"Evasively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the hill," said John evasively. He and Fred had decided not to tell any of the others of their discovery until they ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave • Ross Kay
... deep for me," said Morgan, evasively. "I suppose they ought to be contented to see us enjoying ourselves. It's all in the way ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... and always," replied the other evasively. "The birds get their singing from it. They get everything first, of course, then pass it on. The whole world's music comes from that, though there's nothing—nothing," he added with emphasis, "to touch the singing of a bird. He's calling everywhere ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... obstacle in its way, and to patronize it to the extent of taking and paying for one copy. When the paper was brought to my house, my wife said to me, "Now are you going to take another worthless little paper?" I said to her evasively, "I have not directed the paper to be left." From this, in my absence, she sent the message to the carrier. This is the ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... evinced little interest, Mr Bloom gazed abstractedly for the space of a half a second or so in the direction of a bucketdredger, rejoicing in the farfamed name of Eblana, moored alongside Customhouse quay and quite possibly out of repair, whereupon he observed evasively: ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... the merits of the project, she had answered evasively, "Of my own knowledge I know nothing." But he could not fail to observe the sudden stillness which fell upon her, the inscrutability of expression which dropped like a mask over her animated face. The name of Prouty alone was sufficient to bring this change, ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... right thing this evening all round: that came out for him in a word from Kate as she approached him to wreak on him a second introduction. He had under cover of the music melted away from the lady toward whom she had first pushed him; and there was something in her to affect him as telling evasively a tale of their talk in the Piazza. To what did she want to coerce him as a form of penalty for what he had done to her there? It was thus in contact uppermost for him that he had done something; not only caused her perfect ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James
... a revolver of mine," said the young man evasively, although the remark was a true one, since he had presented his cousin with a brace of revolvers some twelve ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... Mr. Watkins Tottle evasively; for he trembled violently, and felt a sudden tingling throughout his whole frame; 'why—I should certainly—at least, I ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... was in it," said the colonel evasively. "It was not the kind of business that White would like to be in. I guess he's getting religious or something, or maybe it's that ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... answered Maurice, evasively. "Have I no right to show her affection? Must I renounce ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... should she?" Gimblet returned evasively. "I don't suppose my presence would appear worth commenting upon to anyone but yourself or Lord Ashiel, unless Lady ...
— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce
... a while before he had moved alone through the wilderness of London now he seemed to be alone with Phil Abingdon on the border of a spirit world which had no existence for the multitudes around. Psychically, he was very close to her at that moment; and when he replied he replied evasively: "I have absolutely no scrap of evidence, Miss Abingdon, pointing to foul play. The circumstances were peculiar, of course, but I have every confidence in Doctor McMurdoch's efficiency. Since he is satisfied, it would be mere impertinence on my part ...
— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... merchant evasively. "If it concerns the detail of the reduction of your monthly adequacy, my word has become ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... "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 asked ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux
... 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
... Mrs. Bateson feeding her fowls," said Elisabeth evasively; "and, I say, have you ever noticed that hens are just like tea-pots, and cocks like coffee-pots? Look at them now! It seems as if an army of breakfast services had suddenly come to life a la Galatea, and were pouring libations ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... into a gallant attack on Grahame, and was replied to evasively. Don Grahame wanted to punch Jones's head for what he called slurs cast at his ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... Amelia evasively, taking quick, even stitches, but listening hungrily to the voice of outside temptation. It seemed to confirm all the long-suppressed ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... added Mrs. Lee, evasively, "that you have not been judging him much too harshly? I think I know him better than you. He has many good qualities, and some high ones. What harm can he do me? Supposing even that he did succeed in persuading me that my life could ...
— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams
... that free legislation would be impossible in the presence of an armed soldiery. He moved the appointment of a committee to remonstrate with the Governor, and to request the withdrawal of the soldiers. To this the Governor replied evasively that he had not the authority to order the withdrawal of the military. Otis in answer reported that the Governor's reply was according to English law, more impossible than the thing which the ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath
... "I don't know that much ails her, Eben," she said, evasively. "Girls often get run down, ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... am afraid, to be strictly watched," the lawyer answered evasively. "Still, I think you ought to be told that time does not seem to have lessened ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... returned Adrian, evasively, "is certainly a man of extraordinary genius. And now, seeing him command, my only wonder is how he ever brooked to obey—majesty seems a very part ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... kissed the Judge on his withered cheek. "You are so good to me," she said, evasively, and with another kiss, she ...
— Judy • Temple Bailey
... a little, later?' he asked of Dora, with only a few seconds for the question, as people were pressing behind him. She answered evasively that there would be very little talk—they would all have to listen—it was very serious; and the next moment he had received a programme from the hand of a monumental yet gracious personage who stood beyond and who had a ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James
... a tithe of the 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
... 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 ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... whether I do or not," replied Hanson evasively. "If you'll mind every word I say to you and jump the minute you hear the word, I won't tell ...
— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon
... into my charge, my boy," replied his father evasively, "and I behaved very weakly and foolishly in giving them ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... but you air among your friends already if you could only think so," he answered, evasively, still caressing his potato knees ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... of Otho in my childhood," said Leoline, evasively; "therefore, his kindness of late years seemed ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... she can be," says Mrs. Reilly, amiably but still evasively, "an' a bit of a scholard into the bargain, an' a very civil tongue in her head. She's seventeen all out, ma'am, and never yet gave ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown
... the captain replied evasively. "The Nautilus suffered a collision that cracked one of the engine levers, and it struck this man. My chief officer was standing beside him. This man leaped forward to intercept the blow. A brother lays down his life for his brother, a friend ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... conservative!" explained Haredale evasively. "But Mrs. Rohscheimer is a recognised ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer
... possess a quite fatal fascination for people who allow themselves to be interested," she answered evasively, and in a tone which forbade further ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... thinking about leaving London, he replied evasively. I haven't seen you for six months, and now ...
— The Penal Cluster • Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)
... my father what to do," he replied, evasively. "The mischief is done and there is no ...
— Andy Grant's Pluck • Horatio Alger
... physiological difference is at least not negligible; and competition between the sexes may favour the despotism of the stronger, while complete independence on both sides implies freedom to separate at will; and Mill had only glanced evasively at the question of divorce. Here, again, is a theory which the pressure of social conditions, much more than abstract reasoning, is bringing more and more into prominence with our own generation. On the wider and more complicated question of race distinctions ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
... you prettier or more engaging in your life than you were that day," she said evasively, as if trying to pique me. "And you flirted so much, too! And everybody admired you so. Everybody on the grounds... ...
— Recalled to Life • Grant Allen
... there's that version," Halson said, evasively. "The engagement is only just out, as you know. As to the offer—the when and the how—I don't know that I'm ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells
... go to bed early still," Mrs. Wackernagel said evasively, though her Mennonite conscience reproached her for such want ...
— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin
... kindest—the best of human beings!" said Camilla, rather evasively, but with more warmth than usually dwelt in her soft ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 4 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... to go up the road quite a distance," he answered evasively. "I might offer to give you a ride, only you can see I am loaded down as it is." And this statement was correct, for the boxsled was carrying about all ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
... seriously, "you answer me evasively, and that is not well. We two are made to support each other, and to go hand in hand in the difficult path which lies before us. For you know as well as I do that our safety is imperiled when the Electoral Prince again makes his appearance at court, and we will henceforth find ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... 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 ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major
... left Borden's pier the girls had been tactfully trying to find out where he lived, and why they couldn't drive him directly to his place. But to all their inquiries he answered evasively, and was most positive in declaring they ...
— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis
... physicians came to him next morning, the High Protector said, "Why do you look sad?" To which the man of lore replied evasively, "So it becomes anyone who had the weighty care of his life and health upon him." Then Cromwell to this purpose spoke: "You think I shall die; I tell you I shall not die this bout; I am sure on't. Don't think I am mad. I speak the words of truth upon surer ...
— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy
... not been told," said Fidelio evasively. "It is a woman matter. But as to breakfast, it is making, and the tortillas ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... he went to Dawson," he replied evasively. "Thanks for the information. I'll sure talk to him ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild
... but, as we can not hope to convey to the reader a description of the affair as it happened, to the 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 a wilderness ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms
... is a hard-hearted old person," he replied, evasively; but he almost shuddered at the thought that under the white domino there had lurked the green eyes and the faded, sour face ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... as well to be prepared," he answered evasively. "Better be quite sure. See which pocket it's in—so as ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... how you fellows feel about this business," began Hudson frankly. "But I've had a pretty hot grilling at home by Dad. He asked me if I belonged to the 'sorehead' gang. I answered as evasively as I could. Then dad brought his list down on the table and told me he prayed that I wouldn't go through life with any false notions about my personal dimensions. He told me, rather explosively, that I would never be a bit bigger, in anyone's estimation ...
— The High School Left End - Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron • H. Irving Hancock
... Walter evasively, "and I am sure I shall like your dogs because you always like anything you ...
— Walter and the Wireless • Sara Ware Bassett
... 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? Now look ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... wife if you aren't 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, ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... here nor there, sir," Mr. O'Leary replied evasively. "He's safe, an' never knew they were afther him. T'ree o' thim, sir, the naygur and two Greeks. I kidded thim into thinkin' I was Misther McKaye; 'tis all over now, an' ye can find out what two Greeks it was by those knives I took for evidence. I cannot identify thim, but ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... 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 ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Holmes will take care of her; she doesn't need money," he answered, evasively. "I wouldn't like Prue to be a rich ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... their disposal of the horses, is his brain busy in the conception of some scheme suited to the changed circumstances; and hence, on Cypriano asking him to tell the way he knew of, he but replies evasively, saying: ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
... Brent evasively answered. "He's all right. A shot at him would scare him away for a month. He has too much on ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris
... tried in vain to obtain more light from his friend. Brevan answered evasively; perhaps because he did not dare to speak out freely, and reveal his real thoughts; or because it lay in his plans to be content with having added this horrible fear to all the ...
— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau
... maiden be found at last, when Senta ecstatically exclaims: "I will be his wife!" At this moment her father's ship is announced. Senta is about to run away to welcome him, but is detained by Erick, who tries to win her for himself. She answers evasively; then Daland enters and with him a dark and gloomy stranger. Senta stands spell-bound: she recognizes the hero of her picture. The Dutchman is not less impressed, seeing in her the angel of his dreams and as it were his deliverer, and so, meeting ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... the King intended to exact, but the time was not yet come to say too much, lest Custance should be alarmed and draw back altogether. So she replied evasively— ...
— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt
... or so most people say," I answered evasively. "Still, sometimes these Inyangas ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... to rest when you did get a chance. You talk all the time about having too much to do," John replied evasively. ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... appear other than I am," replied La Corriveau evasively, "and I come in this secret manner because I could get access to you ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... a 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 ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 6, 1890 • Various
... said evasively.—"Yes, friends," he said, in answer to a challenge in Spanish, "I want to speak ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... "Nerve ain't in not bein' afraid," he answered evasively, "but in not lettin' folks know ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx
... uneasily in her cloth slippers. 'I'll come sometime, but Mrs. Harling don't like to have me run much,' she said evasively. ...
— My Antonia • Willa Cather
... the Squire with a solemnity presently yielding to his natural desire to grin at any form of joke, and his belief that when the Squire indulged such flagrant irreverence as this he must be joking. Yet he answered evasively: "You hearn't he says now he hain't never ...
— The Leatherwood God • William Dean Howells
... see it in the morning," answered the guide somewhat evasively. "You boys turn in now, and get some sleep, for you will want to have your eyes wide open in the morning. But let me give you a tip: Don't you go roaming around in the ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch • Frank Gee Patchin
... He stood her 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 letter. I was mad. I loved money and did ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... then; I'll be back in a minute," said Woloda evasively as he left the room. I knew very well that he wanted to go, but that he had declined because he had no money, and had now gone to borrow five roubles of one of the servants—to be repaid when he ...
— Boyhood • Leo Tolstoy
... she asked, "do you think he is clever, Alban?"—a question, the answer to which would not interest her at all if it did not lead to others. Alban, in his turn, husbanding the secrets, replied evasively: ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton
... him in 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 ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... usual rule of answering evasively, and replied: "No; that was not it either. I wanted nothing for myself personally, or at most only to prove my fitness ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... 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 ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... soon attached to Edward. He 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 • Sir Walter Scott
... a pail and another out of a lamp," the old man answered evasively. "Every man to his own taste. . . . You drink out of the pail—well, drink, and may it do you good. ...
— The Bishop and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... 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 ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... moment changed color. What did she mean? Was it possible that she suspected the substitution, or was she alluding to some past history of his brother's life, of which he knew nothing? Evasively, ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... 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 ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... evasively, "I have always read the Post from cover to cover. It's been to me like those books you see in the advertisements and nowhere else. Grips the reader from the start, and she cannot lay it down till the last ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... said evasively. "What sort of treasure? Do the authorities know of it? Who has discovered it?" He managed to speak calmly and ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer
... 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 hope of ...
— A Short History of Scotland • Andrew Lang
... they found that this was also his own impression. The next morning Arbuthnot went off to Lyndhurst's house, where he arrived before Lyndhurst was dressed, and told him what had fallen from Fitzgerald, and asked what it could mean. Lyndhurst answered very evasively, but promised to have the matter cleared up. Arbuthnot, not satisfied, went to the Duke and told him what had passed, and added his conviction that there was some such project on foot (to make Sutton Premier) of which he was not aware. The ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... girl with a wistful countenance, as though the question had embarked him on a new train of thought. But he answered evasively: "His ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... to tell," the doctor said evasively; "but I'll say this much, her pulse is better than I expected. Now, ...
— Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories • Alice Hegan Rice
... short cut," growled the other evasively. "Mind how you step. Hit's a fur ways down thar ef ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... to you, sir," he replied evasively, "for the interest you have manifested in our welfare; and we shall always greatly prize your advice. But for the present you must allow me to leave you with my mother and sister. I ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau
... was in reality afraid to speak, and yet her very soul itched to do so. She answered, evasively. "When a woman talks about a girl running after a man, I think myself she lives in a glass house and can't afford to throw stones," said she. She ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... unanswered, and I do not think it right. May it please the Master to answer me if he can. But when anyone does not understand a matter, then a straightforward man says, 'I do not know that.'" The Buddha replies somewhat evasively that he has not undertaken to decide such questions, because they are not ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... to go ashore for?" asked the Captain, evasively, and trying to conceal his admiration of ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... learned and gallant attorney, esteeming it indispensable, puts a question or two as to whether anything was ever said about selling them in consequence of certain jealousies. Before the brother can object, she answers them evasively, and the testimony amounts to just no testimony at all. The court, bowing respectfully, informs the lady she can ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... if one doesn't wear them," returned the girl, evasively. But when she came down ten minutes later equipped for her walk, she encountered Miss Opie again in full ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... know, Tony," replied Myra evasively. "If the positions were reversed and I were engaged to Don Carlos and you had been making love to me, I expect he would have killed you by now, and perhaps strangled ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage
... young—a bride—surrounded apparently by everything which could make her happy, and the physician hesitated, answering her evasively, until she said, "Do not fear to tell me truly, for I want to die. Oh, I long to die," she continued, passionately clasping ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes
... It was not the hard toil of the past winter that had so often made him feel weary. "Oh, I'm all right," he said evasively. "And you—the winter seems to have benefited you, Miss Winters," he continued, looking kindly at her shining eyes and flushed face. "It's a pleasure to see you looking so well, when I remember how ill you were ...
— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith
... this for you, and you can sign it now," remarked the lawyer evasively, not without shrinking; "but it won't stand as it is, or as you want it to stand, because Mrs. Mazarine has her legal claims in spite of it! She's got a wife's dower-rights according to the law. That's one-third of your property. It's the law of the land, and ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... expression grew from day to day, while the animation that characterised her manner when freed from the restraint became more and more forced. She was as though dominated by some inner tensity, which she dared not relax even for a moment. To Orde's questionings she replied as evasively as she could, assuring him always that matters were going as well as she had expected; that mother was very difficult; that Orde must have patience, for things would surely come all right. She begged him to remain quiescent until she gave him the word; and she implored ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White
... ferret skin, with the pelt of a wolf for covering. Odysseus sees him approach; he and Diomede lie down among the dead till Dolon passes, then they chase him towards the Achaean camp and catch him. He offers ransom, which before these last days of the war was often accepted. Odysseus replies evasively, and asks for information. Dolon, thinking that the bitterness of death is past, explains that only the Trojans have watch-fires; the allies, more careless, have none. At the extreme flank of the host sleep the newly arrived Thracians, under their king, Rhesus, who has golden armour, and ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... only met once,' she answered a little evasively, 'when your late brother introduced me to the members of his family. I wonder if you have quite forgotten my big black eyes and my hideous complexion?' She lifted her veil as she spoke, and turned so that the ...
— The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice • Wilkie Collins
... are under discussion, I believe," replied Gherardi evasively, "But they are not in my province. Now, can I be of any further service ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli |
