He looked whimsically at the lady, whose earnest attention appeared to be divided pretty evenly between the shining heaps of vegetables and himself.
He looked whimsically at Jarvis, as if expecting further elucidation.
Whimsically he attempted to jot down on paper directions for journeying to the imaginary mountain kingdom, starting from a railway station in Indiana.
With a cry of pleasure the young man hastily threw off his clothing, and, as he undressed, a school-boy taunt whimsically recurred to him.
In spite of his whimsically expressed disapproval, he feels that you are an honor to him.
All this he laughed at, and in the following little epigram whimsically enough describes his own feelings:-- "What!
The expression of stupefied amazement on his sister's face made Mr. Eldridge smile half whimsically and say, "I've learned not to be amazed at anything this trio pulls off.
Miss Prudence smiled whimsically as she glanced at the card and remarked to Florence and Carlitos, "You two may order your food in Spanish, but not I.
On Change a hundred thousand pounds are whimsically known as "a plum," and a million of money is "a marigold.
He turned his glowing smile into Tom Van Dorn's face, and finding no quick response smiled whimsically back at the moon.
He let his voice run whimsically into its mocking falsetto, "I almost catch myself getting fooled too.
Under his hat brim she could see his brows, heavy and straight and lifted whimsically at the inner points, as though he were thinking of something amusing.
He speculated whimsically on what a sensation would be caused should he drop one and a thousand-dollar bill flutter out.
Evan wonderedwhimsically if the closed boxes were filled with shining gold eagles.
He wondered whimsically if he had locked it in with the ruby, and once more he was conscious that something intangible floated between them.
The proposal duly took place in a bunker, while Eileen was whimsically vituperating her ball.
Devil take them all," she thought whimsically one morning.
Up to this point my companion had only listened more quietly, more slyly, than ever; but her eyes now opened wide, her eyebrows went whimsically high, and she turned to me with a twinkling smile.
Never had Jean le Gai so well deserved his name, never had Gregoire been so whimsically droll.
It was quite in accord with the whimsically fanciful nature of Gregoire that he should take Le Pochard into his affections, and even call him "brother" and "cher confrere.
The mannikin pounced upon him, and whimsically thrust one of the golden bells of blossoms upside down on the little furry head.
Try to feel at home," she said whimsically to her Indian zither as she hung it up.
More than once she had written to Elfrida with the deliberate purpose of soothing herself by provoking some tenderness in reply, and invariably the key she had struck had been that of homage, more or less whimsically unwilling.
She smiled whimsically as the heavy front door slammed behind her, wondering if it would wake the others and if they, too, would know that it was Spring.
Colonel Kent smiled whimsically as he sat in the library, thinking that, by this time, he could almost play it himself.
Jake struck a match and held it to his pipe, looking at herwhimsically between great puffs of smoke.
Her face must have displayed something more than surprise, she reflected later, for his first words, albeit he smiled whimsically as he uttered them, were words of apology.
Once he stretched a hand to touch the faultless curve of the breast, but checked himself with an odd, flickering smile as though he did reverence whimsically to a sacred element in which he had no faith.
He was selfish; oh yes, he was selfish, but he was also strangely, whimsically kind at heart.
Mrs. Farron ran her eyebrows whimsically together and looked up at her daughter's visitor.
As he laid her on the bed, he glanced whimsically at the nurse and shook his head.
Just as in that old time, Sylvia had set himself a task to "mend his fences" as she had whimsically expressed it, so she was again bidding him gird on his armor if he would win her respect without which her love was an impossibility.
When the pumpkin coach arrives I shall skip back home and think it over," she had added whimsically with a Sylvia smile.
I shall send her," Isabelle said quickly, reflecting whimsically how she had loathed her own music lessons.
Margaret said, as she jumped from the car platform and looked over the upland,--whimsically recalling the name of a popular play then running in New York.
Never, since the days of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, has there been presented to the world a more whimsically contrasted pair of associates than Johnson and Boswell.
The unwary speech, which any one else might have made without comment, has been thought worthy of record aswhimsically characteristic.
He whimsically alludes to this circumstance in that piece of autobiography, "The Man in Black," in the Citizen of the World.
Johannes looked at the steam which rose, hissing, from the kettle, and to the little tongues of flame that skipped nimbly and whimsicallyover the peat.
The pale face waswhimsically lighted by the glare, so that the eyes formed large, dark depressions.
