"Suavely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Gray; come out, my man, and talk it over," said Holgate suavely. "You were always good at the gab. Step out in front, man," and he played with his revolver. But ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... be it, I was about to say," clicked the type-writer, suavely; but the ink was thick and inclined to spread. "Munchausen felt that Bogey was encroaching on his preserve as a ...
— The Enchanted Typewriter • John Kendrick Bangs
... Strelsau. The duke, it seemed, had been afflicted with a sudden indisposition which made it impossible for him to come to the station, but he craved leave to await his Majesty at the Cathedral. I expressed my concern, accepted the Marshal's excuses very suavely, and received the compliments of a large number of distinguished personages. No one betrayed the least suspicion, and I felt my nerve returning and the agitated beating of my heart subsiding. But Fritz was still pale, and his hand shook like a leaf ...
— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope
... said the Hippopotamus suavely. "There's nothing better for the complexion than a good rub, and I assure you you have placed me ...
— Andiron Tales • John Kendrick Bangs
... peace. This was his enemy with whom he was now face to face, but the final issue was not yet. He spoke suavely and persuasively. ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Yes," Gervase interposed suavely, drawing the glove from his right hand and letting flash a diamond finger-ring in the lamp-light. "He is a bit of a beast, policeman, and it's not for the pleasure of it ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... the old days," he answered, less suavely than usual. "When the father was alive, I used to go to the house, but, of course, I was a ...
— A True Friend - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... Saint to the Devil suavely, 'so far from being four minutes too early, you are exactly a year too late.' On saying this, the Saint smiled a genial, priestly smile, folded his hands, twiddled his thumbs slowly round and round, and gazed in a fatherly ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc
... I daresay it was one of the hospital reporters, Mrs. Force," said Flanders suavely. She spent the rest of the evening ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... starts, madam,' he replied suavely, in good American, and resumed nonchalantly his stare into ...
— Sacred And Profane Love • E. Arnold Bennett
... could not consider such a thing for a moment. Mr. Skiddy wanted to know, then, what the deuce he was to do? The Chief Justice benignantly shook his head. He had no answer to that question. The President murmured suavely, that perhaps next year, with an increased hut tax, and the suppression of the rebellion, the Government might see its ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne
... whose noble masterpiece, the Tomb of Louis XII. and Anne of Brittany, is the finest ornament of the Cathedral of St. Denis, bridge the distance and mark the transition to Goujon, Cousin, and Germain Pilon far more suavely than the school of Fontainebleau did the change from that of Tours to Poussin. Cousin, though the monument of Admiral Chabot is a truly marvellous work, witnessing a practical sculptor's hand, is really to be classed among painters. ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell
... Missie, all right," she said suavely. "I don't want to press things on you. That's not my way. You won't catch me at this gate again, I promise you. Good night!" and, slipping out into the lane, ...
— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil
... to blame for any violation of the law," said Robin suavely. "Surely it is only necessary that I should accompany you to the magistrate. The young lady is ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... to her judicially and suavely, with a tone of regret, but possibly with an undertone of contentment: for this case, after having immensely bewildered him for a time, was now, at last, imitating all the proper symptoms again. The ...
— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman
... wish you no evil. May God give me all the things I wish you. I just want you to behave yourself. That's all. I am so much older than you, anyhow. Look for somebody of your own age. You are not angry at me, are you?" she added, suavely ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... people said were really owned by him, and there was no one more ready to lend money—on the best of security and the highest rate of interest—than he. Should the borrower fail to pay, he was always suavely ready to renew the loan at increased interest—provided the security was sound. And, in the end, every ounce of his pound of flesh, plus not less than fifty per cent. interest, would come back to him. After Verner Lablache had done with him, the ...
— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum
... behind your back, she'd look you in the eyes and say all she meant point-blank. I'm glad indeed things are taking their present course, for these people could make any man trouble," and he treated his guests very suavely. ...
— Without a Home • E. P. Roe
... so much heat into my poor house, learned Doctor, surely all of us will soon burn," said Jacob suavely. "The Lady Harflete said nothing that his Highness did not force her to say, as I know who was present, and among so many pickings cannot you spare a single dole? Come, come, drink a cup of ...
— The Lady Of Blossholme • H. Rider Haggard
... possession," Herr Windt went on suavely, "was more damaging to other interests than to theirs. Herr Renwick's connection with the British Embassy has terminated. He has merely the status in Austria of a traveling Englishman. But his activities are dangerous where they concern the movements of the Countess Strahni. ...
— The Secret Witness • George Gibbs
... with an air of indolent resignation, "and one can do nothing for that sort of thing. A crisis comes—one must wait for it to pass.... She regrets that condition.... And she wished me to present her regrets to you," he added suavely, "for that reception of you last night. She was ill and did not expect you—and she did not wish you to ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... think I have changed my mind," he suavely replied as he bade her good-bye. In the months that followed he gave her no sign that her interview had made ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz
... the frocks this evening," the dressmaker agreed, suavely. "But are you sure you will be in? I want you to be at ...
— The Automobile Girls At Washington • Laura Dent Crane
... my good man, not given me. Lent," he corrected suavely. "Met me taking the air last evening, and being as usual anxious to oblige—Hadn't you better go to the ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad
... this note from Judge Brackenridge to insure you a welcome here; you do us a great honor by seeking out our lonely island home." These words, though addressed to both the visitors, were meant for the elder and more distinguished guest, who replied suavely: ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... martyr refusing to sacrifice a dove to Venus might have uttered her costly heresy in such a voice and with such a look; but the General met it suavely with a flourish of his wide-brimmed hat and a blandishing smile. He was one of those gentlemen of the old school, I came to know later, to whom it was an inherent impossibility to appear without affectation ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... Landrassy bowed suavely to Ian as they met outside Mennaval's door in the early evening of this day when the business was accomplished, the former coming out, the latter ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... yet, Mr. R. C. Street-Beaudry," demurred Charlton suavely. "Stay and play with us awhile, now you're here. No telling when we'll meet again." He climbed on the shoe-shining chair that stood in the entry. "I reckon I'll have my boots shined up. ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... comparative strangers. His cosey chair, glowing fire, and listless ease were much better than noisy children, inquisitive ladies, and the unconscious reproach of Mr. Walton's face, as he would look in vain for the lineaments of his lost friend. Therefore he said, suavely: "Please say to the ladies that I am so wearied that I should make but a dull companion, and so for their sakes, as well as my own, had better not ...
— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe
... said Carleton suavely, as he surveyed the ridiculous incongruity before him. "I'll change your runs, then. I can't have you two men brawling ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... him easily. "When I was young, I used to take it with all sorts of cream in it; but now—" She shook her head. Then she added suavely, "You are sure it is quite ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... Skinner retorted suavely. "Pray do not excite yourself. Suppose war does impend? Is that any reason why ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... sorry for Bret Harte. It happened this way. A reporter asked me what I thought of the city, and I made answer suavely that it was hallowed ground to me, because of Bret Harte. That ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling
... brought him to the death-battle with George Rogers Clark. As a military leader, Clark had genius, and soldiering was his passion. In nature, he was open, frank, and bold to make foes if he scorned a man's way as ignoble or dishonest. Wilkinson suavely set about scheming for Clark's ruin. His communication or memorial to the Virginia Assembly—signed by himself and a number of his friends—villifying Clark, ended Clark's chances for the commission in the Continental Army which he craved. It was Wilkinson who made ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner
... suavely. "Every Englishman has a bull-dog tenacity of purpose. Brag is a good dog, Don Pedro, but Holdfast is a ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... day of the month Winneburg entered the northern gate of Treves, accompanied by two hundred horsemen and eight hundred foot soldiers. At first, the officers of the Archbishop thought that an invasion was contemplated, but Winneburg suavely explained that if a thing was worth doing at all, it was worth doing well, and he was not going to make any hole-and-corner affair of his apology. Next day Beilstein came along accompanied by five hundred cavalry, and ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr
... and the hollow thumps of denials. There were soft murmurs of, "Now, this is strictly off the record ..." followed by sibilant whispers. The unseen screws of political pressure creaked, and whitewash brushes slurped suavely. And there was an insistent yammering of bewildered and unanswered questions. Fred Dunmore really had killed Arnold Rivers, hadn't he? Or had he? Arnold Rivers had been double-crossing Dunmore ... or had Dunmore been double-crossing ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... of mice and men gang aft agley,'" said her husband suavely. "Evadne's mental strength cannot fail to be developed by intercourse with such a clever man. We must not allow the culture of the body to occupy so prominent a place in our thoughts that we forget ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... rejoined Andy suavely, and not in the least seeing the connection between maple trees and apple-pie. 'I wondher might I make bould to ax you for one of them sthrings? they're sich a curiosity to me.' And he had the cord of leathern pieces stowed away ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... hand, arrested the barkeeper's attention. "I'm here," he articulated thickly, "to see life, understand! And I can see it too—money's power." The other regarded him with a brief, mechanical interest, a platitude shot suavely ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... chagrin, my dear Bradbury," rejoined Mortlake suavely, "but accidents will happen, ...
— The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise • Margaret Burnham
... here with Jimmydodd," said Haidia suavely. "There is not the least danger any more. You must destroy the beetles before their shells have grown again, ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... when he is gone," said the king, suavely. "And also when Madame, here, shall have ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... in suavely; "but each in turn. I claim the right. Cal had first chance because he had personally warned the man of the consequences. But I am equally accused. You must admit my ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... me to explain," said Harry suavely. "I have ascertained that, by placing the theodolite over that peg yonder,"—pointing to a newly driven peg some four hundred feet away to the left—"I shall be able to get an uninterrupted view of the quebrada from top to bottom, and, by ...
— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood
... with just the shadow of a shrug, was all sweet reasonableness. She smiled more suavely than ever. "Surely, Lina," she remonstrated, in her frankest and most convincing tone, "I must know best what is good for dear Ettie, when I have been watching her daily for more than six months past, and taking the greatest pains to understand both her constitution and her ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... the stout Greek general nodding to himself. But the Skipper said suavely: "You were with one of the creatures, you say, up in the village of Naousa. Would you say he seemed ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... to his desk, laid his hat and stick on a chair, and, before removing his overcoat, began turning over the pile of letters which awaited his attention. As he did so, Governor Abbott's voice broke in suavely upon the other's. ...
— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl
... vaguely conscious that its destruction was of importance to our side of the matter at issue. At the same instant in which my request was declined, the big medicine man turned to Captain Ullmer and suavely remarked, "You found everything as represented, ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... knack of commanding attention and inspiring courtesy. Calvin Gray was one of these. Before many moments, he was in the manager's office, explaining, suavely, "Now that I have introduced myself, I wish to thank you for taking care of me upon ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... passageway, Orchil leading, a tall, shadowy figure in evening dress stepped back from the door of the card-room against the wall to give them right of way, and Orchil, peering at him without recognition in the dull light, bowed suavely as he passed, as did Fane, craning his curved neck, and Harmon also, who followed ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... eh?" Pete Dinsmore murmured it suavely. His crafty mind was weighing the difference this made in the problem before the outlaws—the question as to what to do with this man. They could not let him go back with his evidence. It would not be safe to kill him if he had merely strayed from a band ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... it anything," replied Burchill suavely, "you can call it a—well, say a donation. That sounds ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher
... only themselves to blame, said Mr Dedalus suavely. If they took a fool's advice they would confine ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... accused admitted before Citizen Merlin that she herself was trying to burn certain love letters, that would have brought to light her illicit relationship with another man than yourself," argued Tinville suavely. The rope was perhaps not quite long enough; Droulde must have all that could be given him, ere this memorable sitting ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... you, Mr. Darlington, to visit me in my humble home; sorry I wasn't here to welcome you," he remarked suavely. ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... smiled, but said suavely: "For all that, you should not take an unnecessary risk. You have been attacked ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss
... head on the morning after a late supper; he can give you slangy little details about any one and every one whom you may meet at a theatre or any other public place; he is somewhat proud when some bellowing, foul-mouthed bookmaker smiles suavely and inquires, "Doing anything to-day, sir?" Mark you, he is still a charming young fellow; but the bloom has gone from his character. He has ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... Breckon addressed them suavely in their owe tongue which had never come in more deferential politeness from human lips. He ventured the belief that there was a mistake; he assured them that he knew their prisoner, and that he was the son of ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... he didn't know. She tossed her head and tried Mr. Crisp; Mr. Crisp patiently and elaborately explained just why he could not give any information. She implied that he did not know a lady when he saw one, and fell upon Mr. Le Moyne, tired, hungry, suavely sardonic. "He was," she assured him, "a gentleman of the old school. He would know how to receive a lady's request and honour it." And Le Moyne rose to the occasion. A large benevolence sat upon his brow, as assuring her that, though he ran the risk ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris
... the matter over for a few days, Judge Hollenback," said Mrs. Tresslyn suavely. "She does feel, I've no doubt, that it would be a tax on her strength and nerves. In a few days, I'm sure, she will feel differently." She thought she had sensed Anne's reason for hesitating. Mrs. Tresslyn ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon
... desire that this matter be argued before the Supreme Court?" inquired Mr. Tutt suavely. "If so I will ask that the prisoner be paroled in my ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train
... from the head of the military authority. You have doubtless forgotten Hague Regulation, Article 52; your Government signed it, you will recollect." The officer hesitated. The maire looked out on the place; it was full of armed men, but he did not flinch. "You see, monsieur," he went on suavely, "there are such things as receipts, and they have to be authenticated." The officer turned his back on him, took out his field note-book, scribbled something on a page, and, having torn it out, handed it to one of his men ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... excuse us this evening, gentlemen," said Merriwell, suavely. "We have done our best to entertain you, and we will see you ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... to include me, Mr. Ridgway," he said suavely. "What is done for my wife is done, ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... dazzle of sun, and out of it her eyes regarded me with such leaden penetration beneath their thick lids that I doubt if my face concealed the least thought from her. "But there, there," she added very suavely, stooping her head a little, "don't trouble to answer me. I never extort an answer. Boys are queer fish. Brains might perhaps have suggested his washing his hands before luncheon; but—not my choice, Smithers. God forbid! And now, perhaps, you would like to go into the ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... and invite you to make your headquarters at the "Golden Rule Hotel" during your stay." Noting that the lads were yet undecided what to do and correctly surmising that they had received an old-fashioned, Christian home training, he suavely added: "Our charges are most reasonable, only fifteen cents per night, and every Sunday morning we hold here in the office a most beautiful song and prayer service, and I am sure you lads will be glad to join us in singing ...
— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)
... Henry suavely. "I am Lord Henry Highbarn. I have come here this evening for a rest ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... all, not at all," said I suavely. "It is very natural. I am neither young nor handsome, Mrs. ...
— Dolly Dialogues • Anthony Hope
... his ribbons gracefully in one gauntleted hand, while he uncovered his head with the other, bowing suavely in his ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... said Mrs. Blanderocks, suavely, "if I say that your words are very silly. In the first place, the Russians are barbarians, as we all know; and, in the next place, the law is the law, and the law says that a man may not have two wives. A man who does is a bigamist. A man who has a wife and yet ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various
... my old friend Draper,' he said suavely. 'We have been wondering for the last twenty-four hours how we might best get hold of you, and the means we have employed so successfully seemed the only possible way. Have no fear, my lord, you shall not be ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby
... like the empty shell of a smile that the man answered. "Everybody who knows M'sieur le Prince has heard of him," he said suavely. ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... a mistake," said the druggist suavely, though his eyes slid uneasily to and fro. "I just came in to get some books I left ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley
... could complete his statement of the case he was politely asked if he would care to inter his talents in the Canadian Senate, and he suavely answered that such a thing might be a good way to solve the conundrum, even though it would make a thoroughly stupid last act ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... reached this point Julia said suavely, but with meaning: "Perhaps you had better not go ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad
... suavely, "you were influenced by your own goodness of heart, Mr. Ellison, in thus laying aside a conviction which the facts had, at the ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty
... a pretty woman?" Valentine answered suavely, and approaching his chair a little more closely to her. "Do you know that my friend Addison can talk of ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... glide into a landscape fit for Francia and the early Umbrian painters. Low hills to right and left; suavely modelled heights in the far distance; a very quiet width of plain, with slender trees ascending into the pellucid air; and down in the mystery of the middle distance a glimpse of heaven-reflecting water. The magic of the moon and stars lends enchantment ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... saddle to turn, with unknown and awkward results. She had recognized Burt, and knew that he was a gentleman; therefore she patted her horse and quieted him, while the young man came promptly to her assistance. He, secretly exulting over the promise of an adventure, said, suavely, as he ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... lived long in Sanford?" inquired Mignon suavely. She had already decided that a girl who was in sympathy with her on one point might prove to be ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... the press will make a full note of these proceedings," he observed suavely. "You at any rate are ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... inquired suavely. The society polish was very thickly coated over the man; but his eyes had a ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... to considerable trouble?" Parker suggested suavely. "Suppose we ride down the valley. I prefer flat land to ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... conduct, if viewed sympathetically, would be found at least Christian. The trouble was that probably it would not be viewed sympathetically. No one would understand how carefully and tactfully she had prepared the items of the Oriole to lead suavely up to the news of Aunt Julia's engagement and break it to Noble Dill in a manner that would ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... Mr. Turner," said Mr. Blackrock, suavely and smoothly; "it is not a company anyhow, as I take it, which will depend so much upon letters ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... sharp investigating glance, but replied suavely: "Not necessarily. The same road is ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... soldier muttered, and shuffled away. From under the brim of his campaign hat, his eyes cast furtive glances up and down the road. As though anxious to wipe out the effect of his comrade's words, the sergeant addressed Lathrop suavely and in a tone ...
— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis
... Berkeley's loyalty is proverbial," said Sir Charles suavely. "The King knows that while he is at the helm in Virginia, the colony is on the high road to that era of peace and prosperity which his majesty so ardently desires—for his tax-paying people. And I have thought more than once of late that I might ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... suavely to Sylvia, with the air of one showing to the room how a gentleman performed that ceremony, but took ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason
... to inquire," he went on suavely, "as to the nature of your occupation. What commodities do you turn out? What tools and ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... senor has seen all he cares to of this department we will return to the office," he suggested suavely. ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine
... angel," he said suavely, as he pointed to a chair at his side—the one usually occupied at this hour by seekers for financial support. "Have you ...
— Don Orsino • F. Marion Crawford
... better, Colonel," said Blackstaffe suavely, "to wear moccasins in place of those heavy boots. They carry you over the ground much more lightly, and we have to follow the ways ...
— The Keepers of the Trail - A Story of the Great Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler
... editor caught sight of the business stamp on Mr. Arnot's letter and the formal handwriting, his manner changed, and he said suavely: ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe
... "But you said that Mr Merevale did not give you leave," said he. "Friend of my youth," I replied courteously, "you are perfectly correct. As always. Mr Merevale did not give me leave, but," I added suavely, "Mr Dacre did." And I came away, chanting hymns of triumph in a mellow baritone, and leaving him in a dead faint on the sofa. And the Bargee, who was present during the conflict, swiftly and silently vanished away, his morale considerably shattered. And that, ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... you miss the point," replied the Secretary, still speaking suavely. "The Government does not wish to repress the freedom of the press nor of any individual, nor in fact have I had any such matter in mind in giving you this intimation. I think that if you do as I hear you purpose to do, some rather extreme men will be disposed ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... would be pleased to hear of the death of a Meshumad," he said suavely, screwing his eyeglass more tightly into its orbit, "on the same principle that anti-Semites take in the Jewish papers to hear of the death ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... the man to answer such a question as that. He eyed the rich signet ring that adorned the hand of the gentleman before him and suavely smiled. "I am ready to listen ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green
... nothing; I thought I understood why. More suavely yet, I continued, with a slight, a very slight movement toward the door: "Rarely have I had the pleasure of listening to such a tale read by such an interpreter. It will always remain in my memory, Mrs. Carew. But the episode is over and I return ...
— The Millionaire Baby • Anna Katharine Green
... my inquiry is natural," I went on suavely. "Since Jerry has just promised to give you his entire fortune, it seems to me ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... volubility grew, her voice rose, not shrilly as with most women, but taking on a warm, hoarse note—her words seemed to be flung out hot as coals from a fire. Mr. Huxtable grimaced. "She's a virago," he thought to himself. He put up his hand suavely to induce silence, but ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... no mistake," said Hugo, suavely. "I called to see Mr. Stretton on business; it will not take me a moment to explain. Mr. Stretton, may I ask whether you have lost any paper—a letter, I think—during the last ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... the free," he interrupted suavely. "Yes—I know those lands, on both sides of the Atlantic. But even there curious things happen. And you're going to marry me—you will say 'Yes' to the sleek English clergyman when he asks you whether you will take this man to be your married husband, to love ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
... doorway, smiling suavely and wiping one hand upon the other in a gesture of solicitous meekness, emerged the tall and commanding figure of the Mongolian—or was he a Tibetan? He was attired now in the finest, the shiniest of Canton silks. His satin pants, ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... with his ingenuous smile; he patted me on the arms approvingly; or, with apparent malice, asked me questions difficult to answer, when I came back from a journey to Brisbane—for a man naturally finds it hard to lay bare how he spent all his time in town. Because he did it so suavely and naively, one could not be resentful. It might seem that matters had reached a climax, when, one day, Mulholland came over, and, seeing my wife and her lovers together watering the garden and teaching ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Eminence to spare yourself!" said Moretti suavely, with a deep salutation, "And to pardon me for thus coming unannounced into the presence of one so highly esteemed by the ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli
... he explained suavely to Dolly, "but we'll bring him around soon.—I think you'll find Miss Martin an ideal person to work for, and the salary ...
— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley
... you forty crowns, then, that I know a smaller foot than that of Madam Lawrence," said Law, suavely. "I'll lay you another forty crowns that I'll try it on for the test, though I first saw the lady this very morning. I'll lay you another forty crowns that Madam Lawrence can not wear this shoe, though ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... Crampton almost suavely, and rising with something very like alacrity. Then, remembering that she had not even mentioned what she came for, "I wish to observe," she said, "that I much disapprove of the noise I hear up in Parliament. I desire that it may not occur again. ...
— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow
... . He could not abuse the girl even in thought, after trying to comfort her and saying that she started with a clean slate. But if any other girl had behaved like that . . . any girl who meant nothing to him. Even with Barbara he ought not to be so suavely forgiving at Jack's expense. . . . It was impossible to reconcile ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... Hanaud continued suavely, "because I understand that Mlle. Celie usually wore a pair of diamond ear-drops, and ...
— At the Villa Rose • A. E. W. Mason
... but it did not satisfy Ayre's malicious humor, and he was on the point of a new question when Haddington, who had taken no part in the previous conversation, but had his reasons for interfering now, put in suavely: ...
— Father Stafford • Anthony Hope
... happy moment for Messrs. Crane and Keith, but they weathered it, not suavely, not with complete dignity, but after a fashion.... Their departure might, perhaps, have ...
— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland
... port or any vested interest'' within that sphere, but that all nations should continue to enjoy equality of treatment. In response, the Russian Government, December 30, 1899, through Count Mouravieff, suavely declared:— ...
— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN
... have seen it a thousand times, but I never fail to feel the same thrill. Out of the disc of blued steel the artisan has worked the soaring form of a bird with upraised wings. It is indicated in skeleton fashion by bars extraordinarily energetic, yet suavely modulated. There must have been feeling and intelligence in every touch of the chisel and file that wrought it. Could that same object seen occasionally in a museum showcase afford me any comparable pleasure? Is not the education of the eye, like the education of the sentiments, ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... the officer, as suavely as if Lermontoff had given his parole. Out of the darkness he called a tall, rough-looking soldier, who carried a musket with a bayonet at the end of it. The soldier took his stand beside the door of ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... I won't, just yet," replies that lady, suavely. "Be sensible, Teddy; remember all we said to John, and think how foolish we should look going back of it all. Why should things not go on safely and secretly, as at present, and let us put marriage out of our heads ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... bitter dislike for the prior, the man who annoyed him most. One day, when the prior was nagging him about the picture, wanting to know why he didn't get to work upon it again, and when would it be finished, Leonardo said suavely: "If you will sit for the head of Judas, I'll be able to finish the picture at once." The prior was enraged, as Leonardo meant he should be; but Leonardo is said actually to have painted him in as Judas. Afterward ...
— Pictures Every Child Should Know • Dolores Bacon
... seizing the vessel, and his direct Anglo-Saxon manner quite robbed his French of its politeness. Then his vocabulary broke down, and he added more suavely in English: "I will persuade her to drink a little. She is rather hysterical, ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... slowly back to where the giant negro stood by the case of rattling teeth. This time as he passed he received no card. In spite of his gaudy and ridiculous garb, the Ethiopian displayed a natural barbaric dignity as he stood, offering the cards suavely to some, allowing others to pass unmolested. Every half minute he chanted a harsh, unintelligible phrase akin to the jabber of car conductors and grand opera. And not only did he withhold a card this time, but it seemed to ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... judge, more suavely, "we sit here in the name of the law, and the law could wish to stand your friend." (The convict laughed bitterly.) "Pray help us to a decision in the present perplexing case by a few frank answers. ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... from Russians travelling abroad, or from those wealthy landowners of former days who had suffered most from the emancipation. Stepan Trofimovitch had observed that the more completely a landowner was ruined, the more suavely he lisped and drawled his words. He did, as a fact, lisp and drawl himself, but was not aware ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... to this enterprise. He is urged, evidently, by something in him that transcends reason; by his soul, I presume. Yes, it must be the soul that raps out the 'Quick march!' to the body.—'Halt! Stand at ease!' interposes the brain, and 'To what destination,' it suavely asks the soul, 'and on what errand, are you sending the body?'—'On no errand whatsoever,' the soul makes answer, 'and to no destination at all. It is just like you to be always on the look-out for ...
— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm
... offer them to us," she answered suavely. "Oh! Holly, Holly, how narrow is thy mind, how strained the quality of thine imagination! Set its poor gates ajar, I pray, and bethink thee. When we appear among men, scattering gold to satisfy their want, clad in terrifying power, in dazzling beauty and in immortality of days, will they not ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard
... Mrs. Payne suavely. Bedtime came. Gabrielle and Arthur shook hands in the most ordinary fashion. Mrs. Payne, seeing Gabrielle to her door and submitting, once again, to an uncomfortable kiss, felt that her triumphant plan had already shown itself to be a failure. ...
— The Tragic Bride • Francis Brett Young
... answered, suavely. "And I wish I could stay with you. But it was not for pleasure I came. The King sent me. He ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... it more suavely than that, though it is not, I think, by gentleness that you will get your rights; we are dogged ones at sticking to what we have got, and so will you be at our age. But avoid calling us ugly names; we may be stubborn and we may be blunderers, but we love you more than aught else ...
— Courage • J. M. Barrie
... mistaken; this shaven, obsequious, suavely jovial innkeeper is a Neapolitan. He takes his stand in his mosaic-paved hall, and is at the service of all who wish for information about Lago Maggiore, the list of its sights; in a word, the programme of ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... master," he said suavely, "do ye not waste your breath in speaking thus loudly. I understand that your sentiments towards me do not partake of that Christian charity of which ye and yours do prate at times so loudly. But I'll not detain you. Doubtless worthy Mistress Lambert will be awaiting ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... the other suavely. "The dog didn't come quite to a set, though almost. As a matter of fact, the man's name was Quayle, and the dog hesitated on account of the spelling!"—P. ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... is not in vain, young man," replied Howard, suavely; "but I will come and sit beside ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... he has not enough money—" suavely intervened Anastasidis, as he placed a friendly ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... boy Jack," he said suavely. "The march is quite fatiguing, and I must insist that she conserve her strength. There will be no ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... far removed from masculine bass as from ultra-feminine treble, is that of a boy before his voice breaks; sweet, seductive, suavely penetrating; it ceases, and still vibrating murmurs play, echo-like, about the listener's ears, and Persuasion leaves her honeyed track upon his mind. But oh! the joy, to hear her sing, and sing to the lyre's accompaniment. Let swans and halcyons ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... a suggestion," said Holmes, suavely. "I frankly admit that I am unable to prove it. But it seems probable enough, since the moment that Mr. Soames's back was turned you released the man who was ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... she said suavely, "a long piece of your hair is hanging down at the back. There's a looking-glass on the wall over there where Trooper's standing. Would you like to ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... way," he suggested suavely. "Your highly trained mind observed, correlated, and memorized the most intricate data and mathematics, meanwhile guiding your social relations with your former colleagues so as to remain unsuspected ...
— Irresistible Weapon • Horace Brown Fyfe
... hurt, Mr. Barry," he said suavely, "and as you are such a good surgeon, perhaps you will leave this damned kanaka and ...
— Edward Barry - South Sea Pearler • Louis Becke
... various degrees—took their tone from her, if only for the sake of peace:—the widowed sister-in-law, suavely satirical; a great-aunt, whose tongue clacked like a rice-husker; two cousins, correctly betrothed to unseen bridegrooms, entitled to look askance at the abandoned one, who was neither wife nor mother; and two children of ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver |
