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  • When she was eight months pregnant, one of Enrique's uncles insinuated that the baby didn't belong to Enrique.†   (source)
  • What are you insinuating?†   (source)
  • Dog hair insinuated itself into every crevice of our home, every piece of our wardrobe, and more than a few of our meals.†   (source)
  • How, on the brink of adulthood, with a measured IQ of 80, no formal education and no experience of white people, he had so insinuated himself into rich white Memphis that white people no longer noticed the color of his skin.†   (source)
  • The real punchline is then delivered in a low, insinuating tone: 'Nooope ...nothing wrong here.'†   (source)
  • Are you insinuating that Millennium's credibility is diminished because a well-known financier with significant resources has entered the picture?†   (source)
  • Let me tell you something, blockhead: anyone who is stupid enough to do what you did deserves—" Eragon clasped his hands behind his back and waited as Angela informed him, in many explicit, detailed, and highly inventive terms, exactly how great a blockhead he was; what kind of ancestors he must possess to be such a monumental blockhead-she even went so far as to insinuate that one of his grandparents had mated with an Urgal-and the quite hideous punishments he ought to receive for his idiocy.†   (source)
  • Ha!" he said in a very nasty insinuating tone, and before I could wheel round to see what had come over him he was gone, shutting the door behind him with a rude slam.†   (source)
  • They had informed him of the loading of the airplane on board a ship that did not arrive, and although his shipping agents insisted, that it would never arrive because it was not on the list of Caribbean ships, his partners insisted that the shipment was correct and they even insinuated that Gaston was lying to them in his letters.†   (source)
  • That silky, insinuating voice!†   (source)
  • Sometimes it insinuates itself into my mind, little by little.†   (source)
  • She could seamlessly adapt, insinuate herself into any group, any culture or situation.†   (source)
  • Then they sat together, side by side, watching the light come up behind the window and insinuate itself into the room.†   (source)
  • Bill, I didn't insinuate your business is less important," she says, dropping her own fork on her plate.†   (source)
  • Hema insinuated two fingers of her right hand around the fetal skull.†   (source)
  • Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things.†   (source)
  • And for you to insinuate that it did ...†   (source)
  • To go further, insinuating more, pulling me into an argument I didn't deserve, much less want to have.†   (source)
  • (Insinuatingly, to her daughter) Yes, I guess I see why we done commence to get so interested in Africa 'round here†   (source)
  • She merely needs to insinuate, insinuate anything, don't you see?†   (source)
  • Roland Weary, eighteen years old, insinuated himself between the scouts, draped a heavy arm around the shoulder of each.†   (source)
  • To many seasoned managers of public health projects, what Farmer and Kim were doing would have looked quite reckless—like a stunt, as some would later insinuate.†   (source)
  • "Not in the way you're insinuating," Jenks replied.†   (source)
  • As soon as it did I insinuated my fingers quickly inside her.†   (source)
  • Hester bristled: "Are you insinuating—"†   (source)
  • He trusted Henry ....or rather, he had, before he'd mistakenly thought Kylie had insinuated that Henry had divulged his deepest darkest secret.†   (source)
  • Northern Light Infantry pay stubs and ID cards Indians later claimed to have found on dead soldiers insinuate a different story.†   (source)
  • And it did hurt my feelings a little that Josh insinuated that I had worn a really sensuous outfit just to torment and tease him—which I did not, by the way!†   (source)
  • Like moonlight stealing under a window shade an idea insinuated itself: his earlier desire to see his own face.†   (source)
  • He is sneering at the Chairman and asking him sarcastic and insinuating questions.†   (source)
  • He was the largest of the group, wearing dark red fighting trunks much too small to conceal the erection which projected from him as though in answer to the insinuating low-registered moaning of the clarinet.†   (source)
  • "You're forgetting: We are not all English, and we are not all men," I say, insinuating myself into his chess game.†   (source)
  • He insinuated that Gedney had perhaps run off with the chests of gold supposedly contained in the Amistad\ hold.†   (source)
  • When someone later insinuated that perhaps the chief was not prepared for such a course, he retorted, "If anyone thinks I'm a pacifist, let him try to take my chickens, and he will know how wrong he is!†   (source)
  • By the use of subtlety he had insinuated himself into the confidentiality of great men.†   (source)
  • He's not going to get away with insinuating a cover-up.†   (source)
  • It was the women who were eager to rush into print with stories insinuating that being seen with me at a restaurant was the sign of a great romance.†   (source)
  • And then an evil thought, again covertly insinuated into his will by the crystal shard, came upon the wizard.†   (source)
