"Sententiously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was—where the wind blew from, as I may say. Ladies, here you have the means of preservin' your health and your beauty for the longest day you live, and all for two dollars—only two dollars a box. In short, ladies and gentlemen," concluded the persevering fellow sententiously, "you have my warranty that this sarve heals all curable diseases; and if it be true, as the famous Doctor Flathead says, that there be only two sorts of maladies—them of which people die, and them of which they ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... his shoulder, and slowly wrinkled his leathern cheeks into an encouraging smile. 'Like ter near killed a woggin,' replied he sententiously. 'Will be ashore in a brace ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... sententiously, "does a lot of harm and makes a lot of folks miserable. It's a good thing to keep away from, and if I ever hear of your gossiping about anybody, I'll shut you up in your room for two weeks and keep you ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... sententiously, "may, I suppose, be a wonderful revelation, because you only see your fare's eyes for a second, and the things you may see have no limit, and you never know the silly little truth about him. Yet even so, there is more than a ticket and a look between you and me, ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson
... said Dagobert sententiously, after reflecting a moment on this case of conscience; "one of two things must be. Either you were right, or else you were wrong, to hide this from me. If you were right, very well; if you were wrong, it ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue
... said sententiously that the child is the father of the man. In this case most of us should blush for our parentage. It will be conceded at once (subject, of course, to special reservations in favor of individual brats) ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various
... with a meaning flourish of his stick, "there it is. The poetic spirit always dies at the advance of that ghastly fetich." Then he spoke sententiously. "Popular education is a contrivance of the devil, whereby he looks to extinguish every last saving grace from the life of the populace. Not poetry only, but all good things and all good feelings,—religion, reverence, courtesy,—sane contentment, rational ambition,—the right ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... opened in 1889. At the best it allowed me but a limited amount of energy, so that doubtless there was much nervous depression at the foundation of the spiritual struggles which this chapter is forced to record. However, it could not have been all due to my health, for as my wise little notebook sententiously remarked, "In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... of the patriarchs," said Mr. Welsh sententiously. Saunders looked at him with some wonder expressed in ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... the elder sententiously replied, "marrit on Neil McNab at fifty. Janet's labor's no going to waste. An' if you were the on'y man i' Zorra, it wad behoove me to conseeder the lassie's prospects i' the next world. ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors
... one uses, the more it shines," said Lantier, sententiously, with his mouth full of ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... an outward light," said Moodie, sententiously: "your friend, wanting that inward light, chose, for a little personal convenience, to countenance a shining idolatry." Their host, gathering from their looks and gestures that they wanted more light, now brought in another lamp, which the ladies soon used to light them to the chamber allotted ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... very well to criticise these people," pursued Jim sententiously, after a long silence, "although they have all been kindness and graciousness itself to you! They may be shallow, they may be silly; I don't hold any brief for Minna Vane and Paula Billings. But I know that Minna is on the Hospital Board, and Paula a mighty kind-hearted, good little woman, and they ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... he would never lend himself to a deceit. "I am not a judge of genius," she said, "and I know nothing of pictures. I am but a poor simple widow; but I know that the Signor Teobaldo has the heart of an angel and the virtue of a saint. He is my benefactor," she added sententiously. The after- glow of the somewhat sinister flush with which she had greeted me still lingered in her cheek, and perhaps did not favour her beauty; I could not but fancy it a wise custom of Theobald's to visit her only by candle-light. She ...
— The Madonna of the Future • Henry James
... Kittridge," said Miss Roxy, sententiously. "This 'un ain't like your Sally. 'A hen and a bumble-bee can't be fetched up alike, fix it ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... be a heap more uneasy if they knew what we know," remarked Williams, sententiously. "Hear anything more about the Chihuahua ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... good mother anything's excusable," said Mme Maloir sententiously when left alone ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... right. I am glad that you will sail in February. You will thereby escape the winds of March and the tempests of the spring equinox," said the Iron King, sententiously. ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... be read," he replied sententiously when he had finished. "And tunes was made to be sung. And yo' all oughta be proud to death at the way yo' all made a hit with yore po'try. It beats what Mary V wrote, Skyrider. If yo' all want to know my honest opinion, Mary V's plumb sore because ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... mules, drowned in the attempt to cross the Skeena, were reported passing the wharf at the post. The wife of a retired Indian agent, who claimed to have been over the route many years ago, was interviewed by my partner. After saying that it was a terrible trail, she sententiously ended with these words, "Gentlemen, you ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... he said, sententiously. "We forgive all the errors of your long vacation in consideration of the good it has evidently done you. You are ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... Nick, sententiously; for he had lived enough among the pale-faces to have some notions of then ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... answered for a moment. Then the officer with the humorous twinkle about the eyes and the twitch at the lip corners, bent forward, placed his elbows on his knees, his fingers tip to tip, gazed dreamily at the floor, and sententiously said: ...
— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King
... of the lady Eleanor's themes. I've heard that prosperity turns people's heads, but I never knew it made them into bears. She's actually more unpleasant than she was before she reformed. And the moral of that is, don't reform," added Mary sententiously. ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... another night. The day following, the archbishop submitted the clause containing the title to the Upper House, with a saving paragraph, which, as Burnet sententiously observes, the nature of things did require to be supposed.[297] "Ecclesiae et cleri Anglicani," so it ran, "singularem protectorem, et unicum et supremum Dominum, et quantum per legem Christi licet, etiam supremum caput ipsius ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... 'twon't do fer ter give out too much cloff fer ter cut one pa'r pants," replied the old man sententiously. ...
— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris
... are tripha," said De Haan sententiously. "Page 7, now we get to the most dreadful thing of all!" A solemn silence fell on the ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... his back. His collar was plentifully embroidered as well as his coat-sleeves, and a black seam ran down his trousers. He wore spurs of prodigious size, and looked, in the main, like a tragedian about to appear upon the stage. The other man was young, stout, and good humored; and he talked sententiously, with a little vanity, but much courtesy. The Federals had nothing to say to these, they dealt only with equals in rank. It became a matter of professional ambition, now, to obtain the greatest amount of information from these Confederates, without appearing to depart from any conventionality ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
... 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 Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... a bad end, all of them," he declared sententiously. "Violent deaths had all the Lorrigans before them—all save Tom, and the Lord but stays his hand for a time from that man. The wicked shall flourish as ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... constraint, it is true, but without any embarrassing incident, when Mrs. Mayhew was the means of placing poor Ida in a very painful dilemma. Under a general impulse to conciliate her daughter and make amends, and with her usual want of tact, she suddenly and sententiously said: ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... vermouths he glorified the Company's business, and by and by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there. He became very cool and collected all at once. 'I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,' he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... can't be in low spirits when she's about. All the girls adore her, but you won't. She says herself that men can't appreciate her, so she's going to devote her life to women, out of revenge. Men never care for women unless they are pretty and taking," cried Rhoda, with an air, and Harold protested sententiously. ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... dividing the watch with Tom Simson somehow managed to take upon himself the greater part of that duty. He excused himself to the Innocent by saying that he had "often been a week without sleep." "Doing what?" asked Tom. "Poker!" replied Oakhurst sententiously. "When a man gets a streak of luck,—nigger-luck,—he don't get tired. The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler reflectively, "is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you. ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson
... sleep, in dividing the watch with Tom Simson, somehow managed to take upon himself the greater part of that duty. He excused himself to the Innocent, by saying that he had "often been a week without sleep." "Doing what?" asked Tom. "Poker!" replied Oakhurst, sententiously; "when a man gets a streak of luck,—nigger-luck,—he don't get tired. The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler, reflectively, "is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change ...
— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... little compairateevely what a man lives upo'," said Cupples sententiously, "sae it be first-rate o' 'ts ain kin'. ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... end Frau Reinhart introduced her husband to Christophe. He was extremely ugly; he had a pale, greasy, pockmarked, rather sinister face, but he looked very kind. He spoke low down in his throat and pronounced his words sententiously, ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... that. You would not be able to work a place like that under twenty-five thousand pounds," Willy replied sententiously. "I have got about eight thousand left of my own, and I came in for a legacy of three thousand at the beginning of this year—an aunt of mine left me the money; and my father has agreed to let me have fourteen ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... learning to be got from books and the learning to be got from experience," said I sententiously. "If you have less of your share of the one, perhaps you have more of the other. I cannot believe you have spent all your life in mere ...
— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle
... fool like our Steward can be dangerous sometimes," declared Captain Giles sententiously. "Just because he is a fool," he added, imparting further instruction in his complacent low tones. "For," he continued in the manner of a set demonstration, "no sensible person would risk being kicked out of the only berth between himself and starvation just to get rid of a simple annoyance—a ...
— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad
... sometimes without luggage, my dear," he said sententiously; "but with such luggage as ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... is soon forgotten," says he, sententiously, during a pause. "You all seem strangely oblivious of the fact that last night there was a ball in this house. Why shirk the subject? I like talking," says Mr. Potts, superfluously, "and surely you must all have something ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... his door, and then sententiously remarked: "Major, I think I'll light out and find some of the boys. You ain't got no call to know anything about it, but I allow it's about time them ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various
... make allowances for any youthful errors into which he may have been betrayed,' Louis continued sententiously, 'since, for a scientist, he is really admirable. No doubt the Bishop's caution will not be lost upon him; and as for his birth and connexions,—those ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy
... just like the hospital in a white one," he observed sententiously. "Well, how are things over there? How is ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... of rifles, McNair. Guns go off," interpolated the other sententiously. "What'n the mischief do you expect to gain by ...
— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse
... administering such medicine as the respective cases required. The prevailing type of sickness was malarial fever, for which, the sovereign specific seemed to be quinine. As for me, I was exempt from the taking of medicine, for which I was thankful. The surgeon, after inquiry into my case, would sententiously remark, "Ah! acute rheumatism," and pass on. I was at a loss to understand this seeming neglect, but a sort of explanation was given me later, which will be mentioned in its order. The food that was given the sick was meager and very unsatisfactory, but it was ...
— The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 • Leander Stillwell
... said Captain Du Meresq, sententiously. "Even you, my beloved Cecil, who are a woman of mind, can't stand my ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... the reading-desk, and, turning over the leaves of the Bible to find the Book of Daniel, announced sententiously: "Let's see what Dannel done in his dai (day)." Up jumped Jim H. at the back of the room: "Oh, I can tell tha (thee) what Dannel done in his dai—cut a yedge (hedge) for Master R., and took whome all the best ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... sententiously, "but he's had to work for it, mark you! He's had the most extraordinary life, they tell me. He was at one period of his career a bartender on the Rand, a man was saying at the club the other day. But most of ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... droned Ismail's voice above sententiously, and turning, he thought he could see red eyes peering over the rock. He jumped, and made a grab for the flowing beard that surely must be below them, ...
— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... confer them with your gentleness and mercy, Mrs. Yocomb. Oh! oh! I wish I could make you and your husband know how I thank you. I, too, never forget. But if we talk this way any more, I shall have to make a hasty retreat." "Well, I should say this was a thanksgiving dinner," remarked Reuben sententiously. ...
— A Day Of Fate • E. P. Roe
... Democrates, sententiously, "needs the life of a crow, who, they say, lives a thousand years, but I don't see any black wings budding on ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... "Golf, sir," retorted Boswell, sententiously, "is the same everywhere, and that which is dome in our world is directly in line with what is ...
— The Enchanted Typewriter • John Kendrick Bangs
... be more patriotic perhaps," observed Lord RHONDDA'S minion sententiously, "not to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 26, 1917 • Various
... wiser to contemplate accomplishing the good result without any unnecessary and treacherous bloodshed," answered Del Ferice, sententiously. Again Gouache smiled in his delicate satirical fashion, and glanced at Madame Mayer, ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford
... agreement that the damage done to these American citizens was very large. At the outbreak of the revolution, according to evidence presented, guarantees had been received by the Mormons from both of the major Mexican factions, but, when these guarantees were referred to, General Salazar sententiously ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... Crown, have been fooled by men," said the other sententiously. "Oh, I don't mean the way you think, my child,—so don't glare at me like that. I know you can take care of yourself THAT way,—but how about falling in love? And getting married? And finding out afterward ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... the heart grow fonder," remarked the secretary sententiously. "And you may be living in a fool's paradise. Lambert is within running-away ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... pease, mushrooms, pate de foie gras, mustard, and the like, and behind them rows of olive oil and olives. I carefully draw out a bottle from the row on the last shelf nearest the corner, mount the steps, and place it on the table. Madame examines the cork, and puts down the bottle, remarking sententiously:— ...
— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various
... McBane sententiously. "The only way to keep them from stealing is not to give them the chance. A nigger will steal a cent off a dead man's eye. He has assaulted and murdered a white woman,—an example ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... name," he remarked on his return, "is Violetta Rosy. She was born at two a. m. at Pier Forty-nine." He was silent for a moment and then went on sententiously, "Think what it'll mean to her, through all the storm and stress of life, to be able to look fondly back upon the dear old homestead. There's a punch to ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole
... give it up after one's first communion," said the eldest Mademoiselle Wermant, sententiously. "We ceased to 'tutoyer' our boy cousins after that. I am told nothing annoys a husband so much as to see these little familiarities between his wife and ...
— Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... tell with women," said the hairdresser, sententiously; "and meeting me sudden, and learning it could never be—no one can say how she ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... in tears. She took off her dressing jacket in order to show him her back and her arms, which were black and blue. He looked at her skin without being tempted to abuse the opportunity, as that ass of a Prulliere would have been. Then, sententiously: ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... her proffer, he says: "I was thunderstruck at her kindness and liberality, and thankfully accepted. She fixed on Mandane in 'Artaxerxes,' and brought the greatest receipts ever known at that house, as the whole pit, with the exception of two benches, was railed into boxes. So much," he adds sententiously, "for a little German proficiency, a little common civility, and a ...
— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris
... from her post of rest, and began to make the bed with the frown that always accompanied a task which strained the contracted muscles of her leg. "If you don't help your neighbour, your neighbour don't help you," she said sententiously. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... "A man," he said sententiously, "that has been blessed with a guid mother, and that gives the love of his heart to a guid woman, may aye gang through the ills o' this life like the children of Israel through the Red Sea, with a wall on's right hand and ...
— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... and clear away to the Continent until the matter blew over. I intended seeing her the next day, but I was still doubtful as to whether she would fall in with my views. Young people nowadays," he said sententiously, "are terribly selfish." ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... moment representing in France the American colonies then struggling for liberty, witnessed this ascension! "Of what use is a new-born child?" he remarked sententiously as the balloon vanished. 'Twas a saying worthy of a cautious philosopher. Had Franklin been in Paris in 1914 he would have found the child, grown to lusty manhood, a strong factor in the city's defence. It is worth noting by the way that so alert was the American mind at ...
— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot
... to look at him, "I'm in up to my neck, and getting deeper. Owe! B'gad, Beverley—I believe you!" But now, at sight of gravefaced Barnabas, he laughed again, and this time it sounded less ghoul-like. "Debt is a habit," he continued sententiously, "that grows on one most damnably, and creditors are the most annoying people in the world—so confoundedly unreasonable! Of course I pay 'em—now and then—deserving cases, y' know. Fellow called on me t' other ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... doesn't want to own it!" interrupted Lorimer sententiously. "You will excuse him; he means well! He looks rather seedy. I think, Mr. Gueldmar, we'll be off to the yacht. By the way, you're coming ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... as the gods will," he said sententiously. "It is merely a matter of duty to me, you know, and thank God, I have no family to mourn if anything does go wrong. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various
... forgotten he was ever young," replied Antonio, sententiously, "or he wouldn't set fire and ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... a hurry are almost the most enjoyable," June answered sententiously. "I'm quite bucked at the idea of living the simple life ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... dat I vas meet mit Cap'en Shackzon, of ze schgooners Mariposa, at Guayaquil," he began sententiously, clearing his throat, and seeming to speak in deeper and deeper tones as he proceeded with his narrative. "He vas go, he tells me, vor a drading voy'ge to ze Galapagos Islants, and vas vant a zecond-mate, and vas ask me vor ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... a bad name and hang him," said the colonel sententiously. "For twenty years I've had to fight the unjust suspicions of my enemies. I've been libelled," he shook his head sorrowfully. "I don't suppose there's anybody been libelled more than me—and my business associates. I've had the police nosing—I mean investigating—into ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... "Madame!" said the man sententiously, falling back another step, "notices are made to be read; you put them up, I read; I have the right to do so, but you have no right to say ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue
... to be dead," interposed The Seraph, sententiously, "you can't eat, you can't dwink, an' you just fly 'wound an' 'wound, lookin' for ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... mistaken in the prince!" and a day or two after, she had added, evidently alluding to him, but not mentioning his name, that it was an unalterable characteristic of hers to be mistaken in people. Then once more, ten days later, after some passage of arms with one of her daughters, she had remarked sententiously. "We have had enough of mistakes. I shall be more careful in future!" However, it was impossible to avoid remarking that there was some sense of oppression in the household—something unspoken, but felt; something strained. All the members of the family wore frowning ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... does that make? Men and women never know each other until after they're married anyhow," said his uncle, sententiously. "Peter, do you really wish to go abroad and study? Very well, then: marry Milly's niece. ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... less than thunder claps! And we'll see nothing worse on this coast," he added sententiously, as soon as he could get ...
— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... make light wuck," said the old woman sententiously. "I come yere arly dis mawnin' to gib Missy Mara a lif' kase she's been lookin' po'ly an' I hab her on my min' anxious-like. But now, wid a larfin', sunshiny little ting like you aroun', Missy Ella, she'll soon be as peart as a cricket. Vilet, chile, jes wait on me an' han' me tings, an' dese two ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... beaming with self-assurance. Looking him over for a few minutes without saying a word Sir James opened fire: "Mr. Tompkins, I believe?"—"Yes."—"You are a stockbroker, I believe, are you not?"—"I ham." Pausing for a few seconds and making an attentive survey of him, Sir James remarked sententiously, "And a very fine and well-dressed ham you ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... way it is," said Caleb sententiously. And after a pause: "I allow it helps some, too; greases the wheels some if it don't ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... alike to him," said Spantz sententiously. "I hope she is not to be left here for long. I don't like women about at a time like this. No offence, ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... as usual. A rummy start!" remarked the policeman, sententiously; and then, while Barton was sounding and stanching the wound of the housekeeper's victim, and applying such styptics as he had within reach, the guardian of social order succeeded in clearing The Bunhouse of its patrons, in closing the door, ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
... said Koda sententiously; "it was the whiskey, which surely is distilled from fruits that grow only on the shores of the Sea of Sorrow. Now your head is wracked with the torments of hell, and your mouth is like a cave in the desert; but you shall be cured ...
— The Missionary • George Griffith
... not joined in the argument, was pleased to observe that she was quite of Nan's opinion: dancing was imperative, and if the lawns were wet they must manage in-doors somehow. "It would never do for people to be bored and listless," finished the young lady, sententiously, and such was Phillis's cleverness that it was understood at once that the oracle had spoken; but then it was never known for Nan ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... "Wrong," said Gertrude sententiously. "When a man gets home at night, weary in body and mind with the grind of his business, he wants a good dinner, an easy chair, his newspaper or magazine, his pipe. I can understand how like heaven a woman can make his home—a woman with tact;—or how like the other place it might ...
— A Woman for Mayor - A Novel of To-day • Helen M. Winslow
... Deborah sententiously. "I judge of people by their belongings. No lady could get into that dogcart without dirtying her dress against the wheel; and if he had a wife, that handsome bay horse would go with another in her carriage instead of his. Besides, he wouldn't be so fond of his pointers if ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville
... that month," said the Professor sententiously; "Your hair may grow white with the strangeness of ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... they are mothers," said Selma sententiously. "It was a woman's vote, you remember, which elected you to build our church. You owe it to Art; don't you ...
— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant
... an obscure Pennsylvania Congressman by the name of George Kremer tendered his respects to "the Honorable H. Clay," avowed his authorship of the communication in question, offered to prove the truth of his charges, and closed sententiously by affirming that as a representative of the people he would "not fear to 'cry aloud and spare not' when their rights and privileges are at stake." The matter was serious, but official Washington could hardly ...
— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg
... are better than bad ones for a good man," mused Torquatus, wagging his head sententiously, and darting at his companion a comprehensive glance, behind which lurked a grim smile. "If women could ever learn as much, they might govern us the more readily—which the gods forefend! as I ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne
... artist said sententiously, "But do thou raise me from this ere daybreak, even if thou must take a ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... Jack, sententiously, "was first of all an author, Laving published at Rome an Easy Introduction to the Latin Language; he afterwards turned general, conquered France and England, and gave Mr. Pompey a sound thrashing at the battle ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
... that Herr von Holzen is a philanthropist, my dear," said Marguerite Wade, sententiously, "that is exactly where your toes ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman
... Miss McCroke sententiously, "is always a good, and we cannot too highly estimate ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon
... can't possibly be too careful," remarked Mrs. White, sententiously. "The world's full of gossiping people, and women are very impressionable, especially such high-strung women as that young widow. A man can't possibly be too careful. Read me ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... should have said so,' remarked Vernon, sententiously. He had lived all his little life in grown-up society, and had been allowed to hear everything, and to talk about everything, whereby he had come to consider ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... parcel he had so carefully brought upstairs with him. "This loving cup is a token of the regard and esteem in which you are held by us in general, and me and my wife in particular. And I can tell you my wife is particular, very particular," added Mr. Costello sententiously. "Here, take it!" and the Bowery Museum proprietor thrust a large pewter water ...
— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein
... "I won't," she replied, sententiously; "I'd like to hear of anybody saying that! I'd excommunicate them, I'm going to close the mouths of gossips, by setting my seal of proprietorship upon you. I'm coming here every day; but, after this, I'll bring Aunt Honor, or Mrs. O'Meara with ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... very apt to find fault with the tools they employ, instead of laying the blame on themselves," remarked the Baron, sententiously. ...
— Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin • William H. G. Kingston
... Isel sententiously. "Nothing of the sort, Anania. They say their prayers oftener ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... Iroquois ethics," says George Warrington, smoking his pipe sententiously, "rather than those which are at present received among us. I am not sure that something is not to be said, as against the Eastern, upon the Western, or Tomahawk, or Ojibbeway side of the question. I should not like," he added, ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... always selfish,' she said sententiously. 'But it really does not matter; things are just the same; he hasn't succeeded in altering anything—at least, not for the worse. We shall get ...
— Vain Fortune • George Moore
... "Spin it," she answered sententiously. "Of course you think I can't, but it happens that I once lived, when I was a little girl, very near to an old woman. I don't refer to her age, but her ideas. She carded and spun and wove and dyed all the family clothing. She made her own soap ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... "Polo," sententiously began the Second Secretary, who himself was a crackerjack at the game, "is a proposition of ponies! Men can be trained for polo. But polo ponies must be born. ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... sir,' said Brace, sententiously, 'and we must muzzle this one else there will be the ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... ask questions," she concluded at last sententiously. "Little boys that ask too many questions get ...
— Oldtown Fireside Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... was getting perilously near the edge which was farthest from the wall. Instantly he dismounted and went round to the other side, and, climbing up, pushed her gently into the middle of the bed, remarking sententiously to himself, "I think boys ought always to take the dangerous side of their sisters." Ah me! if only you mothers would but train your boys to "take the dangerous side of their sisters," especially of those poor little sisters who are thrust ...
— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins
... as hard to unlearn a thing as to learn it," said Kelly sententiously. "You can't make a man who has learned to wear shoes enjoy going around in his ...
— The Nature Faker • Richard Harding Davis
... your teeth unless you can bite," said Charteris sententiously. "What does the opposition ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier
... Sandy sententiously, "is because you're leading an idle existence. You're not doing anything—so of course there's no time to do ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... friends," declared Bobby Littell sententiously. "I only hope they're mad enough to hop right down to the office and ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... go dark all the rest of the year, like as anyway," observed Mrs. Pepper, stopping to untie a knot. "Folks who do so never have any candles," she added, sententiously. ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... warfare. How did he do this? Dispatching provisions by sea to Lough Foyle, he succeeded this time in marching through Tyrone, 'and in destroying on his way 4,000 cattle, which he was unable to carry away. He had left Shane's cows to rot where he had killed them; and thus being without food, and sententiously and characteristically concluding that man by his policy might propose, but God at His will did dispose; Lord Sussex fell back by the upper waters of Lough Erne, sweeping the country before him.' When the Irish peasantry saw the carcasses ...
— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin
... "Money," said Josie sententiously, "is a dangerous thing. Its possession, or the lack of it, leads to four-fifths of the world's crimes. The other one-fifth is charged to hatred and jealousy. But— dear me!—here I am philosophizing, when I ...
— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum
... exactly the manner in which Englishmen appreciate American character; and, among other things, he knew it was the general opinion in the island that money could do any thing with Jonathan; or, as Christophe is said once to have sententiously expressed the same sentiment, "if there were a bag of coffee in h—-, a Yankee could be found to go and ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... of life,' I said sententiously. 'Think, Edgecumbe,—some one shot at you in France,—why? You say you don't know that you have a single enemy in the world. Then ...
— "The Pomp of Yesterday" • Joseph Hocking
... her appearance of silliness, is a remarkably clever woman," said Lady Sarah, sententiously; "but, pray, Sir Ralph, if Mistress Angela's father has good reason for not prosecuting his daughter's lover—indeed I ever thought her an underhand hussy—why does not Sir Denzil Warner—who I hear has been at death's door—pursue him for assault ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... woman are her wealth and worth," he said sententiously, as though he were quoting a maxim out of a child's copybook. "A jewel's price is not so much for its size and weight as for its particular lustre. But common commercial people—like myself—even if they have the good fortune to find a diamond likely to surpass all others in the market, are never ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... are responsible for this disorder," he said sententiously, "it is easy to suppose that men can restore ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden
... stared a moment, and then resumed sententiously, "Well, I've heard more gospel in that remark than if I'd gone to church. And I couldn't go to church, I could never have gone there again or held my ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... 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 ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... it," remarked Tubby sententiously, mopping his forehead, on which beads of cold perspiration had stood out while their destruction had seemed inevitable. So thoroughly unnerved were the lads, in fact, by their experience that it was some time before they ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... said Monty sententiously, "is that everybody's generally so beastly out of tune. They don't seem able to keep the pitch without ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... exclaimed Sir George sententiously, "but go! Leave me alone; you must be in the saddle early in the morning, and you at ...
— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday
... Mr. Grantham," somewhat sententiously drawled the captain; "I do not altogether understand your right to question in this tone—nor am I accountable for any observations I may make. Let me tell you, moreover—" this was said with the advising air of a superior in rank—"that it will neither be wise not prudent ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson
... said the sergeant sententiously. "So much water and marsh it's hard to escape it. The sooner ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... are wrong," said O'Toole, sententiously. Both Misset and Gaydon came to a dead stop and stared. Never had poetry so strange an advocate. O'Toole set his great legs apart and his arms akimbo. He rocked himself backwards and forwards on his heels and toes, while a benevolent smile of superiority wrinkled across his broad face from ear to ...
— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason
... Malise, sententiously, pointing to the heaps of dead wolves which were becoming more apparent as the night ebbed and the blue flame rose and fell like a ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... with that adventuress, Mrs. Ogleby. My advice is to fight, not to get in wrong by trying to dicker, for that might amount to confession, and suit Dorgan's purpose just as well. Photographs," he added sententiously, "are like statistics. They don't lie unless the people who make them do. But it's hard to tell what a liar can accomplish with either, in an election. I—I don't know that I'd desert you—if the pictures were true. I'd be sure there ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... with grim satisfaction, and then said, sententiously: "I'm glad you have got it, Alford, for it will keep you home and divert Grace's thoughts. In these times a wound that leaves the heart untouched may be useful; and nothing cures a woman's trouble better than having to take up the troubles of others. I predict a deal ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... broke their legs or lost their money, or if they got paralytic strokes, or something. You'd visit them in their affliction, but not in the ordinary playful circumstances of life. That's because you're an angel. I," said Miss Palliser sententiously, "am not. Why do I always come to you when I feel most ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair
... Comandante sententiously, "will know it but myself. You will leave the ship at Acapulco; you will rejoin your husband in good time; you will be happy, my child; you will forget the old man who drags out the few years of loneliness still left ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... John sententiously. "You remember that lame fellow saved a battle for us by knowing how ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... and drew a deep breath. "I presume," she began sententiously, "I presume we may take for granted that an intelligent young woman of twenty-three who has lived in civilised society in the ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley
... sententiously. "Babuji, I am afraid you are in a serious scrape. The matter has gone too far to be hushed up a second time. You cannot do anything directly without increasing the suspicion which attaches to you; but I will watch events and keep you ...
— Tales of Bengal • S. B. Banerjea
... objurgations for his own future use. As night fell, and the guest showed no intention of departure, some of the more cautious settlers suggested that he should be put on board the Mayflower for safe keeping, a plan which met Samoset's ready approval, for as he sententiously remarked,— ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... she could wait till the next court, wherefore the steward graciously knocked off seventy-five per cent. of his due; and, in lieu of two shillings, charged her only sixpence—ratione temporis et in misericordia, as he sententiously observes. Magnanimous steward! ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp
... Burky sententiously observed. "Headquarters sez you're t' be took in, an' you'll be took in, no matter what a feller's private opinion happens t' be. I ain't no bloomin' judge an' jury t' set on your case, anyway. You'll get a square trial—same as everybody gets. But you ain't a-helpin' yourself a-cuttin' ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... warden, sententiously. "An' it's been did, too. An' I'm here for to find out who done ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers
... he was in his grave," said Mrs. Bread, sententiously. "In a little while I went away to the front of the house and looked out into the court, and there, before long, I saw Mr. Urbain ride in alone. I waited a bit, to hear him come upstairs with his mother, but they stayed below, and ...
— The American • Henry James
... the youthful Crichton sententiously, "do not disturb yourself with those problems, which are already disposed of. In twenty years the sultan will become a monk, to get rid of the chief sultana, who has pestered his life out with her notions of woman's rights, and who wore the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... sententiously; "she can't. Her 'yes,' in such a case, is only good for herself; it can't make you any man's wife.—What shall you do? Why, nothin',—nothin' in the world. If they should bring bridegroom and parson, and stand you up side of him by main force, (which of course ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
... how much this method differs from that of those dogmatic philosophers who talk only of rights and duties; of what it is the duty of governments to do and the right of nations to demand, etc. I do not say sententiously: men have a right to be free; I confine myself to asking: how does it happen that ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon
... they have no suitors. But they ha' learned that marlock from the sailors of Rye town. For in Rye town, which is the sinkhole of Sussex, you will meet every morning ten travellers travelling to France in the livery of Father Adam. Normans can learn,' he added sententiously, 'as the beasts of the field can learn from a man. My father had a ewe lamb that danced a pavane to my pipe on the farm of Sallowford that you sold to buy a woman the third part of ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford
... Bartley, sententiously, "there are old housewives in the neighborhood that have more luck with poultry than any of ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... she found herself alone with old Billy, who was gazing after the fast-receding forms of the troopers. "Mass' Tahlton done ketch de debbil ef he meet dem Virginia man to-night," said the old fellow sententiously as he slowly retired into ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various |
