"Sententiously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sure of the young lady," said the Count sententiously. "The opposition may falter a bit there, and half of ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... difficult to go 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
... 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 and are trying to cut a way out—God knows ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown
... 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 backward, ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... sententiously; "we don't care to hang around this place longer than we must; and we shall have all we can do to get ourselves enlisted and our horses into condition. We haven't time for much else. I hope you will remember that you came out ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
... he's not. If he was, he would have written to her, not to Timmy. Nine years is a long time in a man's life," observed Jack sententiously. ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... replied my lieutenant, and most sententiously this time; "Oh! the brigands, as it pleases you to call them, are in nowise what you think them. The Tulisan is not an assassin. When he takes away life it is only when he is compelled, in defence of his own, and if he do kill, why it is always de ...
— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere
... 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 ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... elder sententiously replied, "marrit on Neil McNab at fifty. Janet's labor's no going to waste. An' if you were the on'y man i' Zorra, it wad behoove me to conseeder the lassie's prospects i' the ...
— Quaint Courtships • Howells & Alden, Editors
... heavenwards, at the vision of the eager dreamy lad whose question had set going all this odd clockwork of association. He wouldn't lose his Shelley for the world! How like twenty! And how many things that he wouldn't lose for the world will he have to give up before he is thirty, I reflected sententiously,—give up at last, maybe, with a stony indifference, as men on a sinking ship take no thought of the gold ...
— The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne
... all his might. "This," said he, "is what we used to call maternal love; and all animals had it, and that is why the noble savage went for him. It was very good of you, Miss Savage," said the poor soul sententiously. ...
— A Simpleton • Charles Reade
... elbow grease one uses, the more it shines," said Lantier, sententiously, with his ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... years younger nor what I am," said Mr. Wragg, sententiously, "I'd give you a hiding, ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... must know its zero first,' she replied sententiously. 'Is the sword you call yours ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald
... are 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
... the deepest," observed Mr. Rogers sententiously, and puffed. "And Saaron Island there, close by the Roads, lies very handy for a ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... 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 ...
— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense
... Harrington jumped at once to this conclusion, for he murmured: "She's telling him I'm the scum of the earth, and that it's up to him to get rid of me." He added, sententiously: "She'll find, I guess, that this is about the most difficult billet a fair lady ever intrusted to a gallant knight." Whereupon, inspired by his metaphor, he proceeded to hum under his breath, by way of outlet to his amused sensibilities, the dulcet ...
— The Law-Breakers and Other Stories • Robert Grant
... Mr. Jaffrey sententiously, "should n't saw off the legs of the piano in Tobias's best parlor. I don't know what Tobias will say ...
— Miss Mehetabel's Son • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... meaning flourish of his stick, "there it is. The poetic spirit always dies at the advance of that ghastly fetich." Then he spoke sententiously. "Popular education is a contrivance of the devil, whereby he looks to extinguish every last saving grace from the life of the populace. Not poetry only, but all good things and all good feelings,—religion, reverence, courtesy,—sane contentment, ...
— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland
... a heap, with a satisfied grin on her flushed face, breathing brokenly. "What's the matter?" eagerly inquired the compassionate man. A bystander removed his pipe from his mouth, and with it pointed to a flattened pocket-flask sticking out of her smashed reticule, half-under her, and sententiously explained: ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... 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 ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... woman are her wealth and worth," he said sententiously, as though he were quoting a maxim out of a child's copybook. "A jewel's price is not so much for its size and weight as for its particular lustre. But common commercial people—like myself—even if they have the good fortune to find a diamond likely to surpass all others ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... they're worth more to you than to me, Miss, but the poor has got to live as well as the rich," she observed sententiously. ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton
... answered 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
... said 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 himself ...
— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon
... no saying what time 'll do,' observed tall Mr. Cowes, sententiously, after a gulp ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... a 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, and they ...
— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower
... You would not be able to work a place like that under twenty-five thousand pounds," Willy replied sententiously. "I have got about eight thousand left of my own, and I came in for a legacy of three thousand at the beginning of this year—an aunt of mine left me the money; and my father has agreed to let me have fourteen thousand on condition of my abandoning all further claim upon ...
— Spring Days • George Moore
... He 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
... to be got from books and the learning to be got from experience," said I sententiously. "If you have less of your share of the one, perhaps you have more of the other. I cannot believe you have spent all your life ...
— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle
... she replied, 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 ...
— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch
... military official, about the five per cent. tax upon the profits of the gold industry. One said it should be raised to twenty-five per cent. for the benefit of the burgher estate. That official, who, by the way, had just returned from a gathering of country officials at Pretoria, sententiously replied "that it was no more a question of any tribute, but of taking the mines altogether out of the capitalists' hands"; and when another burgher interposed a doubt as to the fairness of such a proceeding, that official continued by saying, "Fairness indeed! it is we who have submitted to ...
— Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) - The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked • C. H. Thomas
... cigarettes without intermission, and preserved an obstinate silence, behind which one was naturally free to imagine the profoundest thoughts, if one wished it; and who, when Pilar tried to lead him on to air his opinions on German philosophy, answered sententiously: "I do not care for Kant; his was not a republican spirit." A man who was said to be famed for his wit perpetrated such atrocious puns that even Pilar was forced to admit after he left that he had had ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau
... bed, and we lay awake talking half the night; dreadful as it all was, one couldn't help being jolly! Every ten minutes the sentinel on duty in the court-yard below would sententiously intone: ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... to wait a year," Rasula had said in another mass meeting after the two months of suspense which preceded the discovery that grandchildren really existed. "There is the bare possibility that they may never marry each other," he added sententiously. Later came the news that marriage between the heirs was out of the question. Then the islanders laughed as they toiled. But they were not to be caught napping. Jacob von Blitz, the superintendent, stolid German ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon
... unstinted terms, criticising and condemning the prince's conduct. Once, at the ballet, when within two feet of the Queen, it was with the utmost difficulty that he could be prevented from discussing so obviously unfitting a question, or from sententiously ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan
... of rifles, McNair. Guns go off," interpolated the other sententiously. "What'n the mischief do you expect to gain by ...
— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse
... in society without her husband's escort—and resigned herself to the edifying companionship of Miss Granger, who was eloquent upon the benighted condition of the Parisian poor as compared with her model villagers. She described them sententiously as a people who put garlic in everything they ate, ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... 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
... treasury left untouched by our predecessors)—for all this the modern novel affords free scope. How far superior is all this to the cut-and-dried logic-chopping, the cold analysis to the eighteenth century!—'The Novel,' say sententiously, 'is the Epic grown amusing.' Instance Corinne, bring Mme. de Stael up to support your argument. The eighteenth century called all things in question; it is the task of the nineteenth to conclude and speak the last word; and the ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... 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
... Calvin, sententiously, and looked at Duff Salter with the most open countenance he had ever been seen to show. ...
— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend
... changed," said Nels sententiously. "Before night, won't be nothing to bring down. We left ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... remarked the other, sententiously. "Bed's not the only place to die in, and I've always believed in proper precautions. You give Miss Bangs my respects, and tell her that ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... grow fonder," remarked the secretary sententiously. "And you may be living in a fool's paradise. Lambert is within ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... it would be as if it were not here," said the commissaire sententiously. "That is to say we should send it on to the Prefecture. I have not even the right to tell you if it is at this moment here or not, though to give you pleasure," he proceeded with unconscious sarcasm, "I will declare to you that it ...
— A Christmas Posy • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... damage done to these American citizens was very large. At the outbreak of 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 ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... "Polo," sententiously began the Second Secretary, who himself was a crackerjack at the game, "is a proposition of ponies! Men can be trained for polo. But polo ponies must be born. Without ...
— The Lost House • Richard Harding Davis
... murmured sententiously, "there'd be a fight with skin gloves and I'm afraid you'd get licked, son. I wasted a good many years in the navy, Matt, and there I learned two things—how to obey and how to fight with my fists. I was the champion amateur light-heavy-weight ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... mud pies of infancy!" he replied sententiously. "A little salt, pepper, and butter, and a good deal of meat and flour, with a few well selected vegetables, would probably improve it; but it isn't particularly bad as ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan
... Alix Crown, have been fooled by men," said the other sententiously. "Oh, I don't mean the way you think, my child,—so don't glare at me like that. I know you can take care of yourself THAT way,—but how about falling in love? And getting married? And finding out afterward that roses don't grow on cactus plants? That's ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... Swan responded sententiously. "But my dog Yack, he don't howl yet. I guess Brit's at ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... Philosophical Society, and fancied ourselves the most learned philos in existence. Every one had a great character assigned him, suggested by some casual habit or affectation. One heavy fellow drank an enormous quantity of tea; rolled in his armchair, talked sententiously, pronounced dogmatically, and was considered a second Dr. Johnson; another, who happened to be a curate, uttered coarse jokes, wrote doggerel rhymes, and was the Swift of our association. Thus we had also our Popes and Goldsmiths and Addisons, and a blue-stocking lady, whose drawing-room we ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... of aromatic incense, over the brandy-dashed coffee, the two men sententiously struggled for the smiles of Fortune, with impassive faces, in a rapid duel of wits as the ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... character, accustomed to hold the reins of arbitrary power; and seated where will is law, the mail-whip carries in his appearance all that may be expected from his elevated situation. Stern and sedate in his manner, and given to taciturnity, he speaks sententiously, or in monosyllables. If he passes on the road even an humble follower of the profession, with four tidy ones in hand, he views him with ineffable contempt, and would consider it an irreparable disgrace to appear conscious ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... 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, pausing ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... stop your stupid little mind from wunning along its accustomed dirty gwoove," answered Carminow sententiously. "Miss Grey is the daughter of ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... 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 ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... lapse of a few minutes she turned to Mrs. Reed. "Belle," she said, nodding her head sententiously, "you had a pearl, and you threw it away. That girl there is our social fortune! Her voice, and her face—why, with our ward—this beautiful, gifted, South American owner of a famous mine—as a lever, we can force the Beaubien to bring the ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... your gentleness and mercy, Mrs. Yocomb. Oh! oh! I wish I could make 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
... alike, Mis' Kittridge," said Miss Roxy, sententiously. "This 'un ain't like your Sally. 'A hen and a bumble-bee can't be fetched up alike, fix it how ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... tell," said John sententiously. "You remember that lame fellow saved a battle for us by knowing how to shoe ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... German replied, very sententiously, in the affirmative; and, after a few words had passed between the husband of the fiery-faced hostess and the Judge, the sleigh moved on. It soon reached the door of the academy, where the party alighted and entered ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... ter show," concluded Julius sententiously, as the man came up and announced that the spring was ready for us to get water, "dat w'ite folks w'at is so ha'd en stric', en doan make no 'lowance fer po' ign'ant niggers w'at ain' had no chanst ter l'arn, is li'ble ter hab bad dreams, ter say de leas', ...
— The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt
... suppose," he said, one evening in the smoking-room, nodding his head sententiously, "that old Don Juan d'Alta knows what he is worth; neither do I suppose that he cares much, for he is a man of the simplest tastes, living on the plainest food, and having but one hobby and object, ...
— A Queen's Error • Henry Curties
... my friends," declared Bobby Littell sententiously. "I only hope they're mad enough to hop right down to the office and ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... he had brought a ball with him, for they had lost theirs. He threw his ball to him. But aren't you coming to play with us? Not to-day, Joseph answered. I'm on my way to school. Well, to-morrow? Not to-morrow. I may not play truant from learning, Joseph answered sententiously, walking away, leaving his former playmates staring after him without a word in their mouths. But by the next day they had recovered their speech and cried out: the fishmonger's son is going by to his lessons and dare ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore
... what it is,' said Arthur, sententiously. 'Did you not tell me that St. Erme had been ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... 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 real ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... money," said Mr. Rex Holland sententiously, and then continued: "Correct me if I am mistaken, but as we came through Putney did I not see you nod to the ...
— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace
... big house goes or not makes a difference in our staff of partners," observed the younger Miss Chipchase sententiously. "Let's see: there's Captain Bloxam, Captain Braybrooke, and Mr. Sartoris—all most eligible, don't you think so, Laura? I wonder what this other man is like whom Blanche talked about—Lionel ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart
... rapids, in which boats are broken to pieces. Lastly, they said there was no boat, but on my saying that I would send ten miles for one, a small, flat-bottomed scow was produced by the Transport Agent, into which Ito, the luggage, and myself accurately fitted. Ito sententiously observed, "Not one thing has been told us on our journey which has turned out true!" This is not an exaggeration. The usual crowd did not assemble round the door, but preceded me to the river, where it covered ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird
... a tub and a boat is a boat," said Jack, sententiously. "This one couldn't tip over if it tried. Don't you see it's most square? In fact, we didn't mean to get it quite so wide; but, after all, it is better than those canoe-like things, which are always rocking from ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... omelettes without breaking eggs," said Mr. Hobson, sententiously. "The more terrible a war is, ...
— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths
... fever," said the sergeant sententiously. "So much water and marsh it's hard to escape it. The sooner we ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... 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
... to the strains of music, his general staff, now composed chiefly of young ex-government officers, told him of the discovery, and Quail, interpreting the thoughts of his colleagues, said sententiously: ...
— The Underdogs • Mariano Azuela
... better to hit what you aim at, than to shoot at the clouds and bring down nothing," said Clem sententiously. ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... suppose, as usual. 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 of its patrons, in closing ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
... "Confessions." Well do I remember going there with dear Alexis in the May-time, the young corn six inches high in the fields, and my delight in the lush luxuriance of the l'Oise. That dear morning is remembered, and the poor master who reproved me a little sententiously, is dead. He was sorrowful in that dreadful room of his, fixed up with stained glass and morbid antiquities. He lay on a sofa lecturing me till breakfast. Then I thought reproof was over, but after a ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore
... this moment that the gentlemen, i.e. Sir Tom and Jock, appeared out of the dining-room. They had not lingered long after the ladies. Sir Tom had been somewhat glum after they left. His look of amusement was not so lively. He said sententiously, not so much to Jock as to himself, "That woman is bent on mischief," and got up and walked about the room instead of taking his wine. Then he laughed and turned to Jock, who was musing over his orange skins. "When you get a fellow into your house that is not much good—I suppose it must happen ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... principles. He was playing with his little sister on a bed, when suddenly he perceived that she was getting perilously near the edge which was farthest from the wall. Instantly he dismounted and went round to the other side, and, climbing up, pushed her gently into the middle of the bed, remarking sententiously to himself, "I think boys ought always to take the dangerous side of their sisters." Ah me! if only you mothers would but train your boys to "take the dangerous side of their sisters," especially of those poor little sisters ...
— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins
... forgotten," says he, sententiously, during a pause. "You all seem strangely oblivious of the fact that last night there was a ball in this house. Why shirk the subject? I like talking," says Mr. Potts, superfluously, "and surely you must all have something ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... approve of the lady Eleanor's themes. I've heard that prosperity turns people's heads, but I never knew it made them into bears. She's actually more unpleasant than she was before she reformed. And the moral of that is, don't reform," added Mary sententiously. ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde
... she likes, but it's no ilka egg laid has a chuckie intill 't," answered Miss Horn sententiously. "Jist ye gang hame to auld Duncan, an' tell him to turn the thing ower in 's min' till he's able to sweir to the verra nicht he fan' the bairn in 's lap. But no ae word maun he say to leevin' sowl aboot it afore ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald
... said the youthful Crichton sententiously, "do not disturb yourself with those problems, which are already disposed of. In twenty years the sultan will become a monk, to get rid of the chief sultana, who has pestered his life out with her notions of woman's rights, and who ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... anything about his encounter with, and victory over the Iroquois, as well as to his own exertions in behalf of the two deserted young women. When Deerslayer ended, the Delaware took up the narrative, in turn, speaking sententiously and with grave dignity. His account was both clear and short, nor was it embellished by any incidents that did not directly concern the history of his departure from the villages of his people, and his arrival ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper
... his door, and then sententiously remarked: "Major, I think I'll light out and find some of the boys. You ain't got no call to know anything about it, but I allow it's about time ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various
... heap more uneasy if they knew what we know," remarked Williams, sententiously. "Hear anything more about the Chihuahua troops bein' ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... to understand exactly the manner in which Englishmen appreciate American character; and, among other things, he knew it was the general opinion in the island that money could do any thing with Jonathan; or, as Christophe is said once to have sententiously expressed the same sentiment, "if there were a bag of coffee in h—-, a Yankee could be found to go and bring ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... all alike," said Captain Du Meresq, sententiously. "Even you, my beloved Cecil, who are a woman of mind, can't stand my wild ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... analogies, the apt quotations, the singular flashes of reflection and illustration, which characterise Bacon, in their most unformed and new-born condition. In the Essays they are worked together, but still sententiously, and evidently with no attempt at sustained and fluent connection of style. That Montaigne must have had some influence on Bacon is, of course, certain; though few things can be more unlike than the curt severity of the scheme of the English essays and the interminable diffuseness of ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury
... Lordship agrees to," the gardener replied, sententiously. He turned to the staging, and took up one of ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... was that, fortunately, I remembered my Pre-Raphaelite friend, and I sententiously remarked: 'Of course, if one has anything to say one cannot do better than say it about whitebait.... ...
— Prose Fancies (Second Series) • Richard Le Gallienne
... do not get the prize," he said, sententiously, "you have a great deal of artistic ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... sometimes without luggage, my dear," he said sententiously; "but with such luggage as ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... am astonished at anything," remarked Porthos, sententiously, "it is that it has not ...
— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... winnet yowl an ye hit him with a bone, but a spy is worse ner ony dog," answered Matthew sententiously. ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine
... 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
... in Europe," said the consul sententiously. "I'd leave Bradshaw and the waiter to fight it out among themselves. We'll get back in time to order a dinner; it's always better, and then we can dine alone, and ...
— A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories • William D. Howells
... hall, he was assailed with questions. Pretty accurate reports of the two exciting days in the North country had already trickled into Sleepy Cat. To these, Sawdy listened with stolid attention but he managed to add to them very little. He possessed to a degree the faculty of talking freely, sententiously even, without contributing anything strictly pertinent to a subject. What he conveyed, when he meant to withhold information, was really no more than an air of reserve in which wisdom seemed discreetly restrained. On this present occasion he ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... who only stand and wait,'" quoted the doctor sententiously. "There is something you ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse
... and a day or two after, she had added, evidently alluding to him, but not mentioning his name, that it was an unalterable characteristic of hers to be mistaken in people. Then once more, ten days later, after some passage of arms with one of her daughters, she had remarked sententiously. "We have had enough of mistakes. I shall be more careful in future!" However, it was impossible to avoid remarking that there was some sense of oppression in the household—something unspoken, but felt; something ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... good fish," said he, sententiously, to Young New York, whose hook persisted in baiting itself with his thumb,—"if you want to ketch reel snorters, you must have a heavy line, heavy lead, and gimp tackle. Then take your own time, haul in, hand over hand, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various
... act very much in the same way when they are in love," said Irma sententiously. "But I don't believe that you are really in love ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... Bugbee, sententiously, "it is not a game of mine. It is my plan to save the King from ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.
... thou observest my maxims,' the boy said, sententiously, 'I will have thee a great lady. But uncle hath printed this libel, and tongues are at work in Austin Friars.' It was said that this was a new Papist plot. Margot was but the first that they should carry off. The Duke and Bishop Gardiner were reported to have ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... sleep, in dividing the watch with Tom Simson, somehow managed to take upon himself the greater part of that duty. He excused himself to the Innocent, by saying that he had "often been a week without sleep." "Doing what?" asked Tom. "Poker!" replied Oakhurst, sententiously; "when a man gets a streak of luck,—nigger-luck,—he don't get tired. The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler, reflectively, "is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going ...
— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... kindness and liberality, and thankfully accepted. She fixed on Mandane in 'Artaxerxes,' and brought the greatest receipts ever known at that house, as the whole pit, with the exception of two benches, was railed into boxes. So much," he adds sententiously, "for a little German proficiency, a little common civility, ...
— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris
... 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 a green ...
— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower
... 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 ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville
... "Julius Caesar," replied Jack, sententiously, "was first of all an author, Laving published at Rome an Easy Introduction to the Latin Language; he afterwards turned general, conquered France and England, and gave Mr. Pompey a sound thrashing at ...
— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien
... moment, 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
... leave him," said Dave sententiously, "he wouldn't never be no more trouble to his father; but I suppose we must pull ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... Lady Thurwell, sententiously. "If one person does not find his way down to Thurwell Court after you before long, I ...
— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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 ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... not understand. The Chinese physician who witnesses the unfortunate effect of placing a drug of which he knows nothing into a body of which he knows less, is no more disconcerted than is his Western brother under similar circumstances; he retires, sententiously observing "there is medicine for sickness but none for fate." "Medicine," says the Chinese proverb, "cures the man who is fated not to die." "When Yenwang (the King of Hell) has decreed a man to die at the third watch, no power will detain him till ...
— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison
... 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 ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... Prevol's,' he said to himself, as he threw down the paper: 'it will put them on the right track, and then—well,' observed M. Vandeloup, sententiously, 'they say danger sharpens a man's wits; it's lucky for me if ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... sententiously expressed it, that it was not agreeable for him to remain under the kindly shelter of the paternal mansion; so he, prodigal like, took the portion his father gave him and spent it in riotous living. But he was determined not to feed on husks, if ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... Mr. Russell sententiously, "may, I suppose, be a wonderful revelation, because you only see your fare's eyes for a second, and the things you may see have no limit, and you never know the silly little truth about him. Yet even so, there is more than a ticket and ...
— This Is the End • Stella Benson
... I dissembled, so as to salve his pride. 'Mr. Tillington's friends are our friends,' I answered, sententiously. ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... said the 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 people ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... Aunt Rachel, sententiously, "and perhaps I have not. It's a new thing for a nephew to tell his aunt that she lies. They didn't use to allow such things when I was young. But the world's going to rack and ruin, and I shouldn't wonder if the people was right that say it's ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... ten purses, to say nothing of the implacable resentment of the kazi and his relatives; and he bethought himself how he should become the talk of his neighbourhood—how Malik bin Omar, the jeweller, would sneer at him, and Salih, the barber, talk sententiously of his folly. At length, finding reflection of no avail, he arose and with slow and pensive steps ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston
... 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 you, Boney ...
— The Dodge Club - or, Italy in 1859 • James De Mille
... too careful," remarked Mrs. White, sententiously. "The world's full of gossiping people, and women are very impressionable, especially such high-strung women as that young widow. A man can't possibly be too careful. Read me ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... disputable as it may seem. Honest husbands, to be sure, greet the information with dissenting guffaws; gay deceivers reflect upon its truth by gallantly assenting to it, with a mocking little twinkle in their eyes; and pretty women, upon hearing it, remark sententiously "Blind men and fools may think so." Discerning students of womankind, however, know that if every woman would make the best of her possibilities, physically, mentally, and spiritually, it would be delightfully ...
— What Dress Makes of Us • Dorothy Quigley
... Shore we needn't worry about hidin' out," replied Springer, sententiously. "With thet dog Jean Isbel could ...
— To the Last Man • Zane Grey
... without any embarrassing incident, when Mrs. Mayhew was the means of placing poor Ida in a very painful dilemma. Under a general impulse to conciliate her daughter and make amends, and with her usual want of tact, she suddenly and sententiously said: ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe
... to argue," sententiously answered Tom. "The gal's been took by the Apaches instead of the Comanches, and that's all there is of it; that moccasin tells the whole story. Ask Jerry. Me and him agreed on that pint, as soon as ever ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
... of crime," said Scott sententiously, "there is no such word as prefect. All are alike. Go and ...
— The Politeness of Princes - and Other School Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... rolled his sleeve back upon a lean and sinewy old arm that was tanned until it looked like a piece of weathered oak, spat upon his hand and whirled the weapon till it whistled in the air. "I come of a seafarin' fambly," said the Cap'n, sententiously. ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... a husband to love his wife, and a mother her child. That is love in measure, but not so high as the love we bear to God and the Saints!" quoth Hilarius sententiously, mindful of yesterday's homily ...
— The Gathering of Brother Hilarius • Michael Fairless
... come of smuggling," observed Thole, rather sententiously. "What they makes they spends as fast as they gets, and no one's the better ...
— Salt Water - The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman • W. H. G. Kingston
... Persis sententiously, "that enjoying one's self's a good deal like jam. You spread it on bread and butter, and you can eat a sight of it. But if you set down to a pot of jam and nothing else, it turns your stomach ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... will be spared to you," said he, sententiously; "mark my words, lad. You need never fear death till you begin to love life. Get up, my poor boy, you must not be found there when the relief comes, and that will be soon. This is all that I have," said he, placing three sous in my palm, "which will buy a loaf; to-morrow ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various
... 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 ...
— The Missionary • George Griffith
... for the look of the horse," Allen was saying sententiously. "And I might almost claim to have warned them—no longer ago than last March. The stud-groom was riding him at a meet, and I said, 'Mr. Yeatman, you aren't surely going to let Mr. Barradine risk his neck with hounds on that thing?' 'No,' he ...
— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell
... his shoulder, and slowly wrinkled his leathern cheeks into an encouraging smile. 'Like ter near killed a woggin,' replied he sententiously. 'Will be ashore in a brace ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... quoth the oracle, so sententiously, that Miss Fosbrook's shoulders shook with laughing as she stood a little in the background of the eager ...
— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge
... doth not always proclaim the monk," quoth Greville sententiously. "You spoke truer than you knew ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... a man lives upo'," said Cupples sententiously, "sae it be first-rate o' 'ts ain kin'. And this ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald
... and Wolford replied cold and sententiously for some ten minutes. Then there came a pause, and the two men looked into each other's faces for a short time, ...
— Finger Posts on the Way of Life • T. S. Arthur
... vermouths he glorified the Company's business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there. He became very cool and collected all at once. 'I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,' he said sententiously, emptied his glass with ...
— Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad
... of energy, so that doubtless there was much nervous depression at the foundation of the spiritual struggles which this chapter is forced to record. However, it could not have been all due to my health, for as my wise little notebook sententiously remarked, "In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... went as men planned we would not need to pray Heaven for aid," quoth Shaun the Little sententiously. ...
— Nuala O'Malley • H. Bedford-Jones
... very," answered Cox-Raythwaite, sententiously. "Barthorpe and Burchill will inevitably retire to the shelter of a convict establishment for awhile. Um! ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... wound with grim satisfaction, and then said, sententiously: "I'm glad you have got it, Alford, for it will keep you home and divert Grace's thoughts. In these times a wound that leaves the heart untouched may be useful; and nothing cures a woman's trouble better than having to take up the troubles of others. I predict ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... 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, ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... there's 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 in the ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... smoothly, it is because of just such good, cheery common-sense," Mr. Muir remarked, sententiously. "I'm in the financial centre of this part of the world, and schemes involving millions and the welfare of States—indeed of whole sections of the country—are daily brought to my consideration, and I tell you again men are ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe
... make light wuck," said the old woman sententiously. "I come yere arly dis mawnin' to gib Missy Mara a lif' kase she's been lookin' po'ly an' I hab her on my min' anxious-like. But now, wid a larfin', sunshiny little ting like you aroun', Missy Ella, she'll soon be as peart as a cricket. Vilet, chile, jes wait on me an' han' ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... timely interjection. "Money will not heal the sick," observed the king's sister sententiously; and as soon as I heard the remark translated my eyes were unsealed, and I began to blush for my employment. Here was a sick child, and I sought, in the view of its parents, to remove the medicine-box. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to bear everything in this life," Mademoiselle Therese replied sententiously, shaking her head and looking as if she knew what it was to suffer acutely. "One is set on earth to learn to 'suffer and grow strong,' as one of your English ...
— Barbara in Brittany • E. A. Gillie
... be peace," he said, sententiously. "We forgive all the errors of your long vacation in consideration of the good it has evidently done ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... cats,' said Mr. Logan. 'Cats is clay,' he continued sententiously, 'kinder like straw an' clay mixed up. I guess I'll stay an' help you to fix one to-morrow, ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... for any youthful errors into which he may have been betrayed,' Louis continued sententiously, 'since, for a scientist, he is really admirable. No doubt the Bishop's caution will not be lost upon him; and as for his birth ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy |
