"Inanely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yell unearthly—wild - Threw off his dark enclosure: His dauntless victim looked and smiled With singular composure. For hours he tried to daunt the youth, For days, indeed, but vainly - The stripling smiled!—to tell the truth, The stripling smiled inanely. ...
— Fifty Bab Ballads • William S. Gilbert
... the man who, by the scheming of Stuermer and his catspaw, was to be introduced to the Imperial Court! So fuddled was he by vodka that he was unable to understand the purport of my visit. He merely laughed inanely and began to repeat parrot-like those curious prayers which he recited at the weekly reunions of the sister-disciples—passages culled haphazard from Holy Writ, interspersed with the most obscene and ribald allegations, a jumble ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux |
