To the casual traveller the shooting and trapping of birds for millinery purposes at first seems to hold an insignificant place among the causes.
Length of time must, of course, ingraft many of foreign origin upon the native tree; but to throw open civil privileges at random to new-comers is to convert a people into a casual aggregation of men.
The commentaries of Budæus are written in a very rambling and desultory manner, passing from one subject to another as a casual word may suggest the transition.
But the fair form of Margaret is wanting; and Marlowe has hardly earned the credit of having breathed a few casual inspirations into a greater mind than his own.
But casual though her greeting had been, it had served to dispel the slight feeling of loneliness that had been creeping over Margaret.
Her manners are rather casual to you, aren't they, mother?
She knew that her grandfather would not allow her to associate with any girl of her own age, certainly not with one whose acquaintance she had made in so casual a manner.
Just what I said, Aunt Mary," chimed in Nancy, who had seen that Mrs. Danvers casual treatment of the incident which had brought such mortification to the new governess was making the latter feel still more lost and ill at ease.
He would be forced to continue this distasteful partnership memory, or else dissolve it with a casual reference to the episode, which would dispose of it for good and all.
So lofty and forbidding had been his manner that no one had ventured to intrude even a casual good morning.
The casual observer would have said he stopped to cast an experienced eye on a sky that could not deceive him; but the casual observer does not always know.
Both Charlie and Tim had had those portions of their skin exposed to the air darkened, and both would pass muster, at a casual inspection.
The man threw up his arm with a gesture which, to a casual observer, would have appeared accidental; but which the watchers had no doubt, whatever, was intended for them.
Here, then, we have the four great kinds of playlet, and four out of the many variations that often seem to the casual glance to possess elemental individuality.
What might pass as a casual remark to an outsider, might be a great idea to a writer.
He had not been damaged by his casuallove affairs, successful or otherwise.
And they never exchanged more than a casual word or two, except one day, when skirmishing in front of the battalion against a worrying attack of cavalry, they found themselves cut off in the woods by a small party of Cossacks.
And the individuality of General Feraud can have no more weight than that of any casual grenadier.
By the lucrative amount of such casual breaches in the Constitution, judge what the stated and fixed rule of supply has been in that kingdom.
None of your own liberties could stand a moment, if the casual deviations from them at such times were suffered to be used as proofs of their nullity.
But he feared hiscasual words might provoke her, and hastened to ask her about Sister Winifred, at length persuading her into the admission that Sister Winifred used to whip the children.
Accordingly, in the most casualfashion possible, he asked the costermonger if he would come and have some lunch.
This casual quality is evidenced by the peculiar way in which prefaces in different editions of the same book appear and disappear for no apparent reason, possibly at the convenience of the printer.
The most casual reader of the Bible, if he have any serious thoughtfulness of mind, must remark its unique and extraordinary character, differing as it does in its structure and matter, its spirit and style, from all other books.
In the cases in which the depression of the vital functions reaches an extreme degree, the patient appears dead to casual and sometimes to careful observation.
You watch a senior, one who's learned his lessons in real service, and you'll find nothing grudging or casual or half-hearted.
At first the men were inclined to becasual and grunt out, "Tha's all right!
She made a few casual remarks in her somewhat languid fashion, and recalled him to the recollection of Lady Peggy, who was to all appearance flirting desperately with Lord Westerdean.
After all, monsieur and his friends were only casual visitors.
The girl looked puzzled, but they talked together for several moments of casual things.
He walked along in a casual manner, his hands clasped behind his back, watching everything with infinite relish.
Both men felt that it had come, that they were like dogs doomed to be at each other’s throats, but Severn strolled forward with a casual air, flicking his hunting-crop to and fro as though he were beating time to a piece of music.
Don Mike's movements were as casual as if the theft of a horse in broad daylight was an every-day occurrence.
Ponderous in minor affairs, casual in major matters of business.
Her beaming face turned toward him was ample reward for his casual display of Celtic wit, his knowledge of botany.
We are an economical race, and since advanced work does not pay in the Tripos, or in the careers to which the Tripos serves as a portal, it is left to the casual patronage of amateurs.
Moreover people here are lazy and casual and the semi-hispanised English people who keep the English hotels are perhaps more casual than the true Jack Spaniards.
Elfrida set her teeth against his silences, his casual looks and ambiguous encouragements for a length of time which did infinite credit to her determination.
She worked seated, and as he seemed on the point of passing with merely a casual glance and an ambiguous "H'm!
They walked on together, talking casually of casual things.
Her appropriation of theory had been so brilliant and so rapid, her instructive appreciation had helped itself out so well with the casual formulas of the schools, she seemed to herself to have an absolute understanding of expression.
Lady Halifax and her daughter had met Miss Bell several times at the Cardiffs', in a casual way, before it occurred to either of them to take any sort of advantage of the acquaintance.
He tears them slowly open one by one, reading what he knows so well already, the casual news, the fond farewells, penned only for Eleanor's eyes.
In the thatched huts and tall palms, Eleanor pictures Copthorne--it rises as a mirage--till Major Short dispels it by some casual remark.
He will leave her for ever with the ordinary hand-shake of a casual acquaintance.
A casual remark made by Maxwell opened Carson's mouth, and he said he remembered one of the "worst difficults" a man ever got into.
Let the most casual thinker sit down and figure up the profits on a forty-gallon cask of alcohol, and he will be thunderstruck, or rather whiskey-struck.
In all his life hitherto he had never been beyond a certain prescribed area of London's immensities, except by the most casual and uninstructive straying.
In the first place, Mrs. Pope's disposition to optimism had got the better of her earlier discretions, and a casual glance at Daphne's face when their visitor reappeared started quite a new thread of interpretations in her mind.
One can be far more easily outspoken to a casual stranger one may never see again than to that inseparable other, who may misinterpret, who may disapprove or misunderstand, and who will certainly in the measure of that discord remember.
The casual reader, to be sure, will find occasional flares of expectancy about the future or of pride in the advance of the past which at first suggest progressive interpretations of history.
From their words any casual listener might have gathered information of what had occurred.
