"Evasively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Nothing in particular," he answered evasively. "By the way, Hawke, when are you to ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... till she comes," Elsie said, evasively. In her heart of hearts she would not have been sorry to find herself back in Mrs. MacDougall's cottage, but the humiliation of returning and acknowledging why she had run away, and how she had failed, was too much for her ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... and sincerely bitter letter. He never replied. Then, believing it to be the only way of escape for me, I set myself far more grimly and resolutely to my studies than I had ever done before. After a time I wrote to him in more moderate terms, and he answered me evasively. And then I tried to dismiss him from my mind and went ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... good business," he said evasively. "I meet the right sort of men there. That's where I ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... and manner unconsciously betrayed the importance which he attached to Scott's reply. The latter detected this, and answered evasively,— ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour
... She answered evasively; she did not believe that so well-known and so highly valued a preacher could be permitted to give up his journeyings throughout the country. He must be aware, she said, that when a man is married it is not easy for him to absent himself from home. ...
— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland
... suddenly impenetrable. "Oh, nothin'," she responded evasively; "I've just seen him look at you both ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... always been cordially welcomed. On several occasions he had warily sounded the old man on several questions. He had answered evasively in regard to other priests. But he did not seem to think much of them, if Durtal might judge by what he said one day in regard to Lidwine, that magnet ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... they found that this was also his own impression. The next morning Arbuthnot went off to Lyndhurst's house, where he arrived before Lyndhurst was dressed, and told him what had fallen from Fitzgerald, and asked what it could mean. Lyndhurst answered very evasively, but promised to have the matter cleared up. Arbuthnot, not satisfied, went to the Duke and told him what had passed, and added his conviction that there was some such project on foot (to make Sutton Premier) of which he was not aware. The Duke ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... I think?' I evasively echoed; and then, carried away by the profound and melancholy interest of this question, 'Think?' I queried, 'do I ever really think? Is there anything inside my head but cotton-wool? How can I call myself a Thinker? What am I anyhow?' I pursued the ...
— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith
... lord," replied Hurst evasively, throwing open the door of the morning-room. Victoria was disclosed; pacing up and down, her hands in the pockets of her tweed jacket. Tatham saw at once ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... steering-wheel trembled. She remembered that Mr. Stoddard was, as Shade had said, one of the bosses in the Hardwick mill. It seemed too terrible to offend him. He certainly thought no ill of having children employed; she must not seem to criticize him; she answered evasively: ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... ... It isn't even worth the telling..." smiled the reporter evasively. "A trifle ... Let's have ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... to deserve her love," replied Helen, evasively; "but, Miss Thusa, I am coming every day to take spinning lessons of you. I really want to learn to spin. Perhaps father may fail one of these days, and I be thrown on my own resources, and then I could earn my living as you do now. Will you ...
— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz
... old doctor, who, after a lifetime of faithful and loving work, had been ordered off for a year's rest and travel; but the young doctor had plenty of courage, and meant to do his best. He answered evasively the inquiry of the minister's wife as to where he meant to board; and though he noted down carefully the addresses she gave him of nice motherly women who would keep his things in order, and have an eye to him in case he should ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards
... brother," said Henry, "tell me, I implore you, the meaning of this. You look ill and distressed, and yet from you I did not hear of sickness, nor do I know any reason for grief." George smiled evasively; then, as if recollecting himself, struck his forehead. He pressed his brother's arm, and led him towards a room adjoining the one in which ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... every loyal man to execute the king's warrant,' the Provost answered evasively. 'It is yours to surrender, and mine to lodge you in the Castle. 'But I am loth to have a disturbance. I will give you until that torch goes out, if you like, to make up your mind. At the end of ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... the two ships, to which for the moment he gave no thought, or he would not have entertained hopes for a release from confinement by recapture,—a patent impossibility to a seaman. So he answered the captain evasively, returning the glass and pleading his ignorance of nautical matters to excuse his ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... Frithiof answered evasively that he was fostered in penitence, that he inherited want, and that he came from the wolf; as to his name, this did not matter. The king, as was the courteous custom, did not press him further, but invited him to take a seat beside him and the queen, and to ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... "I tried to put a little back-bone into George Tresslyn at the time of the rumpus, if that's what you'd call being a friend to her," he said evasively. ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... pity," he observed. Then, in answer to the girl's quick look of inquiry, he added evasively: "You see it's lonesome for a gal—out in ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... soon attached to Edward. He had, indeed, that gentleness and urbanity which almost universally attracts corresponding kindness; and to their simple ideas his learning gave him consequence, and his sorrows interest. The last he ascribed, evasively, to the loss of a brother in the skirmish near Clifton; and in that primitive state of society, where the ties of affection were highly deemed of, his continued depression excited sympathy, ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... head of his child. God, says an old chronicler, was with him; and the vogt, who had not expected such a specimen of skill and fortune, now cast about for new ways to entrap the object of his malice; and, seeing a second arrow in his quiver, asked him what that was for? Tell replied, evasively, that such was the usual practice of archers. Not content with this reply, the vogt pressed him on farther, and assured him of his life, whatever the arrow might have been meant for. "Vogt," said Tell, "had ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XIX. No. 554, Saturday, June 30, 1832 • Various
... showered at the few survivors who stood at the railing, but they seemed too confused to answer them intelligibly, and after replying evasively to ...
— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various
... a moment changed color. What did she mean? Was it possible that she suspected the substitution, or was she alluding to some past history of his brother's life, of which he knew nothing? Evasively, he answered: ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... honesty time to get the better of his optimism. Even then he answered evasively, "He doos look ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... are under discussion, I believe," replied Gherardi evasively, "But they are not in my province. Now, can I be of any further service to you, ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... learned and gallant attorney, esteeming it indispensable, puts a question or two as to whether anything was ever said about selling them in consequence of certain jealousies. Before the brother can object, she answers them evasively, and the testimony amounts to just no testimony at all. The court, bowing respectfully, informs the lady she can get ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... had been the first part in Virginia, and, as they still believed, theirs had been also the centre of all things. Now the high places were laid low, and the greatness had passed as a trumpet that is blown. Kingsborough persisted still, but it persisted evasively, hovering, as it were, upon the outskirts of modern advancement. And the outside world took note only when it made tours to historic strongholds, or sent those of itself that were adjudged insane to the hospitable shelter of ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... it best not to confide the secret of Pentaur's birth to the high-priest, and answered evasively. Then Ameni begged to be allowed to give him some information about the old woman, and how she had had a hand in the game; and he related to his hearer, with some omissions and variations—as if it were a fact he had long known—the very story which ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... wish not to be harsh and the fear that she might mislead him. "I cannot look contemptuous unless I feel contempt," she said, evasively. "And all ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... here," answered the cowboy, evasively, "hold still, an' in a minute you can open your eyes." Very gently he continued to sponge at her lids. Her eyes opened and she started back with a sharp cry. The three men before her were unrecognizable in the thick masks of dirt that encased their faces—masks that showed only thin ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... the young girl with a wistful countenance, as though the question had embarked him on a new train of thought. But he answered evasively: "His honour ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... think you'd want to rest when you did get a chance. You talk all the time about having too much to do," John replied evasively. ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... evasively. He was reminded at this moment of his own love affair. Seized by the boldest impulse that had ever come to him, he suddenly blurted out: "Tullis, I love your sister. I have loved her from the beginning. All that has happened in the last ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... hastily often," he said evasively. "And I think you are often so concentrated upon the person who stands, perhaps suffering, immediately before you, that you forget who is on the right, who ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... the mind. Arrival of a cartel, and of letters from India. Letter of the French marine minister. Restitution of papers. Applications for liberty evasively answered. Attempted seizure of private letters. Memorial to the minister. Encroachments made at Paris on the Investigator's discoveries. Expected attack on Mauritius produces an abridgment of Liberty. Strict blockade. ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... that he would lunch at Parker's, and evasively asked the Spaniard if he would mind being left ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... of the cross, and observe whether he repeats it, (as, on Whitsunday,[17] he surely ought to do.) Look! he does repeat it; but the driving showers perplex the images, and that, perhaps, it is which gives him the air of one who acts reluctantly or evasively. Now, again, the sun shines more brightly, and the showers have swept off like squadrons of cavalry to the rear. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... taught evening school during the winter months. When I asked about his work at the custom-house, which had been his chief occupation three years before, he answered evasively. By little and little, however, he threw off his reserve and told, at first with studied flippancy and then with frank bitterness, how "the new Republican broom swept clean," and how he had lost his job because of his loyalty to the ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... don't know," said Mr. Alexander evasively, "I'll see. Anyhow, don't say anything to my mother about it; a drunken man is like a red rag to a bull ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... returned Brace, evasively, patting the impatient Buckskin; "but come in and take a drink ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... Mr. Dishart's murder, no many hours auld yet," the kirk officer replied evasively, "we should be wary ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... go into them," she replied evasively. "I make a very good living, and I don't know ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... know," he said evasively.—"Yes, friends," he said, in answer to a challenge in Spanish, "I want to speak to ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... come across and visit us," returned the Arab evasively, "we would be very, very pleased ...
— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney
... it at another time," he answered evasively, as he tried to turn her face up toward him. But her face would not be turned, and while she hid it on his breast she ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major
... name by an intuition that unpleasant memories might be revived if he called her Miss Graye after wishing her good-bye as Mrs. Manston at the wedding. Cytherea saw the motive and appreciated it, nevertheless replying evasively— ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... to be off again in a week; it didn't seem worth while to put you to the trouble of opening the house just for that," he replied evasively. His own affairs again occupied his mind, and the sight of Phil gave a keen edge to his curiosity as to her life ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... to get home. Winterfeld once home, and the King's consent had, the Fraulein applied to Princess Elizabeth for leave of absence: 'A few months, to see my friends in Deutschland, your Highness!' Princess Elizabeth looked hard at her; answered evasively this and that. At last, being often importuned, she answered plainly, 'I almost feel convinced thou wilt never come back!' Protestations from the Fraulein were not wanting:—'Well then,' said Elizabeth, 'if thou art so sure of it, leave me thy jewels ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... her lip. She and Alec had agreed not to tell of the incident of the lasso, and she had kept the secret, though she burned to tell the romance-loving We are Sevens. "Just by signs," she answered evasively. ...
— Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party • C. E. Jacobs
... they admire her," said Grace, evasively, "and feel disposed to be as intimate as she will ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... you," she replied evasively. "Have I your command to open and read? They are marked ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard
... parts of the world where I have not been. The members of my order go everywhere, and should know everything that takes place on its surface," answered the priest, evasively. ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston
... first answered evasively; but learning that the citizens had assembled under arms, he raged and threatened. He said: "The whole country can easily be made a solitude; and by the living God, if any insult is offered to me, or to those who have obeyed my orders, I will declare freedom ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson
... cousin?" answered Maurice, evasively. "Have I no right to show her affection? Must I renounce the ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... looked at it," said Thorndyke evasively, "but I should like to examine the original if you ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... to retort that, as it was, the planting had taken a long time. But she contented herself with glancing again at the house and saying evasively that the new tenant appeared to take more interest in fixtures than ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... lady for about a year, or a little longer; the gentleman only a few months; but I can scarcely lay claim to so an intimate a relation to them as 'friendship' would imply," answered the duke, evasively, and putting a severe ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... family by the name of Sherwood," answered Doctor Mack, evasively. "What sort of a young ...
— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger
... should not care, at this time, to go on record," he replied evasively. "When I have had time to look into the matter ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... thinking about it," answered Daisy evasively. "Wait a minute, Nora,—I want to write it down, for fear I should ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner
... pleasantly that she had but just come from there, but some keen intuition began to warn this wise-hearted woman and when the next question, though spoken most casually, was: "Where are the Salvation Army workers now in France?" she replied evasively: ...
— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
... save an indirect understanding but half suggested by Father Beret and never openly sanctioned by Captain Farnsworth. The talk was insinuating on the part of the former, while the latter slipped evasively from every proposition, as if not able to consider it on account of a curious obtuseness of perception. Still, when they separated they shook hands and exchanged a searching look perfectly satisfactory ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... sir, I suppose," replied Peters evasively, and in a tone of affected submission, as, avoiding the burning gaze of the other, he threw a significant glance to the tory who had reserved his charge at the fruitless fire just made by the rest ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... your questions," he answered evasively. "Carg is considered a bit taciturn, I believe, but he has my best interests at heart and you will find him ready to serve ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne
... did it," said Mr. Standish, evasively. "I know it as well as if he had been advertised. He's uncommonly good at ventriloquism, and he did it uncommonly well, by God! Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... of thinkin' to get Zenas Henry out of his troubles," returned he evasively. "'Tain't ...
— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett
... will you throw a main?' he answered evasively. 'Good! Lieutenant, find a glass, and the gentleman a seat. And here, for my part, I will give you a toast ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... a dear, pious child. I love to think of her in the midst of your Reformed boys," said the lady evasively. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... writing long novels—White's world was the literary world, and that is how it looked to him—which profess to set out the lives of men, this part of the journey, this crucial passage among the Sphinxes, is still done—when it is done at all—slightly, evasively. Why? ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... strange movements. Cornbury replied that he had instructions to make a night attack on some troops which the Prince of Orange had posted at Honiton. But suspicion was awake. Searching questions were put, and were evasively answered. At last Cornbury was pressed to produce his orders. He perceived, not only that it would be impossible for him to carry over all the three regiments, as he had hoped, but that he was himself in a situation of considerable peril. He accordingly stole away with a few ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... that unquestioned, wholly uncontrollable influence outside of a man's life, which appears to rule his destiny. In this role "Providence," as he had been taught to call it, had heretofore smiled rather evasively upon Wesley Elliot. He had been permitted to make sure his sacred calling; but he had not secured the earnestly coveted city pulpit. On the other hand, he had just been saved—or so he told himself, as the fragrant June breeze fanned his heated ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... yesterday and to-day," the doctor replied evasively, "you didn't hear ... oh, there's nothing in it if you didn't. I heard that Simmons had had you taken off the stage. Did you have trouble with Buckley, cut him with a whip? Buck has been blowing about showing ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... at Mrs. Bateson feeding her fowls," said Elisabeth evasively; "and, I say, have you ever noticed that hens are just like tea-pots, and cocks like coffee-pots? Look at them now! It seems as if an army of breakfast services had suddenly come to life a la Galatea, and were pouring ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... like her; I always shall, you know,' he said evasively, and with all the strategy love suggested. 'But I have not seen her for so long that I can hardly be expected to love her. Do you love ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... Adam seriously, "you answer me evasively, and that is not well. We two are made to support each other, and to go hand in hand in the difficult path which lies before us. For you know as well as I do that our safety is imperiled when the Electoral Prince again makes his appearance at court, and we will henceforth find many ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... just what label you would put on me," the big man replied evasively. "But this I do know: first, last, and all the time I am for a universe where each country shall work for the good ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... respecting the candidature for the Spanish throne, and they were unjustifiable, had been presented on July 4, and answered by our Foreign Office evasively, though in accordance with truth, that the ministry knew nothing about the matter. This was correct so far, that the question of Prince Leopold's acceptance of his election had been treated by his Majesty simply ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... into that," said Wemmick, evasively, "it might clash with official responsibilities. I heard it, as I have in my time heard other curious things in the same place. I don't tell it you on ...
— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
... against something," she said evasively, her eyes glittering, "and it left that scar. Does it ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... another cup of tea for Mr. Manvers, who was standing before her in a drooping attitude, like some long crumpled fly, apparently deaf and blind to what was going on, his hair falling forward over his eyes. At last she said evasively: ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... worthy of a better cause, asks me, "What time lessons will begin?" I reply, evasively, "that I shall be in the library, and that I will ring for ERNEST (I lay stress on the word ERNEST, as excluding the two others) when I ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 6, 1890 • Various
... evasively and hurriedly: Why should she? She had not thought about it. He seemed, to her, to have so little to do ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens
... evasively, "I—I've been told so, and wished to know whether it was a fact. You and he were friends, eh?" ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
... negro brigade at this work, and in the order was particular to quote General Phelps's own opinion, previously delivered, on the necessity of the project. General Phelps, who was determined that the negroes should be soldiers or nothing, evasively declined obeying the order. General Butler then wrote him a letter presenting fresh arguments, showing how essential it was that the soldiers, who would soon be obliged to defend the city, should be spared ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... nor there, sir," Mr. O'Leary replied evasively. "He's safe, an' never knew they were afther him. T'ree o' thim, sir, the naygur and two Greeks. I kidded thim into thinkin' I was Misther McKaye; 'tis all over now, an' ye can find out what two Greeks it was by those knives I took for evidence. I cannot identify thim, ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... paper unfortunate, but I always expected to throw no obstacle in its way, and to patronize it to the extent of taking and paying for one copy. When the paper was brought to my house, my wife said to me, "Now are you going to take another worthless little paper?" I said to her evasively, "I have not directed the paper to be left." From this, in my absence, she sent the message to the carrier. This is ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... Siouxes and of the white men are not of the same wigwam," he answered evasively. "Would a Teton warrior make his wife greater than himself? I know he would not; and yet my ears have heard that there are lands where the councils ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... can be," says Mrs. Reilly, amiably but still evasively, "an' a bit of a scholard into the bargain, an' a very civil tongue in her head. She's seventeen all out, ma'am, and never yet gave her mother a ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown
... on top of the hill," said John evasively. He and Fred had decided not to tell any of the others of their discovery until they had investigated it ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave • Ross Kay
... sure," added Mrs. Lee, evasively, "that you have not been judging him much too harshly? I think I know him better than you. He has many good qualities, and some high ones. What harm can he do me? Supposing even that he did succeed in persuading me that my life could ...
— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams
... Moseley, I believe, last evening, that I knew some of the name," replied the gentleman evasively; then pausing a moment, he added with great emphasis, "there is a circumstance connected with one of that ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... the rock where she had been sitting, and answered evasively, "I don't think there is any mainly, unless it is that when I had such a good chance to be a hermit, I couldn't remember all those wonderful Mahatma practices that make one so good and so wise. The only formulas ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith
... at liberty to discuss," the younger man replied, evasively. "However, just to make your loan absolutely sure, I have taken steps to sell my season's output in advance. The commission men will be in town shortly, and I shall contract for the entire catch at a stipulated price. ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... he rejoined, evasively, I thought. "'Tis as you left it, save that Tarleton whipped away to the south again as suddenly as he came, and our cursing baronet has made the manor house his headquarters in fact, lodging himself and all his troop on Mr. Stair. From his lying ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... envy everyone who isn't Claude Heath," he answered evasively, with a little covering laugh. "Of one thing I am quite sure, that I wish I were a male Miss Fleet. She knows what few ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... or so most people say," I answered evasively. "Still, sometimes these Inyangas tell one ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... with her father. Wilfrid's reply was laconic. "If you cannot stand a week of the brogue, give up Besworth, by all means." He made no further allusion to the place. They engaged an opera-box, for the purpose of holding a consultation with him in town. He wrote evasively, but did not appear, and the ladies, with Emilia between them, listened to every foot-fall by the box-door, and were too much preoccupied to marvel that Emilia was just as inattentive to the music as they were. When the curtain dropped they noticed ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... say that," Watson replied evasively, "and I have enough to do without thinking about the lawyer's work. When I hear lawyers talk I can't tell right from wrong. You have to be trained to ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... to go ashore for?" asked the Captain, evasively, and trying to conceal his admiration of Jack by affecting ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... the question and answered evasively. "I'll bring the man here to see you—he's an old Indiana farmer with lots of money, and you know your implements are in very good shape. I went out with him to the farm, and together we figured out what the stuff was worth. ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... these were completed, Stolietoff inquired from Sher Ali whether he meant to receive the English Mission, whereupon the Amir asked for the General's advice in the matter. Stolietoff, while replying somewhat evasively, gave Sher Ali to understand that the simultaneous presence of Embassies from two countries in almost hostile relations with each other would not be quite convenient, upon which His Highness decided not to allow the British Mission to enter Afghanistan. This decision, however, was not communicated ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... rebound sometimes, if for once a proverb can be right," said I evasively; though a few weeks ago, when Molly had been constantly alluding to her friend Mercedes, I had told myself that no one could achieve such a ...
— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... given into my charge, my boy," replied his father evasively, "and I behaved very weakly and foolishly in giving them ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... anything about it," he answered evasively, "and it would be very foolish to jump at the worst conclusions. It will be our best plan to start down the creek at once, and I have no doubt we'll find the camp before very long. It's not at all likely the boys ...
— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon
... went, Mr. Verner had not expressed much of his displeasure; he left it to his manner. That said enough. He had never dropped the slightest allusion as to its cause. When Lionel asked an explanation, he neither accorded nor denied it, but would put him off evasively; as he might have put off a child who asked a troublesome question. You have now seen ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... seemed to wince at the question, and then turned her eyes inward to divine. The result was she gave a downright shudder, and said evasively, "Being with David, I hope and pray he will ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... replied Rebecca evasively, yet with an answering gleam of ready response to the other's curiosity in the quick lift of her ...
— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
... be prepared," he answered evasively. "Better be quite sure. See which pocket it's ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... dock all day," he answered evasively, "but I'm no great eater at the best of times, and I chewed two bits of orange-peel, not to speak of a handful of corn where there was a big heap had been spilt by some wasteful body or another, that had small thoughts of it's coming to use. Now hoo in this world's ...
— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... never did meet her, except at church," said the city girl, evasively. "But you were pretty young, then, and you would scarcely have remembered it if I had. I remember thinking that the old house must be a nice place for living in the country, and I thought of it again this morning. Is the old man ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford
... LEVER. [Evasively.] Oh! There's my brother's and my sister's too. I 'm not going to let any of you run any risk. When we all went in for it the thing looked splendid; it 's only the last month that we 've had doubts. What bothers me now is your Uncle. I don't want ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the chauffeur evasively, "I wasn't at all sure he'd remember me. He has so many admirers, and sees so ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
... resignation in her voice, the sad pleading in her look, shook Crayford's self-possession at the outset. He answered her in the worst possible manner; he answered evasively. ...
— The Frozen Deep • Wilkie Collins
... when Senta ecstatically exclaims: "I will be his wife!" At this moment her father's ship is announced. Senta is about to run away to welcome him, but is detained by Erick, who tries to win her for himself. She answers evasively; then Daland enters and with him a dark and gloomy stranger. Senta stands spell-bound: she recognizes the hero of her picture. The Dutchman is not less impressed, seeing in her the angel of his dreams ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... then reappeared. The course was being cleared, and the pealing of a bell announced the first race. Amid the expectant murmur of the bystanders she questioned him about this sudden rise in her value. But he replied evasively; doubtless a demand for her had arisen. She had to content herself with this explanation. Moreover, Labordette announced with a preoccupied expression that Vandeuvres was coming if ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... bad men, I hope," answered Aubrey evasively, as if he were unwilling to respond by a direct ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... cut," growled the other evasively. "Mind how you step. Hit's a fur ways down thar ef a body was ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... evasively. The cheerful optimism which had made him a very popular practitioner seemed for the moment to ...
— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a little after dawn," I replied evasively, trying to follow his instructions, which I knew instinctively were true, "but ...
— The Willows • Algernon Blackwood
... hard journey," he said evasively, yet with a kindly accent to the words. "Such days take it out of a man, Carew. I ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
... grows out of the war," I answered evasively. "I heard every word spoken by the herald and Castleman. The burgher is wise to hasten home. If he delays his journey even for a day, he may find Burgundy—especially Lorraine—swarming with lawless men going to the various rendezvous. He also tells me he has important ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... may be possible," answered Zanoni, evasively, "to the few; but for one who attains such secrets, millions may perish in ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... the use of the persuasive but obsolete slipper,' Rhoda continued evasively, 'I tried milder means of discipline,—solitary confinement for one not very much, you know,—only seventeen times in eight weeks. I hope you don't object to that? Of course, it was in a pleasant room with southern exposure, ...
— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... "Well," he replied evasively, "the Bible stands on a very different ground. We couldn't examine the ancient miracles just as we do modern faith-cures if we wished. The belief in Bible miracles is a poetic and religious belief, and it does not involve any practical ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... replied a trifle evasively, "we've had a great deal of talk, and he's the jolliest old boy possible, and ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... I conjecture," said the host evasively. "But—but I think I may say, Monsieur, that he is, I believe, at present staying at ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... unusual sagacity and prudence," said Dennis, evasively. "What any man could do, he could. And now, Miss Ludolph, I will try to find you a resting-place. There are such crowds here that I think we had better go nearer that side, where early in the evening the fire drove ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... thought evasively. "It is the light of the Under-world which we know how to use. The earth is full of light, which is not wonderful, is it, seeing that its heart is ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... bride—surrounded apparently by everything which could make her happy, and the physician hesitated, answering her evasively, until she said, "Do not fear to tell me truly, for I want to die. Oh, I long to die," she continued, passionately clasping her ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes |
