"Offhand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... earthquake, Bird, at all events. Offhand I would say that a huge cavern had been washed in the earth and the ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various
... expression on his deeply wrinkled, tough old face, which Sewall said "looked like the instep of an old boot that had lain out in the weather for years,"—"what I can't make out is why you make all this fuss instead of hanging 'em offhand." ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... cleared away. But this aversion to the superannuated, which had become useless and soulless, extended much farther. He found society, and especially religious life, full of practices, ceremonies, traditions and conceptions, from which the spirit seemed to have departed. He does not reject them offhand and altogether: what revolts him is that they are so often performed without understanding and right feeling. But to his mind, highly susceptible to the foolish and ridiculous things, and with a delicate need ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga
... no such murders, of course. But Malone was not ready to let Brubitsch know anything about that. "Oh, the ones you shot in Redstone," he said in an offhand way. ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... blankety-blank-verse coterie. There remains yet unsung the lay of the five-foot-five, slightly bald, and ever so slightly rotund lover. Falstaff and Romeo are the extremes of what Mr. Lipkind was the not unhappy medium. Offhand in public places, men would swap crop conditions and city politics with him. Twice, tired mothers in railway stations had volunteered him their babies to dandle. Young women, however, were not all impervious to him, and uncrossed their feet ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
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