| 单词 | childishly |
| 例句 | So childishly and illogically did he now reason; so much had he become like the ordinary people. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Amala said nothing for a while; she spoke so seldom that her voice always surprised Ugwu by how childishly high it was. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was slouched down childishly low against the door, staring straight ahead and drumming on the armrest with his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She laughed childishly, and moved closer to the bed, almost touching it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right — I only came in here because people outside are behaving very childishly, racing up and down the corridors,” said Hermione in a sniffy voice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Dad is so childishly sentimental,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Here he was sitting at the very same table with her, just the two of them, and he couldn't think of a single thing to say that wasn't stupid or childish or childishly stupid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lance,” she had. said before the tournament, asking her strange favour humbly and childishly, “now that we are together, you will wear my token at the fight?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was becoming manly, he thought, though childishly he still enjoyed making scowls and frowns at his own reflection. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across, but what can you expect from a strangler. Why won’t my arms move?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z If I were an outsider watching this conversation, I would tell myself to stop pushing, that no one wants to help someone behaving childishly. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then he hoped, childishly, that it had been a dream, that Ron was still there and had never left. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He had on a sailors hat with the brim pulled down childishly to shield his eyes, although there was no sun out. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Thinking quickly over the evening before, she could remember only that she had—must have—seemed foolishly, childishly contented, almost happy; had the others been amused to see that she was so simple? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z But even if they look childishly simple, the videos are very adult. Wong Ping’s Candy-Colored, Taboo-Smashing World 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s still a fantasy but it’s not childishly fanciful. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Much of what transpires hews childishly to Disney Channel tropes and outcomes; at the same time, “Everything Sucks!” reaches for decidedly mature situations and language. Review | It’s nice to see the ’90s instead of the ’80s, but ‘Everything Sucks!’ is as clunky as dial-up 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z In other words, like many stars, it's easy to project all kinds of fantasy scenarios on Rudd, all of them childishly innocent and sexless and, if we're lucky, include him dancing awkwardly. We love Paul Rudd, even in his unremarkable new Netflix show “Living With Yourself” 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z This childishly wily Mary is a very damp match for Catherine McCormack’s pitiless Elizabeth and her aureole of fabulous, if anachronistic, hair. A Bloody Rivalry for the Throne, This Time With Margot Robbie 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Julia Davis: 'I think I’m still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.' Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z The black pudding is rich, soft and unctuous: “I chose best,” my companion says, rather childishly, but I can’t argue. You ate what?! A fearless foodie’s foray into the bouchons of Lyon 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z It takes some work to make Villanelle, the childishly enthusiastic assassin played by Jodie Comer in “Killing Eve,” less entertaining. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “He was, in the most beautiful way, childishly happy.” Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “It was the childishly written & taunting PR statement by Fox that made me not do the debate, more so than lightweight reporter, @megynkelly.” Trump spurns a powerful player in GOP politics in falling-out with Fox 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z But for almost 14 months, she took on an intentionally modest, almost childishly simple task: making one work per day on a standard, 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of paper, only skipping a day here and there. Roni Horn Shares a Timely Record of Solitude 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But they had followed him from the beginning, breathlessly and childishly. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Simon was startled that Mozart could have spoken so childishly and vulgarly; at first, when he said his lines, the cast got the giggles. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z I think he’s making his so childishly, he’s going to squander much of his moral capital. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Parents favoring one child isn’t doing anybody any favors 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The action on both their parts has been childishly petulant and yet the poem is charged with the anguish of violation. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z This, in turn, has often been a signal for women to turn around and say – almost childishly, but quite understandably: “I’ll take up all the space I want, thanks.” In praise of loud women – the joy and power of being noisy and female 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z We live in a time when politicians appear rash, emotional and childishly self-deluded on national television while athletes are dignified, temperate and actually heed their highly paid consultants and advisers. The TV Watch: Vulnerability in a Disciplined Performance 2010-02-20T02:50:00Z We wanted to see whether the interaction made the father look "humorously foolish" — showing poor judgment, being incompetent or acting childishly. Why are sitcom dads still so inept? 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Star is almost childishly naïve, but at the same time ruthlessly self-assured, heedless of danger and intuitively aware of the power she possesses. Review: Youthful Recklessness Finds Adventure on the Road in ‘American Honey’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Grown-ups behaving childishly or at least struggling with, or shrugging off, the trappings of adulthood is as much a familiar theme at Sundance as in the multiplex. Critic?s Notebook: At Sundance, ?Beasts of the Southern Wild? Is Standout 2012-01-28T00:06:44Z He also referred to Trump’s obsession with getting friendly questions and responding childishly when given anything tougher. Late-night hosts on Trump's disastrous press conference: 'We elected a mess' 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Ambivalent impulses flicker constantly through her lyrics and flaunt themselves in her voice, which can be sweet or raspy, childishly innocent or acidly scornful. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The ancient Greeks and Romans believed in gods that meddled in human affairs, a childishly naïve view of the universe that would seem to tie into Koons’s fascination with childhood and childhood consciousness. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z For the seriousness of their appearance, the policeman joke around childishly. Bringing pleasure back to New England’s Detroit: Can a ghost town in Long Island Sound be revived from the dead? 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z "I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking." Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z Where the staging is most childishly whimsical, the audience is made to feel in on the joke. Imagination at play in a simple but joyful 'Into the Woods' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z It's an almost childishly idealistic way to approach the universe, but after watching "Distant Lands," I realize that our world needs more BMOs because by embracing the philosophy to "be more," change can happen. HBO Max's magical and action-packed "Adventure Time" special is a tribute to heroic resistance 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Much of the intellectual community and many of the students are almost childishly indiscriminate in their assaults. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z At Machu Picchu, dreading an encounter with “the world of mass tourism,” Jacobs rushes about from dawn to dusk, “childishly overexcited by the place,” unwilling to miss anything. A Journey Down South America?s Spine 2011-06-03T16:52:20Z What she would do if she were an armed mugger and saw a large cash balance in line in front of her, she said, was childishly obvious. Gene Weingarten: Unbalanced behavior at Citibank ATMs However, I came to Dunsfold Park expecting a hot and slightly dismal few hours at the track, and in the end I was thrilled – childishly, shamelessly, properly thrilled – by it all. The Stig and I: my Top Gear adventure 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z "I miss the old stuffing," one moaned childishly. This Thanksgiving, don't f**k with holiday tradition (and give me my canned cranberries) 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z He retained a genuinely beautiful voice into adulthood, and often launched into full-throated, childishly enthusiastic renditions of Baby One More Time. Take cover! It's the Swells iPod! 2010-06-24T11:58:00Z Look at the way he animates the surface of the Grand Canal with little flicks of painted waves, childishly simple, so effective. Venice: Canaletto and his?Rivals ? review 2010-10-15T20:30:00Z Certainly, Harden, 34, has childishly forced his way out of Houston and Brooklyn and now Philadelphia. Plaschke: No lie, James Harden joins Clippers as the right player at the right time 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Rob, whose ego is as bruised as his proboscis, childishly lashes out. With her widower's help, a splendid new documentary explores Mary Tyler Moore's private side 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z I made a mistake at work and compounded the damage by behaving defensively and childishly. Your Boss’s Bathrobe Is Not Office Attire 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Now that the childishly bellicose relations between post-World War II abstract and figurative artists are far behind us, it’s possible to see artists like Andrew Wyeth afresh. Perspective | It’s beyond time to see Andrew Wyeth with fresh eyes The ad combines sophistication, appropriate adult behavior, and childishly amusing animation and personification. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The movement — a luminous revelation in heavenly pleasures — is to be sung, per Mahler’s instruction, “with childishly gay expression” and “absolutely without parodying.” Review | PostClassical Ensemble gives Mahler’s 4th symphony ‘A Wicked New Look’ 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Assertions about reducing “breakout time” for Iran were childishly inadequate, only pretending that the United States possessed critical information about the actual numbers and sophistication of Iran’s centrifuge cascades. Opinion | Why the Senate should insist Biden submit his dangerous Iran nuclear deal to a vote 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The setup seemed so childishly unpromising that I was unwilling to spend more than twenty minutes with the game. Review | ‘Sumire’: Simplicity can be deceiving 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z He is childishly and stupidly refusing to follow through on appropriate, expected and necessary cooperation on setting up the myriad aspects of the presidential transition. Trump gums up the transition works 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z The six friends speak to us directly, first childishly, and then more wearily. Love beyond sex, money and property: a case for friendship 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But as “The King of Staten Island” gets underway, the source of Scott’s stagnation becomes clearer, as do the reasons for a personality that is alternately irritating, childishly impulsive and wildly self-centered. Review | SNL’s Pete Davidson delivers a powerful performance in ‘The King of Staten Island’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z “Oh dear, childishly naive Dutch people! Vote now finally for change. Break free of this politically correct nonsense! Save this country. #FVD” Dutch rightwing leader under fire over false account of harassment 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Trump’s worldview is childishly Manichean, consumed with TV ratings and crowd sizes. Trump deserves to be jeered and mocked wherever he goes | Ross Barkan 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z "I'm afraid, rather childishly, I have threatened to resign once or twice - quite a few times probably." John Humphrys: 'I'm hugely argumentative by instinct' 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Listening to her, he became so childishly terrified that his reaction sometimes scared Setsu, who would worry that she had gone too far. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Pelosi’s allies said she showed up the president and reinforced an image of a chief executive behaving so badly and childishly that he is unfit for office — a clear message to voters next year. Trump’s allies insist he is winning in feud with Pelosi. Her backers say she showed up the president. 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Every observable indicator proves their collective guilt, including and especially Trump’s tweets, yet these ghouls continuously deny it, using childishly flimsy “who me?” excuses that only serve to worsen the appearance of guilt. Demolishing Erik Prince: One TV interview shows how to deal with Trump's allies 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z For their part, Republicans spent nearly all of their time attacking Mr. Cohen rather than defending the president — with one going so far as to childishly recite the rhyme “liar, liar, pants on fire.” Opinion | Michael Cohen’s hearing was explosive — but not for what was new 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z For their part, Republicans spent nearly all of their time attacking Mr. Cohen rather than defending the president - with one going so far as to childishly recite the rhyme, “liar, liar, pants on fire.” Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z You mentor young players and then you childishly sit at the end of bench like a toddler on a self-imposed timeout when you are unhappy with those same players. Letters: Give LeBron James a break, and Lakers will start winning This isn't really too difficult as long as he pays lip service to Trump's policy of ranting incoherently about trade, whining childishly about "fairness" and making foreign countries stop "laughing at us." John Bolton takes command: Is he now the power behind the Trump throne? 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z At a moment when feverish talk of presidential impeachment dominates the political discourse, “Fear” is full of Nixonian echoes, including Trump’s childishly short attention span and refusal to read briefing papers. Review | Bob Woodward’s meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z A populace that still reacts childishly to difficult situations will remain easily manipulated by anyone with a bit more focus. The Growing Toll of Our Ever-Expanding Waistlines 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z In some respects, making a solar system might seem childishly simple. Astronomers Spy Planet-Spawning Vortex around Young Star 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z As The Post reported it, he appeared childishly boastful about his “great intel.” Opinion | Trump can’t be trusted with sensitive information — and now the world knows 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z She’s been around long enough to know that it’s childishly easy to distract supposedly serious political commentators with a pair of faux leopard-skin shoes. Hats off to Justin Trudeau, the only world leader able to strip off with dignity 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Along the way, the mothers often act more childishly than their kids. Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon team up for HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Pine portrays a new employee at a company who childishly refuses to do his job in a short that takes a few shots at Congress while also advocating for voter empowerment. Is it election day yet? Lena Dunham, Martin Sheen among the latest to appear in political spots 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z We were childishly enjoying the spectacle when my father got someone to call us back home. How Burkina Faso's different religions live in peace - BBC News 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And he is a bit Trump-like in the sense that he revels in insulting people he doesn’t agree with, fights childishly petty political battles and is totally racist. 5 delusional right-wing moments this week: Ben Carson thinks the Khan family should apologize to Trump 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z “Frankly, I think the Bushes are behaving childishly,” Mr. Gingrich told “Good Morning America” on ABC. Sore Winners in Cleveland 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Readers can decide who’s behaving childishly, but as political strategy the Trump campaign’s comments are nuts. Cleveland Fight Club 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the Bushes, who will not be attending the Republican National Convention, are behaving “childishly” and need to “get over it.” Newt Gingrich: The Bushes are behaving ‘childishly’; ‘Jeb lost. Get over it’ 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Some of the animation looks almost childishly rendered, in a naïve artistic style. French animation import Phantom Boy tells a rounded story in a flat world 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z It takes her small ambitions of sisterhood as seriously as it takes anything in its story, even when she expresses those ambitions childishly. The Neighbors 2 review: a surprisingly safe space for budding feminism and mouth-to-mouth puking 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Presented with Presley’s childishly scrawled note, Nixon’s young aides like the idea of their very square boss engaging with a pop legend - good for the youth vote. Review: ‘Elvis & Nixon’ recalls a bizarre moment in history 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z He said the Bush family is behaving “childishly” and should “get over it.” Cleveland Fight Club 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Your position is—I’m putting this in childishly cartoonish terms—that we’ve got to keep the hackers out, and if that means we keep the government out as well, so be it. Here's the Full Transcript of TIME’s Interview With Apple CEO Tim Cook 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Since then, Trump has repeatedly, childishly and abusively taunted Kelly, making high-profile public comments about her professionalism and performance, retweeting sexist and critical tweets about her and repeatedly reviving the issue. Donald Trump's 'Spat' With Megyn Kelly Is Sexism, and It's Abusive 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z On Twitter on Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump called it “childishly written” and “taunting.” With No Détente, Donald Trump’s Feud With Fox Takes Center Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z It was the childishly written & taunting PR statement by Fox that made me not do the debate, more so than lightweight reporter, @megynkelly. Donald Trump Details His Debate Night Plans 1456-03-06T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the digital economy is still in its adolescence, if not its infancy, and as such it tempts us to act childishly. We are all glassholes now: Privilege, Silicon Valley, and our new wearable tech problem 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Even in his geriatric years, Berra had the fascinating capacity to appear proudly venerable in one moment and childishly playful the next. Yogi Berra’s Second Act, as Elder Statesman, as Glorious as the First 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z But Mr Varoufakis, accused of naivety and childishly sticking to his guns, believed that the election of Syriza back in January, and this referendum, was a clear mandate to abolish austerity. Greek debt crisis: Mr Varoufakis's exit stage left - BBC News 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z She walked toward the big white building, playing childishly with the Italian: “the revolting museum.” Exquisite Corpse 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The belief in reason that is being promoted today rests on a number of childishly simple ideas. The child-like faith in reason 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z One of the assailants childishly described her actions to police in their comfy Milwaukee suburb as “stabby, stab, stab.” What lurks in a child’s online world? 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The comic is keen to get under the skin of those "real" people - and one of his favourite themes is "men acting childishly", which he describes as "my weakness". Derek: Gervais says goodbye to irony 2014-04-15T01:13:13Z Only recently Congress childishly refused to honour an agreed-upon increase in America’s financial commitment to the International Monetary Fund. American trade policy: How to make the world $600 billion poorer 2014-02-20T15:58:34Z For everyone else it was a surprise, and for Diego Alves especially, yet when the moment came there was something almost childishly joyous about it, something that felt right. A mix of Barça and Real Madrid, Real Sociedad put the fun in football 2013-04-29T14:57:13Z Parents are as childishly enthralled as their teenage sons and tiny babies, which is why they have infiltrated family life on such an unprecedented scale – over 100m iPads had sold worldwide by last year. Children and apps: Should we fear the iNanny? 2013-04-27T08:01:35Z The tendency is to discount a desire for local ownership as impossible nostalgia; to portray it as a childishly simple misunderstanding of the world. The state: We've no more ownership of it than Chelsea fans have of the club 2012-11-30T20:59:02Z March 28, 1616 When I was twenty, splendid, strong, I thought it would be noble to die in the Spring: ah, noble death I praised you childishly. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z He told India Ink from London, “MamBan,” as he refers to her, is “childishly megalomaniac and fascist of a different type.” India Ink: Is 'Didi' Headed For a Fall? 2012-04-14T09:30:40Z We are unattractive, useless, uninfluential, just because we are still childishly craving a private and selfish good. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z "I don't even know how to hit," she sobbed, childishly. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z He bullied and threatened and stormed; he was childishly vain of his learning, and in seven dialects he scattered his knowledge broadcast. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Among the former was a girl of about eighteen, a mild, quiet-looking creature, with her hair curling long on her neck, and hands childishly small and white, who lost invariably. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Morgen, rootless and drifting after the death of her artist father, to whom she had been childishly close, is loved by two fine young men, but finds her happiness with a strange young girl, Toni. Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. 2012-03-19T02:00:24.597Z Clara entreated her, clapping her hand over her mother’s mouth, childishly. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z She was childishly pleased to find that her strength rose with her need—that she could do both quite rationally. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z After the marriage they went straight to Paris, and Roserra was surprised and delighted to find how childishly happy Livia could be among new surroundings. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z If only she had kept her wits that first moment instead of being so childishly frightened. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z She was so sweetly naughty, so childishly unreasonable. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z The woman, childishly young and slight, who spoke was half sitting, half lying in a low rush-bottomed chair, in the poor kitchen of a small Irish farmhouse. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z He was still wondering childishly at his unwonted finery, when the Buccaneers broke into the house and seized him as a prize. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z I reached my hand to touch her cheek, and started at its coldness; yet, still childishly incredulous of my loss, I sprang upon the bed, and threw my arm round her neck. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z She felt herself blushing childishly as Schroder, squeezing her arm, opened the door with a flourish. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Obama finally managed to wrestle a bickering, childishly self-interested Congress into line and won a protracted battle for the passage of a payroll tax cut. Is Obama Finally Getting His Groove Back? 2011-12-28T11:30:53Z They look so fierce, and yet are so childishly happy, that at the thought of their exile and of the dark tenement the question arises, “Why all this joy?” Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z The train, which had been exhibiting signs of indecision, suddenly quickened its pace and shot past, to the discomfiture of the desperadoes, who childishly fired a volley at the wheels. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z He knew the workings of this childishly open mind, and it hurt him that a sincere emotion should have been underrated. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z In his private life he was not only profligate and profuse, but childishly ostentatious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z So he tried to make belief a matter for intellectual comprehension; he argued where others asserted, and made bold to modify current opinions which his ingenuity, often childishly simple, could not explain. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z It was rather a curious fact that Mrs. Shallop, childishly ignorant on most matters, was an authority on cooking. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z "But," I insisted childishly, "I haven't been able to sit up all by myself since...." Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z She chuckled childishly as she stepped across the brook on the largest stones. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z "Tell me all about it," she said, nestling childishly close; "how long have you been here anyway?" In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z Sometimes, if I must confess the truth, I found myself getting quite childishly petulant about her. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z If our wives would cook, as once they did, we wouldn’t have to act so childishly when we travel.” Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z "They make gold out of straws, don't they?" my sick brain inquired childishly. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z “Do you think we had better do anything about it to-night?” he asked the girl, almost childishly. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z His eyes looked blue and brave and trustful—childishly trustful—as ever, and he alone, of all the party, did not keep looking towards the west for the return of Donald Mackay and his charge. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z A good and a childishly innocent lad he was, and loved me so dearly he would have died to please me. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z That was about the way it went last night at Norris, except that both of us, very childishly, lost our tempers and indulged in personalities. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z He felt a little of the forces that were at work beneath the surface, and realized how quickly this childishly curious, childishly happy mob could be converted into a bedlam of savagery. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z I stuffed a few valuables, very childishly chosen, for I took my diary, some of Eustace's love-letters, and the little cap I had knitted for the baby who was never born, into my pockets. Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century 2011-08-25T02:00:27.073Z Had he attempted to know the ultimate causes of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, he must have failed, egregiously, childishly. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z “Something,” she said childishly between laughter and tears. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z They know all this, and are childishly, impotently furious. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z “Why, how childishly weak I am!” said he, with another forced smile. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z At this Svirski, who in matters of sport was childishly vain, asked at once,— "How is that?" Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z The ruse amused him; he found himself childishly ready to be amused. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z "All that the infinite mother wills and sends is to me to-day childishly dear, even death;--are not we, too, part and parcel of her immortality?" said he. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Lucy was childishly delighted to have the opportunity to assist in so important an affair as the Campfire. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z Excuse me, young man, but really, for a man in business you are acting very childishly. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z After the gods had ceased speaking, the voice from heaven thus cursed Brahma:—‘Since thou hast childishly and with weak understanding asserted a falsehood, let no one henceforth perform worship to thee.’ Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z If her feet had been less childishly small, they might have preoccupied him less. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z And once more the fluttering hands went up, and the dark wistful eyes gazed childishly, piteously into his face. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z I hardly knew why I resisted, except that I was looking wildly about for someone to appeal to, and I kept childishly repeating: "The Queen ... the Queen." My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z The poor child felt this blow, the first her little life had known, and childishly began to cry. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z "I don't know," she answered, childishly, "I did not try; I used to wear it round my neck—it is in a drawer now." Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z The odd plan thus childishly begun had settled into a fixed habit, though as Hope had grown older it had become little more than an interchange of opinions. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z She felt quite childishly vexed at all this. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z They are even worse than those published in Constantinople, the censorship being, if anything, more childishly interfering than that of Abd'ul Hamid. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z He merely looked at her in the same vacant way, and said childishly, "Never mind." Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z "Just a little while, Captain," he whispered, feeling childishly that the horse would hear the words and understand. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z It had been almost childishly easy to pull the wool over Gannet’s and the Cadger’s eyes. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Rose ate not at all and looked out of the window, with big tears rolling childishly down her cheeks. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z A great pity for this sweet, patient, penniless mother, suffering so unnoticed and uncomplaining the need of many womanly trifles, made me childishly angry. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Again and again Mr. Huntington urged the necessity of this falsehood being told, childishly forgetting the fact that such prevarications would have been useless, as all Californians knew the truth. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z She stood childishly in front of him, as if waiting for a further extension of playtime. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z If these surly folk won't speak, neither will I, I said to myself childishly. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z But the more enjoyable spectacle was watching the froth gather at the mouths of the offended; it was a childish wind-up, childishly received. Wales join the queue to give England's divine right a real kicking 2011-03-22T00:06:27Z Poked-out tongues and thumbed noses across the pit lane towards Team Lotus as the rivals bicker childishly about who's the more Lotusy Lotus. F1 2011 team guide: Renault 2011-03-21T12:00:06Z "I did not think that you would take the trouble to come over here," stammers Linda, childishly, shyly offering him her hand, "or else you should have found me in more correct toilet." Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z Where do the young men go in their strength?" he mumbled childishly; "into the land of small devils? Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Stasy exclaims, clapping her hands childishly and tripping to and fro in much excitement. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z It was impossible, on such a morning, not to exult in life, not to laugh childishly from irrational glee, not to dismiss the memory of grief and the apprehension of grief as morbid hallucinations. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Lensky laughed convulsively, somewhat childishly, as old men laugh in order not to weep; then he walked through the station between his two children. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z She asked advice and indulgence so childishly, was so gay, so amusing, so charming, that Elsa's antipathy to her increased and Erwin's rapidly lessened. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z As long as the supposedly adult conversation we’re having remains childishly vague, it’s easy to turn those complaining about cuts into welfare queens who should toughen up. Class War on Janitors Raises Deficit Fever: Margaret Carlson 2011-02-24T00:08:22Z He had always been too childishly fond of his home to be happy away from it. Louisiana 2011-02-18T03:00:21.217Z Successful business men are specially likely to act childishly when dealing with the mighty problem of assisting alcoholics to their feet. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z "How droll you are!" says Maschenka, laughing loudly and childishly, and again she makes a movement as if she would draw nearer to him. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z She had been contented, happy, in her little flat, childishly pleased with her new life, her pretty clothes, her gaieties. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z He wrote childishly, and with many faults of punctuation and spelling, to the effect that war was the wickedest thing in the world, and that a soldier's profession was the most inhuman and abominable. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Sally pleaded through childishly quivering lips that would have showed ashen-pale if they had not been thickly overlaid with carmine. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z She hugged the package childishly, whispering, “My Dave! and just for my own self.” Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z You are so unnaturally precocious in some ways, and so childishly simple in others. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z She came, enjoying everything almost childishly; never tired of looking at the London streets with their roaring traffic. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Doe what you list, draw your sword childishly Upon your Servants that are bound to tell ye; I am weary of my life. The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) 2011-01-20T03:00:06.760Z Whatever lay before her, David would be with her, gentle, sweet, infinitely tender— “I’ll be Mrs. David Nash,” she told herself childishly. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "Oh, yes, let me go there," she sobbed childishly. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z At a little distance lay the boy Ishmael, with all his mother's dark beauty in his face, but so serenely calm and childishly peaceful that the contrast was all the more startling. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Yet when he did, Jean laughed and clapped her hands childishly at the change in his expression since their interview on the veranda. The Ranch Girls at Home Again 2011-01-13T03:01:04.363Z And it had started at sight of the difference between those other, nobly simple rooms, which somehow matched the Canyon, and hers which childishly laughed in its face. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z “David and I told you the truth, Mr. Bybee,” she said steadily, but her lips trembled childishly. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z Then, with unexpected abruptness, she shook her recklessness aside and walked back to him childishly, pulling a long, loose wisp of hair across her face. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z She held out her jeweled bracelet childishly in the dark, as if for somebody to see. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z It was, indeed, childishly simple: all you had to do was to be chief of the detective-service. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z They seemed very mysterious and bright and childishly troubled to-night, but that was because she was searching the crowd to see if there might be “anyone she knew.” God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Jealousy laid a hand of pain about her heart, such a sort of pain that she wanted, childishly, to stop and examine it. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z At the best I had behaved childishly, at the worst—but we will come to that presently. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Could I interest you at all, sir, in this childishly rude hand gesture for your car-hitch? Retail therapy gone mad 2010-07-22T12:30:00Z To snigger childishly when noisy neighbours Manchester City offer £60m just to annoy him. Football transfer rumours: James Milner and David Luiz to Man City? 2010-05-18T08:12:00Z Her dainty, haughtily poised little head was unbecomingly coiffured, and her thin neck rose stiffly from her childishly undeveloped bosom. The Undying Past This childishly lenient view of the case did not appeal to Mumford, who, with all the small-minded man's respect for the letter of the law, was thirsting to punish the evildoer. "Pip" A Romance of Youth They must forgive her for having cried so childishly. Four Phases of Love "I did not mean what I said about your not having done anything," she said, almost childishly. The Window at the White Cat But I don’t deserve it, for I am married now to my cousin—the one I so childishly made an idol of when I was a little girl. Where the Path Breaks He was childishly obsessed with its unpleasant possibilities, but he treated them with a grim levity not unredeemed by wit. Witching Hill She is neither childishly frivolous nor grimly determined. "Pip" A Romance of Youth She said this so touchingly and childishly, in spite of her excitement, that Klaus begged for her hand as if in atonement. A Sister's Love A Novel I childishly pictured his exclamation of delighted surprise when he would remove his shirts and the picture would fall out. Woman In this translation it has been found necessary to omit a single episode only, which is as childishly filthy as it is utterly uninteresting. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim He had grown childishly dependent upon his host, and wearied for him, as the Scotch say; but Rodman withstood his fancies, and gave him only the evenings, when Miss Bettina was not there. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches There now, M. Rodolph, I declare you make me quite angry to hear you talk so childishly! The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 But his comrade's voice was so gentle, so childishly imploring, that he could not resist it, and he agreed to go with him into the Shool. Yiddish Tales No, Zenz, you are too sensible a girl to be so childishly frightened by the spectres your own imagination has called up. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II Now all this was bestowed in overflowing measure, when as Leah smilingly said, "they had really been married too long to be so childishly happy." The Children of the World She was tall and well rounded, almost majestic, but childishly young in face. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches For the first time, perhaps, in his own experience of himself he shrank before their crystal clear, childishly innocent gaze. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Father and all the augustnesses, I did not know," he said childishly, "that your spirit waited in the dark Meido for me to set it free. The Way of the Gods Indeed, the attempt to portray the majesty of the mountains or the immensity of the ocean seemed to her childishly petty and futile. A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story And through the frail, transparent Yashmak her parted red lips revealed the glimmer of teeth and her childishly engaging laughter rang delightfully. The Moonlit Way This they do ignorantly and childishly, since there could be no election without its opposite, reprobation. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII But he was large-souled and childishly tender of heart, and thought, even in his disappointment, that, in her unprotected state, she might at times have need of him. Love's Usuries "Ah! what a lovely hall!" says Georgie, as they enter, stopping in a childishly delighted fashion to gaze round her. Faith and Unfaith Now she would be demure, now venturesome, now childishly merry, now assuming a premature sedateness. The Great Miss Driver At moments she felt that she could not bear it—that she must scream frantically, childishly, like Bobby when he had had a bad dream—or throw herself over the parapet into the Thames. Shadows of Flames A Novel Till yet she had childishly imagined her father and herself to be important items in the minds of their fellow citizens. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle She longed childishly to put her head on the older woman's shoulder as she would have put it on her colored mother's, and be comforted. The Shadow His sufferings with the Fourth he might have expected: but that the Upper Sixth should rag childishly was a cruel blow. Years of Plenty My father was a noble and pious man; he was considered a scholar of great discernment, with fine polemical gifts; but in life he was childishly simple and—why should I not say it?—shiftless. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine I had become a Parisian personage, and I allowed myself to enjoy childishly the adulation and pretty attentions that were showered on me. Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer They were in plain sight now, people were sitting behind them; she could not childishly refuse to let him take the vacant place beside her. Anne During the earlier part of this period, there were many deadly wars fought between the various gangs, and occasional courageous but childishly futile attacks upon the Hans, followed by terribly punitive raids. Armageddon—2419 A.D. "How can I tell what will happen?" she answered childishly. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days Annette blushed crimson; but she controlled herself, and said, "You are right; I spoke quite childishly." Waldfried A Novel "I will not seem to you so childishly perverse," she said. Gertrude's Marriage "I ought to be able to take care of myself," he grumbled childishly. The Destroying Angel Scientists of today regard it as a childishly simple reaction, but by that very virtue, most economical and efficient. Armageddon—2419 A.D. Alice was very ignorant of northern ways, childishly so, and it afforded him the keenest delight to initiate her into the mysteries of trail life. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Cynthia had noted before that he was almost childishly vain of his disguise. A Life Sentence A Novel Their gusty and savage minds were childishly susceptible and in their quickly roused affections they were as demonstrative as collies. The Portal of Dreams The lucky seller was in high spirits, childishly delighted at his success, and with the presents he took to his wife; his friend walked by his side, grave and silent. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 She looked so slender, so childishly innocent standing there where the daughter had drawn her aside, one couldn’t believe she had said it. The House of Fulfilment It was a haunting little melody, catchy and childishly simple; and it had remained in my memory all these years, as is so often the case with choruses that we hear in our babyhood. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia It is perfectly—it is, indeed, childishly easy to pick faults, even if matter be kept wholly out of sight. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Do not be childishly incredulous, and impatiently shake your head; from a woman of your age and sense one expects more dignity and prudence.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Her jealousy is too childishly open to be misunderstood. Rossmoyne “I am very much obliged to you, Miss Vanrenen,” he said, venturing to look once more into those alluring eyes, so shy, so daring, so divinely wise and childishly candid. Cynthia's Chauffeur "I wish you would chase Honor and bring her to reason," said Joyce childishly. Banked Fires But almost everybody felt that something had to be done, and was anxious—even childishly anxious—to do something. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Mauryeen stood by Randal's mother, with one hand thrust childishly within her arm, and the other shading her eyes from the bright sun. An Isle in the Water And following his childishly enchanting game he began to feel rather abashed over what had brought him here. Old Crow His vanity and violence—as childish as his love of mystery, and often as childishly displayed—were forms in which his high spirits and passionate nature expressed themselves. Pot-Boilers It was easy for Wes to avoid his thrust; it would have been childishly easy to drive his blade through the Pharaoh's unguarded chest. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Though the braves guessed that something unusual had brought about an assembly at this hour, and though their curiosity on the subject was childishly live, they surpassed their captor in patience. The Plow-Woman She called him Lawrence and asked him in, then nestled herself childishly in the corner of the sofa and dried her eyes. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 Judith's mouth trembled childishly, and tears started to her eyes. The Wishing Moon The introduction of these details developed a particular ability of hand; and that ability, childishly indulged, has led to the works that now amaze us on a railway journey. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) How many a time I had seen before me this childishly slender brown neck, this knot of dark hair; how often this hat on her arm as now, or in her slender brown hand. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 They have caught the public-spirit infection, and they show it like little meddlesome girls, childishly. The Co-Citizens He does not set up to be long-suffering, while in fact he is childishly touchy. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' And at precisely that moment the rest of the country will be childishly open to invasion! "To Invade New York...." "Why should I like 'em, anyway, if I don't want to?" she retorted with some heat, childishly eager to put herself in the right. Clark's Field "Do you know what his name is?" one of them, who could not long have been old enough to speak plainly, asked his companion slily, and with a childishly important air. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 That belief in such capability is unscientific and childishly naive, is beside the question. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The same evening these first three victims of the war sat and childishly discussed the situation in an untidy room on a bed which nobody came to make. General Bramble And the captain had the power of not only being quite childishly happy himself, but of making those about him feel the same. Two Maiden Aunts Nancy felt her lips begin to quiver childishly, but she could not control their trembling. Outside Inn The old lady was childishly pleased with the idea of something to eat again, and Betty fixed her tray daintily and toasted a cracker to go with the cup of really delicious home-made beef tea. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune He was so childishly happy that he nearly said, “It’s a small world, after all.” The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Mrs. Ogilvie clapped her hands almost childishly when this last brilliant idea came to her, and Sibyl thought that it was worthy of mother, and entered into the scheme with childish enthusiasm. Daddy's Girl She longed for her mother more childishly than at any time since her marriage. Money Magic A Novel It’s really childishly ridiculous, isn’t it? when you stop to consider it seriously.” Carmen Ariza She was so childishly delighted with her scanty possessions that she was thankful Susie remained invisible and did not come out and scoff. The Benefactress He told her more of his plans in detail, and was so childishly proud of his superb achievements, past and future, that she could hardly persuade him to take her back to the station. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The negro gazed after her, his month quivering childishly. Kildares of Storm The question of her lover's disloyalty to Alice Heath, strange to say, had not hitherto troubled her—so selfishly, so childishly had her own relationship to him filled her mind. Money Magic A Novel Why, but a poor, obsessed archaeologist, now prowling around the ruins of San Felipe, doubtless mumbling childishly as he prods the dust and mold of centuries! Carmen Ariza She rubbed her eyes childishly with her knuckles; she stared at him for a moment unrecognisingly, then, as memory returned, she shrank back into her corner. The Phantom Lover She wondered childishly why he was there with Mr. Tudor, the detective, whose voice she had instantly recognized. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love "Of course I'm pretty!" she cried childishly, pointing to herself in the glass. A Noble Woman Larry, with his superficial gripping of surface things, grew merry and childishly happy. At the Crossroads The difficulty has been that humanity has for centuries childishly accepted them as historical fact. Carmen Ariza His maneuvers are all childishly transparent, and this last one––h’m! Jessica, the Heiress For a moment, in spite of a two years' bitter experience, she childishly thought there was some mistake. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 "I am to be a visitor, remember," she said childishly; "You must not forget that." A Noble Woman The priest was lying, clumsily, childishly, but it might be he could bargain with them. Two Thousand Miles Below Oh, it is you preachers, lacking sufficient spirituality to correctly interpret the Scriptures, who are wildly, childishly, ignorantly inconsistent!” Carmen Ariza Marya’s sympathy flickered swift as a dagger: “What a shame for him to behave so childishly!” she cried. The Crimson Tide A Novel "Ah, you know every word I have written," he said, childishly pleased. Dreamers of the Ghetto He was oddly light-headed, irresponsible as a child as he shouted and danced and threw himself high in the air, to laugh childishly at the pure pleasure of his light landing. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 With honor within grasp, deliberately he had sought dishonor, 462 little recking of shame and murder, and childishly husbanding green, red and blue pebbles! The Strollers From the tragic and weird to the childishly inane was but a step. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine “I have accepted it,” said Palla gaily; but her childishly lovely mouth was working, and she clenched her hands in her sleeves to control the tremor. The Crimson Tide A Novel The whole business," she went on, "from beginning to end, was very simple, childishly simple. Nobody “I’ll stay,” she repeated after him in a childishly small voice. Once to Every Man Vada chid him in her childishly superior way, but her efforts were quite lost on his delicious self-importance. The Twins of Suffering Creek Anger she did feel, but it was, childishly, anger over the candied fruit. The Prisoner "And you said you would come to the mountains," she told him childishly. The Innocent Adventuress "Don't be so childishly optimistic!" he snapped as I began to congratulate him on the victory his ditch had given us. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 The tone in which she made the query was never anything but disarming; it was quite childishly wheedling and innocently eager, he thought. Once to Every Man It is childishly easy, my dear friend, I assure you.” The White Lie "In the same way?" said Lydia, looking up at him childishly. The Prisoner The doctor had paid curiously little attention to the insomnia and was childishly interested in making him blow down a tube and register the cubic capacity of his lungs. The Education of Eric Lane Martha, however, took the situation as it needed to be taken, and piped out childishly, "Mister, won't you please throw us down some coal?" Jennie Gerhardt A Novel She laughed as she sat up in bed, childishly threading the flowers in the breast of her nightdress. The Rainbow Rousseau was himself childishly fond of cakes and cream. Practical Education, Volume II It was Molly's prime affair and he knew that she would resent being treated too childishly in regard to her own concerns. Rimrock Trail The Euclid seemed childishly easy, and was thrown aside, but the Descartes baffled him for a time. Pioneers of Science He lifted his serious, puzzled face, with its big, blue, childishly earnest eyes to his sister, who was as absorbed in her problem as was he in his. With Hoops of Steel He was childishly amiable and companionable all the day long. The Rainbow Any mistake in this connection was sure to lead to trouble, each beast being almost childishly jealous of its rights. Kings in Exile “For two cents,” Duncan was rather childishly shouting at him, “I’d fill you full of lead!” The Prairie Child She pouted childishly, gave her arch musical laugh with its three soprano notes and upward inflection, and then accepted a quail with a heavy sigh. The Limit Did she know of any possible blessing that might have been his, only that he had turned his back upon it, crying out childishly for a shadowy happiness? Not Like Other Girls He began to be afraid, childishly and ridiculously afraid, of something happening to prevent it. The Combined Maze And also—also, I––” “Also?”—he prompted her, amused, yet oddly touched by her childishly literal reply. The Dark Star Since the enemy States behave so childishly as to misuse their arms, they must be placed under tutelage. Gems (?) of German Thought "She's always seeing me," Lord Henry replied, smiling in a manner that was at once childishly winsome and wise. Too Old for Dolls A Novel Like all lifeboat controls these were childishly simple, designed to be used by novices in an emergency. Deathworld At length Christopher, having read in her love the confirmation for which he so childishly longed, took her away to be introduced to Cæsar in her new character as his promised wife. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Rue, excited under an almost childishly timid manner, leaned on the table with both elbows and linked fingers, listening, watching everything with an almost breathless intelligence which strove to comprehend. The Dark Star Leslie hung childishly on the upstairs balustrade, in the dim wide upper hall, and watched them go. The Beloved Woman This they do ignorantly and childishly, since there could be no election without its opposite—reprobation. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election She had grown very fragile by this time, and looked almost childishly young. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius If that were all the thing would be childishly simple. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator He—let me have the p-pleasure of carrying them––” Again her voice broke childishly, but the threatened emotion was strangled and resolutely choked back. The Dark Star And yet this intonation and manner of speaking impressed Alyosha as almost incredibly incongruous with the childishly simple and happy expression of her face, the soft, babyish joy in her eyes. The Brothers Karamazov She was frankly and childishly delighted to see him again, and she hurried to him and gave him both her hands. It, and Other Stories She had also become much thinner, which made her figure childishly young; but in the face she looked old for her age—five-and-twenty at least—although she was not yet eighteen. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius It is especially annoying thus to have what one does not want to know, and not what one, however childishly, does want to know—that is to say, the after-history of Madeleine. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The voice was almost childishly hurried and curious. The Dominant Dollar “I am confident in the justice of the gods, noble Simonides,” said the athlete, half childishly, half in deep seriousness. A Victor of Salamis The face hidden in the chair, childishly, as though a child suffered pain, was lifted as Lady O'Gara touched the bronze-brown head. Love of Brothers They talked Irish at the top of their voices, and gesticulated a great deal, and were childishly quarrelsome. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Very seldom do we even want to know what is going to happen—the childishly simple, but also childishly genuine demand of the reader of romance as such, if not even of the novel also. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I tell you I’m awake, Harry, at last, and see things as they are; things now so childishly obvious that it seems incredible I could have gone on so long without recognizing them. The Dominant Dollar It was childishly simple; perhaps that was why the thing bothered me. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Eileen looked down at her feet and then at her hands, childishly. Love of Brothers But he childishly refused the letter of the Emperor's demand, and commissioned, not the French cardinal legate at Paris, but an Italian cardinal. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) When all was still he spoke again, and the tone of his voice was childishly wistful. A Woman's Will His fingers itched to achieve something more substantial than the work, now childishly routine, that he was doing at the factory. Cerebrum There are moments in one's life in which not to be imprudent, not to be utterly, childishly forgetful of all worldly wisdom, would be to be brutal, inhuman, and devilish. The Vicar of Bullhampton He might be working, but there was no reason why he should pretend to like it, he said to himself childishly. Rainbow Hill With a wee, small mouth, matching the eyes in expression, the face was one to strike a casual observer as lovely—as childishly sweet, perhaps. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter I had seen it last with the smile it always wore for me on it, looking so childishly happy in the lamp-light. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales James I. was childishly fond of such trinkets, and most portraits represent the king with hat-bands of jewels, or sprays of jewellery at their sides. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture "And yet he was very cross to me about the bread," she burst out childishly. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Would any other Government intermingle so foolishly, so childishly its State and Federal authority as to permit such diabolism? Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West The young bright mind was too childishly simple for any such foresight or calculation. Vixen, Volume I. He noticed for the first time how childishly round her face was! A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Her slang jars on him; but Eleanor is so sublimely unconscious of offence and childishly contented with herself, that he has not the heart to murmur. When the Birds Begin to Sing The security you childishly showed, was treated as offensive presumption on my part. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster I must own to being slightly offended, I was childishly fond of chocolate, and the act seemed so inexplicably discourteous. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls “We are expecting an addition to our family this afternoon, Miss Ainsworth,” she began, her chin quivering childishly. Eve to the Rescue Some, finger in mouth, could find nothing to say; others of more fertile brain, babbled childishly, or lisped in baby-talk. Patty's Friends The quaint atonalities of progressive jazz and the childishly frantic rhythms of "cool sounds" were somehow soothing and reassuring in their reminder of a simple heritage from a simpler age. This Crowded Earth She struggled to remove Müller's hand from her ankle; but he gripped strongly, and her fingers seemed terribly impotent, childishly weak. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg He had seen her wilful, capricious, childishly passionate, a little hard to understand, many times before, but never like this. The Pretty Sister Of José 1889 And sometimes a muskrat, swimming with powerful strokes of his hind legs, his tiny forepaws gathered childishly under his chin, would take his way over the pool to the meadow of the blue flag-flowers. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life He saw the soft roundness of her shoulder, the satin pallor of her throat and breast, the quivering gold of her childishly wavy hair. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Impotent fury lashed Lord’s mind—anger at Don Howard, because the engineer was one of his key men; and, childishly, anger at Don’s sister because she was the one who had broken the news. Impact We must notice the strange fact that, from the engineering point of view, humanity, though very developed in some ways, is childishly undeveloped in others. Manhood of Humanity. This childishly amicable system, which is as clumsy as the block-houses erected, can be developed on much finer lines. The Jewish State It had been such a childishly foolish thing to do and so useless. Stubble I really believe, childishly, that the mechanics and motions of the galaxy may turn themselves upsidedown just to snap man out of his apathy and give him some work to do.” No Moving Parts This officer's tactics in trying to capture us were childishly simple. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War The words mocked him, dancing in great red letters on the pale green distemper, and he shook his feet at them childishly. Mufti Only a week before he had been childishly, shamefully taken in by a Jew curiosity-dealer from Vienna, to his wife's huge amusement. Robert Elsmere "If you were not Debby would not have let me become engaged to you," she finished childishly. The Opal Serpent Mrs. Perkins gave him a motherly smile and told him in a careful undertone that she was glad he was going to be one of her boys, after which he felt childishly close to tears. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Their language and writing are childishly imperfect, though the oldest in existence. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria Undine behaves most childishly and finally says that she has no soul. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas And when she could forget her old-fashioned gown, she was quite childishly content. Country Neighbors Contrast of imposing personality of the Minister and sonorousness of his voice with commonplace character of utterance tickled fancy of House, then as now almost childishly eager to be amused. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 I sobbed childishly, knowing myself doomed to die in this awful morass, drowned in an unnatural sea. Greener Than You Think He spoke purposely in medical terms so that the old father, sobbing childishly on the opposite bed, could not understand the gravity of the situation. Mary Ware's Promised Land The Russian peasants are childishly fond of whirligigs, which are also much in vogue during the Carnival. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse He fidgeted, and at last longed childishly to see them wink. Country Neighbors She looked so young, so altogether young, with her slimness and her tumbled hair, and her childishly quivering red mouth, for all that great unhappiness in her eyes. The Heart of Arethusa Miss Francis immediately abandoned the flowerpot to stare childishly at the feat. Greener Than You Think The voice was clear, loud, full, strident, at times, on the higher notes from over-exertion, but always childishly appealing. Flamsted quarries You behave shamefully, and now you talk childishly. Shining Ferry For even if the soul is brave, the body dreads to die, and seems at moments to possess a second soul, purely physical, that cries out childishly against pain, against death. The Return Of The Soul 1896 She was a little creature, with childishly large eyes, a low, white forehead, reddish-brown hair, and Greek nose and mouth. "Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame" Come, I told you you were acting childishly; this proves it. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective This duty done, without regard to the sensibilities of the owner, who follows them from room to room, now childishly crying—now frantically cursing. The Death Shot A Story Retold Smiling almost childishly, Mordecai passed a bowl of water to each of his guests that they might wash their hands, which they did, murmuring the blessing as they did so. The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Oh, dear," she said childishly, "Aunt Maria expects me to remember ants and pennyroyal when I come here. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' "Apart from the meanness and deceitfulness of it all, you have behaved most childishly, and I shall always think less of Monsieur Dubois for his untruthfulness." Barbara in Brittany And so, you see, you are talking childishly when you dangle these threats and preliminaries to immediate execution before my eyes. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective He himself, childishly, in his cups, long since made all scandal-mongers acquainted with that. The Death Shot A Story Retold "What will you bring me when you return?" inquired the girl childishly. Debts of Honor Is the war over, will it ever be over, if we allow the incompatibility to remain, childishly satisfied with a mere change of shape? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays "No; it isn't a nice gown," she insisted childishly and still tried to escape, but he could be obstinate, too. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa The disciples childishly marvel at the splendid Temple, but its gorgeousness strikes him as earthly, sensuous, perishable, and he says, "There shall not one stone be left upon another." The Chief End of Man My tone, rather than my words, silenced her, and gave her a measure of content, although she was childishly impatient of even a day's delay. A Daughter of the Middle Border But Bettina's little efforts at conversation had seemed to her childishly inadequate. Glory of Youth You would smile to know how childishly my last walk here haunts me; I really must go and see that love-stricken friend of mine. Olive A Novel For the next two miles she sang lustily, childishly, with the complete abandon of a girl without a burden. Tess of the Storm Country If the police are looking for thirty blonde men of similar appearance they are childishly wasting their time. The Sins of Séverac Bablon In the midst of these walks she would stop at the brokers' shop to greet the patriarch, who smiled childishly as he contemplated the youthful and beautiful couple. Luna Benamor The Indian, of course, spoke his own tongue correctly, while Tony spoke it much as he spoke his own—childishly. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood When the young Lothario met him he would find a man—to all seeming—childishly innocent of the facts and fondly incapable of suspicion. The Tyranny of Weakness As she stood, gazing almost childishly across the intervening water, she looked barely more than a schoolgirl; and her short skirt and simple white blouse aided the illusion. The Making of a Soul She always kept his letter for the last, childishly, on the nursery theorem of "First the worst, second the same, last the best of all the game." Play the Game! They look so fierce, and yet are so childishly happy, that at the thought of their exile and of the dark tenement the question arises, "Why all this joy?" Children of the Tenements She had never called upon him for proof of his scholarship, and he was childishly eager to reveal to the woman he loved attainments of which he had no knowledge. The Angel of Terror To-morrow, or next day, I shall have a new Number; and I really do count rather childishly on their arrival. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) Toni told her the price, and she forthwith bought the flowers, greatly to Toni's pleasure, for she loved her sweet-peas and had hoped, rather childishly, that someone nice would buy them. The Making of a Soul Then also, for Edwin’s taste, the parson was somewhat too childishly interested in the culture of cellar-mushrooms, which was his hobby. Clayhanger It is very likely they were as surprised at him as he was childishly vexed with them. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House He had an almost childishly guilty air of not wishing to be caught at something. A Soldier of the Legion We can discover no trace of moral pride in her; all we discern is a childishly naive joy at her prospective happiness. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Though each one may report in different words of his rotational experience, the experience itself is almost childishly simple, and whosoever has been there instantly recognizes other authentic reports. Memories and Studies Harrietta stuck her tongue out at it, childishly, and turned away. Gigolo She seemed childishly happy because I sat and talked to her. Europe After 8:15 The boy relaxed, stretching out to his lank length, one arm crooked childishly over his eyes, and Michael Daragh sat down beside him, his long legs folded under him, on the floor. Jane Journeys On She felt excited, almost light-headed, childishly proud of herself. The Call of the Blood The old man was talking excitedly, almost childishly. The White Desert She had learned it, practised it, rehearsed it to her mother, and had now been childishly eager to show what she could do with it. The Tragic Muse You feel with what beautiful zest it was written; how childishly the author himself relished it. Essays on Scandinavian Literature The green-gray eyes of the Countess shone keenly between their heavy black fringes during a silent moment of inspection, which must have shown her Virginia divinely young, and childishly innocent of guile. The Castle Of The Shadows The human figure, when it occurs, is childishly shapeless. Illuminated Manuscripts "Have we lost them?" he asked huskily, childishly. Phantom Wires A Novel At this last childishly whimsical appeal I was in sore danger of being diverted from the serious channel of my thoughts. Cape Cod Folks They were arranging to be photographed in new uniforms with plenty of gold braid, and were childishly happy. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle She was feeling childishly pleased with herself in her new dress, for she loved beautiful things, and knew next to nothing of suitability, provided the colours were right. The Guests Of Hercules It is quite obvious and childishly simple—the lessons taught to each and every one of us by our own experience. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Well, to-night Emily and Burden had all the cards, and Burden wanted a second rubber, but his aunt doesn't like losing her money to her nephew, even though we play for childishly low stakes. Set in Silver She looked excited and childishly angry, her greenish-gray eyes dilated and her lips pouting. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley They are childishly anxious to send out commissaries to take the direction of affairs in Normandy and Touraine, for the provincials are in their eyes slaves, born to serve and to obey the capital. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris She was so responsive and joyous; so eager to learn, so childishly interested in the fairy tales of another sort of existence that he kept from decay by repeating to her. Joyce of the North Woods But Nelly remained childishly rooted in her refusal to preside at his board, unless compelled; and her brow, knit at the remembrance of her fall, was set to meet the further encounter. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes The Eskimos were childishly delighted with our success. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club The girl bobbed her head—her quaint and childishly impetuous affirmative. Then I'll Come Back to You Once she was very close to flight; more than once, more childishly than she knew, she wished that she would die. Winner Take All She swayed, and put her hands out childishly for support—any support that might steady her as her world went black. Joyce of the North Woods The argument was irresistible; the crowd laughed childishly and let her out. Lourdes She was childishly swinging the basket on her arm and humming a song. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis The story told by Harrison is conspicuously and childishly false. Historical Mysteries A vague trouble took possession of the detective as he blinked calmly down at the glazed and sunken eyes, the gaunt neck, the childishly helpless body. Never-Fail Blake Almost childishly his face cuddled into the pillow. Molly Make-Believe When he looked you fully in the face, which he rarely did, it was noticed that his eyes were at once childishly friendly and deathly sad. The Place Beyond the Winds How slim she looked, how lithe and graceful, and yet so childishly young! From the Valley of the Missing He loved this humanly captious and capricious, childishly unreasonable Anne. The Helpmate He looked at her, and raised a hand childishly as if to ward off something. The Debtor A Novel "I must say you two are a great audience," I said presently, perhaps rather childishly nettled. Pieces of Eight "I see," Priscilla childishly wandered on, "such a lovely trail leading, leading—where?" The Place Beyond the Winds The anguish, the hopelessness written in her blanched face, and the trembling of the childishly small hands that had unconsciously tightened around his touched him. Infelice They did not know whether he was too wildly imaginative or too realistic, too romantic or too prosaic, too childishly simple or too philosophical—Aristophanes says he was all these things at once. Masques & Phases The letters she had received at first from Mrs. Carroll had been childishly amazed and reproachful, although acquiescent. The Debtor A Novel He hesitated, match in hand, shrinking childishly from the coming revealment of his victim. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West He had a childishly guilty feeling that he had perhaps stayed there a little longer than was necessary on that account. Pembroke A Novel Don't you know, I'm childishly glad of it; I was afraid you might be changed in that way, too,—and I don't want to find anything changed. The Quickening We see it with our naked eye—numberless stars and a pale, growing blur around and behind them, and we childishly call it the "Milky Way." The Young Man and the World What a pass had he come to when he grudged a little kudos to a rival, grudged it churlishly, childishly. The Half-Hearted I found him well in health, but childishly annoyed that my play was going to be produced and resolved to get all the money he could from me by hook or by crook. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 In the blackness Delmia feebly groped her way to her sister's side, and throwing her shrunken arms about her, tried to win her back to consciousness by childishly calling her endearing names. A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories Feathered and painted, they were as expressionless as the stone calumets in their hands; by contrast, our French faces were childishly open and expressive. Montlivet Here is a little game that is childishly simple in its conditions. Amusements in Mathematics The child gleamed out here and there quite daintily, and as he indulged in reminiscence, and reminded her of some of their more remote adventures, her merriment found utterance very childishly. A Comedy of Masks A Novel His letters were childishly ill-conditioned and unreasonable; but, believing him to be in extreme indigence, I felt too sorry for him even to argue the point. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 He saw that she had been, captivated by Panchito, and as their glances met, his smile was a reflection of hers—a smile thoroughly and childishly happy. The Pride of Palomar The braves were unwontedly good-humored, childishly pleased with the evening's excitement, and I amused them still further by shrugging at them and making great faces of contempt. Montlivet It was childishly spoken, but then she was a child, and the admiration she had enjoyed throughout the evening had slightly turned her head. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories Her figure was still almost childishly slim, but graceful, and straight enough to defy criticism in the ball-room or the saddle. A Comedy of Masks A Novel At first sight the president's expedient seemed childishly puerile to Ford. Empire Builders He is inclined rather to take a maudlinly affectionate and friendly view of things and people; to be very simply, almost childishly, pleased with the last new idea. The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year Kathleen caught her hand and snuggled it up to her childishly. The Clarion To varnish a rod in December proves that one possesses either a dilatory or a childishly anticipatory mind. Fishing with a Worm He underwent a momentary repentance of his own readiness when he was in the street, and had turned his face to Soho again; it seemed almost childishly trusting. A Comedy of Masks A Novel She stood very straight and tense before him, a childishly small figure there in the dusk, the blowing candles making strange play of light and shadow over her. The Palace of Darkened Windows It pleased them, and they worked with a will, being indeed childishly eager to begin the bombardment before the time was ripe. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow I think she would have cried childishly in another moment; and she was trying hard to remember that she was growing up! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man She clasped the jewel-case and went out; and I heard her chatting a minute after with some gentlemen in the house, as if she were perfectly and childishly happy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The superficial scheme of the story is so childishly naïve, or so daringly naïve, that only a genius could have preserved it from the ridiculous. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 It might pass muster with disputants in search of a verbal triumph, but to any man seriously concerned for the welfare of the nation must appear childishly irrelevant. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 But, with all his thinking for himself, "Hank" was also childishly vulgar. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative He was welcomed and fêted by the Neapolitans, than whom no people are more childishly delighted with a change of masters. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots She was still in the hook of Harlan's arm, and from that vantage-point flung a glance of childishly ingenuous triumph at him. The Ramrodders A Novel It sometimes happened if the master and mate differed on some minor matter that their relations became childishly strained, and each asserted his rights until the feeling softened. Windjammers and Sea Tramps I wandered through the hot, knee-high grass, picking handfuls of the broad yellow suns, then childishly threw them away, and pulled others, with great heads of sweet red clover, and spears of timothy too. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories She had thought childishly, shallowly last night that she had had no faith, and could live with none. The Brimming Cup I became almost childishly interested in small things. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Besides, the lovers were too childishly happy to be at all reticent over their felicity. The Laurel Bush His disappointment at not being welcomed by Barbara at Northlands was so genuine and so childishly unconcealed. Jaffery First, like many others, very free in their comments and attacks, he is almost childishly sensitive. Sketches in the House (1893) But otherwise she was ignorant, beautifully, childishly ignorant—and undismayed. Septimus Her eyes were dark brown, large, melting, childishly introspective. White Shadows in the South Seas Douglas was still pale and his voice broke, childishly. Judith of the Godless Valley She considered that question childishly, standing there alone. Flames "You like sweets?" she said, childishly, to her companion; "give me one?" The Mating of Lydia There came the sound of a laugh—a clear, ringing laugh, childishly, irresistibly gay—and a figure in blue came in through the marble pillars. Charles Rex And the Fin as well as the Nordland plebeian is also childishly fond of all sweet things, and his "syrup and porridge" are widely known. The Visionary Pictures From Nordland But his features were much less regular than hers; the chin and nose were childishly tilted, the eyes too prominent. Lady Merton, Colonist There were times when she bitterly, childishly, regretted it. Harvest Astrardente had seen a great deal of the world, but his ideas of politics were almost childishly simple—whereas many people said that his principles in relation to his fellows were fiendishly cynical. Saracinesca She held up her lips to his, childishly, lovingly. Charles Rex Piteously, childishly, with seeking eyes, she held out her hand to him, as though mutely asking him for the answer to her outpouring—the last word of it all. Marcella Absurd allegories are read into the Bible; the words of Scripture are counters in a game of distortion and combination; God himself is obscured amid a maze of mystic beings, childishly conceived and childishly named. Chapters on Jewish Literature We have perhaps acted childishly and foolishly toward other nations by too great confidence. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index If little men, fiercely effervescent and childishly inconsequential, attempted to reply to him or sought to engage him in debate, he simply answered them with silence, or that tantalizing smile. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors And she looked at Stonehouse, a little malicious and insolently, childishly sure. The Dark House Nothing was to be seen; and she put down her bag and cloak, childishly glad of the extra hour of rest. Marcella As they were walking home to the Sawdust Pile, Nan captured one of her husband's great fingers and swung it childishly. Kindred of the Dust In others, as in 'Mary Anerley,' the mystery is childishly simple, the oft-repeated plot of a lost child recovered by certain strangely wrought gold buttons. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 She had a wistful, shrinking look, which suited ill with her round face and her childishly parted lips over her small white teeth. Lady Connie He got up and followed her awkwardly, with a sullen face and a childishly beating heart. The Dark House The conspicuous blue eyes were as a rule melancholy; but they could be childishly bright and self-assertive. Marcella |
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