. When he came back, he laconically stated what had passed as follows: "He thinks it very likely that we cannot make the House swallow Zebehr, but he thinks he could." Morley has told this, but the words which he took verbally from me are less good. [Footnote: Life of Gladstone, vol. iii., p. 159.] Baring on the 6th had recommended ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn
... reception," said Betty laconically, throwing a slipper into the closet with one hand and pulling out hairpins with the other. "What a pity that to-morrow's Sunday. We shall have to wait a whole ...
— Betty Wales Freshman • Edith K. Dunton
... of the general," spoke Stretcher, laconically, as he set down his glass and commenced to stroke his beard, "that he has means ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... experience has the greater value, if only the experience rendered covers enough human interests. Youth and aspiration indulge in poetry; a mature and masterful mind will often despise it, and prefer to express itself laconically in prose. It is clearly proper that prosaic habits should supervene in this way on the poetical; for youth, being as yet little fed by experience, can find volume and depth only in the soul; the half-seen, the supra-mundane, the inexpressible, seem to it alone beautiful ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... so, I reckon," replied Ackley laconically. "He believes in a heaven and that he's going there. That's the only queer thing I ever discovered in Waldo. He's worth a lot of ...
— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe
... his friend laconically. Just for an instant his sleepy gaze touched Billy's rugged face, then fell casually away. "I suppose any comments that occur to me are superfluous?" he ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... the stained-glass windows in the fine old church of St. Ouen, and walked by the banks of the Rille, to the ruins of a castle (of the twelfth century) at Montfort; we shall have seen the chief objects of interest, in what Murray laconically describes as, 'a prettily situated town of 5400 ...
— Normandy Picturesque • Henry Blackburn
... is laconically called Toller. It serves the two villages Toller Fratrum and Toller Porcorum. The Toller of the Brothers is charmingly situated on the side of a low hill. It once belonged to the Knights of St. John, whence its name. The Early English church has an old font sculptured with the heads of what ...
— Wanderings in Wessex - An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter • Edric Holmes
... found time and energy to destroy and plunder the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine, and relieve Raleigh's exhausted colony in Virginia. With the remnants of the settlers on board, he weighed for England, and on July 28, 1586, he was writing from Plymouth to Lord Burghley laconically reporting his return; and, apologizing for having missed the Plate fleet by only twelve hours' sail—"the reason best known to God"—he declared that he and his fleet were ready at once to strike again in any direction the Queen would ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various
... said Gunson, laconically. And then, as the woman left the room, he continued, "Well, I'll take your view of it, my lad. We'll say he has got into some ...
— To The West • George Manville Fenn
... chops, "Where will I find the ruins of the old fort?" I asked of my bronze-faced neighbor across the wreck of supper. He looked bored and stiffened a horny practical thumb in the general direction of the ruins. "Over there," he said laconically. ...
— The River and I • John G. Neihardt
... think, so long as he was not mean in view or petty, yet he scorned and even despised the commercial viewpoint or trade reactions of a man like McKinley. Rulers ought to be above mere commercialism. Once when I asked him why he disliked McKinley so much he replied laconically, "The voice is the voice of McKinley, but the hands—are the hands of Hanna." Roosevelt seemed to amuse him always, to be a delightful if ridiculous and self-interested "grandstander," as he always said, "always looking out for Teddy, ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... not long left the presence of the lady, who so laconically denied him, when another appears by her side. A man, too; but no rival of Richard Darke—no lover of Helen Armstrong. The venerable white-haired gentleman, who has taken Darke's place, is her father, the old colonel himself. His air, on ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid
... the captain, laconically, and looking at his lovely burdens with great affection. "Mr. Birch, would you have me leave such company so soon, when I may never enjoy ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... taught, I believe," he had responded, laconically; and Sir Stephen had nodded emphatically, and ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... laconically. "They don't get scared, Mr. Hunter, and maybe kill me sometime. You could tell the sheriff I'm government hunter and honest man, and I take good care of things. You ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower |
