"Ironical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had noticed, when they parted at the hotel door, the apparent sadness, or, rather, the touch of the pathetic in the manner of Miss Morgan, and he observed it again when they were all reunited at the hotel table. Heretofore she had been light, ironical, and bearing a full share in the talk, but now she merely replied when spoken to directly, and her tone had the tinge of melancholy. Mr. and Mrs. Grayson looked at her more than once, as if they were about ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler
... an ironical nod and disappeared, doubtless to join the countesses of my preface and all the metaphorical creatures, so often employed by romance-writers as agents for the recovery ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac
... gamein] is applied to the husband, [Greek: gameisthai] to the wife; and this rule will generally be found to hold good. We must either then read [Greek: he t' egemato], which Porson does not object to, and Elmsley adopts; or understand [Greek: egemato] in an ironical sense, in the spirit of Martial's Uxori nubere nolo meae: in the latter case [Greek: hei t' egemato] should be read (not [Greek: hen t']), as being the ...
— The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. • Euripides
... Miss Harlowe's account, as Virgil's hero was on Queen Dido's? For what an ungrateful varlet was that vagabond to the hospitable princess, who had willingly conferred upon him the last favour?—Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief—pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives?—Yet this fellow ...
— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson
... "From One's Country to Heaven" (Desde la Patria al Cielo) the author's endeavors show that the surest happiness is to be found in one's native village. He begins with an ironical description of the village of S—— in the Encartaciones, in which he depicts the simplicity of the inhabitants and their backwardness, in regard to the spirit of the age. In this village lived, among others, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
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