On the other hand, Sally Rebecca thought that he was the noblest man she had ever met--a confession that made Gran'pa childishly jealous.
My name sounded too tragically inconsequential; my mission so childishly absurd!
The security you childishly showed, was treated as offensive presumption on my part.
Childishly as Owen had undergone the relations and troubles of more advanced life, pettishly as he had striven against feeling and responsibility, the storm had taken effect.
This is utterly insignificant, weak, and childishly naïve.
As regards the dramatic interest of his operas, I find them very poor, often childishly naïve.
They were in plain sight now, people were sitting behind them; she could not childishly refuse to let him take the vacant place beside her.
She came up to him and repeated the question in a childishly anxious voice that was a trifle too humble.
I do not doubt that you could do so," I said, as she sprang to her feet, childishly eager and radiantly beautiful.
Also she could be childishly frank--and tell you nothing.
To some who read, my hesitancy may brand me childishly timid; but I, who had met many of the dreadful creatures of Dr.
Fu-Manchu, I am still childishly trustful; and the fact that I did not partake of the crusted '45 was not due to any suspicions which I entertained at that time.
She could not think, she said, to Hubert's joy, how grown men even took the trouble of electing members who had no influence over their own party and spent most of the time in childishly hindering the other.
Leslie hung childishlyon the upstairs balustrade, in the dim wide upper hall, and watched them go.
About her hollow throat she wore a black velvet band, and her cheeks, no longer firm, were, nevertheless, childishly full above it.
The younger brother is childishly witty, imaginative, full of boyish mockery for his uncle's grimness, and eager to play with his dagger and sword.
A childishly old-fashioned play by Jacob Ayrer, Comedia von der schönen Sidea, seems to have been founded upon a variant of the story used by Shakespeare.
Yes; but you've never been to school, and I heard Bee Varley say she never saw anybody so childishly simple for her age.
She was childishly disappointed that he was not a lord, never having consciously seen one, then was gratified at her perspicacity of the night before.
Childishly red, it was deftly cut, and resembled—what was it?
Well, I thought, childishly pleased, at least I am not one of the innumerable nameless faces that pour in and out of the library daily.
And at precisely that moment the rest of the country will be childishly open to invasion!
Not until the Irishman was on a cot in the cabin did he discover how childishly weak he had become and what a terrific struggle he had made with the weight on his shoulders.
Her figure was still almost childishly slim, but graceful, and straight enough to defy criticism in the ball-room or the saddle.
He underwent a momentary repentance of his own readiness when he was in the street, and had turned his face to Soho again; it seemed almost childishly trusting.
As he proceeded with the details of his plot, childishly ingenious and childishly transparent, Senator listened, at first with attention, then with impatience, and at last not at all.
Not childishlyand gushingly, although I was so young, but with all the finesse of the eternal game, for clever women are born with rouge on their cheeks.
He got up and followed her awkwardly, with a sullen face and a childishly beating heart.
And she looked at Stonehouse, a little malicious and insolently, childishly sure.
Lucy grinned childishly Max did most of the talking.
The man you childishly call Captain was one of those who began to ask themselves: What if this wild, shabby, tedious Irishman hath glimpsed something of value after all?
Ben's smooth forehead was turned away; his hand, firm and large, curledchildishly under his rounded chin.
The voice was almost childishly hurried and curious.
I tell you I'm awake, Harry, at last, and see things as they are; things now sochildishly obvious that it seems incredible I could have gone on so long without recognizing them.
When he looked you fully in the face, which he rarely did, it was noticed that his eyes were at once childishly friendly and deathly sad.
There were rumours of a change of Ministry, of a Bluhme-David-Ussing Ministry, and of whether the new King would be willing to sign the Constitution from which people childishly expected the final incorporation of Slesvig into Denmark.
She would be childishly amused at a jest or joke or compliment as old as the hills (such as the Italians were fond of using), and think it new, for she knew nothing of the European storehouse of stereotyped remarks and salted drivel.
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