"Perfunctorily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dallying with her anticipation, reasoned that now they must circle the room before they should face him—the interesting apparition. It was a pilgrimage of which he on the other side was performing his half. Perfunctorily talking from group to group, conscious now and again of the lagging Clara or Harry, she could nevertheless keep a sly eye on the stranger's equal progress. The flash of jet, and the voluble, substantial shoulders of the lady so profusely ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain
... I'm late," she said perfunctorily, at his start of recognition and delight. Gaga's face changed completely. From one of gloom, his expression became one of joy. "I didn't notice the time. I was working there alone— Miss Summers had gone. I was finishing something. I didn't ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... out?" asked the man himself perfunctorily, as from the depths of a settled despair. He pointed a thumb over his ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... room is to go over the hole by the window?" she asked perfunctorily, being half-way through the hall at ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... keep' wait," he muttered, as she rose brightly to meet him; and she seemed pleased that he came at all—but George was used to girls' looking radiant when he danced with them, and she had little effect upon him. He danced with her perfunctorily, thinking the while of Mr. Eugene Morgan and his daughter. Strangely enough, his thoughts dwelt more upon the father than the daughter, though George could not possibly have given a reason—even ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
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