"Insinuatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the pleasure—" began Mr. Haopdriver, insinuatingly. "I mean" (remembering his emancipation and abruptly assuming his most aristocratic intonation), "can I be of ...
— The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll • H. G. Wells
... smoothly and insinuatingly, and again Eve's eyes implored her husband to give an answer that was no answer, or to say ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
... are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these ...
— For Auld Lang Syne • Ray Woodward
... and if Emma Jane and Alice Robinson and I take most all the care of him we thought perhaps you and Uncle Jerry would keep him just for a little while. You've got a cow and a turn-up bedstead, you know," she hurried on insinuatingly, "and there's hardly any pleasure as cheap as more babies where there's ever been any before, for baby carriages and trundle beds and cradles don't wear out, and there's always clothes left over from the old baby to begin the new one on. Of course, we can collect ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... said, coming forward insinuatingly. "Yellow Brian, no man knows who you are, nor do I ask. But Turlough Wolf knows a man when he sees one, a chieftain among men. I owe no man service; but if you will need a swift brain, a cunning hand, and an eye that can read the hearts of men, ...
— Nuala O'Malley • H. Bedford-Jones
... getting low, ain't it?" said Pa Sloane insinuatingly. "S'pose I'd better drive up to Carmody this ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... manage to think as I wanted you to if it were worth your while, couldn't you?" smiled the great man insinuatingly. ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... to work, then?" she remarked insinuatingly, straightening up from the rude desk where she sat like the judge of a police-court. ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson
... the convening of court the district attorney outlined his case with circumstantial detail. He related in spectacular fashion the first meeting of Dr. Earl and the Bells at the suffrage ball, and dwelt insinuatingly upon the interest manifested by Dr. Earl in the child at the time of the accident. Either inadvertently, or by design, he referred in slighting tones to the part played at this meeting by the "volunteer nurse," but his sentence was never completed, ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens
... then, Belle, if she does not wish to go with you to Canada?" urged Mrs. Hawley, insinuatingly, as she turned to her friend, with a sparkle of mischief in her eyes, as she saw that Violet was really ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... She said "Thanks a heap!" And they both rather glared at the other girl—a mere pinkish, big-eyed girl whose name was Florrie—who lingered stanchly by the new man and often kept him in talk when he should have been watchful. Still this third girl had but little initiative. She did insinuatingly ask Wilbur what his favourite flower was, but this got her nowhere, because it proved that he did ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... insinuatingly, when he had recovered his breath, "why do you flee from me? Can you not see that I am ...
— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith
... in impatient surprise. "This is Tuesday, Miss," the pampered maid answered insinuatingly, "Mrs. Hampden will be ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"
... up in Ellen's bed and playing with a feather that she had pulled out of the corner of the down-quilt. She readily allowed herself to be kissed, and sat there with pouting mouth and the funniest little wrinkled nose. "You're man!" she said insinuatingly. ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... shucks!" He looked at Miss Buckner with stark rapture, caressing the polished revolver at the same time with a fond, unconscious thumb. "You hold it just as steady as I could," he said with pride, and added, insinuatingly, "I could learn yu' the professional drop in a morning. This here is a little ...
— Lin McLean • Owen Wister |
