Will you forgive me for pressing you into service in so offhand a manner?
The movement planned by General Stevens with so much care was rejected offhand by Benham.
I've always liked this stuff, ever since I was a boy," he said in an offhand way.
Whatever he did was managed in the most offhand way and with no intention of allowing his home life to be affected or disrupted.
No man could have madeoffhand remarks in such a crisp, concise and epigrammatic style.
Confucius probably wished to impress upon his questioner that true moral virtue (fen) was deeply implanted in the soul, and not to be gauged offhand from the presence or absence of certain superficial signs.
Mrs. Rossiter made the presentation in her usual offhand way.
I jumped inwardly at the opportunity, though I smiled and replied in an offhand manner, "Oh, that would have to be discussed.
I am with my people in the country--not far off,' May answered in an offhand way.
Mrs. Maturin was right, he could have solved many of her questions offhand if he had so wished, but he had his own method of dealing with appeals.
At any rate," he remarked in his most offhand manner, "I am much obliged to you both.
When shielding his friend from possible embarrassments, there was such apparent offhand frankness that for the time Oswald forgot former stresses.
In apparently offhand manner, an order is written out on an uptown firm for several articles of food, clothing, bedding, and small household furniture.
With offhand cordiality, Claude takes charge of this interesting friend.
All this seems strangely offhand and informal, but he reasons that such, being of daily occurrence, sentimental scruples are in natural abeyance.
She'd surely be put out to name it offhand whether you was black or white.
But at a hundred, offhand like this, I should most certainly fail--I've burnt too much midnight oil.
Father," she said in a low voice, tremulously repressed, "you are undertaking to rule offhand on a question which is too vital to my life to be treated with snap judgment.
Stuart winced often under the sting and irritation of a bigotry which could, without question or doubt, undertake to ruleoffhand and with absolutism on every question of right or wrong.
But as you mention in an offhand way that Cedar Bluff has a modern fire station now, or that Tulsanooga is going to have a Great White Way of its own, there are eyes that light up with a wistful light.
We've all majored in English except Jack, and I'll bet any one of us can give the others an exam offhand that they can't pass.
If by deciding offhandthey sometimes sin or fail to recognize sin in a past act, this will come from invincible ignorance, and they will be excused from responsibility.
The doubt occurs whether or not this is lawful, and he takes no pains to settle it correctly, but decides offhand that a promise must be kept.
Rhodes wanted simply to sweep away all obstacles without giving the slightest thought to the consequences likely to follow on so offhand a manner of getting rid of difficulties.
He treated God in the sameoffhand way he handled men, when, in order to terrify them, he exposed before their horrified eyes abominable theories, to which his whole life gave the lie.
Ef he allows he's convicted of sin and will find the Lord, we'll marry him and the gal offhand at the next station, and the Judge will officiate himself for nothin'.
If Lucien was surprised at the apt wit and the subtlety with which these gentlemen formulated their replies, he felt bewildered with epigram and repartee, and, most of all, by their offhand way of talking and their ease of manner.
He mixed fearlessly now with the crowd which surged to and fro in the buildings; he even swaggered a little because he had a mistress; and he walked into Dauriat's shop in an offhand manner because he was a journalist.
Beginning slowly, carelessly, in a deceptive, offhand manner, he lets the toy revolve as it will.
At the office he spoke in an offhand way of the pleasant evenings a man can have in town, and pitied the prosaic beggars who never stir from the house at night.
Oh, the ones you shot in Redstone," he said in an offhand way.
You can't accuse a man offhand of such a serious thing.
You can't accuse a fellow offhand of anything like that and get away with it.
A general laugh arose among the subscribers, Mr. McGraw remarking that this was rather offhand dealing with us; but all took it in good part and signed the agreement.
At last my father asked me, rather severely, why I cared so much about going to New Haven, and I framed an answer offhand to meet the case, saying that Yale had an infinitely finer library than Trinity.
Offhand you would figure his age to be halfpast nineteen.
A lone soldier of the Bedfordshires--a man near forty, I should say at an offhand guess--was tramping along.
I'll bet you're a pretty good hand at sizing up people offhand yourself.
For the bearers of the dead he selectedoffhand the eight men who had marched nearest to him.
Being asked for a brief address, he spoke very readily, with a frank, honest face, and in a genial, offhand manner.
