Undemonstrative and burly in a fat-pig style, Mr Verloc, without either rubbing his hands with satisfaction or winking sceptically at his thoughts, proceeded on his way.
He is a man of character,--quiet and undemonstrative in manner, but with extraordinary qualities of firmness and endurance.
Words of tenderness and affection were spoken of him by men whose temperament was as reserved and undemonstrative as his own.
He derives pleasure from the knowledge that he is loved by his elders, and in his rather undemonstrative way he loves them in return.
The worst of these inarticulate and undemonstrativepeople is that they hurt you so.
His friends notwithstanding gave him credit for great imperturbability; but in such willfully undemonstrative men the evil burrows the more insidiously that it is masked by a constrained exterior.
The most silently helpful, undemonstrativebeing he was, that doctor could desire to wait upon patient.
So Ruth made no more objections, though she felt a sufficient number; and they sat down with their eyes toward the pale traces of a gentle, undemonstrative September sunset, and were silent.
Always an undemonstrative husband, very properly he had been more so than ever since others had been staying in the house.
Undemonstrative as they were, and meagre as had been any spoken words of affection, the bond of natural love between them had seemed strong and unbreakable until Smith's coming.
It was a bold question, considering the reddleman's knowledge of her past love; but her undemonstrative manner had power to repress the opinions of those she treated as remote from her.
Instead of starting towards him in sorrowful surprise, as even Eustacia, undemonstrative wife as she was, would have done in days before she burdened herself with a secret, she remained motionless, looking at him in the glass.
But her son loved her in his sober, undemonstrative way, and was full of plans for coming home, rich and generous enough to make her proud and happy.
As for her children, they were very fond of her in the undemonstrative New England fashion.
And to me even she was so undemonstrative that I never remember her kissing me from a passing warmth; only when I went away on a journey or returned from one did she offer to kiss me, and this was the manner of the family.
Silent too and undemonstrativein all her domestic relations she always was, and I question if to any other of her family than myself she ever confided her secret hopes or fears.
Close behind stood a black poodle of a dignified and self-engrossed deportment, wearing its body half shaved, but breaking out in ruffles round its paws, and a tuft at the end of a stiffly undemonstrative tail.
The two brothers had not met for some time, and in an undemonstrative way they had a genuine affection for each other, which showed itself on this occasion in walking about together without exchanging a word.
Few people guessed the spirit which was bound up in her, aching to extend its sympathy and not knowing how, save by an unswerving and undemonstrative devotion.
The guests thronged around him with congratulations, and Ida came forward promptly with the others but her manner was the most undemonstrative and quiet of any who spoke to him.
Van Berg thus far had stood quietly to one side, but his face had that white, rigid aspect which indicates the rare but dangerous anger of men usually quiet and undemonstrative in their natures.
Van Berg saw that the greeting received by Mr. Mayhew from his wife and daughter was very undemonstrative to say the least, and that then the gentleman quickly disappeared, as if fearing that he might be in the way.
He was a silent undemonstrative man, not given unnecessarily to express his opinions.
The countenance of the priest had assumed its usual undemonstrative expression as he continued, "Listen, Monsieur Governor.
He was one of those undemonstrative men who can take a great sorrow quietly, and only--die of it.
Work went on the same as before, but there were many half hours which might have been spent in well-earned idleness now devoted by the men to a quiet, undemonstrative overhauling of their armory.
Even the undemonstrative Wanaha exclaimed at the metamorphosis.
And he is not insensible who pays them the undemonstrative tribute of a sigh which is not a sob, and of a smile which is not a grin.
The great pen which has paid to human life "the undemonstrative tribute of a sigh which is not a sob, and of a smile which is not a grin," needs no limping praise of mine.
Some of these shopkeepers do not make much of an outward show, but I have reason to know that many of them in a quiet undemonstrative manner do a snug and prosperous trade without fuss or display.
Dolly suspected indeed that Vanbrugh loved Mrs. Darche in his own quiet and undemonstrative fashion, and that this was the secret of his celibacy.
Alberto was undemonstrative as usual; but Ricardo, with whom I had had many sharp quarrels, actually shed tears when he shook hands and bid me the final "adios.
The features exhibit scarcely any mobility of expression; this is connected with the excessively apathetic and undemonstrative character of the race.
She looked in that direction; and, entering one of those undemonstrative phases so common with her, walked quietly on.
Then she said in her usualundemonstrative manner, 'O--is it really you, Charles?
My poor father; he was himself to the last, reticent, silent, undemonstrative and uncommunicative.
