" She said it sorrowfully, desiring to make a clean breast of her transgressions; but so easily do we misunderstand each other that the Murrays actually thought that she was indulging in a piece of gratuitous impertinence.
" Lucy felt a little nervous under her father's apparently gratuitous criticism of Mr Wakem's expenditure.
A gratuitous, entirely superfluous visit of that sort was sure to make a man disagreeable and ridiculous.
Even Hotspur, one would think, must have been patient in his slippers on a warm hearth, taking copious snuff, and sipping gratuitous brandy-and-water.
" "It was understood from the beginning that my services would be gratuitous.
Even the rumor of Reform had not yet excited any millennial expectations in Frick, there being no definite promise in it, as of gratuitous grains to fatten Hiram Ford's pig, or of a publican at the "Weights and Scales" who would brew beer for nothing, or of an offer on the part of the three neighboring farmers to raise wages during winter.
Lydgate had often been satirical on this gratuitous prediction, and he meant now to be guarded.
But this ill-tempered anticipation that she could desire visits which might be disagreeable to her husband, this gratuitous defence of himself against selfish complaint on her part, was too sharp a sting to be meditated on until after it had been resented.
Bambridge's weakness to be a gratuitous flatterer.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
And he added a gratuitous thrust.
Asked what changes they'd like to see by 2025, 32% said that gratuitous nastiness "will be considered a form of harassment," and 32% hope that "civility training will be mandatory.
At the same time, I knew they were taking out massive student loans to fund their gratuitous consumption, along with tuition and basic living expenses.
Mr Tang had been working for a smartphone company but found that the annual cycle of minor product improvements had become "gratuitous and wasteful", according to Mr Hollier.
If the cosmic resonance is gratuitous, the author is writing through his hat.
In an effort to prevent such tragedies and clamp down on gratuitous ownership of vicious dogs, the UK government have recently introduced the Dogbo.
