The Manxman may have appropriated them, but if he did so he was in a deadly earnest mood.
Rushford, looking at him curiously, saw that he was in deadly earnest.
Even to the point of giving you away, if you don't play fairly," she answered, in deadly earnest.
Every time that he saw anybody in authority Toddles spoke up for a job, he was in deadly earnest--and got a grin.
Maguire's answer differed in no whit from the answer he had made to Gleason, the yardmaster, and every one else to whom he had applied for a job--Maguire was in deadly earnest.
Donkin went at it as earnestly as Toddles did--and Toddles was in deadly earnest.
He had never regarded Sartoris as anything of an actor, and he seemed to be in deadly earnest now.
He did not need to look at Berrington's face to feel sure that he was in deadly earnest.
There was something ofdeadly earnest in his regard, something anxious.
For all his grin Arden Laval was in deadly earnest.
He was in deadly earnest, and it represented her revenge for his sarcasm.
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