"Impassively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hundred, and when the rumor began to leak out that Hiram White was courting her the whole community took it as a monstrous joke. It was the common thing to greet Hiram himself with, "Hey, Hiram; how's Sally?" Hiram never made answer to such salutation, but went his way as heavily, as impassively, ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle
... inclining to the stoutness which overtakes women of her race early in life, appeared in the doorway. She spoke sharply to the boy in the deep, throaty language of her people. The boy, with a last impish grin, gave the man's leg a final shake and scuttled indoors. Carr impassively ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... before a fall!' In accordance with this, the greatest of Nature's ironies, the Forsyte family had gathered for a last proud pageant before they fell. Their faces to right and left, in single lines, were turned for the most part impassively toward the ground, guardians of their thoughts; but here and there, one looking upward, with a line between his brows, searched to see some sight on the chapel walls too much for him, to be listening to something that appalled. And the responses, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... I had a view of the gambling-room, a glimpse of green tables, of spinning balls, of cool men, with shades over their eyes, impassively dealing. There were huge wheels of fortune, keno tables, crap outfits, faro layouts, and, above all, the dainty, fascinating roulette. Everything was in full swing. Miners with flushed faces and a wild excitement ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... do, he said it would, trying as well as he could to imply that he had seen better. Then the dandy produced a note-book and a pencil and impassively waited. The horrid fact that he was unelect could ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... unreadable in the coldness that settled upon them. He was now in the role of High Priest: apart, separate from the common mob before him; interpreter of Aten's divine mysteries: playing his part of one who listened to a god's awful whisperings. Impassively he superintended the binding of Taia by a priestess, who tightened the cords around the girl's slim body with claw-like hands, a gleam of unholy anticipation on her fleshless, soured face. Then the High ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various
... beheld La Boulaye standing impassively, the ghost of a smile on his thin lips, and in his hand one of the heavy silver ...
— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini
... him impassively at the appointed time. David saw that he was expected to speak to the point, and a growing scorn for his own insistence urged him to the same course. He plunged abruptly into his subject and his manner showed him in the rough, more ...
— Ensign Knightley and Other Stories • A. E. W. Mason
... had no word at command to comfort this victim of abominable cunning. Indeed, what could I say; what could I do? I looked helplessly at the Butterfly Man, and the stronger man looked back at me, gravely and impassively. ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... Le Corbier was waiting, impassively. Amid the great silence, Marthe, now quite pale, speaking in a slow voice, which let fall the syllables ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc
... under the portal considered him impassively for a moment and then sauntered across ...
— Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories • Florence Finch Kelly
... news so impassively, with such strange self-possession, that for a moment he was disappointed in her. But then, ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... dismissed the subject and his unfriendly audience. With perfect ease, he read his letter, pocketed it, and whistled softly as he impassively took stock of the scenery. Apparently he had wiped Public Opinion from his map, and was interested only in the panorama ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... Enoch watched the brilliant spectacle impassively. Old Jeff merely pricked up his ears in curious interest as the procession moved along in its ...
— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford
... questioningly at Nancy Dampier. She had become from red very white. "Do you understand what she says?" he asked slowly, impassively. ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... warily round the corner. A glance at his automobile showed that the flat tire had been shifted; whereupon he nodded his thanks to the Japanese, who stared impassively while the Basque climbed into his car, threw out his low gear, let go his brakes, and coasted silently out of the yard and into the avenue. The hacienda screened him from Pablo's view as the latter, all unconscious of what was happening, ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne |
