"Inconsequently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with tea, and for a while the business of it kept them lightly occupied, and talking inconsequently; but presently Rokeby ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton
... to see you, Mademoiselle," he said, rather inconsequently, lifting his hat and bowing with rough grace, while he extended his right hand cordially. "You have something to say to me? Come with me ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... hoped no offence would be taken where none had been meant. My voice, coming right back to its own quarters, reassured him that of course I had taken no offence at all, adding that I myself very often mistook one face for another. He replied, rather inconsequently, that the world was a ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm
... in the great building itself reach their ears: they sat aloof, shut off, as it were, from the living world. And this feeling soon grew downright oppressive: it must be like this to be dead, thought Laura to herself; and inconsequently remembered a quarter of an hour she had once spent in a dentist's ante-room: there as here the same soundless vacancy, the same anguished expectancy. Now, as then, her heart began to thump so furiously that she was afraid the others would hear it. But they, ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson
... being after all but a shade more strange than his having himself, with Milly, never for six weeks mentioned the young lady in question. It was for that matter but a shade more strange than Milly's not having mentioned her. In spite of which, and however inconsequently, he blushed anew for Kate's silence. He got away from it in fact as quickly as possible, and the furthest he could get was by reverting for a minute to the man they had been judging. "How did he manage to get at her? She had only—with what had passed between them ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James
... concluded inconsequently with a vocal imitation of a post-horn; and, looking up, I saw the head and shoulders of Byfield projected over ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... when we know all and the mystery is solved," she replied; then she added inconsequently, "I wonder if we shall ever hear of the old ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold
... Mistress Prudence assented, her grief too recent to allow a smile even at the picture of the late Waddilove (a man of full habit) cleaving the air with frequent somersaults. She added, not quite inconsequently: ...
— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... least inconsequently, they passed inside the gate together. Their brows were fairly unclouded; no special marks of conflict remained; for they had met and conversed in a manner customary rather ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... shot,' she said inconsequently, as Mrs. Crowley handed her a cap of tea. 'Of course it's ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham |
