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"Noncommittal" Quotes from Famous Books

... a bright, sunny June day when he rang the bell of the Fletcher home and was admitted, by a trim maid, to the small reception room that was a noncommittal link between the hall and the ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... passage had made no mark on the featureless dulness of the room, its look of being the makeshift setting of innumerable transient collocations. There was something sardonic, almost sinister, in its appearance of having deliberately "made up" for its anonymous part, all in noncommittal drabs and browns, with a carpet and paper that nobody would remember, and chairs and tables as impersonal as ...

— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... a noncommittal smile and walked to the lane. Retrieving my bundle, I joined Amar with conspiratorial caution. We drove to Chadni Chowk, a merchandise center. For months we had been saving our tiffin money to buy English clothes. Knowing that my clever brother could easily play ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... pupils there were divided on the question as to whether to participate in the affair or not. Jennie Mason, Ida Brierley, and four or five others were in favor of accepting, while others had either declined or were noncommittal. ...

— The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch - The Cowboys' Double Round-Up • Edward Stratemeyer

... on the very day the policy was issued. The second man protested that he had paid Brauer only the day before. The third man stated brusquely that he had placed his business through Brauer and he was the man he intended to settle with. The fourth was noncommittal, but it was the fifth client who produced the straw that betrayed the direction ...

— Broken to the Plow • Charles Caldwell Dobie

... the noncommittal answer. "His recovery would be hastened, however, if his mind could be relieved. He keeps worrying about the loss of his papers that proved his share in the Texas oil wells. Until they can be given ...

— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton

... 13. [11] The Normans are proverbial among the French for the oracular noncommittal of their responses.—Un Normand, says the proverb, a son dit ...

— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine

... did not interrupt, Mr. Conant toyed persistently with his watch charm. His features were noncommittal but he ...

— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)

... his abrupt departure for Paris. His noncommittal note. Even then she refused to despair. It would be an utterly impossible end to such a story...after twelve years...not for a ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... my table and challenged me in French, at which I gave a noncommittal smile. I pretended that I did not know French. Then she tried indifferent German and I looked at her with puzzled blankness. Finally she spoke to me in a piquant English and I answered. She spoke English extremely well and it developed ...

— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves

... I." It was not just what Charming Billy most wanted to say, but that much was perfectly safe, and noncommittal ...

— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

Words linked to "Noncommittal" : indefinite