"Deprecatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hesitation lingering in Sir Rowland's face, and he uncurled the last of the whip he carried. "I'd grieve to do a violent thing before the ladies," he murmured deprecatingly. "I'd never respect myself again if I had to drive a gentleman of your quality to the ground of honour with a horsewhip. But, as God's my life, if you don't go willingly this instant, ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... his duty, and is doing it very well, too, so I 'm told, accordin' to your own account, matey," replied the old carpenter; "and soldiers is good too—in their places, that is, of course," he went on deprecatingly. "There are two kinds of men, as I take it, William, to do the fightin' in this world, sailormen and soldiermen; each has a place, a station to fill, and something to do, and one can't do t' other's work. Look at that there blasted marine, aft ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... my birth General Andrew Jackson was first elected President of the United States. Jackson to me has always been an interesting character. Theodore Roosevelt has declared very little respect for him, and has written deprecatingly—I might say, even abusively—of him. But the truth is, there were never two Presidents in the White House who, in many respects, resembled each other more nearly ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom
... walked on in silence. Then he felt a timid touch on his arm; her hand had been laid there, deprecatingly, for a moment. ...
— Sunrise • William Black
... quickly. "It's not that kind, General," he said. "There's no cant in the boy. He's more popular for it—that's often so with the genuine thing, isn't it? I sometimes think"—the young Captain hesitated and smiled a trifle deprecatingly—"that Morgan is much of the same stuff as Gordon—Chinese Gordon; the martyr stuff, you know. But it seems a bit rash to compare an every-day American youngster ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... to-day," she said deprecatingly. "The oyster-nurses have gone out for a holiday, and I have to keep ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... just as soon as ever Atchison begins to pay again. I hope I haven't any false pride," she added, deprecatingly, "but I can live cheaper here than I should be willing to there, where I've ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... starting in the business," protested Bob, shaking his head deprecatingly. "I'm only trying to learn a little something about Dad's job, so I can be a bit more intelligent ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... a thing," Monsieur Louis answered deprecatingly. "For one thing I should not personally run the risk. And for another have I not already assured you that I come as ...
— A Maker of History • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... perhaps, I shall inform you," replied Claude, deprecatingly. "Something evil has happened to your ward. Arm yourself now with firmness, and be calm; be cool in judgment, prompt in execution; you who can counsel others, now prepare to be ...
— The Advocate • Charles Heavysege
... animal and hurled it bodily through the open window. The cat took the long fall quite calmly, and immediately clambered back up the outside stairway that led to the room. The newspapers he read, and clipped therefrom items of the most diverse nature to which he deprecatingly invited attention. Once in so often a strange martial fervour would obsess him. Then the family, awakened in the early dawn, would groan and turn over, realizing that its rest was for that morning permanently shattered. The old ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... thought there was no call to tell the folks at the ranch. Mary'd have a cat-fit if she knew. I told them I got out to shoot at a coyote, and the bronchos ran away." He glanced at the other explanatorily, deprecatingly. "Clayton is my sister's son and the only real relative I have, you know. I just asked him to ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge
... his hand affectionately on Zotique's head. Zotique colored at the unexpected compliment, and looking down into Miss Katie White's bright blue eyes, smiled, and shook his head deprecatingly. She looked up, smiled, and nodded her compact little head, as though she thought ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... motion. No thanks were due to him, he said deprecatingly, nor did he think the occasion called for congratulations of any kind. It was surely a sad spectacle to see this honoured judge, this devoted father, this blameless citizen threatened with ruin and disgrace on account of one false ...
— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein
... anticipation, she had later vouchsafed no word of commendation. Surely he had not played badly tonight and he was accustomed to ready praise. When the older woman who had presented him had spoken of him as a master he had laughed deprecatingly, but his eyes had gone half-questioningly to the girl, as if seeking corroboration there, and the girl had met them with only an impersonal ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... conversations with the sailors he passed. It would have surprised a Norwegian bos'un's mate to learn that he was really a gun-runner, and that, as a matter of fact, he was now telling yarns of the Spanish Main to the man who slid deprecatingly ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
... I had been away so long," she answered, meekly, and looking deprecatingly from the one to the other of us.—"You will not quarrel with your father, Martin, if I leave you, will you?" This she whispered in my ear, in a ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton
... themselves are often saying that their little Serbia was better than this fine new country which is thrice as large. She had fewer problems, she had fewer parties, and if people were corrupt they were so on a smaller scale. Traditions which are deprecatingly called Balkan, but which were at that time suited to a Balkan country, should not be allowed to spread across a country which is so much more than Balkan. Merit does not everywhere in this imperfect world advance ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein
... contention pervades all—a constant apprehension of sinister things liable to happen, a breathless struggle, the sullenness of hate, the whispering of treachery. The eyes of officials peer, watch and threaten; those of the convicts are downcast but privily rebellious, or deprecatingly servile. ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne
... fashion to make little of the medieval scholars for the high estimation in which they held Aristotle. Occasionally even yet one hears narrowly educated men, I am sorry to say much more frequently scientific specialists than others, talk deprecatingly of this ardent devotion to Aristotle. No one who knows anything about Aristotle ever indulges in such an exhibition of ignorance of the realities of the history of philosophy and science. To know Aristotle well is to think of him as probably possessed of the greatest human ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh
... deprecatingly. "As I seldom read the newspapers, I am not quite sure that they have done justice to my real feelings in ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... much," she said deprecatingly, "but I was just interested. What made you so sure you would win that second race that you ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... to hear her bring out that word—tentatively, deprecatingly, like some one daring a foreign phrase ...
— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale
... Leibel," said the marriage broker, deprecatingly shrugging his shoulders and spreading out his palms, ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... could reply, to every one's astonishment, and most of all to his, Clarice threw herself down on her knees, and deprecatingly kissed the hand which rested on the arm of her ...
— A Forgotten Hero - Not for Him • Emily Sarah Holt
... in the vestibule. As he entered the room—"Pray pardon the intrusion. This Kazuma feels much in the way. He is continually putting his neighbours of the nagaya to inconvenience; too great the kindness of Cho[u]bei San and wife." O'Taki laughed deprecatingly. Truly this was a handsome young man. In this 6th year of Ho[u]ei (1709) Yanagibara Kazuma was twenty-one years of age. O'Taki was thirty odd. She appreciated masculine beauty all the more. Cho[u]bei grunted from heat and the merest trace of discomfiture. He had ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... hopes you would be on my side, Miss Louise." Charlie smiled deprecatingly. "I've argued with Aunt Martha and Peter until— But I didn't know you were ...
— The Ranch at the Wolverine • B. M. Bower
... deprecatingly. "No, no! not for me, my friends, much as I appreciate your gratitude. My days of public service are nearly at an end. As I have intimated to some of you already, I am seriously considering retiring ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Mrs. Belcher," said the beautiful lady deprecatingly, "but I have been here for a week, and it seems so much like my own home, that I ordered the tea without thinking that I am the guest and you are ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... looking intently upon the board, which Paulsen studied for a few minutes, equally absorbed. Looking up at last, the latter quietly said to his opponent,—"I don't see how I can prevent the mate." Paul Morphy smiled, waved his hand deprecatingly, and the tournament was won. The checkmate was about five moves off, if we remember rightly. Restraint of this kind seems to be imposed by a thorough study of this noble game, and its moral discipline is quite ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... at her deprecatingly. "I don't like you to be prejudiced, dear, even on my account. I can do nothing that might injure Walters now and can't treat him with suspicion; but he's going soon and, if it's any comfort, I won't leave the hotel grounds for the next day ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... "Lady—lady!" said Montreal, deprecatingly, and almost quailing beneath the fiery passion of that feeble woman, "I have sinned against thee and thine. But remember all my excuses!—early love—fatal obstacles—rash vow—irresistible temptation! Perhaps," he added, in a more haughty tone, "perhaps, yet, I may have the power to atone my ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... said John, deprecatingly, "if I left you for a few minutes? I can't half see what he is drawing, and there is a vacant front seat. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various
... gaily and deprecatingly, as if between persons of their station business was a word only to be mentioned as a ...
— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman
... Mr. Peaslee, bad," he said, with dignity. "Of course it isn't fatal—unless it should mortify." He waved his hand deprecatingly. "I can't imagine what that Edwards boy used ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... clap their heels to the rhythm of the dance, the women beat their hands one against the other to that same wild, syncopated measure. Old men grasp middle-aged women round the waist; smiling, self-deprecatingly they too begin to tread; Hej! 'Tis not so long ago we were young too, and that wild Hungarian csardas fires the blood until it ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... looking deprecatingly at Wentworth. "He was so good to me. And I am accustomed to seeing him. I miss him all the time. I wonder whether you would let him come and stay here for his holiday. He generally takes it in June. And—let me see—it's May ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley
... round deeps.... She had felt about for something to express them as she went upstairs with her roll of music. Fraulein Pfaff who had seemed to hover and smile about the girl as if half afraid to speak to her, had put out a hand for Miriam and said almost deprecatingly, "Ach, mm, ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... Tse!" he clicked, deprecatingly. After a short silence he went on with accentuated admiration: "What a man it is! What a strong man! A man like that"—he concluded, in a tone of meditative wonder—"a man like that could ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... he answered, deprecatingly, as though taking a great liberty even in informing his master on a point the master had expressly asked about, "there are three processes. But all operate ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... get it all in for me, are you?" he inquired briskly. The three partners bowed, with the most deprecatingly-disinterested air in the world; intimating that, for his sake, they were ready to take upon themselves even ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren
... eaten their way underneath her dark and luminous eyes,—ravages that no tinsel could cover or wealth dislodge. "Was it the driver you spoke to at the door? I heard you say wait. I had already told him; but it isn't my carriage," she went on deprecatingly. "Our horses cannot stand night work, the coachman says, and there's always something the matter with them ...
— Under Fire • Charles King
... can't—at least, not in this house," said Laura. She also paused, looking deprecatingly at Miss Ethel. "Now, in one of those little new houses in Emerald Avenue, you ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... words compromised you sadly so, for he spoke rather deprecatingly of the regard that pillar had for me, he must have known ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera
... of his countenance, as, with frowning brow, and clenched hands, and such a grimace as a Frenchman only can produce, he menaced the lady, and "the passing smile his features wore," when he turned round deprecatingly to the audience. ...
— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay
... me, gentlemen," replied Mr. Elkins, smiling deprecatingly. "When a man likes it as much as I do it ain't very easy to foller instructions an' let it alone. Sometimes I almost break loose an' indulge, regardless of whether it kills me or not. I reckon it'll get me yet." He struck the bar a resounding blow with his clenched hand. "But I ain't going to ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... think people outside know how things go here," put in Miss Mullaly. "Why, everybody congratulated me on getting in! I thought I was going to have the time of my life!" She laughed deprecatingly. ...
— Polly and the Princess • Emma C. Dowd
... the officials looked across the well of the court in astonishment, and the chairman, a mild old gentleman who was obviously much distressed by the revelation, shook his head deprecatingly. ...
— The Borough Treasurer • Joseph Smith Fletcher
... at her fondly, half deprecatingly. "Not till I have made you and the children all safe—as ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... he said deprecatingly, as befitted a modest and a mannerly man. "The thing came about like this: It was once when we were all out West together. We were spending a week at the Grand Canyon. One morning we took the Rim Drive over to Mohave Point. No doubt you know the spot? I was standing ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... you will manage, doctor." He smiled deprecatingly. "My mother positively refuses to see a physician, but we ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... highness," said she deprecatingly. "A page of her majesty is here to know if you have gone ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... from the stricken mother to cough deprecatingly when I had read. She likewise had the delicacy to turn away and cough. But an emergency of this momentous import must be discussed in plain terms, however disconcerting the details, and Mrs. Eubanks had nerved herself ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... deprecatingly, "you can't expect young people to act as staid and wise as you old folks. We want some fun." So you do, and that is perfectly right. You should want fun and have fun. All I ask is that you shall try to understand what ...
— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen
... Billy, Bertram, Cyril, Marie, Calderwell, Alice Greggory, Aunt Hannah, and Tommy Dunn, went to hear him sing; and after the performance he held a miniature reception, with enough adulation to turn his head completely around, he declared deprecatingly. Not until the next evening, however, did he have an opportunity for what he called a real talk with any of his friends; then, in Calderwell's room, he settled back in his chair with ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... rubbed her bony hands together; and laughed deprecatingly. She was a little woman, with very bright, beady black eyes, and hair that was still coal-black in spite of her wrinkled face. Her son was like her, but taller and better looking. One had but to glance at the child to realise that she must be the ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
... betrayed excitement. At first he favored Iris with a deprecatingly admiring glance, as one who would say, "Dear lady, accept my profound regret and respectful homage." But that phase quickly passed. His leader was not a man to waste words, and the gallant captain's expressive face soon showed ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... looking at me as you do," she went on, demurely and deprecatingly feminine at that moment. She smoothed her blouse with both hands and glanced down at her stained and ragged skirt. "It's my only warm dress and I've lived and slept in it—and I haven't minded a bit when the coffee slopped. I was trying ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... deprecatingly. "No trick at all," he said. "I just circulated and bought drinks for people. The trouble with Ravick's gang, it's an army of mercenaries. They'll do anything for the price of a drink, and as long as my ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... last one and have plenty of time for experiment. And there's another thing, Felix,—ah!" He stopped suddenly, as a little spasm of pain crossed his face, and pressed his hand against his heart. "It's nothing," he went on deprecatingly, at the other's look of inquiry. "This little organ in here," and he patted his breast, "reminds me of its existence, once in a while, lately. I'm ordered to take a rest, and I suppose I'll have ...
— The Fate of Felix Brand • Florence Finch Kelly
... said deprecatingly, "the cruelty now is no longer mine. Sir Percy's release is in your hands, Lady Blakeney—in that of his followers. I should only be too willing to end the present intolerable situation. You and your friends are ...
— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy
... remember her, Sir Guy; docile and safe, and gentle withal, Sir Guy. But I don't drive her myself, Sir Guy," added Mr. Waxy, raising his hands deprecatingly, as who should say, "Heaven forbid!" "I don't drive myself, sir; no—no, my lad assumes the reins; and notwithstanding the potency of your Scamperley ale, Sir Guy, we manage to arrive ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville
... she'll be amply provided for." Standing spread out his hands deprecatingly. "You see, we did things in a hurry, Bat. There was always Hellbeam. And my Nancy understood that. ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... all that to myself scores of times," he answered frankly; "but it's not in me to bully any woman. I thought it was; I know better now." He looked up at her deprecatingly. "You've been honest with me," he said, "and I'll be honest with you. My marriage is the biggest mistake of my life, and I've made a few in my time. If—if Faith wishes to ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... pushing back his chair, and rising to leave the table, "it's in our fam'ly some too. And in Ma's. One o' my uncles and one o' her brothers." He shuffled out of the room with a placid smile, as Mrs. Hopper said, deprecatingly, but with conscious pride, "La, pa, Jim never wrote ...
— A Village Ophelia and Other Stories • Anne Reeve Aldrich
... estate building, I used to meet him every day. I wrote my story of "The Postmaster" one afternoon in this very room. And when the story was out in the Hitabadi he came to me with a succession of bashful smiles, as he deprecatingly touched on the subject. Anyhow, I like the man. He has a fund of anecdote which I enjoy listening to. He has also ...
— Glimpses of Bengal • Sir Rabindranath Tagore
... Deprecatingly with uplifted hand the Older Man refuted every protest. "No, indeed, Mr. Barton," he insisted. "Oh, no—no indeed—I assure you it won't inconvenience my daughter in the slightest! My daughter is very obliging! My daughter, indeed—if I may say so in all modesty—my daughter indeed is always ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... Where he came from, of course. I actually think," and she laughed deprecatingly though with a shrewd watchful look to mark her daughter's quick play of expression, "that that man couldn't sleep two consecutive nights under a roof. His clothes smell like a pine-tree. He wouldn't understand us any more than we could understand ...
— The Everlasting Whisper • Jackson Gregory
... as usual—always singing or playing the organ at the church, and M. Bois-le-Duc encourages her. I call it nonsense myself," and the old lady shrugged her shoulders deprecatingly. ...
— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy
... they get into their stride!" And then, in a different, a more diffident voice, "Then you'll consent to relieve my mind by keeping the contents of that envelope—I mean of course by spending them? As a matter of fact I've a confession to make to you." He looked at her deprecatingly. "I've just arranged with my London banker to make up those Hamburg dividends. He'll send you the money in notes. He understands——" and then he got rather red. "He understands that I'm ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... the demand. With arm uplifted, he deliberated, turning slowly from side to side. He was a master of the niceties of insinuation. Innuendo he had always found more effective than direct statement. He shook his head deprecatingly, reluctant to yield to the clamor for the names of the human vultures ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... about 'em. They're all alike—they can only drop their eyes and say, 'Lor', Sir Harry, why do you call that curly black dog a retriever?' or 'Oh Sir Harry, and did the poor mare really sprain her pastern shoulder-blade?' I haven't got much brains myself, I know," the baronet would add deprecatingly; "and I don't want a strong-minded woman, who writes books and wears green spectacles; but, hang it! I like a gal who knows what she's ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... glanced deprecatingly at his old array, and the General read the glance. 'She will understand all that,' he said, 'just as well as I do. You have ...
— VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea • David Christie Murray
... which there is no more to give you. Dere, Miss Hannah, dere's de message jes' as de madam give it to me, which I hopes you'll 'sider as I fotch it in de way of my perfession, an' not take no 'fense at me who never meant any towards you," said the professor deprecatingly. ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... be angry with me. I did it for the love of you. In memory of my poor gal beyond seas.' She put out her hand deprecatingly, and drawing it back again, laid ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... end, set in a curiously fitted frame of wood, a wooden door, looking almost as new as though it had been made yesterday. Anthony flashed his electric torch over it, and we saw the grain of deal. There was a bronze lock, and a latch of strange, crude workmanship which Monny touched deprecatingly. "May I?" she half whispered. For to her also the place was haunted. She seemed to ask permission of spirits rather than of her lover. But ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... good-looking in a worn-out, dissipated kind of a way. He had gone to the bad in all the usual ways I believe—even dishonesty; though I didn't learn that until long afterward." The fun had died out of Natalie's voice now. "It's a miserable, ordinary kind of a story, isn't it?" she said deprecatingly. "Most girls go through with it safely; but I—well I was the simple ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... man in the camp who could speak English, had entered deprecatingly, with a visage of alarm. Gerrard ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier
... Miss Joliffe exclaimed deprecatingly, "how could you let anyone in when I was not at home? It is exceedingly dangerous with so many doubtful characters about. There is Mr Westray's presentation inkstand, and the flower-picture for which I have been offered ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner
... know anything, Guy wondered, and feeling some curiosity now to ascertain that fact, he plied her with questions philosophical, questions algebraical, and questions geometrical, until in an agony of distress Maddy raised her hands deprecatingly, as if she would ward off any similar questions, and ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes
... stepped out from the dressing-room, a very different figure, in her conventional short skirt and silk-clad legs. She looked very slight and fragile, very fairy-like, against the gorgeous figure of Isabel, and she glanced down at herself deprecatingly, then raised her eyes appealingly to ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... self-righteousness, the least degree of resistance to the just pressure of law, is a vitiating element in repentance. The muscles of the stout man must give way, the knees must bend, the hands must be uplifted deprecatingly, the eyes must gaze with a straining gaze upon the expiating Cross,—in other words, the least and last remains of a stout and self-asserting spirit must vanish, and the whole being must be pliant, bruised, broken, helpless in its state and condition, in ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd
... man is a base impostor!" said Mr. Manlius aloud, with his hand in his waistcoat; while Mrs. Manlius looked on deprecatingly, but as if too, too aware of the sad fact. "I said so to my wife in private,—I read it in his face,—and now I declare it publicly. That man is a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 • Various
... more," said Louis, raising his hand deprecatingly against the coming falsehood, "do not help me to despise you. I am too sorry that I am forced to know what you said to me was untrue, and also to realize what my Emily has suffered and ...
— The Harvest of Years • Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell
... Sir John Malcolm that at an English table where he was present, a brother officer from India had ventured to speak of the sheep's head custom to an unbelieving audience. He appealed to Sir John, who only shook his head deprecatingly. After dinner the unfortunate story-teller remonstrated, but Sir John's answer was only, "My dear fellow, they took you for one Munchausen; they would merely have ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... his mother, quiet again. "He has escaped," she thought, "and now nothing will come of it." She raised her drooping head and again regarded him deprecatingly. "Let us talk ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... Mr. Ayscough!" he said, deprecatingly. "You ain't going to be so unkind as to mix up this here young fellow in what's happened. S'elp me, Mr. Ayscough, I couldn't believe anything o' that sort about him, nohow— nor would my cousin, Zillah, what you know well ...
— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher
... a tumor, but whose remnant of a once lovely complexion indicated perfect health, maintained her slight tolerant smile; its effect somewhat abridged by the fact that the small turban of bright blue feathers topping her large face had slipped to one side. Mrs. Goodrich looked startled and gazed deprecatingly at her friends. Mrs. Lawrence's eyes snapped, and Mrs. de Lacey looked thoughtful. Only ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... here and there," he said deprecatingly. "But the real big thing is yet to come. Look at this army of tanks. We've never had so many in one place since the ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... Irene raised her hand deprecatingly. "Spare me details," she said. "It is very bitter to eat the bread of dependence: ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... you to think I was running after him," she cries, deprecatingly. "I only came for company, and all that, and he has taken a fancy to have me, to marry me, though what he wants me for I can't see. I did not suppose I ever should marry. I didn't really care, until Laura began to flaunt her husband ...
— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... her hand deprecatingly, and when he had finished, rejoined: "You mistake Major Stanley, if you think he would marry me, knowing what I should tell him. It's not for him that I refuse. It's for myself. I ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... passengers were disarmed. The conductor took Mr. Bentley's bill deprecatingly, as much as to say that the newly organized Traction Company—just out of the receivers' hands—were the Moloch, not he, and rang off the fares under protest. And Mr. Bentley, as had been his custom for years, sat down and took ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... instinctively, half-deprecatingly, half in self- defence. Then as his eyes dropped once more on the motionless form over which Mr Freshfield was bending, he took half a step forward and gasped, "I ...
— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed
... only an old one, Simcha," said the Rabbi deprecatingly. He took off his high hat and replaced it by a little black cap which he ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... she answered, with a touch of sharp weariness. "I don't suppose I could ever make you understand; and yet,"—she looked at him deprecatingly,—"I suppose, James, that you too ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various
... apologised Charles in deepest humility, taking much for granted. "It will be very warm to-day. Your serviette, M'sieur—it is damp. Pardon!" He flew away and back with another napkin. "Of course, M'sieur, the Chatham is not the Waldorf," he announced deprecatingly. "Parbleu," beating himself on the forehead, "I forgot! M'sieur does not like the Waldorf. Eh, bien, Paris is not New York, no." Having sufficiently humbled Paris, he withdrew into the background, rubbing his hands as if he were cleansing them of ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... Sally, deprecatingly. Great as was the news conveyed to her by Elizabeth's speech, she comprehended it, and adjusted her mind to it, in an instant, her absence of outward demonstration being due to the very bigness of the revelation, to which any possible outside show of surprise would be inadequate and ...
— The Continental Dragoon - A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 • Robert Neilson Stephens
... moustache and laughed deprecatingly. "It wasn't very difficult really. You see, these birds of mine are only temporary coolies. In civilian life they're mostly river pirates, Tong-fighters and suchlike professional cut-throats. Killing comes natural to 'em. They only wanted ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919 • Various
... me plain that you've got honest work as'll feed and clothe her out there, else, by God, you shan't have her!" and his grip on Fauchon's shoulder tightened, so that a flash of terror passed over the man's face, and he tried to edge away, saying deprecatingly, "I've no wish, Mr. Girard, you understand—I've no wish to offend. In fact, my whole intention was not to cause any trouble. On my honour, I was going to leave the island to-morrow, when I found how things ...
— A Loose End and Other Stories • S. Elizabeth Hall
... landlord deprecatingly, "what a pity! Had monsieur called here yesterday he could have seen mademoiselle. She has now ...
— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... deprecatingly, "my meaning was not to speak with you, but with one in your house; and I am very sorry I ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... Take her away!" screamed Madam Conway; while Hagar, raising her withered hand deprecatingly, said: "Hear me first. Do you know where Margaret is? Has ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
... you anything directly," said Strange deprecatingly; "there's nothing to do but let them tell a story in their own way. He's telling me now that Etzooah, a man with much hair, who hunts down the Swan River near the beginning of the swift water, came up to the village at the end of the horse-track ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... chair, and Dolman coughed deprecatingly. "For my part," continued Porter, "I've never found it necessary to do anything ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... steps like a general entering a conquered province. Father nervously concealed his greasy shirt-front with his left hand, and held out his right hand deprecatingly. Mr. Hartwig took it into his strong, virile, but slightly damp, clasp, and held it (a thing which Father devoutly hated) while he gazed magnanimously into Father's shy eyes and, in a confidential growl which could scarce have been heard farther ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis
... a hand deprecatingly. "Do you know, when we talked together in the woods soon after you ran the Rapids—you remember the day—if you had said that to me then, I'd have cocked my head and thought I was a jim- dandy, as they say. A Master Man was what I wanted to be. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... sacrifice myself," answered Ketchim deprecatingly. His manner had now become animated, and ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... I don't even know where Heronsmere is," submitted Mrs. Hilyard deprecatingly. "I'm quite ignorant about ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... "Me?" Miss Armytage spoke deprecatingly. "I don't think I am a very able or experienced guide. Besides, even such as I am, she may not have me very long now. I had letters from home this morning. Father is not very well, and mother writes that he misses me. I am thinking ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... moistened with dews. He would then approach her side, and say, "How are you? Are you not well?" She, without being startled, would slowly open her eyes, and murmur: "Sad like the weed in a creek," and then put her hand on her mouth deprecatingly. On this he would remark, "How knowing you are! Where did you learn such things?" He would then call for a koto, and saying "The worst of the soh-koto is that its middle chord should break so easily," would ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... off this time, it's only a soldier," replied Smallbones, deprecatingly; but Snarleyyow's appetite had been very much sharpened by his morning's walk; it rose with the smell of the herring, so he rose on his hind legs, snapped the herring out of Smallbones' hand, bolted forward by the lee gangway, and would soon ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat
... my room, Khema, the maid, came up and with an ultra-modest pull at her veil told us, in deprecatingly low tones, that the Police Inspector had arrived with a prisoner and wanted ...
— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore
... Tommy smiled deprecatingly at him. "I hesitate to suggest pensioning off a faithful servant, but you really ought to ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie
... business," said Tinkeles, deprecatingly. "Now, too, there is a sad look out for trade; the grass grows in the streets; the country has had a heavy time of it. The best man did not know, when he went to sleep at night, whether he should have a leg to stand on in ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... all right," he said, waving his hand deprecatingly. "You needn't think as I'll 'arm you or ...
— The God of His Fathers • Jack London
... as it seems," said Mordaunt, deprecatingly; "for I was then but a sickly boy, and according to the physicians, and I sincerely believe according also to my poor father's belief, almost certain of a premature death. In that case Vavasour would have been the nearest heir; and this expectancy, by the by, joined to the mortgages ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... deprecatingly. 'Well, I couldn't remember if you had spoken my name; and I thought it might be so. But the next time, at the Iretons', you did speak it, so I knew; and a dozen times during those few days I almost brought myself to tell you, but never quite. I began to feel that you wouldn't ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
... speech the countenance of the newly made Earl of Douglas grew white and mottled, tallowy white and dull red in turns showing upon it, like the flesh of a drained ox. He rose unsteadily to his feet, moving one hand deprecatingly before him, like a helpless man unexpectedly stricken. His nether lip quivered, pendulous and piteous, in the midst of his grey beard, and for a moment he strove in vain ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... kerosene lamp, which, however, lacked a glass. He stood it on one of the grey barrels and turned it monstrously high, just to show his largeness of heart, I suppose. I got up and turned it down because it was smoking, and he waved his hand once more deprecatingly, and turning the wick up and down several times, signified that I was to do with it exactly as I pleased. He left ...
— A Tramp's Sketches • Stephen Graham
... in part deprecatingly—in part with dignity. It was a bow that said, "No offence, sir, but I am a clergyman, and I'm not ashamed ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... the Walraven mansion to eat the wedding-breakfast, and then the new-made Mrs. Walraven, with an eye that flashed and a voice that rang, turned upon her liege lord and demanded an explanation. Mr. Walraven shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly. ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... Inextricably: in a hopelessly involved manner.] stepped. As this somewhat impeded its first impulse to fly, it turned to me; and then, possibly recognizing in the stranger, the same species as its master, it paused. Presently, it slowly raised itself on its hind legs, and vaguely and deprecatingly [Footnote: Deprecatingly: regretfully, entreatingly.] waved a baby paw, fringed with little hooks of steel. I took the paw, and shook it gravely. From that moment we were friends. The little affair of the serape ...
— Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools • Emilie Kip Baker
... dear child," he exclaimed, "this is very sudden. There has never been any question about your going back, at least——" He coughed deprecatingly. "Not since we became acquainted with you. Has ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester
... "My life," she added deprecatingly, "is in some slight danger, and, like the small fool that I am—even though I am fully aware that no one in the whole world cares whether I am living or dead—well, Mr. Moore, for some reason I still persist in clinging to ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... Madison—and Madison talked to them gravely, quietly, a little self-deprecatingly, a little abashed at the thought of ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... glancing diffidently down at the trail and then up at the neighboring line of disconsolate, low hills. "Ye-es, it is." His eyes came back and met Billy's deprecatingly, almost like those of a woman who feels that her youth and her charm have slipped behind her and who does not quite know whether she may still be worthy your attention. "Are you acquainted with ...
— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower
... interrupted a wealthy young lady from Chicago, "I thought we had some ships in the Philippines." The diplomat waved his hand deprecatingly, and smiled knowingly at this interruption. He was master of the situation and well qualified to cast the horoscope of the future—and so he was left in possession ...
— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
... hand was thrust out half deprecatingly. "No one yo' can fight, co'nnle; only ME. I don't generally open other folks' letters, and I wouldn't have done it for ...
— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... soft blue eyes, brimming with tears that ever came at will, gazed sorrowfully, penitently, deprecatingly, into the ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... little whip, Waldo," said Bonaparte, following him deprecatingly. "I didn't think it would hurt you so much. It was such a little whip. I am sure you didn't take the peaches. You aren't going to call her, Waldo, ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner |
