"Evasively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Well," he replied evasively, "the Bible stands on a very different ground. We couldn't examine the ancient miracles just as we do modern faith-cures if we wished. The belief in Bible miracles is a poetic and religious belief, and it does not involve any practical question ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... "you have agreed to listen. Please don't let us fence evasively. You had the same reports of Stuart that the rest of the world had; reports for which I feel largely responsible because many things which seemed most damaging, he might have explained to his own full credit. He refrained on my account." She paused a moment, then continued resolutely, "Incidentally ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... eagerly to go; Tibby had to take a swimming lesson; Graham was going out to Highacres to practice football; Isobel said she preferred to stay home; "one of the girls" had promised to call up, she explained, a little evasively. ...
— Highacres • Jane Abbott
... place by laws, Rosendo," the priest replied evasively. But as he made answer he revolved in his own mind that the laws by which an infinite universe is created and maintained must themselves ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... it's charming here," said the younger lady, evasively. "Everything is so exquisitely clean. And the food is very good. Is this corn-bread—that you've told me about ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... understand who you mean by it," he says, a little evasively; "which, after all, is the great ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... thought evasively. "It is the light of the Under-world which we know how to use. The earth is full of light, which is not wonderful, is it, seeing that its heart is fire? ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... what makes men think so much of office," she complained, evasively. "I've heard papa say that there was absolutely no profit in going to the Legislature." Then, becoming insistent, she exclaimed, "Withdraw, Tom; please do, for ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
... heart—he had never taken any notice of the young girls who lived in the villas around him. She knew very well that he preferred them to them all, and her vanity felt flattered; she said soothingly, but at the same time evasively: "No, Woelfchen, you can't go with me any more, it's not proper any more." And she held ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... that still thou tarriest here. Seek not evasively such vain pretexts. Not many words are needed to refuse, By the refus'd the no ...
— Iphigenia in Tauris • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... know just what label you would put on me," the big man replied evasively. "But this I do know: first, last, and all the time I am for a universe where each country shall work for the good of ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... to go into them," she replied evasively. "I make a very good living, and I don't know ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... my lord," replied Hurst evasively, throwing open the door of the morning-room. Victoria was disclosed; pacing up and down, her hands in the pockets of her tweed jacket. Tatham saw at once that something ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the wish not to be harsh and the fear that she might mislead him. "I cannot look contemptuous unless I feel contempt," she said, evasively. "And ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy
... answered evasively. "You do not know as yet to what world you will belong. It is as your stepmother said to me. With your fortune you may marry into one of the great families of Europe. You might almost take a part in the world's history. It is not for such as myself to dream of interfering ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... replied the editor, evasively. "The Herald is really independent, but in political campaigns we adopt the side we consider the ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... courage worthy of a better cause, asks me, "What time lessons will begin?" I reply, evasively, "that I shall be in the library, and that I will ring for ERNEST (I lay stress on the word ERNEST, as excluding the two others) when I am ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 6, 1890 • Various
... Hugh as well as we do, and in her heart there was a fear lest for the sake of peace he might be overruled, so she replied evasively. It was no easy task to sooth Muggins, and only Alice's direct avowal, that if possible she would herself become her purchaser, checked her cries at all, but the moment this was said her sobbing ceased, and Alice was able to question Lulu as to whether ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... boyishly sarcastic and sincerely bitter letter. He never replied. Then, believing it to be the only way of escape for me, I set myself far more grimly and resolutely to my studies than I had ever done before. After a time I wrote to him in more moderate terms, and he answered me evasively. And then I tried to dismiss him from my mind and went ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... eloquent with pity. "Doctor Blair is a good, kind doctor," she said evasively. "He'll do his best for her. You do everything for her ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... great disparity in force between the two ships, to which for the moment he gave no thought, or he would not have entertained hopes for a release from confinement by recapture,—a patent impossibility to a seaman. So he answered the captain evasively, returning the glass and pleading his ignorance of nautical matters to excuse his ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... growled the other evasively. "Mind how you step. Hit's a fur ways down thar ef a body was ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... for immediately. He did not come for two hours, in which time Willy had grown much worse. He looked serious, and answered all questions evasively. After writing a prescription, he gave a few directions, and said he would call again in the evening. At his second visit, he found his patient much worse; and, on the following morning, pronounced it ...
— Woman's Trials - or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us. • T. S. Arthur
... Mr. Holmes will take care of her; she doesn't need money," he answered, evasively. "I wouldn't like Prue to be a ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... Lee, evasively, I thought. 'Well, it's true she is young in years, but not in experience—in suffering, poor girl, as I can ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 - Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 • Various
... he died by a dagger-thrust as Anna foretold," she answered evasively; "and that reminds me that I had better clean the knife, since blood on the blade is evidence against its owner." Then drawing the dagger from its hiding-place she rubbed it with dust, which she took from a loop-hole, and polished it bright with ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... kisses passively, but gave none in return, until she asked him to kiss her. "When you are my wife," he said, evasively. And then—she must have loved him—she burst out into passionate sobs and fell at his feet in the quiet cabin and told him of her debased life in Fiji. "But, as God hears me, Will, that is all past since your last ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... had certainly acted so well, that they could have no secret from him; and he so was fully committed, that there was no danger in relying upon his discretion. Still M. Folgat did not dare to mention the name of the Countess Claudieuse; and he replied evasively,— ...
— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau
... unusual sagacity and prudence," said Dennis, evasively. "What any man could do, he could. And now, Miss Ludolph, I will try to find you a resting-place. There are such crowds here that I think we had better go nearer that side, where early in the evening the fire drove ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... says Marcia, evasively, with the tenderest air of solicitude, shaking up his pillows and smoothing the crumpled dressing-gown with careful fingers. "Have you missed me? And yet only a few minutes have ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... in history. Elizabeth notoriously hated and, when she could, thwarted all marriages. She desired that Mary should never marry: a union with a Catholic prince she vetoed, threatening war; and Leicester she offered merely "to drive time." But Mary, evasively tempted by hints, later withdrawn, of her recognition as Elizabeth's successor, was, till the end of March 1565, encouraged by Randolph, the English ambassador at her Court, to remain in ...
— A Short History of Scotland • Andrew Lang
... young buck,' returned Andrew, evasively. 'We common-place business men-we 're out of our element; and there's poor Carry can't sit down to their dinners without an upset. I thank God I'm a Radical, Van; one man's the same as another to me, how he's born, as long as he's honest ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... somebody would go," returned Brace, evasively, patting the impatient Buckskin; "but come in and take a drink before ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... off again in a week; it didn't seem worth while to put you to the trouble of opening the house just for that," he replied evasively. His own affairs again occupied his mind, and the sight of Phil gave a keen edge to his curiosity as to her ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... thinking about it," answered Daisy evasively. "Wait a minute, Nora,—I want to write it down, for ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner
... success which is their due. Tact is not merely shown in saying the right thing at the right time and to the right people; it is shown quite as much in the many things that are left unsaid and apparently unnoticed, or are only lightly and evasively touched. ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky
... Wangel (evasively). Hm—good heavens! What shall I say? It wasn't quite light when I saw him; and, besides, Ellida had been saying so much about this resemblance, I really don't know if I was capable of ...
— The Lady From The Sea • Henrik Ibsen
... said evasively.—"Yes, friends," he said, in answer to a challenge in Spanish, "I want to speak ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... kissed the Judge on his withered cheek. "You are so good to me," she said, evasively, and with another kiss, she ran up-stairs ...
— Judy • Temple Bailey
... that she was summoned to the dining parlour the moment she entered the house. Her morning dress, and her long absence, excited much curiosity in Mrs Harrel, which a quick succession of questions evasively answered soon made general; and Sir Robert Floyer, turning to her with a look of surprise, said, "If you have such freaks as these, Miss Beverley, I must begin to enquire a little more into ...
— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney
... for one who had been instrumental in saving her life. They had talked over the matter of her examination, the doctor blaming himself more than was necessary for his ignorance as to what was required of a teacher; but when she asked who was his proxy, he had again answered, evasively: ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes
... think?' I evasively echoed; and then, carried away by the profound and melancholy interest of this question, 'Think?' I queried, 'do I ever really think? Is there anything inside my head but cotton-wool? How can I call myself a Thinker? What am I anyhow?' I pursued the sad inquiry: 'A ...
— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith
... at it," said Thorndyke evasively, "but I should like to examine the original if you have ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... his shoulders. "Nothing in particular," he answered evasively. "By the way, Hawke, when are you to marry ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... leaving London, he replied evasively. I haven't seen you for six months, and now ...
— The Penal Cluster • Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
... kind were showered at the few survivors who stood at the railing, but they seemed too confused to answer them intelligibly, and after replying evasively ...
— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various
... very busy," said Annie, evasively. She loved this young man with all her heart, but she had an enduring loyalty to her ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... liberal opinions, since which time he had roamed the world for pleasure and instruction as a philosophical noble. A singular coincidence! the prince had spent three years in Tarascon; and as Tartarin showed amazement at never having met him at the club or on the esplanade, His Highness evasively remarked that he never went about. Through delicacy, the Tarasconian did not dare to question further. All great existences have ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... INGER (evasively). That reckoning is not for me to make. (Turns to the people). You know that King Gustav is sure of help from Denmark. King Frederick is his friend, and will never leave him ...
— Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III. • Henrik Ibsen
... turnip-fields when a stranger of clerical garb and aspect hailed him from a distance, asking, "Where is Lord Eldon?" Not anxious to declare himself to the witness of his ludicrously bad shot, the Chancellor answered evasively, and with scant courtesy, "Not far off." Displeased with the tone of this curt reply, the clergyman rejoined, "I wish you'd use your tongue to better purpose than you do your gun, and tell me civily where I can find ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... look into it for five minutes," returned Davison, evasively. "Perhaps you'll see ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods
... you would admire her," he answered, evasively, meeting her glance, without as he hoped betraying himself. "Our cousins consider her as excellent in every way ...
— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston
... Manlius by the commons. The latter, being desired to say with whom the treasure of which he had spoken was to be found, since the senate were as anxious to know this as the commons, made no direct reply, but answered evasively that it was needless to tell them what they already knew. Whereupon the dictator ordered ...
— Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius • Niccolo Machiavelli
... Dishart's murder, no many hours auld yet," the kirk officer replied evasively, "we should be wary ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... Shandon answered evasively that they could reckon upon him, but that they must wait to see what turned up. Difficulties were getting thick round Hatteras, but he was as firm, calm, energetic, and confident as ever. After all, he had done in five ...
— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... her; I always shall, you know,' he said evasively, and with all the strategy love suggested. 'But I have not seen her for so long that I can hardly be expected to love her. Do you ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... didn't know," said Endicott evasively, "that Michael has a great gift of gab! Would you like to stop and have an ice ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... building ships," he answered evasively. "I build good ships, they tell me, and I am strong and healthy. As for being connetable, I'd rather help prisoners free than hale them before the Royal Court. For somehow when you get at the bottom of most crimes—the small ones leastways—you find they weren't quite meant. I expect—I ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... sir, I suppose," replied Peters evasively, and in a tone of affected submission, as, avoiding the burning gaze of the other, he threw a significant glance to the tory who had reserved his charge at the fruitless fire just made by the ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... me," said Morgan, evasively. "I suppose they ought to be contented to see us enjoying ourselves. It's all in the way of civilization, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... "A little," said Ruth evasively, with a satisfied smile on her lips. "His mother is in our Red Cross now. She thinks he's about right, of course, but mothers usually do, I guess. I'll have to tell her what you said. It will please her. He used to be in school with me years ...
— The Search • Grace Livingston Hill
... better leave me out of any plans you are making for the day," he answered evasively. "I shall ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... told," said Fidelio evasively. "It is a woman matter. But as to breakfast, it is making, and the ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... Antonio they had an opportunity to speak to William Jarvey a number of times, and once they sat at the same table with him in the dining-car. When asked where he came from, he replied rather evasively that he had lived for a great number of years in the Northwest, but that he had left that section of the country to try his fortunes ...
— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer
... and compendious office business upon the large institutions of the ancient Oracles. To satisfy them, the Oracle should resemble a modern coach-office—where undoubtedly you would suspect fraud, if the question "How far to Derby?" were answered evasively, or if the grounds of choice between two roads were expressed enigmatically. But the to loxon, or mysterious indirectness of the Oracle, was calculated far more to support the imaginative grandeur of the unseen God, and was designed to do so, ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... forget how anxious Lord Cameron would naturally be regarding the state of your health," she answered, evasively; "besides, he has waited a long time for the answer to a certain proposal, and doubtless ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... a very long time," she answered, a little evasively. "He is wonderful, they all say. There is no one quite like him. A rich man has built a great restaurant in New York, and he offered him his own price if he would go and manage it. But Monsieur Louis said 'No!' He loves the Continent. He loves London. ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the King of Prussia in an autograph letter to accept my resignation," said Mueller, evasively; "I want, above all, a categorical reply whether I ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... "I should not care, at this time, to go on record," he replied evasively. "When I have had time to look into ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... business of every loyal man to execute the king's warrant,' the Provost answered evasively. 'It is yours to surrender, and mine to lodge you in the Castle. 'But I am loth to have a disturbance. I will give you until that torch goes out, if you like, to make up your mind. At the end of that time, if you do not surrender, I shall ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... life, we shall content ourselves with a brief summary. The chair went on rapidly enumerating the sundry misdeeds of the Yankee, demanding, and in most cases receiving, rapid and unhesitating replies—evasively and adroitly framed, for the offender well knew that a single unlucky word or phrase would bring down upon his shoulders ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... sure, I can not tell now," answered Hornigold evasively; "but with this clew the rest should be easy. Trust me, and when we can discuss ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... "Well," he replied evasively, "I—I've been told so, and wished to know whether it was a fact. You and he were friends, eh?" he ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
... many things worse than death," she said evasively, and deliberately turned the conversation into ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... Sephorah answered evasively. Mary would find it in time—when the spring came, perhaps; and meanwhile she had a word or two to say of Baal to such effect even ...
— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus
... the old days," replied Craig evasively. "My friend here does not know him, but I was in this part of Westchester visiting and having heard he was here thought I would drop in, just for old time's sake. That ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... mate, therefore, cordially detested the helmsman, who returned his dislike heartily. Penellan only feared that Andre might sow seeds of dissension among the crew, and persuaded Jean Cornbutte to answer him evasively on the first occasion. ...
— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne
... had, indeed, that gentleness and urbanity which almost universally attracts corresponding kindness; and to their simple ideas his learning gave him consequence, and his sorrows interest. The last he ascribed, evasively, to the loss of a brother in the skirmish near Clifton; and in that primitive state of society, where the ties of affection were highly deemed of, his continued depression ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... charter: Moffatt had assured him it would "go through" before the close of the month. But the announcement did not appear, and after what seemed to Ralph a decent lapse of time he telephoned to ask for news. Moffatt was away, and when he came back a few days later he answered Ralph's enquiries evasively, with an edge of irritation in his voice. The same day Ralph received a letter from his lawyer, who had been reminded by Mrs. Marvell's representatives that the latest date agreed on for the execution of the financial agreement was the ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton
... out of the war," I answered evasively. "I heard every word spoken by the herald and Castleman. The burgher is wise to hasten home. If he delays his journey even for a day, he may find Burgundy—especially Lorraine—swarming with lawless men going to the various rendezvous. He also tells me he has important ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... all expression vanished from the other's face, leaving it as immobile as a carven image of stone. "I have been here many times," he said evasively. ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh
... evasively that he was fostered in penitence, that he inherited want, and that he came from the wolf; as to his name, this did not matter. The king, as was the courteous custom, did not press him further, but invited him to take ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... reticence, or perhaps of deliberate misleading, on Eve's part astonished Hilliard. He replied evasively that he had very little acquaintance with Miss Madeley's ...
— Eve's Ransom • George Gissing
... noble heart that she would gladly bestow peace upon the world, and I believe that the time has come when that is possible," replied Panin, evasively. ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... would be very bad for him to play a little with Johan now and then," said the mother evasively, bending down to kiss Keith, who had snuggled up to her during the preceding talk. Then she put her hand through his waves of almost flaxen hair, bent his head slightly backward, looked straight into his ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman
... New York," returned Crystal, evasively; "but she does not mean to stay there long. She wants to see Niagara and Colorado, and I forget the route she has planned; but a companion she must have, and she offers such handsome terms, and after all she will not, be away more than five or six months, and as she says ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... assembly. Some sallied out of the door to watch, and others blamed the master for not seizing and detaining these emissaries of Satan. Alice was closely questioned as to the communication she had received; but she replied, evasively perhaps, that it was only one of the usual stale conceits appropriate ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... for the question and answered evasively. "I'll bring the man here to see you—he's an old Indiana farmer with lots of money, and you know your implements are in very good shape. I went out with him to the farm, and together we figured out what the stuff was worth. Here is the list; he is perfectly satisfied ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... me a little evasively. The cheerful optimism which had made him a very popular practitioner seemed for the moment ...
— The Great Secret • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... face. In short, that unquestioned, wholly uncontrollable influence outside of a man's life, which appears to rule his destiny. In this role "Providence," as he had been taught to call it, had heretofore smiled rather evasively upon Wesley Elliot. He had been permitted to make sure his sacred calling; but he had not secured the earnestly coveted city pulpit. On the other hand, he had just been saved—or so he told himself, as the fragrant June breeze fanned his heated forehead—by ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... She answered evasively; she did not believe that so well-known and so highly valued a preacher could be permitted to give up his journeyings throughout the country. He must be aware, she said, that when a man is married it is not easy for him to absent himself from home. ...
— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland
... this were the ivy-covered walls of the body of the church. It was at that time when the earth grows still before drawing her night robes about her. In the western sky the sun's last streamers flared out like a gorgeous fan, and on their tips some shy diamonds glittered evasively. From the fields around us came the sweet breath of the spring, smelling of the richer fragrance of early summer. The birds were still; the stamping of our horses in the road below was ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey
... evasively Over the printed page that she Recurs to, with a new-moon shoulder Glimpsed from ...
— Afterwhiles • James Whitcomb Riley
... the world where I have not been. The members of my order go everywhere, and should know everything that takes place on its surface," answered the priest, evasively. ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston
... that," replied Schryhart, evasively, "but I also know that you have a long, expensive fight ahead of you. As things are now you cannot, of yourself, expect to bring these old companies to terms. They won't work with you, as I understand it. It will require ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... answered evasively, as he glanced over at Murray, who, however, did not manifest any interest in ...
— Colonial Born - A tale of the Queensland bush • G. Firth Scott
... kindest—the best of human beings!" said Camilla, rather evasively, but with more warmth than usually dwelt in her soft and ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 4 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... him for all his kindness, told him she hoped he would soon recover, and that his mother would remain in good health, and then she said good-by. He was so astonished at her abrupt departure that he did not know what to say: he tried to discover her reasons: she replied evasively. He asked her where she was going: she did not reply, and, to cut short his questions, she got up to go. As she reached the door he held out his hand: she grasped it warmly: but her face did not betray ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... of Otho in my childhood," said Leoline, evasively; "therefore, his kindness of late years seemed stranger to me ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... are all of us writing long novels—White's world was the literary world, and that is how it looked to him—which profess to set out the lives of men, this part of the journey, this crucial passage among the Sphinxes, is still done—when it is done at all—slightly, evasively. Why? ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... for a time, for a trial, that I was there," said I, evasively; "out at nurse, as it were, till the Alma Mater opened her arms,—alma indeed she ought to be ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... popular with the congregation? At least," she added, "with part of them!" And Susan tapped the pavement with a well-shod boot and showed her white teeth. "If you weren't popular, you couldn't fill the seats—I mean pews," she added, evasively. "But you must come and see me—us, I ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... ever notice that she has a particularly pretty hand and arm?" proceeded Zack, somewhat evasively. "I'm rather a judge of these things myself; and of all the other girls ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins |
