"Nonchalant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they abandoned all their pretence of nonchalant confidence and did not talk at all. Of course, they knew Florette would come in her own good time, but the stifling atmosphere of that musty hole and the ...
— Tom Slade with the Boys Over There • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... as to disconcert even the boldest. Never had a sally made her laugh; never had an air in an opera, a flight of tragedy, moved her; indeed, never had her heart given a sign of life; and, on seeing her pass in all the splendor of her nonchalant loveliness one might have taken her for a beautiful somnambulist, walking through the world as in ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... over Irene. She came flying up stairs with some choice nectarines for Mrs. Lawrence, a kind that seemed only to reach perfection in Miss Barry's old-fashioned garden. There sat Irene, superb, nonchalant. ...
— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas
... not express the assurance he tried to put into his voice. He went back to the piano and leaned on it, his posture such that it might have indicated a nonchalant ease or, equally well, might have betrayed his desperate need ...
— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay
... Mr. Henfrey," he replied, with a gay, rather nonchalant air. "My friend Mr. Peters has been speaking about you. Had a rather anxious ...
— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux
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