Now, a dignity ball is a ball given by the most consequential of their coloured people, and from the amusement and various other reasons, is generally well attended by the officers both on shore and afloat.
As soon as we were on the deck of the cutter, the lieutenant commanding her inquired of us, in a consequential manner, who we were.
O'Brien was on deck, and she walked up to him in the most consequential manner.
Ensign Long assumed the command, but now without any of his old consequential airs.
Bob Roberts had a tiff with Long, made vow after vow that he would never speak to the ensign again; declaring him to be a consequential cocky scarlet pouter pigeon, with as much strut in him as a bantam.
The middy tried to take matters coolly; but the thoroughly consequential air of his companion roused his ire, and he longed to do something to upset him.
Bob's calm, consequentialways as he stood there, completely ignoring Lieutenant Johnson, and taking upon himself the full command of the ship.
He's a consequential jackass, and wants taking down a peg or two.
The sequence of the four steps necessarily is fixed because of the consequential relationship among the problems typical of the several steps.
The sequence of the steps is fixed because of the consequential nature of the relationship among the procedures distinctive of the several steps.
The consequential Celt readily exclaimed "There's plenty o' lords like yourself, but very few sic pipers as me.
And consequential self-respecting little Lenormant d'Etioles is lord of Etioles, amongst other seignories.
It is proper to state, however, that a part of the demand is made up of what has since been known as "consequential damages," and that in consequence the matter lingered on for at least two decades.
All she knew was to be a consequential young lady of distinction, full of exalted qualifying adjectives in the superlative degree.
The consequential air be assumed would give one an impression that he, at least, considered himself, inspired with power from on high.
I had been seated a very short time only, when the quick, consequential step, and sharp, cracked voice of Dr.
Ensconced at length in that room, with the bottle and glasses before us, he began, in somewhat of a consequential tone, and with a look of superior knowledge, to direct my proceedings.
To impose upon another by a consequential address, or by detailing improbable stories or using "great swelling words"; to deceive; to cheat.
The most striking and probably the most consequential individual in the present group occupies the left end of Fig.
The consequential Inco, mumbled something about his own mode of doing business at Cardigan, and declared that he would commit such a fellow to gaol for three months, at least, for disturbing a court of justice.
He has seized the most fundamental, far-reaching, and consequentialof themes.
Marion glanced at Agnes, who tried to preserve her usual air of consequential indifference, and pulled her bouquet to pieces, with an expression of silent and majestic impatience, but she neither looked up nor answered.
I'm a Dodo," said the creature, with a consequential air.
I've no doubt you think yourself very grand with your kid gloves and your consequential airs; but allow me to inform you that I am some one of consequence in these parts, too.
And the consequential Moor does, indeed, keep the keys, not only of the stores, but also often of the house.
The leastconsequential of the party was the doctor, an army man of honest parts, who wished well to all the world.
No mortal, not even the most malevolently skeptical Democrat, will believe what a vast amount of charlatanism and consequential pomposity there is in this diplomacy.
The people toil and fret over nothing but mere trifles, and these diplomats, with their consequential hair-splitting, already seem to me more ridiculous than the Member of the Second Chamber in the consciousness of his dignity.
