"Inconsequently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... come himself?' she asked somewhat inconsequently, and going off on another tack at once. 'I can't understand how a man of any spirit can make love ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy
... buried in her hands and she did not answer. Childlike he turned from one question to another inconsequently. ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... hoping you were a member," said Mr. Blake, inconsequently. "But to return to the story, do you think that Miss Watson was so very much to blame ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... place, and the party, having ascended the staircase, entered the first and finest of the rooms. Lord Warburton addressed her alertly enough, but said in a moment that he was leaving the gallery. "And I'm leaving Rome," he added. "I must bid you goodbye." Isabel, inconsequently enough, was now sorry to hear it. This was perhaps because she had ceased to be afraid of his renewing his suit; she was thinking of something else. She was on the point of naming her regret, but she checked herself ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2 (of 2) • Henry James
... of it." Hodder comprehended that she was referring to her husband. She added inconsequently: "If I let him go, and he never came back! Oh, I couldn't ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... we exclaimed, as if this accounted for everything; but we were really only trying to gain time. "If you had landed at New York, do you think your sensibilities would have suffered in the same degree?" We added, inconsequently enough, "We always supposed that Boston was exemplary in the matters you ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... would haunt me if they fell into bad hands. Now I am not sure that Mr. Scougall would choose the best successor. Before he married I could have trusted his judgment." She fell a-musing again. "Archibald is here in Plymouth," she added inconsequently. "My nephew, you know." ...
— The Adventures of Harry Revel • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
