"Evasively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Greenstream 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 you a ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... 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
... know it; I only suspect this to be the case," said Herbert, evasively. "But what is ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... as well as we do, and in her heart there was a fear lest for the sake of peace he might be overruled, so she replied evasively. It was no easy task to sooth Muggins, and only Alice's direct avowal, that if possible she would herself become her purchaser, checked her cries at all, but the moment this was said her sobbing ceased, and Alice ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... about it," said the squire, evasively. "What do you hear from that boy of yours? Is ...
— Bound to Rise • Horatio Alger
... sure, either," answered Ed evasively. "I saw so many chaps about his size and build that it was hard to distinguish. Hastings was splendid, wasn't ...
— The Motor Girls • Margaret Penrose
... know," said Endicott evasively, "that Michael has a great gift of gab! Would you like to stop and have an ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... the admonition. "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
... replied evasively, "I—I've been told so, and wished to know whether it was a fact. You and he were friends, eh?" he ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
... a heap, when one is more than I could wisely attempt to answer," evasively answered ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson
... in your power, 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 Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... reason," she said evasively. "You have no idea how persistent this young man, the minister, has become. I have warned him, I have told him—not everything, of course, but a great deal—yet still he follows me, and to-day, I cannot remember what I said; but I have certainly led him to ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... last, 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 and as it were his deliverer, and so, meeting by the guidance of a superior power, they ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... her kisses passively, but gave none in return, until she asked him to kiss her. "When you are my wife," he said, evasively. And then—she must have loved him—she burst out into passionate sobs and fell at his feet in the quiet cabin and told him of her debased life in Fiji. "But, as God hears me, Will, that is all past since your last letter. I was mad. I loved money and did not care how ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... still thou tarriest here. Seek not evasively such vain pretexts. Not many words are needed to refuse, The no alone ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... then; I'll be back in a minute," said Woloda evasively as he left the room. I knew very well that he wanted to go, but that he had declined because he had no money, and had now gone to borrow five roubles of one of the servants—to be repaid when he got his ...
— Boyhood • Leo Tolstoy
... 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. We will ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... 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 ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... of the hill," said John evasively. He and Fred had decided not to tell any of the others of their discovery until they ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave • Ross Kay
... guessed right," grumbled Billiken evasively. And then I knew that he knew the poor little secret I ...
— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... of the Palefaces are not those of the Redskins," he answered evasively. "Piomingo must be treated according to our customs; and my braves would complain were I to set him free ...
— In the Rocky Mountains - A Tale of Adventure • W. H. G. Kingston
... the yachtsman announced that he would lunch at Parker's, and evasively asked the Spaniard if he would mind being left alone for ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... 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 me in any ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne
... arises the easy fallacious behaviour of a courtier? >From this situation, undoubtedly: for standing in need of dependents, he is obliged to learn the art of denying without giving offence, and, of evasively feeding hope with the chameleon's food; thus does politeness sport with truth, and eating away the sincerity and humanity natural to man, ...
— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]
... if you desire it," he answered, evasively, "and that condition is disposed of. I am glad to learn so directly from yourself, what your manner of living and the reports of others had prepared me to hear, that you are independent. This fact, alone, will place us solely on our mutual esteem, ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... think it would be very bad for him to play a little with Johan now and then," said the mother evasively, bending down to kiss Keith, who had snuggled up to her during the preceding talk. Then she put her hand through his waves of almost flaxen hair, bent his head slightly backward, looked straight into ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... 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 forehead—by a distinct intervention of ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... anything is true in this world?" she replied evasively; "because one does, because one feels it to be true, ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee
... care a whit to hear the disgusting Dobson, but she felt the reason for her reluctance mightn't be understood—might even arouse hateful merriment, for Aunt Nettie was sitting there listening. So she said evasively: ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... anything more about it," Kurt said evasively, pulling a handful of leaves from the hedge and throwing them ...
— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri
... that," replied Schryhart, evasively, "but I also know that you have a long, expensive fight ahead of you. As things are now you cannot, of yourself, expect to bring these old companies to terms. They won't work with you, as I understand it. It will require an outsider like ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... thinking about leaving London, he replied evasively. I haven't seen you for six months, and now ...
— The Penal Cluster • Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
... the doctor evasively. "By the way, Marjory, you'll find a surprise awaiting you at the Brae; we've a new member of our ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... friends in New York," returned Crystal, evasively; "but she does not mean to stay there long. She wants to see Niagara and Colorado, and I forget the route she has planned; but a companion she must have, and she offers such handsome terms, and after all she will not, be away more than five or six months, and as she says the change ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... said Count 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 ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... important," the captain replied evasively. "The Nautilus suffered a collision that cracked one of the engine levers, and it struck this man. My chief officer was standing beside him. This man leaped forward to intercept the blow. A brother lays down his life for his brother, a friend ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... 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
... his troubles,' he replied evasively. 'Most people indulge in the luxury of a private skeleton. Now I have often thought that Miss Hamilton and her sister would have been far happier without Miss Darrell; she has rather a peculiar temper, and I have often fancied that she has misrepresented ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... she has a particularly pretty hand and arm?" proceeded Zack, somewhat evasively. "I'm rather a judge of these things myself; and of all the other girls I ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... marshal's office yesterday," he answered, picking up a sandwich evasively. Kate was no longer doubtful. This was the man to serve the dreaded, summons. An instant of panic seized her. Fortunately her persecutor was regarding his stubborn coffee as he stirred it. Her heart, which had stopped, started with a thump. Her thoughts cleared. Instinct, ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... theirs 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 asylum ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... any more now," said Fleda, evasively; "at least," for drops were falling rather fast ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... demands of France 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 as a family ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke
... for 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. Here ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... was not the hard toil of the past winter that had so often made him feel weary. "Oh, I'm all right," he said evasively. "And you—the winter seems to have benefited you, Miss Winters," he continued, looking kindly at her shining eyes and flushed face. "It's a pleasure to see you looking so well, when I remember how ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... of agitation, Mr Merdle, evasively rolling his eyes round the Chief Butler's shoes without raising them to the index of that stupendous creature's thoughts, had signified to him his intention of giving a special dinner: not a very large dinner, but a very special dinner. The Chief Butler had signified, in return, ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... at the orchard gate. The twins expressed a polite but quite sincere hope that they would have the pleasure of seeing Malvina again; but Malvina, seized maybe with sudden doubts as to whether she had behaved with discretion, appears to have replied evasively. Ten minutes later she was lying asleep, the golden head pillowed on the round white arm; as Mrs. Muldoon on her way down to the kitchen saw for herself. And the twins, fortunate enough to find a side door open, ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome
... to be prepared," he answered evasively. "Better be quite sure. See which pocket it's in—so as ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... for letting the girl undertake a sea voyage, he replied rather evasively at first; that the air of Sydney disagreed with his patient, and a sea voyage was more likely to do her good than harm, provided the weather was not ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... the spending money he needs," returned Squire Paget, evasively. "He has probably saved the amount and had some one change his small ...
— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield
... confess it in her heart—he had never taken any notice of the young girls who lived in the villas around him. She knew very well that he preferred them to them all, and her vanity felt flattered; she said soothingly, but at the same time evasively: "No, Woelfchen, you can't go with me any more, it's not proper any more." And she held out her hand: ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... Mr. Watkins Tottle evasively; for he trembled violently, and felt a sudden tingling throughout his whole frame; 'why—I should certainly—at least, ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... his physician's constantly iterated warning; but shook his head. "I may get caught in this Avon affair," he said evasively. "And I want to be prepared. The President has sent his message to Congress, as you may be aware. There are unpleasant suggestions in it regarding dispossession in cases like my own. I'm coming back by magnanimously willing to Congress a hundred millions, ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... it too much for him without me," I said, evasively; "but I called to-day partly to inform him that I am quite ready now to recommence our readings together; after which I hope you will find the Latin agree with ...
— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald
... 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 am ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 6, 1890 • Various
... answered, evasively. "Come with me out to the San Giorgio in Alga. It is the loneliest place ...
— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick
... more truth in John's bragging than he cared to confess. He feared and loathed a lie; so he said evasively, but with perfect truth:— ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... saw that she had slipped into self-betrayal. "My son and I have not spoken of the matter," she said evasively. She caught the flash of relief ...
— Sanctuary • Edith Wharton
... quite a ways," responded Murray evasively. "You don't look like an ordinary prospector—who'd you say it was you ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge
... to San Antonio they had an opportunity to speak to William Jarvey a number of times, and once they sat at the same table with him in the dining-car. When asked where he came from, he replied rather evasively that he had lived for a great number of years in the Northwest, but that he had left that section of the country to try ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... she 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
... care to go into them," she replied evasively. "I make a very good living, and I don't know that I ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... bosh, or so most people say," I answered evasively. "Still, sometimes these Inyangas ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... betrays him, with its little effect of shallow self-satisfaction, like a jaunty toss of the head,—Gunther asks Hagen, is he not magnificent, sitting beside the Rhine; to the glory of Gibich? "It is my habit," remarks Hagen evasively, "to envy you." "Nay, for me it is to envy you, and not you me," Gunther in his pleasant humour rejoins; "true, I inherited the right of the first-born, but wisdom is yours alone, and I am, in fact, but lauding your good counsel when I inquire ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... for 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
... know," said Louis, evasively; "but, Hamilton, I do assure you, I never had any thing to do with any robbery here ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... 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 ...
— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland
... not give a very good account of his employer, but he had the good sense not to cast a damper on a party of pleasure by reciting his own troubles; so he said, evasively: ...
— Toby Tyler • James Otis
... not tell now," answered Hornigold evasively; "but with this clew the rest should be easy. Trust me, and when we ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... without waiting for the answer. He laughed often and harshly. When we came to the drinking, he winked to the servants, and immediately five Czigany musicians entered the room. Balint noticed the astonishment on my face, and half evasively said: ...
— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne
... her, Mac?" he asks. I nod evasively. He has been home to Sunderland since we got in, and I found him asleep on the gallery floor, with his head in the ash-pit, the night of his return. He is better now, and since I know he has brought back a photograph from the north, ...
— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee
... is not much accustomed to ladies' society," he answered evasively; "he's under his mother's thumb apparently, but he seems to please his sweetheart, and that's the ...
— The Northern Light • E. Werner
... died by a dagger-thrust as Anna foretold," she answered evasively; "and that reminds me that I had better clean the knife, since blood on the blade is evidence against its owner." Then drawing the dagger from its hiding-place she rubbed it with dust, which she took from a loop-hole, and polished it bright with ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... rest, 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 ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... his own embarrassment. "Your Highness," said he, evasively, "I rest my fortune, first of all, upon ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... 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
... 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 I shot my child, the second shaft was for ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XIX. No. 554, Saturday, June 30, 1832 • Various
... the letter was received. By 7.30 Becker arrived in person, inquired for Laupepa, was evasively answered, and declared war on the spot. Before eight, the Germans (seven hundred men and six guns) came ashore and seized and hoisted German colours on the government building. The three chiefs had made good haste to escape; but a considerable booty was made of government papers, fire-arms, and ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... some," answered Lady Holme, evasively, "who believe in mental charm more than in physical charm, or say they do. And mental charm doesn't age so obviously as physical—as the body does, I suppose. Perhaps we ought to pin our faith to it. What do you think ...
— The Woman With The Fan • Robert Hichens
... busy," I replied evasively; "Mr. Carvel cannot attend to his affairs." I longed to tell her the whole truth, but the words ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... and I do not think it right. May it please the Master to answer me if he can. But when anyone does not understand a matter, then a straightforward man says, 'I do not know that.'" The Buddha replies somewhat evasively that he has not undertaken to decide such questions, because they ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... the dishes, hung up the soap-shaker and cast her eyes upward as in an effort of memory. She reached for a dish-towel, replying, somewhat evasively, "Where my mother come from they had 'em a-plenty; there ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... lot," said Mrs. Starling rather evasively, "the whole of 'em. And this one has a way of holding his own in other folks' houses, that is intolerable to me! I never liked him, ...
— Diana • Susan Warner
... has a revolver of mine," said the young man evasively, although the remark was a true one, since he had presented his cousin with a brace of revolvers some ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... I am afraid, to be strictly watched," the lawyer answered evasively. "Still, I think you ought to be told that time does not seem to have lessened her ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... of mechanic and compendious office business upon the large institutions of the ancient Oracles. To satisfy them, the Oracle should resemble a modern coach-office—where undoubtedly you would suspect fraud, if the question "How far to Derby?" were answered evasively, or if the grounds of choice between two roads were expressed enigmatically. But the to loxon, or mysterious indirectness of the Oracle, was calculated far more to support the imaginative grandeur of the unseen ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... think I'll put on the simplest things I've got, Martha," she replied evasively. "Just one of my linen shirtwaists, with the stiff collar and cuffs. No fluffy ruffles ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann
... and would be happy, were it not for her anxiety about you," replied Nicholas, evasively. "But for her sake—mine—your own—I must urge you to seek some other place of refuge to night, for if you are discovered here you will bring ruin ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... tell," the doctor said evasively; "but I'll say this much, her pulse is better than I expected. ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... has not informed me of her abode, that she does not wish it to be known," answered Miss Pemberton, evasively. ...
— Clara Maynard - The True and the False - A Tale of the Times • W.H.G. Kingston
... expression vanished from the other's face, leaving it as immobile as a carven image of stone. "I have been here many times," he said evasively. ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh
... spoke up, although evasively. "We were a long distance from any town; we worked on adjoining farms, and when the call to arms came we determined to rush to the ...
— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins
... distance the great disparity in force between 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
... man," said Billy Louise evasively, "may do a foolish thing once, but only a fool does ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... get intelligence," said the Spaniard evasively. "But as the French are now moving, it will be well to bestir ourselves, to find out what ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... known the 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 ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... disappointment on 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. Arrival of another ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... legal department would call trouble," answered Ford evasively; and for ten other miles the narrowness ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... Walter evasively, "and I am sure I shall like your dogs because you always like anything you take ...
— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett
... me a little evasively. The cheerful optimism which had made him a very popular practitioner seemed for the ...
— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... they had left Borden's pier the girls had been tactfully trying to find out where he lived, and why they couldn't drive him directly to his place. But to all their inquiries he answered evasively, and was most positive in declaring they could not ...
— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis
... wait 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 proud, ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... seeing a horse travelling in such splendid loneliness asked, "Runnin' horse?" and I (to cover my folly) replied evasively, "He can run a little for good money." This satisfied every one that he was a sprinter and quite ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... their due. Tact is not merely shown in saying the right thing at the right time and to the right people; it is shown quite as much in the many things that are left unsaid and apparently unnoticed, or are only lightly and evasively touched. ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky
... nothing. He failed to follow her tale, and his thoughts reverted to the loss of three thousand pounds in the shocking Voix du Peuple and two thousand in scandalous Panama. Every now and then something surprising in her tale caught his ear, he asked for precise information, but Mildred answered evasively and turned the conversation. She was much more interested in the influence M. Delacour had exercised over her. She admitted that she had liked him very much, and attributed the influence he had exercised to hypnotism and subordination of will. She had, however, refused to ...
— Celibates • George Moore
... of remote consanguinity," I responded evasively, and the next question was hushed upon her awe-stricken tongue, as ...
— The Diary of a Goose Girl • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... But the announcement did not appear, and after what seemed to Ralph a decent lapse of time he telephoned to ask for news. Moffatt was away, and when he came back a few days later he answered Ralph's enquiries evasively, with an edge of irritation in his voice. The same day Ralph received a letter from his lawyer, who had been reminded by Mrs. Marvell's representatives that the latest date agreed on for the execution of the financial agreement was the end ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton
... even worth the telling..." smiled the reporter evasively. "A trifle ... Let's have your glass ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... Marmot answered evasively, as he glanced over at Murray, who, however, did not manifest any ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott
... 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 ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... said Marian earnestly, "you have agreed to listen. Please don't let us fence evasively. You had the same reports of Stuart that the rest of the world had; reports for which I feel largely responsible because many things which seemed most damaging, he might have explained to his own full ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... only the first name is signed," said he evasively; and the placid lady asked no more. The children were busy with Fido, and breakfast went on, but I watched my uncle's face. I had never seen it look just as it looked then. What could that old yellow letter have been? My magnetic ...
— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson
... Holmes will take care of her; she doesn't need money," he answered, evasively. "I wouldn't like Prue to be a rich woman in ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... had told the truth, he must have acknowledged that he was there in direct opposition to the magistrate's advice. He answered evasively, "If the vicar doesn't come, the doctor will. I have told him Sir Joseph must be moved. Cheer up, Natalie! The doctor will be here as ...
— Miss or Mrs.? • Wilkie Collins
... said Ione, evasively pursuing the subject, 'are perhaps but the exhaustion of past sufferings; as yonder mountain (and she pointed to Vesuvius), which we see dark and tranquil in the distance, once nursed the fires for ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... another great lover of gardening," said Harvey, evasively; "in fact, I believe the well known rose Du Barry was named after her, and now I think you had better play for a little and ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... replied evasively, "I thought it was just an ordinary little social dinner. That's what Mr. Murtha told me it was. I didn't think anyone outside was interested in it or in who was there or what went on. But, this morning, a—a friend—called me up and told me—something that ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... of Spicer, who had gained much power over me. I dared not say that I would not tell him, and I did not like to tell a lie. I thought that if I told the truth I might somehow or another injure Mrs St. Felix, and I therefore answered evasively, "It was sent to me as a present ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... trace contradicted him, and enabled Penellan to exult over him. The mate, therefore, cordially detested the helmsman, who returned his dislike heartily. Penellan only feared that Andre might sow seeds of dissension among the crew, and persuaded Jean Cornbutte to answer him evasively on ...
— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne
... Amelia evasively, taking quick, even stitches, but listening hungrily to the voice of outside temptation. It seemed to confirm all the long-suppressed ambitions ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... 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 sad ...
— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith
... more progressive in England than in other lands, but he was at the disadvantage with the fair Priscilla, that eulogy of his compatriots on this account would win her coldest approval. 'Satire was never an argument,' he said, too evasively. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... physiological difference is at least not negligible; and competition between the sexes may favour the despotism of the stronger, while complete independence on both sides implies freedom to separate at will; and Mill had only glanced evasively at the question of divorce. Here, again, is a theory which the pressure of social conditions, much more than abstract reasoning, is bringing more and more into prominence with our own generation. On the wider and more complicated question of race distinctions Mill never worked out ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
... 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 question of action to-day. But faith-healing ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... young—a 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 thin white ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... like braving it," answered the other evasively; "but I say, Elmsley, I am devilish hungry, that breakfast you invited me to last night is over long ago, of course." This last sentence was uttered in a ...
— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson
... seem to those who know Sir Charles incredible, but, I am bound to admit, my brother-in-law coloured. What that letter contained I cannot say; he only answered, very testily and evasively, "No, thank you; I won't trouble you. The exhibition you have already given us of your skill in this kind more than amply suffices." And his fingers strayed nervously to his waistcoat pocket, as if he was half afraid, even then, ...
— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen
... growled the other evasively. "Mind how you step. Hit's a fur ways down thar ef a body ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... Sarajevo incident, and that it appeared nothing was decided. Count Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had gone to Ischl, where Emperor Francis Joseph was recovering from the shock of the assassination, to report to him. Count Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister, had replied evasively to interpellations made in the Hungarian Parliament by the Opposition. Owing to the absence on leave from his post of the War Minister and his chief of staff, the Bourse ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) - Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers • Various
... girl with a wistful countenance, as though the question had embarked him on a new train of thought. But he answered evasively: "His ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... a trifle evasively, "we've had a great deal of talk, and he's the jolliest old boy possible, and in short ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... am not 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 ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... her interview 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 ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... appear other than I am," replied La Corriveau evasively, "and I come in this secret manner because I could get access to you ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... know, so it is," replied the Rat evasively. "But I think we won't go there just now. Not just yet. It's a long way, and he wouldn't be at home at this time of year anyhow, and he'll be coming along some day, if ...
— The Wind in the Willows • Kenneth Grahame
... General at once ordered General Phelps to set his 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 as far as possible ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... 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 ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... 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
... as I 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 fire? Now ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... ball-rooms and moonlit conservatories," said Esther evasively. She did not care to rob Dutch Debby of her ideals by explaining that high life was not all ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... him a tramp," he said evasively. "He had on collar an' cuffs an' good clothes, an' talked sort ...
— The Diamond Master • Jacques Futrelle
... deep for me," said Morgan, evasively. "I suppose they ought to be contented to see us enjoying ourselves. It's all in the way of civilization, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... progress of the negotiations with Russia. When 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 ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... difficulties—in a whisper, of course. No one took up his hat; all were waiting. I don't know what Yulia Mihailovna managed to do, but five minutes later she came back, doing her utmost to appear composed. She replied evasively that Andrey Antonovitch was rather excited, but that it meant nothing, that he had been like that from a child, that she knew "much better," and that the fete next day would certainly cheer him up. Then followed a few flattering words to Stepan Trofimovitch ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... best of human beings!" said Camilla, rather evasively, but with more warmth than usually dwelt in her ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... matter of history,' I said, evasively, 'and Edwin Weeks travelled through India not so many years ago. I saw his studio in Paris afterward. Between his own canvases and Ahmedabad balconies and Delhi embroideries and Burmese Buddhas and other things he seemed to have carried off the ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... in not bein' afraid," he answered evasively, "but in not lettin' folks know when ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... sarcastic 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
... do you want to go ashore for?" asked the Captain, evasively, and trying to conceal his admiration of ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... 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 him do ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... appearance, he readily divined the cause; indeed, all tongues were eager to proclaim it to him. Passionately attached to her, Lionel Vavasour implored an explanation of the cause of his sister's griefs. The bewildered lady answered evasively, attributing her woe-begone looks to any other cause than her husband's cruelty; and pressing her brother, as he valued her peace, her affection, never to allude to the subject again. The fiery youth departed. He next sought out his brother-in-law, and taxed him sharply ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth |
