"Insinuatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... getting low, ain't it?" said Pa Sloane insinuatingly. "S'pose I'd better drive up to Carmody this afternoon and get ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... You could live in this town a thousand years and you'd be just what you are now. You have had some experience in the show line but in a line that is beneath you; your place in the show business is higher up. I want your advice," he continued insinuatingly. "Now, I offered John (he referred to Alfred's father), the best thing of his life. He has worked hard all of his days; he is deserving of something better. I have offered him a half interest in my show. ("Holy Mother ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... "Mother darling," said Christabel insinuatingly, "granting always that you are the kindest and most amiable of mothers, do you happen to feel in an extra specially ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... indeed!" laughed Pocahontas. "How insinuatingly you put it. Aunt Vi'let's cabin is way over at Shirley; half a mile beyond ...
— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland
... Harry was about to leave the house, when John Fox said, insinuatingly: "Don't you think you'd better give me that money to keep for you? It will ...
— Facing the World • Horatio Alger
... in this instance, my dear aunt," replied Captain Delmar, insinuatingly. "I must confess that neither sailors nor marines are quite so strict as they ought to be; however, Ben has married her. Come, my dear aunt, allow me to plead for them, although I am very much distressed that such an event should take place in your house. I think," added he, after ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... say you had lost some one, Capt. Chancer? Perhaps I can tell you; I know every nook and corner in the hall," said the Meltonbury, insinuatingly, coming from the other side of the curtains, where she had ensconced herself to watch for the return of Madame on hearing Lady Everly's speech ...
— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny
... spoke altogether without conviction. "But," he continued insinuatingly, "at least it can do no harm if you see her. I thought you would be willing, so I spoke to the District Attorney, and he has given orders to bring her here for a few minutes on the way to the Grand Central Station. They're taking ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... Several times he caught broken sentences which he recognized as portions of his supposititious biography. His crowning torture was the assault of the newspaper reporters. They were suave, they were surly, they were insinuatingly sympathetic, they were aggressively peremptory—but all alike were determined to wring from him to the uttermost the details of the sorrow that he never had suffered, of the life that he never had lived. It was a confusing sort of an experience. He began to wonder, at last, whether ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... sharp survey of Marcus, and then slipped his right hand insinuatingly in that of his father, which hung over an arm of the easy chair. Mr. Van Quintem turned his face farther away, but Marcus observed that his fingers closed upon the hand which lay ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... continue I, insinuatingly, "I believe we shall get on better still. I am sure that poor people are fonder of one another than rich ones—they have less to distract them ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... forward insinuatingly. "Yellow Brian, no man knows who you are, nor do I ask. But Turlough Wolf knows a man when he sees one, a chieftain among men. I owe no man service; but if you will need a swift brain, a cunning hand, and an eye that can read the hearts of men, ...
— Nuala O'Malley • H. Bedford-Jones
... surely too good a thing to be missed through matters of mere detail. Mr. Punch's view is—well, despite Touchstone's attack on "the very false gallop of verses," there are two things that come most insinuatingly in metre; offers of love, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 • Various
... to fatten on them, or something," Smith answered insinuatingly. "You lose no flesh ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... said Pat insinuatingly, "how would you like to jump into double harness with me an' jog along the path ...
— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... her and smiled. He had recently lost a front tooth and this added a quaintness to the splendor of his irresistible smile. "You could sing as you get the dinner ready," he said insinuatingly, ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
