He had barely time to shake perfunctorily the hand Thorpe offered him, and utter an absent-minded "How are you this morning?
Thorpe touched a bell, and the clerk who came in perfunctorily attested the signatures upon both papers.
Unless he carries a snap-camera his picture of them has no probability; they affect one like the figures perfunctorily associated in such deadly old engravings as that of "Washington Irving and his Friends.
She had offered, perfunctorily enough, her assistance, but Henrietta had refused all help from her.
For from the earliest period the former accepted perfunctorily the teaching of the latter, but at heart and in cult they remained true to their own lights.
When dinner was announced she ate perfunctorily and at its conclusion sought the den again.
It was at the first blush an undisguised scowl, and only some fleeting memory of that reflection about needing now to dissemble, prevented him from still frowning as he rose to his feet, and perfunctorily held out his hand.
He asked further questions, of her previous employment, her nationality, and so forth, putting them perfunctorily as though they were matters of no moment, and never removing his narrow eyes from her face.
She has pulled the dressing-gown perfunctorily over her shoulders, and continues her experiments with the scarf, not at all put out, and rather amused by Surge's prudery.
She wears no clothes, but has draped herself rather perfunctorily with a ceremonial robe, and carries two implements like long slender saws.
The Englishman nodded perfunctorilyand left the smoking-room, a picture of the bronze, beautiful face, lighted by the flaring match, engraved upon his brain.
She set the child back upon the cushion, and arranged her perfunctorily in position there.
Nancy started, and took perfunctorily the spoon that Molly was holding out to her, which she forgot to lift to her lips even after it was freighted with its first delicious mouthful.
She gave some attention to her flowers, but it was perfunctorily bestowed, for they no longer charmed her.
But none of them spoke more than perfunctorily to Nancy, and the lonely girl felt herself as much "out of it" as ever.
The school had been crowded on the last day with friends and parents of the other girls; there was not a soul who more than perfunctorily wished Nancy Nelson "good luck.
He troubled over many little details and talked perfunctorily to everybody.
It was from one who meant but to greet her perfunctorily that this interesting intelligence came.
Mary Lyster, who had been perfunctorily looking at a book, laid it down.
He was a very heavy man, with his mouth on one side and a mild, deceiving smile; and as he shook hands perfunctorily he glanced uneasily at Wiley, for he had heard about the tax-sale.
He shook hands perfunctorily and started down the gallery and then abruptly he turned and swung back.
The spoils of the nets were always gutted, split open, perfunctorily dried, and then devoured raw in a partly decayed state.
We got our caravan under way again after that, and perfunctorily tried to talk on what we had heard; but the labours of the journey and the horrible mosquito-plague were too heavy to give mere empty speculation much of a chance.
Vivie did remember having glanced very perfunctorily at some effusion in typewriting which had seemed unobjectionable piffle.
In the billiard-room we found Loring and Summertown perfunctorily practising fancy cannons, while Valentine Arden ostentatiously slumbered at full length on a divan.
So Babe was asleep and tucked in her bed, and Casey turned down the light and asked perfunctorilyif there was anything else he could do, and had started for the door.
Claud took his cup perfunctorily from her hand, and at once set it down--"are more facts necessary?
