I shall engage the table flippantly: Hear how preposterously the fellow talks!he jests to satisfy a grudge.

You'll have to call again," she said flippantly.

"Enter the Lord High Executioner!" said Piers flippantly.

He does not flippantly ridicule the homoousian and the homoiousian as mere words, but the expression and exponent of profound theological distinctions, as every theologian knows them to be.

It was two months ere Addison began to write, and during that time it was flippantly dull; but when he appeared its character changed, and his contributions to the new periodical were quite as good as the best of his Spectators.

He never casts a fling at Christianity; he never utters a sarcasm in reference to revealed truths; he never flippantly aspires to be wiser than Moses or Paul in reference to theological dogmas.

If you take on a tender and affectionate tone, she replies flippantly, or perhaps changes the subject.

Then, with the appearance of the destined mate, beauty and youth and desire carry the day against duty, but neither callously nor flippantly.

In saying this, I am not speaking flippantly either.

II was looking for Mr. Ormsby, and" "Not when I saw you," she broke in flippantly.

she rejoined flippantly.

Pig-headed as a mule, but" "Are mules pig-headed?" said Dick flippantly.

"And what may be the precious document, Monsieur le Ministre," she demanded flippantly, "of which you find it so impossible to relax your hold?

Lord Palmerston, I fear, used the word "damned" more or less flippantly.

But this critic, of the American Review, ingenious though he is in many of his remarks, flippantly denies that our English Prosody has either authorities or principles which one ought to respect; and accordingly cares so little whom he contradicts, that he is often inconsistent with himself.

"You can wear itI've been promoted," I said flippantly, raising my head-gear to him and bowing.

"Very well; 'tear into it,' as Horace would say; but if it is anything frightful, break it gently," I said flippantly.

Clive's marriage was performed in Brussels, where Mr. James Binnie, who longed to see Rosey wedded, and his sister, whom we flippantly ventured to call the Campaigner, had been staying that summer.

Next day, dining with Doctor Sevier, said the Doctor, "That chap's working himself to death, Anna," and gave his fair guest such a stern white look that she had to answer flippantly.

'A property that has been in the familywhy, since' 'My great-grandfather the stay-maker's time,' Sir George answered flippantly, as he emptied his glass.

You may wonder that I have been so silent, when I had announced a war between the House of Commons and the Citynay, when hostilities were actually commenced; but many a campaign languishes that has set out very flippantly.

Why, we should have thought such expressions about our grandmother a sort of sacrilege, but when I ventured to hint as much Charley flippantly answered, "Gracious me, we are not going back to buckram"; and Metelill, with her caressing way, declared that she loved dear granny too much to be so stiff and formal.

" He tried to speak flippantly, at which Squire Boatfield frowned deprecation.

" "Sit upon it," suggests Algy, flippantly.

(How can he speak in that flippantly cheerful voice, with the prospect of seventeen days' sea before him?)