This was so much the case that, as the mere scene of our main appeal, the house from which we had after its making dejectedly emerged put forth to me as I passed it in many a subsequent season an ironic smug symbolism of its action on my fate.
But let me add that I speak here of mere appearances, and have ever inclined to the moreironic and more complicating vision of them.
It is the grave utterance of the definite French intelligence with a note of deeper suggestion brought from those regions of ironic gloom in which the Florentine recorded his sublime despair.
Thresk with an ironicgentleness as if he were a child.
She beat her poor wings in vain against that ironic fact.
It is not to be supposed that Harington failed to realize the ironic quality of his original, but he treated it as a serious allegory to suit the temper of Queen Elizabeth's court.
If I were you I shouldn't worry about God," he said, aloud, in a casual and perhaps slightly ironic tone.
Clara had mentioned it in the presence of Maggie, with her usual ironic intent, and Edwin had quickly shut her up.
Charlie affected anironic incredulity, but he was pleased.
The snail had become for him, under this ironic suggestion, the loveliest beast in nature, and his return to England, of which we are present witnesses, had not been unconnected with the appreciation so determined.
Blankly I walked there a double decade after, When thwarts had flung their toils in front of me, And I heard the waters wagging in a long ironic laughter At the lot of men, and all the vapoury Things that be.
And the Spirits Ironic laughed behind the wainscot, And the Spirits of Pity sighed.
I'm different," said Lady Verny, with a twist of her ironic mouth.
And Lancelot, groaning inwardly, and unable to deny this chronometry, felt that an ironic Providence was punishing him for his attentions to Mary Ann.
She had a half-grudging, half-ironic grin of appreciation for a fellow sportsman, the same grin with which she had looked up at her from the sea at Cadgwith.
Her keen and ironic intelligence met his, and they so understood each other that they finished each other's sentences, and others present could only with difficulty keep up with them.
So did Pamela, but Pamela was more tolerant and sympathetic and less ill-tempered than Nan, and observed the ways of others with quiet, ironic humour, saying nothing unkind.
In fact the grim ironic Mr. Rendall conversing with the suspicious stranger was an entirely different person from the friendly Mr. Rendall who conversed with the innocent-looking Thomas Sylvester Hobhouse.
A sense of a strong personality in the background, not actually hostile as yet, but ironic and critical, set me instinctively and instantly on guard.
Oh, professor," Captain Nemo replied in an ironic tone, "you never change!
In that sentence an idiot is obliterated and the whole story of Europe told; but it is immensely stiffened by its ironic form.
A far more important play is The Philanderer, an ironic comedy which is full of fine strokes and real satire; it is more especially the vehicle of some of Shaw's best satire upon physical science.
This fantasy of Susan's is ironic and grave; simple in movement, too--just a few subtle modulations on a single poignant theme.
For some detached, ironic god this moment must have been exquisite.
For five horrible seconds nothing was heard but the impolite, ironicwhispering of little flames on the hearth.
There were a number of venomous, ironic phrases, then the dispute ceased and silence was restored.
Nevertheless Eve was privately very pleased with the situation, because it proved that she had been right and Mr. Prohack wrong concerning the qualities of the fat, untidy, ironic Portuguese.
Possibly," answered the superior ironic father in Mr. Prohack, who besides being sick of the luncheon party was determined that nothing should interfere with his Median and Persian programme.
His characteristic expression denoted benevolence based on an ironic realisation of the humanity of human nature.
The ironic temptation was terribly strong in him just now.
Not for the first time there occurred to him a thought which suited only too well with his ironic habits of mind.
Both strains no doubt enter into his conception; so far as the private strain comes in, many passages of his life furnish a mournfully ironic comment on his dream.
It was nothing short of ironic that this woman had the exact same medical condition that took the life of Camille, who had been at his side during the early stages of the research that now might provide a cure.
The ironic thing was, she was managing to look vaguely contrite--tugging at a lock of short hair.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Karl actually could do something for her heart?
Again, at this, with his sweet ironic face, he made a movement on the pillow.
This situation continued a month, and with new aggravations and particular notes, the note above all, sharper and sharper, of the small ironic consciousness on the part of my pupils.
Mrs. Gracedew was silent just long enough for her soft ironicsmile to fill the cup of the pause.
Mr Undershaft: you are, as far as I am able to gather, a most infernal old rascal; but you appeal very strongly to my sense of ironic humor.
The assumption of Maitland's ironic drawl was impeccable.
In her father it aroused an equally habitual antagonism--the temper, indeed, of ironic exasperation in which all his thinking and doing were at the moment steeped.
You won’t say so, later,” retorted Durkin, toying to the full with the ironic situation.
