"Casualness" Quotes from Famous Books
... that Miss Wharton was at that moment up stairs in her room—that she had been at the hotel since the storm broke. He pretended not to see the flush on Keller's face as he told the lie; and his greeting to Della was distinguished by calm casualness. ... — The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer
... was as far from that of a gambler as you could have taken it by design: a black double-breasted suit with a thin vertical stripe, a gray silk tie with a pearl stickpin just barely large enough to be visible at all, a black Homburg; all perfectly fitted, all worn with proper casualness—one might almost say a formal casualness. It was only when he opened his mouth that One-Shot Braun was in the ... — One-Shot • James Benjamin Blish
... have to set about getting a fresh one," she said hastily, with an admirable assumption of light and easy casualness. ... — The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett |