Always businesslike; a wonderful man you are still.

"One more item," said the count, in his businesslike, calm way.

It was done in a businesslike manner and with no more outward concern than a Kikuji porter might have displayed in meeting the exigencies of a like situation.

She was quiet but businesslike, of few words but with a latent sense of humor that not infrequently broke through the surface of her gravity, and she proceeded upon the excellent postulate that everyone with whom she came in contact was actuated by the highest sense of honor.

So he went away, shutting the door after him in a contented way, not sharply as if he were annoyed with her, nor very softly and considerately as if he were sorry for her, but with a moderate, businesslike snap of the latch as if everything were all right.

No country could refuse so sane and businesslike an offer, especially a country which will at once count upon its fingers how much it will save by not going to war.

" "How about that cove with his head lopped down on his arms?" speculated Tommy, with a businesslike air.

Then she locked up the desk in a businesslike fashion and turned to him, and held out her hand.

At the border station we lined up, immigrant fashion, and went through an inspection by a number of the businesslike German militariat attached to the Zollamt, or customs service.

"We grow businesslike!" returned the Doge with a change of manner.

"As I've already tried to make clear to you, it's such a businesslike thing to ride to the pass unless you have the inspiration," she remarked thoughtfully to Marcus.

" While Jack came in chaps and spurs, bearing an argosy of fancy, Prather came by rail, carrying a suitcase in a conventional and businesslike fashion.

To-day we will hardly permit an artist an extra half-inch of hair, and he must be very well groomed, very prosperous, businesslike, and, in appearance at least, athleticeven if he must ask his tailor to furnish the look of brawn.

We came to a halt and all officers were summoned to the colonel who, addressing us in his usual quiet, almost businesslike way, said: "Gentlemen, accept my congratulations, I have good news for you, we may meet the enemy to-day and I sincerely hope to lead you to the fight before evening."

The conferences were quite businesslike, and Admiral Koltchak's presence seemed to galvanise the whole army into life and energy.

One day about the middle of November Thor stopped in the very act of digging out a family of whistlers, went straight down into the valley, and struck southward in a most businesslike way.

" I knew that there was not the slightest danger of that, but it sounded businesslike.

But Outfield West only smiled silently in response, and followed his ball with businesslike attention to the game.

"How much would you say a pound, father?" "Can't say till I get 'em in the scales, of course," and, smoothing down his apron, the Gentleman Goose advanced toward Ann in a businesslike fashion.

they cried in a businesslike kind of way as they laid hold of the bow of the rowboat, "or have your throats cutjust as you like, you know.

These two handled their little guns in a most businesslike manner.

For the moment he became almost businesslike.

But that reflection banished the businesslike view.

Antoine drew off his mittens with businesslike precision, and placed a huge, capable hand on a pot-lid, lifted it, and eyed the contents of the saucepan.

But I confess to having laboured under an increasing depression, because the whole thing was conducted by rule and line, and in a terribly businesslike way; we knew beforehand exactly what we were to look out for.