Kent did not seem very glad to see Emily—she was colder and more remote than ever, and she sat and watched the two children playing with the chubby little pup with a smouldering fire in her dark eyes that made Emily vaguely uncomfortable whenever she happened to glance up and encounter it.
Emily, listening to him, felt vaguely that if it had not been for that unlucky push into the New Moon well, this queer little man beside her might have stood in the presence of kings.
She opened the kitchen door and stared vaguely about her, wondering whether she had strayed into the wrong house by mistake.
She opened the kitchen door and stared vaguely about her, wondering whether she had strayed into the wrong house by mistake.
Rebecca looked about the room vaguely as she sat by the window.
Deeply I sigh for the fallen flowers in vain; Vaguely I seem to know the swallows come again.
If you had told him that he inflicted purposeless misery not only on others but on himself, he would have grinned again, vaguely aware that he had not tried to be happy, and rather despising happiness as a sort of childish gewgaw.
' He waved an arm vaguely towards rows and rows of ewers and basins in the distance.
Most of the women she recognised; others she knew but vaguely by sight.
' she murmured, at a loss, but vaguely apprehending further trouble.
Like the soldier whom a bullet has struck, she only knew vaguely that something had occurred.
' she said vaguely.
While tying on my bonnet, which had hitherto hung by its ribbons from my idle hand, I vaguely and momentarily wondered to hear the step of but one "ouvrier.
Ginevra had written to her cousin Paulina, vaguely signifying hymeneal intentions; communications had been received from the family of de Hamal; M.
It was his reason for this resolve which they teased him to assign, and which he would only vaguely indicate as "the settlement of a little piece of business which he had set his heart upon.
My principal attraction towards this group of guests lay, I remember, in one figure—that of a handsome young girl whom I had seen before as a visitor at Madame Beck's, and of whom I had been vaguely told that she was a "filleule," or god-daughter, of M.
" I was vaguely threatened with I know not what doom, if I ever trespassed the limits proper to my sex, and conceived a contraband appetite for unfeminine knowledge.
Unless my recollections deceive me, we were not foes—" "You speak very vaguely.
He stood for some minutes near the window, looking out at the snow; presently he approached the hearth, and entered into conversation, but not quite with his usual ease: fit topics did not seem to rise to his lips; he chose them fastidiously, hesitatingly, and consequently infelicitously: he spoke vaguely of Villette—its inhabitants, its notable sights and buildings.
It was not his way to treat subjects coldly and vaguely; he rarely generalized, never prosed.
