"Inanely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it!" he remarked inanely, before thinking it necessary to remove his head. Her face was still the face of tenderness, full of yearning. It did not change. She took a handkerchief from her pocket and carefully pressed it to his ...
— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger
... these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume ...
— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... had simple tasks, such as fitting a key into the lock, been performed with such exasperating slowness, and the girls fairly danced with impatience. The older folks smiled indulgently, and Mr. Sanderson chuckled as he pulled Evelyn's ear and inquired inanely, "if she were having ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... Boone muttered inanely. "Buh'the, she's got to be stopped! She's—God, why don't he come? It's shuah ten ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... I stood looking at the thing with an ever growing feeling of disgust, and some fear. The mouth kept jabbering, inanely, and once emitted a half-swinish grunt. I think it was the eyes that attracted me the most; they seemed to glow, at times, with a horribly human intelligence, and kept flickering away from my face, over the details of the room, as though ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson |
