Assuming a nonchalance I certainly did not feel, I descended the stairs.
On seeing me they assumed an air of nonchalance that brought a grim smile to my lips.
Arthur, unaware that Meshach Myatt was raising up an idea which for fifteen years had been buried but never forgotten in his mind, answered with nonchalance that the amount certainly was rather small.
In his seventh decade, Meshach Myatt could look back with calm satisfaction at a career of uninterrupted nonchalance and idleness.
In an instant Jack was on his feet, and, running across to the spot to which the blanket had been carried, picked it up, and with the utmost coolness and nonchalance replaced it over their sniping ground.
But undeterred, with never a backward glance or a thought of flinching, the three British regiments pushed forward, the nonchalance and absolute coolness of the men being superb.
An "untamable fly" buzzed at my elbow with the same nonchalance as on a molasses hogshead at the end of Long Wharf.
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.
Yet she did not thrust the fancy from her with contemptuous nonchalance as she had done every other of the many passions she had excited and disdained; it had a great sadness and a greater terror for her.
Bertie, with the Brummel nonchalance of his order.
She attempted to speak with the nonchalance customary to her, but the entire interview, added to the conversation in the corridor, had touched depths seldom stirred, and never before appealed to by a woman.
Certainly," and the easy nonchalance of the other was almost insolent; evidently Masterson had not picked up an affinity.
I couldn't help admiring the glorious nonchalance with which Dulcet made this remark, gazing the dealer straight in the eye.
Brooks sat down with an air of calculated nonchalanceand took out a cigarette.
Thinking that perhaps she was a little prudish, she stifled her fears, tried to imitate the nonchalance of the others.
There was none of the old, graceful nonchalance in the voice as he spoke that word.
The countess sat down at the piano with the most amiable nonchalance as if she gave not another thought to what she had been speaking about.
With the nonchalance of a true sportsman, he lit his pipe and, lest he should set anything on fire, he made up his mind not to sleep a wink till he had smoked his pipe right out.
And with that he threw his gun across his shoulder and tripped away with well bred nonchalance across the field, and, calling to his party to follow him, disappeared in the depths of the forest from which he had just emerged.
But both his aunt's absorption and Mr. Wynnstay's nonchalance seemed to Flaxman overdone.
She was, indeed, the only person whose remonstrances ever got under the wool with old Jim, and her sharp tongue had sometimes a cowing effect on his curious nonchalance which nothing else had.
His nonchalance was far less real than it seemed, but helped to steady one who was holding herself together with a struggle, on the verge of nervous collapse.
Stella's nonchalance alarmed him more and more deeply as he began to look back at his own life and to survey his wasted years.
When the grammatical blunder had been discussed, Michael said with as muchnonchalance as he could assume: "I read that poem, sir.
Her nonchalance and timidity have diminished; she is no longer indifferent to her surroundings, nor furtive in her glances; she enters into conversation with zest, and her movements are characterised by decision.
Indolence and maladroitness predominate in all her actions, and reveal themselves in the curious awkwardness and nonchalance that characterise the execution of even the simplest movement.
He took his post with a nonchalance that surprised himself.
The nonchalance with which this was said completed Mr. Byrd's astonishment.
His nonchalance was a perfect mask as he stripped off one of the bills and held it out carelessly to Gladwin.
He was further urged to this course by the insolent nonchalance of the two young men.
It was a godsend to Laura Winn that the waltz music began at the next instant, for his nonchalance was something utterly unexpected.
If Norman suffered from our aloofness, he took it with the same nonchalance as he had taken our plaudits.
Great social problems, the tyranny of capital, and such-like, occupied the minds of men, and there was naturally little taste for the laughingnonchalance of La Fille de Madame Angot or the fooling of the Baillie in the Cloches.
The impetuousness of the youth had struck through the fat nonchalance of the man, and he said after a pause: 'Yes, I suppose I do owe it to her.
She nodded in assent, received the fee for her services without acknowledgment, and saw us depart on our breakneck expedition with an indifference equalled only by the nonchalance with which she had admitted us on our arrival.
The nonchalance with which she approached us was a thing I have never seen equalled.
Burrel, eyeing him with a good deal of that cool nonchalance which is no doubt very disagreeable.
They met evidently as old and familiar friends, and with that sort of easy nonchalance which bespoke that their meeting was not unexpected.
Thorpe nodded, with a nonchalancewhich was not wholly affected.
She was beginning to recover her nonchalance of manner and indolent slowness of speech.
The young lady, whose charming nonchalance was curiously in eclipse to-day, had given her to understand so much, but very briefly, the subject evidently being rather painful to her.
