"Sententiously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do not mean to allow yourself to fall in love with her," I remarked, sententiously, "because it seems that 'allowing' is a matter for her to decide, not the men ...
— The First Violin - A Novel • Jessie Fothergill
... 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
... patient who comes aboard expressed the wish to be "sounded" in some portion of his or her anatomy for the suspected ailment which has brought him. One burly fisherman solemnly took off his huge oily sea-boot, placed a grimy forefinger on his heel, and remarked sententiously that the doctor "must sound him right there." The prescription was soap and water—a diagnosis in which I entirely concurred. The next case was a young girl with a "kink in her glutch." It has the sound of all too familiar motor trouble, but was dismissed as psychopathic. I wish that a similarly ...
— Le Petit Nord - or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour • Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell and Katie Spalding
... of the world," returned Mr. Hamlin, sententiously, "tells me that's the only way you can trust anybody. ONCE doesn't make a habit, nor show a character. I could see by his bungling that he had never tried this on before. Just now the temptation to wipe out his punishment by doing the square thing, ...
— A Sappho of Green Springs • Bret Harte
... far from here," he answered sententiously, and I saw he would say nothing more that might fix a false suspicion on anyone. Still, my curiosity was so great that if there had been an opportunity I certainly should have tried out his plan on all the cars in ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... bound to be doings," remarked Ben, sententiously, when the young leader had finished. "Down in Florida when he wasn't tumbling into alligators' mouths or getting bit by serpents he was allers up to some mischief—you mark my words there's something ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... "What was fun to Littledale," he said at last, rather sententiously, "may be death ...
— An International Episode • Henry James
... not quite settled i' my moind about th' little chap," he would say sententiously to his admirers. "He's noan siccan a foo' as th' owd un, for he's a graidely foo', he is, and no mistake. At any rate a little foo' is ...
— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... 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
... 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 should be ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... April, 1753, he got leave of absence; set out homewards, for recovery of health. Was at Paris through summer and autumn: very taciturn in society; 'preferred pretty women to any man of science;' would sententiously say a strong thing now and then, 'bitter but not without BONHOMIE,' shaking slightly his yellow wig. Disdainful, to how high a degree, of AKAKIA brabbles, and Voltaire gossip for or against! In winter went to St. Malo; ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... noticed 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
... light!" 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, but ...
— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... advanced to 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 of the ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... to school when we are no longer children," he would say sententiously. "Asa San must be patient. Asa San must forget. Asa San must take Japanese husband. I think it is the ...
— Kimono • John Paris
... fall out of a male flirt," Keith supplemented. "Dick," he went on sententiously and slangily, "was dead onto his job." After that he helped her into the saddle, ...
— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower
... 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 ...
— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine
... 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
... screechin' and say your prayers, marm," said Mr Zachariah Lathrope, sententiously. "The b'y is all right below, sleepin' in the corner of the sofy, and I'd advise you to go and rouse him up, instead of rushing up har like a mad bull in fly time, a knocking folks ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... replied Aunt 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 ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville
... a harmless old thing, though," replied the lawyer sententiously, "and every squatter on Cayuga Lake loves her. Believe ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... rules,' fell from him at length, sententiously. 'Our position, Rose, as I have often explained, is a delicate one. A lady in circumstances such as yours cannot exercise too much caution. Your natural associates are in the world of wealth; unhappily, I ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
... alike," said Captain Du Meresq, sententiously. "Even you, my beloved Cecil, who are a woman of mind, can't ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... made no sign that the foot hurt him, excepting by holding it off the ice. "Some wolf pelts good," he remarked, sententiously. ...
— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster
... farm," said Jack sententiously. "You don't hoe the potatoes one day and then go fishing for a week. But I may be wrong at that and if you find Mr. Hildreth needs an extra hired man, Rosemary, one to go fishing, I mean, ask him to send for me. I'll come right up and fish and look after ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence
... natural," said his uncle, sententiously, "that one should desire to prolong an agreeable life. We have perhaps a selfish indisposition to bring our pleasure to a close. But I presume," he added, "that you ...
— The Europeans • Henry James
... amusing; if they 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
... loved in life?" said the Empress, caressing the bird in the cage with one jewelled finger, but attentively observing her son from the corner of her august eye. "They were; they are not," he remarked sententiously and stifling a yawn; it was a drowsy afternoon. "But who is it that has abandoned us? Surely not the ...
— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck
... pity you stopped me just then," I remarked, somewhat sententiously; "we have missed the purest gem of the allegory. 'He that is down need fear no fall; he that is low no pride.'" But here a hand ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. • Various
... Old Tarwater remarked sententiously, tossing the single-tree aside and starting to struggle into ...
— The Red One • Jack London
... 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 me. I'm going to say ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... never get into trouble," said the policeman sententiously, "you'll never have to ...
— Death At The Excelsior • P. G. Wodehouse
... "Very," wrote Calvin, sententiously, and looked at Duff Salter with the most open countenance he had ever been seen to show. Duff merely ...
— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend
... thing," suggested Carter. "They say it's several millions, and it happens to be YOURS. If it were MINE, now!" "Money," said Dolly sententiously, "is given people to make them happy, ...
— The Man Who Could Not Lose • Richard Harding Davis
... on sometimes without luggage, my dear," he said sententiously; "but with such luggage as ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... too much to expect that 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
... mate sententiously. "Those wretches in the hold are up to some trickery. These stupid sentries are too dull or careless to investigate. They are crazy for water in there, and it is my opinion they have got hold of something ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown
... "No fear!" said Dollops sententiously. "I'll be after him as if he was a ham sandwich, sir. Look out for my patent 'Tickle Tootsies' when you come out, guv'ner. I'll sneak over and put 'em round the door as soon as you've gone in." For Dollops, who was of an ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
... for 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 Majestatem agnoscimus—We recognise the King's ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... success in these matters is time," answered the lawyer sententiously: "a man must have no end of time, and he must keep his brain clear of all other business. Those two conditions are impossible for me, and that's why I want a coadjutor: now you're a clever young fellow, with no profession, with no ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... "Yes!" Betty sighed sententiously. "It was such a comfort to me. I'd been feeling so grumpy because my own was horrid compared to yours, but when I saw that grey flannel atrocity I felt I ought to ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... story of the intervention of Mr. Butterwick; and the Honourable John Ruffin chuckled freely, for no reason that she could see, as he listened to it. At the end of it he said sententiously: ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
... comes of your scientific gentlemen taking up economical questions," observed Master Jock, sententiously, when he had laughed ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai
... spoke rather sententiously, for he knew how to impress his companion and he meant to ...
— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford
... States? No, Sir; and therefore I say that this Italian nation will never be wuth a cuss until they are inoculated with the spirit of Seventy-six, the principles of the Pilgrim Fathers, and the doctrines of the Revolution. Boney knows it" —he added, sententiously—"bless ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille
... that enlivened monasteries, without the meditation which peopled the Thebaids, becomes a disease," said Monsieur Joseph, sententiously. ...
— The Brotherhood of Consolation • Honore de Balzac
... do not get the prize," he said, sententiously, "you have a great deal of artistic talent ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... blondes and a blonde is never so homely as when she is cold," she added sententiously, "for her face is much more apt to get blue than red, except the ...
— The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army • Margaret Vandercook
... sententiously, "I must say it is in his favour. What we want are facts, you know, Mr. Screw. Besides, if he had taken anything, I should have been responsible, because I accepted him abroad ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford
... 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, stammeringly, ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... 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 ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... later 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 repress a smile. Kremer ...
— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg
... 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 ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... my birthday anniversary but once a year," remarked Roth, sententiously, "and on such occasions it's ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... 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 head ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe
... nearly all guessing," he said sententiously, "yet one must beware of what I may term obvious guessing. If cause and effect were so closely allied in certain classes of crime my department would cease to exist, and the protection of life and property might be left safely to ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... never see any sunshine," said Dean sententiously. "I believe they just have a run outside the forest to stick an arrow or two into the springboks, and then run into the shade again. It's the sun makes one want to laugh, and I should be just as serious if I ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn
... 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
... decent schools. There were too many dark spots in New York where we had neither. So dense was the ignorance of the ruling powers of the needs and real condition of the public schools, which, on parade days, they spoke of sententiously as the "corner-stone of our liberties," while the people cheered the sentiment, that it was related how a Tammany Mayor had appointed to the office of school trustee in the Third Ward a man who had been dead a whole year, and how, when the world marvelled, it had been ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis
... Bascomb, sententiously, "will be their lookout. If they cannot find anyone to translate my letter, so much the worse for them. But there should be no trouble about that; for if they can find nobody else the captain will make my meaning ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... not be avoided." Then turning his gaze upon a small image of his adored teacher, he seemed for some time absorbed in awful contemplation. "Such is life!" Those were actually the last words of this most remarkable Buddhist king. He died like a philosopher, calmly and sententiously soliloquizing on death and its inevitability. At the final moment, no one being near save his adopted son, Phya Buroot, he raised his hands before his face, as in his accustomed posture of devotion; then suddenly his head dropped ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... quondo puo, non puo fare quondo vuole"—("He who will not when he may, when he will it shall have nay")—answered Jackeymo, as sententiously as his master. "And the Padrone should think in time that he must lay by for the dower of the poor ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... thing at all you may as well do it in decent comfort," Lawrence replied sententiously. "Half past seven; that'll give us easy time! I booked a table at Malvani's, I thought you would prefer it to one of ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde
... me that I haven't played the game according to the rules. I know I haven't. One has to make his own rules when Fate is in the game against him." He seemed to be reviewing something in his mind. "Fate," he observed sententiously, "is a ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... 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 ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
... 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 ...
— The Shadow-Line - A Confession • Joseph Conrad
... 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 observed, ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... She moved away, nodding sententiously to herself. They began supper: neither spoke: Anthony sat slowly stirring his tea, and staring moodily into the flames: the bacon on his plate lay untouched. From time to time his mother, laying down her knife ...
— Victorian Short Stories • Various
... made a mistake, had put himself outside the sympathies of this comfortable circle. Miss Hitchcock was looking into the flowers in front of her, evidently searching for some remark that would lead the dinner out of this uncomfortable slough, when Brome Porter began again sententiously: ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... thing hasn't come your way, Richard," remarked Miss Penkridge sententiously. "And you don't read the popular Sunday newspapers. I do! They're full of crime of all sorts. So's the world. And as to mysteries—well, I've known of two or three in my time that were much more extraordinary than any I've ever read of in novels. ...
— The Middle of Things • J. S. Fletcher
... displayed a number of pieces of apparatus of a generally useless kind which he had ordered on the strength of their much advertising, and he observed sententiously, "We armatures get badly imposed upon." Here were patent gimcrack printing devices, although he had scarce anything worth printing; all sorts of atrocious fancy borders with which he sought in vain to embellish out-of-focus under-exposures; ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck
... very clever in making up," her father said, coolly and sententiously. "It is a part of her art that is not to be despised. It is quite as important as a gesture or a tone of voice in creating the illusion at which she aims. I do not know whether actresses, as a rule, are careless about it, or only ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... with women," said the hairdresser, sententiously; "and meeting me sudden, and learning it could never be—no one can say ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... 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
... 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
... 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 and ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... June 30. Roebuck's egotism was later related by Lamar, then in London on his way to Russia as representative of the South. A few days before the debate Lamar met Roebuck at Lindsay's house and asked Roebuck whether he expected Bright to take part in the debate. "No, sir," said Roebuck sententiously, "Bright and I have met before. It was the old story—the story of the swordfish and the whale! No, sir! Mr. Bright will not cross swords with me again." Lamar attended the debate and saw Roebuck given by Bright the "most deliberate and tremendous pounding I ever witnessed." ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... naming the ticket had seemed to him a great triumph. Allen viewed the whole matter with a kind of detachment, as a spectator whose interest is wholly impersonal. He thought there would be a great fight between the combatants; his dad hadn't finished yet, he declared, sententiously. The incidents of the convention had convinced him that the Great Experiment was progressing according to some predestined formula. He and Harwood had dined together at the University Club and he was quite ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... 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
... no young gents as is a-bein' sent to school back agin into their family's bosims," said Clegg sententiously. "You was took ill sudden in my cab the larst time. Offal bad you was, to be sure—to hear ye, and I druv' yer back; and I never got no return fare, I didn't, and yer par he made hisself downright nasty over it, said as if it occurred agin he shouldn't employ ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... astonished at anything," remarked Porthos, sententiously, "it is that it has not ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... 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
... short of the pains inseparably annexed to an excess of either. I would not, at twenty years, be a preaching missionary of abstemiousness and sobriety; and I should let other people do as they would, without formally and sententiously rebuking them for it; but I would be most firmly resolved not to destroy my own faculties and constitution; in complaisance to those who have no regard to their own. I would play to give me pleasure, but not to give me pain; that is, I would play for trifles, in mixed companies, ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... of the young lady," said the Count sententiously. "The opposition may falter a bit there, and half ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... quartermaster sententiously. "I apologize. But Willett starts at day-break—takes a sergeant, six men and a pack outfit—thought you'd like to know. Leaves us with mighty few cavalry, now that Malloy and his ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... strange," proclaimed 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 Themistocles's ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... worse policy,' said Clodius, sententiously, 'than to interfere with the manly amusements of ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... is often the deepest," observed Mr. Rogers sententiously, and puffed. "And Saaron Island there, close by the Roads, lies very handy for ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... everything," said Micky sententiously. "And if you like the girl, why not marry her ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... chance in a thousand of Pete recovering. The paper also stated that there had been money involved—a considerable sum in gold—which had not been found. The entire affair was more or less of a mystery. It was hinted that the money might not have been honestly come by in the first place, and—sententiously—that crime breeds crime, in proof of which, the article went on to say; "the man who had been shot by the police was none other than Pete Annersley, notorious as a gunman in the service of the even more notorious Jim Ewell, of Showdown, or 'The Spider,' as he was known to his ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... reap where they have not sown; to take out of the earth without returning anything to it but their precious carcasses; heathens, who worship the mere stones they dig up." "And was there no Spaniard who ever dug gold?" asked Mulrady, simply. "Ah, there are Spaniards and Moors," responded Don Ramon, sententiously. "Gold has been dug, and by caballeros; but no good ever came of it. There were Alvarados in Sonora, look you, who had mines of SILVER, and worked them with peons and mules, and lost their money—a gold mine to work a silver one—like gentlemen! But this grubbing in ...
— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte
... Captain Bingo sententiously, "by me. Know when you're well off, as I didn't. Take the advice of your seniors, as I was too pig-headed a fool to do, and don't put it in the power of any woman to make you as rottenly wretched as ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... compairateevely what a man lives upo'," said Cupples sententiously, "sae it be first-rate o' 'ts ain kin'. ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... ain't it ought to be!" declared his plain-clothes man sententiously. "Can't you indict him ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train
... "Well," remarked Squire Bartley, sententiously, "there are old housewives in the neighborhood that have more luck with poultry than any of you, with ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... like 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 could do anything more than sit limply on the lockers while the Flying ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... and 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 with ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... Vane Sahib," 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 and sleep, ...
— The Missionary • George Griffith
... sententiously; for he had lived enough among the pale-faces to have some notions of ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... head sententiously. "I'm enough. I've guns for the four mill men who sleep in the shack off the assay office, and you've a whack of gold in that room you're standing in; you'd better not leave it. Though I don't believe there's any ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... tell," said John sententiously. "You remember that lame fellow saved a battle for us by knowing how to shoe the ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... 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 ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue |
