"Suavely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... revise the Constitution would legitimatize everything. He went on to give him a little, simple lecture on the elements of Constitutional Verity, its theory and its practice: "In a short time," he concluded suavely, "Your Majesty will know on this subject as much as any of your Ministers,"—whenever he experienced the need of further instruction, he only had to call the High Commissioner, who promised to come and solve his ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott
... suavely, "you have already drunk a full dose of the potion which causes insensibility, and it is overcoming you. Even now," he added, "you are too ...
— The Exploits of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... 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 lifted ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... with gentle manners and a beautiful face, came slowly forward, put her hand into John's, and looked steadily into his eyes without speaking. Then the gentleman with the eyeglass said suavely, "Have you been ...
— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... at the foot of the ladder leading to the promenade deck, he could hear the purser up there suavely assuring a crowd of first-class passengers that there was not the slightest occasion for alarm, that the boats were merely being swung out as a precautionary measure always adopted in such cases, and that if they would kindly retire to the dining-saloon they would find a ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood
... trouble?" Parker suggested suavely. "Suppose we ride down the valley. I prefer flat land to rolling country ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... said Major Garnet suavely, but he flashed a glance at the teamster that stopped his grin, though he only ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... the case for Major Carteret," rejoined Dr. Price, suavely. "He has certain principles,—call them prejudices, if you like,—certain inflexible rules of conduct by which he regulates his life. One of these, which he shares with us all in some degree, forbids the recognition of the negro as ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... Major," he broke 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
... Suavely, Dr. Thorndyke strode down the aisle. He faced the judge and explained who he was and why, then he backed it up with a wallet full of credentials, cards, identification, and so forth. The judge looked the shebang over sourly ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith
... the information suavely by the help of a classical precedent, and said, with a gracious smile, "Then I perceive we must have played the part of AEneas and Anchises—" But before he had got so far, the idea had been quite too much for Dermot, who cried out, "Pick-a-back! ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge
... suavely said, "the weather is certainly trying, but remember this is examination day, and next week you, that is some of you, will go out into the great world to face its cares, to wrestle for its prizes, ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker
... sharp investigating glance, but replied suavely: "Not necessarily. The same road is ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... speak, which was more than could be said of theirs, so I put on as bold a face as could legitimately be expected of a modest man in nothing but a bathing costume, and went forward. The old gentleman also seemed disturbed, but he disguised his feelings to the best of his power, and addressed me suavely. ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various
... It is this suavely delicate art which now appears in Garhwal. Among the Guler painters was a master-artist and although his first Garhwal pictures are concerned with passionate romance, devotion to Krishna quickly becomes apparent.[107] ...
— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer
... was my not very apposite reply; but she looked so engaging in her light summer dress and little cottage bonnet, and her manner in speaking to me was then, as always, so unaffectedly and suavely respectful, that my heart expanded at the sight of her, and a kiss seemed ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... Mr. Darnell can find this general discontent," the Vice-president of the A. and P. put in suavely. "The country has never been so prosperous as during the McKinley-Hanna regime,—wages at the high level, exports increasing, crops abundant. What any honest and industrious man has to complain of, I can't see. Why, we are looking ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... be able to find a wall or enclosure which does not appear circumscribed and small to his brave imagination. And he will be able to paint in fresco in the manner of old Italy, with all the mixtures and varieties of colour usually employed in it. He will be able to paint in oils very suavely with more knowledge, daring, and patience than painters. And finally, on a small piece of parchment he will be most perfect and great, as in all other manners of painting. Because great, very great is the power of design ...
— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various
... keep," replied Mrs. Parry suavely. "You had better wait, Steel. I have something ...
— A Coin of Edward VII - A Detective Story • Fergus Hume
... doubt for a moment that you are the man this letter says you are, Mr. Fraser," he said suavely. "But facts are stubborn things. You were seen carrying the gun that killed Faulkner. We can't get away from that just because you happen to have a letter of introduction ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... that,' asserted the intruder, suavely, 'and can assure you that the temperature outside ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr
... counted on for falling bowled over by a handsome face and pointed tongue; women require some wooing from their ensphered and charioted sister, particularly if she is clouded; and old women—excellent buttresses—must be suavely courted. Now, to woo the swimming matron and court the settled dowager, she had to win forgiveness for her beauty; and this was done, easily done, by forbearing to angle with it in the press of nibblers. They ranged about her, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... young Longworth suavely; 'I am sure you will be pleased with the rooms we have. You see,' he said, entering and nodding to the carpenters who were at work there, 'this will be the front office, where the public is received. Here you have room for an accountant or ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... 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 patent as ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... effortless 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
... "Spennie," said Sir Thomas suavely, "your aunt expresses a wish to arrive at the abbey in time for dinner. If you could manage to come to some arrangement ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse
... went on suavely, "as to the nature of your occupation. What commodities do you turn out? What tools and materials ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... the frocks this evening," the dressmaker agreed, suavely. "But are you sure you will be in? I want you to be at home when ...
— The Automobile Girls At Washington • Laura Dent Crane
... which process includes the rounding of their anatomical angles by means of dancing and physical culture, and the polishing of the facets of their intelligence by the gentle manipulation of three or four foreign governesses and professors of music, singing, drawing, etc. These latter smile suavely through the excruciating half-hours they allot to each unfinished damsel, and tear their hair in private at the memory of the daily and hourly murderous executions of the old masters at which they must ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... what I am here to explain," said Kent, suavely. "The time allowed us was very short; and a ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
... Lily was sent for, not only because the old man cared to see her, but to make Grace feel the outsider that she was. She made desperate efforts to conquer the hated language, but her accent was atrocious. Anthony would correct her suavely, and Lily would laugh in childish, unthinking mirth. She ...
— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 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 ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... 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. If you are Paul Drayton, you go back to Portland ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... to see Mr. Hilton Fenley," he said suavely. "You know my name already, Mrs. Garth, so ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... said the Idiot, suavely. "I appreciate the flattery implied by your noticing it. But science has everything to do with it. It is science that is going to make the future great. It is science that has annihilated distance, and the annihilation ...
— The Idiot • John Kendrick Bangs
... Sponsilier, is beyond me, yet I was 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 ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... am 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 ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... enough to get you," he riposted, neatly. Then, he had an inspiration that he believed to be his duty as a host: as a matter of fact, it was rudeness in a husband toward his wife on the first anniversary of their marriage. He turned suavely to Mrs. Delancy. "You'll stay to dinner, of course, Aunt Emma." And he added, fatuously: "You and Cicily can chat together afterward, you know.... I've a horrible pile of work to get ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... possible answer to that," he said suavely, "is to tell you to go to hell. Get out! But Von Holtz stays here. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... think it was your pastor," inquired that person suavely as he sniffed the air, "come to remonstrate with you upon ...
— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart
... 'Yes, ma'am,' 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 in ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... 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 in ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... personal question," he said suavely. "You will see the importance of it. Mr. Wallingford was constantly visiting you. I want a plain answer to what I am going to ask you. Was he a suitor for ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
... Angoulaffre, and of the Lady Cresseide that betrayed love, and of the Lady Morgaine la Fee, whose Danish lover should yet come from Avalon to save France in her black hour of need. All these he read aloud, suavely, with bland modulations, for he was a man of letters, as letters went in those days. Originally, he had been bred for the Church; but this vocation he had happily forsaken long since, protesting with some show of reason that ...
— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell
... 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, ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... But he is daily becoming more at home in the saddle, and can even venture upon a joke or two. Mr. PRINGLE opposed the suspension of the Eleven-o'clock Rule on the ground, inter alia, that "he only wanted to get away." "That," said Mr. LAW suavely, "is a result which can easily be attained," and the House, which is getting a little weary of Mr. PRINGLE'S frequent and acidulated interposition, noted his discomfiture with ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 21st, 1917 • Various
... being shut by Grey, after the maid had left the room, drank to each other. "You'll take that fly out before you send the salmon away," said Grey suavely. ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior
... you," Hanaud continued suavely, "because I understand that Mlle. Celie usually wore a pair of diamond ear-drops, and they ...
— At the Villa Rose • A. E. W. Mason
... laugh. Fielding turned a quiet eye upon him and repeated in an even voice, 'Who were the custodians of the silver mines, and lived under the shelter of a little cliff close by the main shaft. When Helier de Carteret, who, you know,' and he inclined suavely towards Conway, 'was Seigneur of somewhere or other in Jersey, came a few years later to colonise Sark, he found the Le Mesuriers in possession, and while he confiscated the mines, he allowed them to retain their ancient ...
— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason
... the truth of Lord Garvington's statement?" inquired Lambert suavely, and fixing a merciless eye on ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... be 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 ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... is badly hurt, Mr. Barry," he said suavely, "and as you are such a good surgeon, perhaps you will leave this damned ...
— Edward Barry - South Sea Pearler • Louis Becke
... Gordon," said Baldwin, suavely, "we'll show you that we can be more liberal. Though the letters rightfully belong to Mr. Camp, if you'll deliver them to us we'll see that you don't lose your place, and we'll give ...
— The Great K. & A. Robbery • Paul Liechester Ford
... Chauvelin would give a signal, that the place would fill with soldiers, that she would rush down and help Percy to sell his life dearly. As he stood there, suavely unconscious, she very nearly screamed ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... his ambitions but his nature must inevitably have 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 ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner
... 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 until ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... thankful your mother enjoys such good health,' replied Mrs Lawford suavely. 'Please tell cook to be very careful with the cornflour—to be sure it's well mixed and ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... said Miss 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. If it does, I shall detain ...
— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow
... miles of the land, captain," he said suavely, "you will make the steamer stop, and my men and I will leave you in the boat. You must await our return, which may be on the following day, or the day after, or perhaps longer still. But whether ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke
... evening," he said suavely, "will, I hope, evaporate in this atmosphere of unexpected sorrow. If I was in the wrong I deeply regret it. My one wish now is to join you in being of use to Bobby and Miss Katherine in their bereavement. I saw the account in a paper at luncheon. ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... soft, as 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 and ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... honour, Miss White," he said suavely, and he looked meaningly at the clock on the mantelpiece. "We do not usually receive visitors so late, and especially ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... you that when he is gone," said the king, suavely. "And also when Madame, here, shall ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... young Nason and kept out of the lockup. His father pays me a salary to look after his law business, and his son is the pride of his heart. I trust you understand my meaning. If you don't feel like work this morning," he continued suavely, "mount your wheel and take a run out to Winchester and see if that mortgage on the Seaver estate has been satisfied. The exercise and ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn
... said 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 see her in ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... knowledge of God's power. The confidence that early years implant in the mind supplies an unsubstantial substitute. I have pictured to myself an illustration: A bright young man is present at a grand concert. It is between the parts. He bends suavely over the back of a lady's chair and talks sweet music to her ear. He says: "Could you not follow every thought of the composer in that symphony?" (which they have just heard). "And was not the effect sublime when the storm reached the ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... "Very true," he answered, suavely. "And I wish I could stay with you. But it was not for pleasure I came. The King sent me. He desires ...
— From the Memoirs of a Minister of France • Stanley Weyman
... Count de Volaski has withdrawn or been dismissed from the Embassy. It is not certainly known which. He is, meanwhile, at the Trois Freres. He has the honor of being my fellow-lodger," suavely observed the colonel. ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... they are provoked," he went on suavely. "What do they care for the destruction their anger brings upon your body? They would devastate your whole beauty without scruple in order to calm their tempestuous rage. They begin by undermining the trust you feel in your own claims. They ...
— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici
... friendship for you. I certainly 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
... 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, ...
— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood
... is out," the officer returned suavely, advancing to the desk, "I must trouble you for an instant, I fear. I have been sent over from Goch to inspect the guard here. But I find no guard ... there is not ...
— The Man with the Clubfoot • Valentine Williams
... 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 ...
— Courage • J. M. Barrie
... from a master. "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, my gentle Welch,' concluded Charteris ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... terrible, too humiliating. Yet, after all, could she blame her daughter? What was her present life, what would be her future, without education, without money—unless she had someone who could take care of her? Dissembling her indignation as much as possible, she inquired suavely: ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... 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 a poor relation—embryo women, ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver
... said suavely. "May I not have the pleasure of a turn with you; it is delightful to ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn
... walked over 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
... plans 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 the mind, ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... suffer no more than a rich one,' he replied suavely as he stroked the cat. 'Enjoy that satisfaction, M. de Berault. ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... you," Senator Warfield offered suavely and kept alongside. "Frank Johnson was killed, you say? How ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... took client number one by the arm and led him suavely into one of the adjoining rooms. "Favour me by remaining here a few minutes, sir," said he. "I will return and resume our consultation with the least possible delay. I am rather expecting a visit from a very wealthy old lady in connection with a will. I will not keep ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... reached this point Julia said suavely, but with meaning: "Perhaps you had better ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad
... suavely. "Welcome to Baldpate! Please don't attempt to explain—we're fed up on explanations now. You have the fifth key, of course. Welcome to ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers
... 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 ...
— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis
... quite so, good 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 ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... you gentlemen of the press will make a full note of these proceedings," he observed suavely. "You at any rate ...
— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher
... yet," he said suavely. "No doubt I am a little dense. You speak about a number of private papers having been abstracted from your cabinet. Do I understand—is it possible that anything in those papers could lead people to fix upon you as the murderer of Sir ...
— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... smiled, but said suavely: "For all that, you should not take an unnecessary risk. You have been attacked once already, ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss
... He bowed suavely to Sylvia, with the air of one showing to the room how a gentleman performed that ceremony, but took little note ...
— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason
... 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 lives with another woman ...
— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various
... the Rabbi, still suavely, though he was not far from anger, "I am endeavouring to find thee ...
— One Snowy Night - Long ago at Oxford • Emily Sarah Holt
... Steger, who had all the graceful contemplative air of a prowling Tom, was just the person to deal with her. A more suavely cunning and opportunistic soul never was. His motto might well have been, speak softly and ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... sauntering on the pavement, and would have dismissed him but for an agreeable diversion that occurred at that moment. A suavely smiling unctuous old gentleman advanced to them, bowing, and presuming thus far, he said, under the supposition that he was accosting the junior Liberal candidate for the borough. He announced his name and his principles ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... peeple," suavely responded the chief, a just pride beaming in his eyes. "That young man no family ...
— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall
... statements, 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 ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... circumstances—if you had chanced here any other day," Mr. Ford began suavely, only to be interrupted by Mr. Ends, whose cranky eyes justified themselves in ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
... 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 loyalty to both ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
... 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 man with ...
— The Enchanted Typewriter • John Kendrick Bangs
... day he actually left the little West African coast town, turning his face northward with bad grace. Even at that distance, he feared Jack Meredith's half-veiled sarcasm. He knew that nothing could be hidden for long from the Englishman's suavely persistent inquiry and deduction. Besides, the natives were no longer safe. Meredith, with the quickness of a cultured linguist, had picked up enough of their language to understand them, while Joseph talked freely with ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... Skinner retorted suavely. "Pray do not excite yourself. Suppose war does impend? Is that any reason why ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... money for Waroona Downs, Mr. Dudgeon?" Eustace replied suavely. "You are rather early, ...
— The Rider of Waroona • Firth Scott
... lookout for bluecoats and passed them studiously on the other side. What was his horror therefore, turning a corner, to turn squarely into the majestic arm of the law, and what was his greater horror, to hear Billy Strong suavely address him. Billy lifted his hat to the large, fat officer as he might have lifted it to his sweetheart in her box at ...
— A Good Samaritan • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... of his 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 from hard, ...
— Mountain Blood - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... I may be called a 'business man,'" interposed the nobleman, suavely. "They would tell you so in Calcutta, I think, and in Cairo too. When one considers it, I have transacted a great deal of business—on the behalf of other people. And if you will permit me—I do not impute indirection, of course—but your remark seems to require a footnote. It is true that I am ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... playing," he said suavely. "A little discussion—a mere jest. Our friend Stefanone was ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... me to attempt to put over anything on such an astute person as yourself," replied Holmes suavely, while his observant eyes caught every movement of the recreant Galetchkoff, who dodged behind the tree every time the great detective looked in that direction. "Do you think it probable that your friend Ivan could be implicated in the theft of the diamond cuff-buttons, in addition to his crime ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... "Mr Jobson," he began suavely, "you say that you saw the accused steal these various articles, and that they were afterwards ...
— The Holiday Round • A. A. Milne
... return your salute," answered Morgan suavely. "Up, lads!" he cried. As the men sprang to their feet, he roared out fiercely: "Stand by! ...
— Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer - A Romance of the Spanish Main • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... little upset at the result of the match, sir," said Jimmy Silver suavely. "Fenn did not arrive, for some reason, till the end of the innings, so Mr Blackburn's won. The wicket was good, but ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... Petal! Suavely down the sea-troughs settle, Gravely breathe perfumes of prayer 'Twixt the scolding sea and air, Bravely up the sea-hills rise — Sea-hills slant thee toward the skies. Master, hold disaster off From the crest and from the trough; ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... answered Vickery suavely, "I might have known better than to have presented my proposition to any woman—but you are an advanced woman, one who knows the ways of the world. I had presumed you knew something of the ...
— A Woman for Mayor - A Novel of To-day • Helen M. Winslow
... 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
... should like nothing better than to finish. But let us finish like well-bred people," said Aristide suavely. "We don't want the whole Casino as witnesses. You'll find a chair over there. ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... hope of that," smilingly returned Mr. World as he suavely bowed to her and to the little group of companions who had given him such ...
— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris
... 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 ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... will probably catch the Blue Disease," said Sir Robert, suavely. "At present there are cases reported all over London, and we are at a loss to ...
— The Blue Germ • Martin Swayne
... and I crumbled bread nervously, hoping for something sensible to say; but at this moment "half-time" mercifully set in. My partner on the other side turned to me suavely and asked if I thought the verses in Abraham Lincoln were a beauty or a blemish; and with the assistance of the London stage, the flight to America, Mrs. FULTON'S Blight, Mr. WALPOLE'S Secret City and the prospects of the new Academy, I sailed serenely into ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 23, 1919 • Various
... 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
... 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 unfriendly ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... don't trouble yourself!" she said suavely. "But you're a bit off it, all the same. Those are some paste things which Mr. Rayner got together for me in case it came to being obliged to exhibit some to the crooks. You don't think, really, that I was going to run any risks with the genuine articles? ...
— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher
... this 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 while stealing their ...
— Irresistible Weapon • Horace Brown Fyfe
... the Colonel, suavely. "They did quite right to attack the enemy, even if he was in greater force. But I don't quite understand it, Gwyn. Did he say ...
— Sappers and Miners - The Flood beneath the Sea • George Manville Fenn
... c'n run along, do ye?" he asked suavely. "I'm glad to have your views on the subject. Wa'al, I guess it kin, too, until to-morro' at four o'clock, an' after that you c'n settle with lawyer Johnson or the sheriff." The ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... 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 a most respectable American family, whom they could find at the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... bothering about 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 nobody ...
— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens
... 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
... 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 ...
— Stage Confidences • Clara Morris
... you ask me to drive with you?" I asked her at length, abruptly yet suavely. Amid the noise of the traffic we could converse with ...
— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett
... Louis," said Carrados suavely. His face, even his incredibly living eyes, beamed placid good-nature. "The chair on which you will sit, the roof above you, all the comfortable surroundings to which you have so amiably alluded, are the direct result of falsifying a trust account. But do I call you 'Mr. Carlyle' in consequence? ...
— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah
... vigour underlying the old lady's calm and gentle habit of speech. Yet she was not convinced, though she wished to be. A good many times she had heard in thought the suavely virile utterances of Arnold Jacks; his voice had something that pleased her, and his way of looking at things touched her imagination. She wished these ladies knew Arnold Jacks, that she might ask ...
— The Crown of Life • George Gissing
... 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 Rudolf that he received from the shining and ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... spoke, but Aunt Emmeline was so pleased that I showed some glimmerings of reason, that she said suavely:— ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... suavely as he loosened his braces, "the trouble with you is that you're a set of unthinkin' asses. You've no more brains than spidgers. We've told you that ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
... cleared his throat. "Sergeant" came his guttural, booming bass, "suppose!—suppose!" he reiterated suavely "on this occasion we—er—temper justice with mercy—ha! ha!" His deep hollow laugh jarred on their nerves most unpleasantly. "I need a man at my place just now," he went on, "to buck wood and do a little odd choring around. Times are rather hard just now, as this poor fellow says. ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall
... "Certainly not," agreed Morrison, suavely, gaining confidence from the sound of his own voice. "Not in this country. But you must remember that a man goes into the northern peninsula only because he can get something better there than here. When the firm of Morrison & Daly establishes itself now, it must be for the ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White
... the remainder of that interview. Markes reiterated his intention of making a complete governmental investigation at once. To which Perona suavely assented. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various
... but doubtful tone. The booming voice bellowed. Another voice of higher authority took over. Murgatroyd was entranced that so many people wanted to talk to him. He made what for him was practically an oration. The last voice spoke persuasively and suavely. ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster
... ambition. A man past seventy, head of a great importing establishment, he had shown interest in public affairs only within the decade, although his very build, tall, erect, commanding, and his manner suavely courteous and untouched by futile haste, seemed to have equipped him with a natural bent for public life. Marrying late in life, he seemed to have found his bent more tardily than did other men. But he had invested wealth, influence, and wisdom in the future of men who, come to power, were ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... the echo of some fine thought, it only makes it worse, for it is not sincere, unless of course it is quoted understandingly. We need freshness and sincerity in forming our judgments in art, for it is upon these that art lives. All over the world we find audiences listening suavely to long concerts, and yet we do not see one person with the frankness of the little boy in Andersen's story of the "New Clothes of the Emperor." It is the same with the other arts. I have never heard anyone say that part of the foreground of Millet's "Angelus" ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell
... to our hustling city, 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 ...
— The Trail of the Tramp • A-No. 1 (AKA Leon Ray Livingston)
... monsieur," he said, 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
... differ from you." Penfield was suavely positive. "I am surprised that you should say that, for Miss Oldham's are quite the most artistic ...
— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... suavely, "I insinuate nothing. I was merely remarking upon the coincidence. If I did not happen to know all the circumstances, I might have been led to suggest that, as only one Miss Rushford ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... fault, my dear Friedland," said Lassalle suavely. "It takes some brain to follow even what I have put so clearly. What ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... pleasure, Monsieur le Marquis," observed the land baron suavely, when the two found themselves seated in a card room with brandy and soda before them. "To meet a nobleman of the old school is indeed welcome in these days when New Orleans harbors the refugees of the world, for, strive ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... some people had complained, he asserted that he had thereby suffered far greater injury than his people. Sunnanvaeder's conspiracy was the thing that caused him most anxiety, and on the 9th of December he addressed the Dalesmen on that theme. "Dear friends," he suavely wrote, "report has reached our ears that Sunnanvaeder has gone among you with plots to throw the kingdom into strife once more. We beg you in the name of God give him no heed. He has made statements about ...
— The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa • Paul Barron Watson
... taking your friend away?" he remarked suavely. "We shall part from him with regret. Sir Julien," he added, whispering in his ear, "I must have your answer to my proposition. I will put it into absolutely definite shape, if you like, ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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 ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... said, suavely, "you are greatly interested in Mr. Santoris! Perhaps you have met ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... with Jimmydodd," said Haidia suavely. "There is not the least danger any more. You must destroy the beetles before their shells have ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... the ugly word," suavely expostulated the Burgher. "The great-to-come-for-all-of-us can be better expressed than that! But, to resume my argument, dearest maiden and most gracious lady, this document does not state that the dear son of the house has shaken off this mortal ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
... I can't tell you how pleased I am to hear you say so!" I said suavely; but do what I would, I could not resist a giggle, and he stared at me harder than ever, and looked so confused. I was so afraid that he would find me out and spoil the fun that I determined not to try to keep up the delusion any longer. He was ...
— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... 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 with a ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... your Grace, but I'm not here for the purpose of apprehending anybody," replied Narkom suavely. "My errand is of a totally different sort, I assure you. Captain Glossop, allow me to make you acquainted with a great friend of mine, Mr. George Headland. Mr. Headland is an amateur investigator of criminal matters, and he has taken a fancy to look into the details ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
... 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? ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... was a fair humourist, and Saint Basil was a wit. "Pensive playfulness" is Newman's phrase for Basil, but there was a speed about his retorts which did not always savour of pensiveness. When the furious governor of Pontus threatened to tear out his liver, Basil, a confirmed invalid, replied suavely, "It is a kind intention. My liver, as at present located, has given me nothing ...
— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier
... for such purpose," explained Quintana suavely, "that my frien', Emanuel Sard, has arrive. Monsieur Sard is a brokaire of diamon's, as all know ver' well. Therefore, it shall be our frien' Sard who will divide for us what we ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... that if he were seen in familiar conversation with this officer, he would not, perhaps, be asked for a pass. He spoke to Hines and they seated themselves near this officer and courteously addressed him—he replied as suavely. After a short conversation, General Morgan produced a liquor flask, they were very generally carried then, and invited the officer to take a drink of brandy, which invitation was gracefully accepted. Just then the train moved past the penitentiary. "That is the ...
— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke
... Miss Lloyd. "Having given away your own bag," he said suavely, "you have perhaps provided yourself with another, ...
— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells
... the man went on, still more suavely: "By the way, I have a very special reason why I should like a carrier pigeon." He lowered his voice. "And am prepared to pay any amount for him; will you ...
— Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon • Lucy M. Blanchard
... you must have known it," he corrected suavely. "Will you do me the honor of becoming ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... explained suavely. "These people don't think of cops as their friends. Besides, this is pretty new ...
— Prologue to an Analogue • Leigh Richmond |
