" "Do you know anything of her?" asked De Chauxville perfunctorily, not as a man who expects an answer or intends to believe that which he may be about to hear.

"And pray," said Mr. Cassilis perfunctorily as they strolled on across the meadow, "how do you like Dapplemere, Mr. Bellew?"

" The girl glanced perfunctorily around.

" "I think it shows the importance of the result of this trial to the witness," argued O'Brien perfunctorily.

Racey inhaled strongly, then got to his feet and lazed across to the bar where Jake Rule, with Kansas Casey at his elbow, was perfunctorily questioning McFluke.

He nodded perfunctorily to Dolan.

"Who's the other letter from?" said Piers, glancing at it perfunctorily.

Ina took the hand perfunctorily between her fingers and at once relinquished it.

So Mike laughed perfunctorily, took back the envelope with the five pounds, accepted a ginger beer and a plateful of biscuits, and rode off on his return journey.

To conclude with Scribanius, "that which they had neglected, or perfunctorily handled, we may more thoroughly examine; that which is obscurely delivered in them, may be perspicuously dilated and amplified by us:" and so made more familiar and easy for every man's capacity, and the common good, which is the chief end of my discourse.

Sometimes they go too perfunctorily to work, in not prescribing a just course of physic: To stir up the humour, and not to purge it, doth often more harm than good.

Or it might continue, more perfunctorily, just long enough to lay the foundation of her new house, the plans of which were now materializing in an architect's brain.

" "That is very sad," said Douglas, with cold disgust, perfunctorily veiled by a conventional air of sympathy.

"Ye've done gr-r-rand f'r-r a beginnerr-r," said John McTavish, wearily, perfunctorily.

Craig repeated the question perfunctorily.

My reports were perfunctorily accepted and at once forgotten or ignored.

" The two men shook hands perfunctorily.

" "I suppose those boys will be more stuck up than ever now," said Jack to Bill Bender, as, having perfunctorily thanked their rescuers, they started for home with the almost weeping Sam.

"That's right," Jim agreed perfunctorily, as a man is wont to agree with his employer.

"I am sorry for this unpleasantness," he said perfunctorily, stopping before Don Andres.

They are placed in the hands of politicians and perfunctorily administered.

All questions being answered perfunctorily, she relaxed into silence.

'Yes,' he said, perfunctorily.

He thought of his own series of the 'Months'which he had planned among these hills, and had carried out perfunctorily and vulgarly, in the city, far from the freshness and infinity of Nature.

So Babe was asleep and tucked in her bed, and Casey turned down the light and asked perfunctorily if there was anything else he could do, and had started for the door.