"Equably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as you do, Cap'n Ira," the elder remarked quite equably, "I conclude that you might think that. But you formed your judgment in the heat of—well, not anger, of ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... the indefensible deeds of violence and treachery, which later on were perpetrated by the Hudson's Bay Company on the agents of the North-west, and returned with interest by the latter. Often the New North-west agents and the original Nor'-westers would camp or build side by side, and share equably in the fur trade with the natives; their canoemen and French-Canadian voyageurs would sing their boating songs in chorus as they paddled side by side across the lakes and down the rivers, or marched with their heavy loads over the portages and ...
— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston
... going up without him," Susan said equably. She got into a loose wrapper, braided her hair. Mrs. Carroll and Betsey kissed her and went away; Susan and Anna talked for a few minutes, then Susan went to sleep. But Anna lay awake for a long time thinking,—thinking what it would be like to know that only a few hours ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... of fine humour over the reading of the letter. At first she was in the mood to refuse. But, being her father's daughter, and so endowed with that sense of the comedy as well as the tragedy of life which makes it easy to regard things and persons equably, she consented at last. She would have preferred to be married from Wistaria Terrace, but she had no difficulty in making ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... ‘Aylmer’s Field,’ or ‘Enoch Arden’; or to sustained romance narrative, as in the ‘Idylls.’ No English poet has used blank verse with such flexible variety, or drawn from it so large a compass of tones; nor has any maintained it so equably on a high level ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... are running on to it," said Turnbull, equably, "and we shall be shipwrecked twice, ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton |
