If a man's working-hours are not to be respectedif his privacy is to be thus invaded on the flimsiest of pretexts,why, then, one may very reasonably look for chaos to come again.

Some of them are mere interpolations introduced on the flimsiest of excuses, which arrest the progress of the main narrativei.e., the traveland give the author an opportunity to use up some spare material which he does not know what to do with.

" "So I supposed," growled the grizzled old man, who sat at a big desk upon which was piled many flimsies.

But thenof course!Diantha's innuendoes had been based on flimsiest hearsay.

Every day brought some new case, sometimes a death, and people began to look suspiciously at each other in the streets and to avoid each other on the flimsiest pretexts.

The innumerable difficulties which it raises have been either ignored, or brushed aside on the flimsiest evidence.

And, oh, how gladly she would believe!only the tiniest, the flimsiest fiction, her eyes craved of him.

" Only the tiniest, the flimsiest fiction, her eyes craved of him.

She had put on an old black dress, just a scrap of a flimsy, little worn-out gown.

"Feathers," she said to herself; "no more than froth and feathers to a man who has been working hard half a day, and as to the extravagance of such flimsy victuals" She could keep quiet no longer, she was obliged to speak out, and she burst into a tirade against people who called themselves pious, and yet, wilfully shutting their eyes, were about to plunge into wicked wastefulness.

All are dressed in paper flimsies of various shapes and colours.

These papers persuaded the German people that England, through her jealousy of Germany’s great growth in trade, had egged on Russia, France, and Serbia to attack Germany and Austria, and then had declared war herself on a flimsy pretext.

It is a sad illustration of the ignorance of the Russian people as a whole, that such a man could have gotten so great a power on such flimsy pretenses.

If you'd use the brains God gave you, you know that lots of couples have married on flimsier grounds than we'd have.

whence the valley arose, and I could see one of its long peaks lined with cocoanut-trees, and all cloud burned out of the sky except the flimsiest lawn-figments, and the sea as absolutely calm as a lake roughened with breezes, yet making a considerable noise in its breaking on the shore, as I have noticed in these sorts of places: I do not know why.

How could any human being be gulled by such flimsy devices as these?

If this be the flimsy age, the "Cabinet Cyclopaedia" is certainly not one of the flimsiest of its projects; and for the credit of the age, we wish the undertaking all success.

A wheel and a barrel seem to have the flimsiest possible constitutions; they consist of numerous separate pieces all oddly shaped, which, when lying in a heap, look hopelessly unfitted for union; but put them properly together, compress them with a tire in the one case and with hoops in the other, and a remarkably enduring organisation will result.

He saw them now; saw them, moreover, upon the flimsiest of promises, all superbly gifted with the Whipple nose.

The flimsiest door not fitting, with the number of each room printed on a bit of paper and fastened on with a tack; furniture consisting of a rickety iron bed, a box that has been a packing case for a table, another for a washstand, a rough single chair, sometimes a rocking chair, and all crowned by a looking-glass that makes half your nose in one part of your face, and one eye up in your foreheadtoo deliciously comic.

It strikes me that the kind of marriage you propose would be a good deal flimsier than this will.

The man, on the flimsiest pretest, has sent the woman home to clear his establishment for the new wife.

A most serious problem confronts General Otis in the protection of Manila and the suburban towns from fire, not only because of the treacherous character of the rebel Filipinos, but also because outside of the business establishments the houses are built of the flimsiest bamboo, hung with matting screens.

It is the flimsiest of all possible arguments to say that their sorrows are trifling, to talk about their little cares and trials.

In their attitude towards Norwegian shipping, you will notice that they make the flimsiest excuse for the destruction of as much tonnage as they can sink.