"Inconsequently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me true, it goes by itself; but it creeps like old Sobieska,' he added, to comfort himself. Yet, deep down in his heart he was afraid of this new contrivance and felt that it boded no good to the neighbourhood. And though he reasoned inconsequently he was right, for with the appearance of the railway engines there also came much thieving. From pots and pans, drying on the fences, to horses in the stables, nothing was safe. The Germans had their bacon stolen from the larder; the gospodarz Marcinezak, who returned ...
— Selected Polish Tales • Various
... I was hoping you were a member," said Mr. Blake, inconsequently. "But to return to the story, do you think that Miss Watson was so very much to ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... mummy?" said the June baby inconsequently this afternoon, after having assisted at the discussions for several days and apparently listening ...
— The Solitary Summer • Elizabeth von Arnim
... asked in church," replied Dorothea, somewhat inconsequently. "Ah! more than once, we had. And I'd ha' been as true to him, and was, as ever a needle to a stitch. Well, sir, when he slights of me, and leaves of me, why it's natural as I should run up and down the ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... diagrams from their hiding-place in the wall, and brought them with him when he went by appointment to meet his patron off beyond Knockfinny. And when Mr. Willett said to him: "Well, Dan, what about the States and the doctoring?" he replied inconsequently by holding out the sheets of paper with the explanation: "It's me brother, Nicholas, sir, does be doin' them mostly ...
— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane
... silent a moment; then she asked, a little inconsequently, as if she had come back from a reverie: "Does she want to ...
— Nona Vincent • Henry James
... Nomaglie Palace to demand that the Countess Sforza-Riario should be delivered into his hands. His claim was that she was his prisoner, since she had been arrested by a soldier of his own, and that her surrender was to France, to which he added—a thought inconsequently, it seems—that the French law forbade that women should be made prisoners. Valentinois, taken utterly by surprise, and without the force at hand to resist the Bailie and his Swiss, was compelled ...
— The Life of Cesare Borgia • Raphael Sabatini
... do anything about it now," repeated her mistress. "But I'm sorry, Dawkins; very sorry, indeed. We have responsibilities toward these people! However—this is Thursday, isn't it?—we'll have veal for lunch as usual—and she was so pretty!" she added inconsequently. ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train |
