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- It was a pause with which he expressed an element of sympathy for his interlocutor without suggesting for even an instant that there had been a change in their relative stations.† (source)
- My three interlocutors did not look up from the weaving they were doing on a crude loom.† (source)
- Here are the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher and interlocutor, in long discourses alternating with dramatic scenes—danger and rescue allotted to the rich and the poor respectively.† (source)
- -Sol hesitated, sensing a trap, trying to see where his subconscious interlocutor was heading.† (source)
- And where Nina would not hesitate to cut someone off in mid-assertion in order to make a contrary point and then declare the matter decided once and for all, Sofia would listen so attentively and with such a sympathetic smile that her interlocutor, having been given free rein to express his views at considerable length, often found his voice petering out as he began to question his own premises….† (source)
- "She says we're jealous," reported the interlocutor.† (source)
- The eyes of the Jew shot a quick, keen glance at the gold in his interlocutor's hand.† (source)
- "Abe, if you ain't drunk or crazy tell thet over," ordered Abe's interlocutor.† (source)
- He eyed his interlocutor, and then glanced about him.† (source)
- "You were nearly dead," said my interlocutor.† (source)
- He edged in a curious way along the seat away from his interlocutor.† (source)
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- where the boots of his interlocutor should have been were neither legs nor boots.† (source)
- Then, having riveted the eyes of his interlocutor on his own, he glanced towards the door.† (source)
- "The young Cossack made his mighty interlocutor smile," says Thiers.† (source)
- The two interlocutors seemed preoccupied.† (source)
- And he looked at his interlocutor as if the question might have a double meaning.† (source)
- The two interlocutors thus separated, taking opposite directions, at full gallop.† (source)
- And her interlocutor stammered a little.† (source)
- "I haven't made a mistake—pas insulte, no?" her interlocutor continued.† (source)
- "What are you driving at, Dobbin?" his interlocutor said, uneasy and with a scowl.† (source)
- I perceived, of course, the drift of my interlocutor.† (source)
- "It's you, Moss, is it?" said the Colonel, who appeared to know his interlocutor.† (source)
- Morris rejoined, raising his voice a little, with a brighter smile, as his interlocutor turned away.† (source)
- Then he shook his head, with his eyes still fixed upon his interlocutor.† (source)
- Debray stepped forward, and cordially pressed the hand of his interlocutor.† (source)
- She made her interlocutor observe the corner of this unfolded object.† (source)
- There was an instant of profound silence between the two interlocutors.† (source)
- "The marriage," he said (at which his interlocutor's face grew dark) "was very much my doing.† (source)
- He was in a state of irritation, which I noticed with surprise, his usual behaviour when he condescended to converse being perfectly cool, with a trace of amused tolerance, as if the existence of his interlocutor had been a rather good joke.† (source)
- From a distance now, he examined life in his homeland and found that his interlocutor had characterized it correctly.† (source)
- His interlocutor burst out laughing several times at his answers; and more than ever, when to the question, "whether he had been cured?" the patient replied: "No, they did not cure me."† (source)
- I looked past my interlocutors.† (source)
- He turned his head over his shoulder to the right, to look at the boots of his interlocutor with a view to comparisons, and lo! where the boots of his interlocutor should have been were neither legs nor boots.† (source)
- The voice of the other interlocutor Carol did not catch, nor, though Mrs. Bogart was proclaiming that he was her confidant and present assistant, did she catch the voice of Mrs. Bogart's God.† (source)
- I can see Douglas there before the fire, to which he had got up to present his back, looking down at his interlocutor with his hands in his pockets.† (source)
- Tess's attention was thus attracted to the dairyman's interlocutor, of whom she could see but the merest patch, owing to his burying his head so persistently in the flank of the milcher.† (source)
- Transcribed here the speech sounds harmless enough, particularly as uttered in the sweet, high, casual pipe with which, at all interlocutors, but above all at his eternal governess, he threw off intonations as if he were tossing roses.† (source)
- He looked at the money in his hand, then at this stern interlocutor, and at Desgas, who had stood silently behind him all this while.† (source)
- Tess hastily explained that he had been called away on business, and, leaving her interlocutor, clambered over the garden-hedge, and thus made her way to the house.† (source)
- Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.† (source)
- Strange to say of a woman in full bloom and vigor, she always allowed her interlocutors to finish their statements before rejoining with hers.† (source)
- I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.† (source)
- "It will be better to-day," finally resumed their interlocutor, who seemed to listen to them with impatience.† (source)
- Your true rustic turns his back on his interlocutor, throwing a question over his shoulder as if he meant to run away from the answer, and walking a step or two farther off when the interest of the dialogue culminates.† (source)
- "Sergeant Dunham's daughter is scarcely a fitting interlocutor in a discourse between you and me, Lieutenant Muir," rejoined the captain's lady, with careful respect for her own dignity; "and yonder is the Pathfinder about to take his chance, by way of changing the subject."† (source)
- The girl stared, and her blush came back to her, together with a momentary look of pain which gave her interlocutor some alarm.† (source)
- Not to hear the words of your interlocutor in metropolitan centres is to know nothing of his meaning.† (source)
- Not only was he looking in, but he appeared to have been arrested by a conversation which was in progress in the malt-house, the voices of the interlocutors being those of Oak and the maltster.† (source)
- It caused Mrs. Pomfret to have tea sent up to her own room, and it inspired that exemplary lady's maid with so lively a recollection of former passages in Mrs. Best's conduct, and of dialogues in which Mrs. Best had decidedly the inferiority as an interlocutor with Mrs. Pomfret, that Hetty required no more presence of mind than was demanded for using her needle, and throwing in an occasional "yes" or "no."† (source)
- He was thinking that, as he would have said himself; and indeed he might safely leave it to the memory of any interlocutor, especially of one to whom he was offering his hand.† (source)
- The conversation that followed passed in the language of the Tuscaroras, which Pathfinder spoke fluently; but, as that tongue is understood only by the extremely learned, we shall translate it freely into the English; preserving, as far as possible, the tone of thought of each interlocutor, as well as the peculiarities of manner.† (source)
- With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.† (source)
- Then he rose, leaned on the arm of his interlocutor, made a sign to the sort of mute who stood before the door to precede him, to the two Flemings to follow him, and quitted the room.† (source)
- She looked at her interlocutor a moment, and the result of her observation was that—as had happened before—she felt sorry for him.† (source)
- He took from his pocket, while he stood on the portico, a card upon which, under his name, he had written the words "San Francisco," and while he presented it he looked warily at his interlocutor.† (source)
- Goodwood had meant to go away early, but the evening elapsed without his having a chance to speak to Isabel otherwise than as one of several associated interlocutors.† (source)
- She remained standing where they had met, making no offer to advance or to speak to Mr. Touchett, and while she lingered so near the threshold, slim and charming, her interlocutor wondered if she expected the old man to come and pay her his respects.† (source)
- Thenardier noticed this movement and continued with the deliberation of an orator who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under his words: "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a key to it.† (source)
- "Poor, yes; unhappy, no." At that moment, a trampling of horses was heard, and our two interlocutors beheld defiling at the end of the street, a company of the king's unattached archers, their lances borne high, an officer at their head.† (source)
- Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor's face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers.† (source)
- Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:— "Oh Cydathenaeum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the AEantides!† (source)
- His interlocutor, whose head appeared through the carriage window, was a woman of from twenty to two-and-twenty years.† (source)
- On many of her interlocutors Madame Merle might have produced an irritating effect; it was disconcertingly difficult to surprise her.† (source)
- "MAY it be right then," I said, as I rose, deeming it useless to continue a discourse which was all darkness to me; and, besides, sensible that the character of my interlocutor was beyond my penetration; at least, beyond its present reach; and feeling the uncertainty, the vague sense of insecurity, which accompanies a conviction of ignorance.† (source)
- Newman was naturally out of the conversation; he sat with his head a little on one side, watching the interlocutors.† (source)
- And the cardinal pointed with his finger to a chair for the young man, who was so astonished at what was passing that he awaited a second sign from his interlocutor before he obeyed.† (source)
- I like Lord Warburton quite well enough." she fell into that appearance of a sudden change of point of view with which she sometimes startled and even displeased her interlocutors.† (source)
- With respect to Aramis, though having the air of having nothing secret about him, he was a young fellow made up of mysteries, answering little to questions put to him about others, and having learned from him the report which prevailed concerning the success of the Musketeer with a princess, wished to gain a little insight into the amorous adventures of his interlocutor.† (source)
- Before she went to bed she had pondered, analyzed, turned on all sides, examined on all points, the words, the steps, the gestures, the signs, and even the silence of her interlocutors; and of this profound, skillful, and anxious study the result was that Felton, everything considered, appeared the more vulnerable of her two persecutors.† (source)
- At the risk of her own, was the telling rejoinder of his interlocutor, none the less effective for the moderate and measured tone in which it was delivered.† (source)
- He threw an odd eye at the same time now and then at Stephen's anything but immaculately attired interlocutor as if he had seen that nobleman somewhere or other though where he was not in a position to truthfully state nor had he the remotest idea when.† (source)
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