At last he said, with an affectation of casualness: "Father been pretty well of late, my dear?" Ida hesitated for a moment.

I have spent many a precious moment alone in my fields looking up the road (with what wistful casualness!)

It explained to him the tragedies of his race, their sufferings at the hand of mob violence; the casualness, even the levity with which black men were murdered: the chronic dishonesty with which negroes were treated: the constant enactment of adverse legislation against them; the cynical use of negro women.

It held the casualness of one certain to be obeyed.

"And of course from the other bow-window higher up," he added, almost pitifully, in his careful casualness.

"I did think Edwin Clayhanger would come in sometimes, now they're living next door" "They're in their new house, then!" said Hilda, with casualness.

he said, with fine casualness, and conducted her to the eight swinging glass doors that led to the salle à manger of the Grand Babylon.

"Yes," said he, with all the casualness that he could assume.

The casualness of her tone was sublime; it was heroic; it made her feet small.

Instead of being the significant thing about him in expression of his casualness, it seemed the softening compensation for his stubbornness.

He turned to light a cigarette with an air of determined casualness.

This casualness is our English vice.

He put the query with elaborate and deceiving casualness, having cleared a road to it with remarks upon a circumspect historical romance that Winona had read to him; and she had merely said that she supposed it often did happen that way, though it were far better that true love come gently into one's life, based upon a profound mutual respect and esteem which would endure through long years of wedded life.

I have before referred to the apparent vagueness and casualness of war on its present scarcely conceivable scale.

The casualness of the question must have disarmed Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone of the Dublin Military Police.