She turned the pages idly, skimming desultorily through the verses till she came to a brief two-verse lyric which caught and held her interest.
I cursed desultorilywith a smooth whispered flow of curses, because the circumstances seemed to demand it.
Then I sit at my flat black desk and write desultorily for two or three or four hours.
You look tired and ill, Oak," he said then, desultorily regarding his companion.
They had spent some time wandering desultorily thus, Tess eating in a half-pleased, half-reluctant state whatever d'Urberville offered her.
But, tired of playing, he had desultorilycome round the fence, and was rambling up behind her.
Whilst William Worm performed his toilet (during which performance the inmates of the vicarage were always in the habit of waiting with exemplary patience), Elfride wandered desultorily to the summer house.
Thus desultorily thinking he flung himself down upon the couch, which, as in many draughty old country houses, was constructed with a hood, being in fact a legitimate development from the settle.
To the left, a wing stretched out generously, with windows curtained primly with some white stuff that flapped desultorily in the fitful breeze from the south.
After which he took a fresh chew of tobacco, lounged over to where Moll waited and switched desultorily at the flies, mounted, and went placidly home to his Mary.
A curtain beyond the open door was partially drawn aside, disclosing one or two brilliantly dressed groups, strolling desultorily through the further rooms.
Victoria stayed at the villa careless of flying time, desultorily reading Heine or sitting in the garden where she could play with the golden and green beetles.
He got up late and passed the morning in the boudoir, smoking cigarettes, desultorily reading and nursing the Pekingese which he now liked better.
A few men chatted desultorily of burlesques, horses, the legs of actresses, the chances of politics.
At White's the conversation of the men struck him as even more scrappy, more desultorily scandalous, than usual.
All these apartments were now deserted, save for a few flunkeys who stood about desultorilyin the window embrasures.
We began desultorily to discuss the possibility of the writer's being a relation of mine; I doubted.
I saw Churchill, in turn, move desultorily toward them, drawn in, like a straw toward a little whirlpool.
I begandesultorily to descend to the smoking-room.
The evening under notice was passeddesultorily enough after the discovery of Neigh's self-assured statement.
Here she desultorily searched for argument, and found it; but the application of her author's philosophy to the marriage question was an operation of her own, as unjustifiable as it was likely in the circumstances.
Harold the Broomstick was desultorilysweeping the stairs.
The sound of people singing desultorily while taking shelter in the Tube floated up to them.
By day, Federal soldiers in shabby white uniforms swarmed about the place desultorily digging trenches, for Villa and his victorious Constitutionalists were rumored to be on the way.
I, as I said, was sitting in the deep chair, Leonora was standing in the window twirling the wooden acorn at the end of the window-blind cord desultorily round and round.