  • The group being entertained by the ghost story had been ordinary civilians, but the storyteller who had insinuated himself into their gathering was not in the least ordinary.†   (source)
  • We're not talking about it, so stop bringing up his name and trying to insinuate him into this conversation.†   (source)
  • NICK: (Stretching ....luxuriating ....playing the game) Nyaah ....what I thought I'd do is ....I'd sort of insinuate myself generally, play around for a while, find all the weak spots, shore 'em up, but with my own name plate on them ....become a sort of a fact, and then turn into a ....a what ....?†   (source)
  • Are you insinuating that I'm a moron?†   (source)
  • All those ridiculous questions insinuating that Kevin kept her under lock and key.†   (source)
  • It is one of those cities where childhood is a pleasure and memory a flow of honey; one of those cities that never lets go, that insinuates its precedence by the insistent delicacy of its beauty.†   (source)
  • What are you insinuating?†   (source)
  • I made a direct pass at Leslie as soon as we were back inside the front door, insinuating my arm around her waist, but she managed to slip away with a tinkly little laugh and the observation—too cryptic for me to quite get straight—that "haste makes waste."†   (source)
  • Unlived children, of all ages, insinuate themselves Into spotlights and rotogravures.†   (source)
  • The universal shortage of aviation gasoline will make any quick aid difficult, however .... The squeal insinuated itself into the voice and subdued it.†   (source)
  • He's been insinuating I don't know what.†   (source)
  • Before long he heard something-soft, continuous, insinuating.†   (source)
  • From there on it was a matter of keeping his center of gravity low and making no sudden moves while he insinuated his body farther down into the cocoon.†   (source)
  • Is that what you're insinuating?†   (source)
  • Eddie looks at me and tilts her head to the front door, insinuating it's time to go.†   (source)
  • The stench was cruel, insinuating itself into the folds of his clothes.†   (source)
  • And maybe, a crawling, insinuating voice inside spoke up, maybe she knows where Kemp is.†   (source)
  • His precise, insinuating delivery suggested horrors that Turner could not immediately grasp.†   (source)
  • He began abusing me, making the most insulting remarks and insinuating the most dreadful things.†   (source)
  • I'm not insinuating that you have mental problems, Maynard.†   (source)
  • The day to come insinuated itself along the peaks of the Great Pamir range to the north.†   (source)
  • It's like I'm insinuating we're a team.†   (source)
  • Jenny vacuumed like a fiend, determined to get up the bucketsful of Marley fur that had been falling out in massive clumps for the past couple of years, insinuating itself into every crevice and fold.†   (source)
  • It whispered into Bod's head, then, in a voice that was a sleek insinuating glide, THE SLEER WAS SET TO GUARD THE TREASURE UNTIL OUR MASTER RETURNED.†   (source)
  • While I didn't for an instant believe some of the things my dad, in moments of meanness, had insinuated about my mother, it did appear that Mr. Bracegirdle had known my mother a good deal better than I would have thought.†   (source)
  • Then why are you insinuating that Millennium's credibility would be diminished because we also have backers?†   (source)
  • You're insinuating!†   (source)
  • It's obvious from his taunting remarks that he knows exactly what he was insinuating with the window comment.†   (source)
  • A radio with a faulty connection played loud and rasping for a while, then suddenly quiet and insinuating.†   (source)
  • Remembered lore insinuated itself into Jessica's mind: Without a stillsuit, a man sitting in shade on the desert needs five liters of water a day to maintain body weight.†   (source)
  • It felt to Eragon like a piece of raw wool sliding over his skin as Rhunon enveloped his mind with hers, insinuating herself into the most private areas of his being.†   (source)
  • The long lens insinuates a certain compression, a half-lurking anxiety that serves not only the moment but the day and week and age.†   (source)
  • A clipped, insinuating voice spieled words whose meaning I couldn't catch and I was about to pass on when I saw the boy.†   (source)
  • Regis felt an iron will insinuating itself into all of his thoughts, compelling him to obey Kessell's every command.†   (source)
  • You're the one who came over here and insinuated yourself into every part of my life, and then you wait until I have every last thread of my existence wrapped around you and then you leave.†   (source)
  • She'd insinuated—true or not—that she knew people in the state legislature and ensured that Gabby was given a gracious private room that overlooked a courtyard.†   (source)
  • Pasted to the flanks of every piece of rusting war materiel, the face of Shah Ahmed Massoud regarded their progress from posters, a secular saint of northern Afghanistan, insinuating from somewhere beyond life that these sacrifices had been necessary.†   (source)
  • Thus Crenshinibon exerted its will through manipulation, insinuating illusions of conquest into the wizard's dreams, allowing Kessell to view the possibilities of power.†   (source)
  • Those of halfling stock possessed a strong natural resistance to such magic, however, and a countering force — the gemstone — helped Regis fight back against the insinuating will and gradually push it away.†   (source)
  • She decided instantly to risk it, to exploit the opening he had given her no matter how absurdly insinuating and reckless the words might sound.†   (source)
  • We had said and insinuated too much that evening for me to leave without further discussion or to stay without our destiny, our goddam human destiny, being further and irretrievably complicated.†   (source)
  • "Doesn't that fabric chafe around your bottom?" she heard Wilhelmine ask her now, mezza voce and with a slight quaver that made everything more insinuating and flirtatious than her suggestive eyes, or the words that had caused her at first to take warning: I'll bet you don't even know.†   (source)
  • He shmoozed and whispered around the edge of her lips with his own lips and stuck his tongue in her mouth, insinuating it there with droll titillating little forays and retreats, making movements gently copulatory.†   (source)
  • His relaxed manner, for one thing, then his rather awkward but real attempt at conversation, followed by the insinuating touch of his hand on her shoulder (or was she reading too much into this?) when they had both gazed at the Arabian stallion: these seemed to her to signal cracks in that impregnable mask.†   (source)
  • Most notably there had been the occasion when I was about sixteen, at a school dance, when one of those artful little coquettes I have mentioned—of which Leslie was such a cherished antithesis—took me over all possible fraudulent jumps: breathing on my neck, tickling my sweaty palm with her fingertip, and insinuating her satin groin against my own with such resolute albeit counterfeit wantonness that only an almost saintly will power, after hours of this, forced me to break apart from the loathsome little vampire and make my swollen way into the night.†   (source)
  • You insinuate that I obliterated Piter as one obliterates a trifle.†   (source)
  • So when a group of refugees decided to move, he'd insinuate himself among them.†   (source)
  • "Well," Leota answered at last, "you know what I heard in here yestiddy, one of Thelma's ladies was settin' over yonder in Thelma's booth gittin' a machineless, and I don't mean to insist or insinuate or anything, Mrs. Fletcher, but Thelma's lady just happ'med to throw out-I forgotten what she was talkin' about at the time-that you was p-r-e-g., and lots of times that'll make your hair do awful funny, fall out and God knows what all.†   (source)
  • I don't like flirts, you see, it is only a way of trying to insinuate yourself into my favor, to try and seek out a few rewards.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Meade, you can't be insinuating that there's ever been anything between those two!†   (source)
  • Mammy brought up tempting trays, insinuating that now she was a widow she might eat as much as she pleased, but Scarlett had no appetite.†   (source)
  • She forced herself to go out into society in order to cull its ridicules; she taught her eye to observe; she read the masterpieces of her language to discover its effects; she insinuated herself into the company of those who were celebrated for their conversation.†   (source)
  • Insinuating, too, as she did the greatness of man's intellect, even in its decay, the subjection of all wives—not that she blamed the girl, and the marriage had been happy enough, she believed—to their husband's labours, she made him feel better pleased with himself than he had done yet, and he would have liked, had they taken a cab, for example, to have paid the fare.†   (source)
  • "...so frightfully clever," the soft, insinuating, indefatigable voice was saying, "I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because ..."†   (source)
  • Howie said it in a dreamy kind of way and a little insinuating too because he knew there was no place for Joe to go but home.†   (source)
  • (with insinuating complaint) There's no percentage in hanging around this dive, taking care of you and shooing away your snakes, when I don't even get an eye-opener for my trouble†   (source)
  • (He slips out of his chair and goes quietly over to sit in the chair beside Larry he had occupied before—in a low, insinuating, intimate tone) I think I understand, Larry†   (source)
  • I—I've been insinuating that your husband is not a gentleman and my own words have proved that I'm not one.†   (source)
  • Ashley knew that half the people present had never heard of Purgatory and those who had would take it as a personal affront, if he insinuated, even in prayer, that so fine a man as Mr. O'Hara had not gone straight to Heaven.†   (source)
  • The insinuating music drained her independence.†   (source)
  • But it had just come to him, insinuating itself all on its own.†   (source)
  • "Nobody is insinuating that I am a liar?" drawled Stewart.†   (source)
  • "And get others to see it, too," I insinuated, with a glance at the bowed back by his side.†   (source)
  • "And you wanted a bit of a change, like," insinuated Leonard kindly.†   (source)
  • Reuben is such a liar, and has such insinuating ways.†   (source)
  • He insinuated that his aloofness was due to distaste for all that was common and low.†   (source)
  • In that drugged magic there was no difference between heavy heat and insinuating cold.†   (source)
  • Then she dropped suddenly the vehemence of passion and gave a soft, insinuating laugh.†   (source)
  • 'No, Peggotty,' returned my mother, 'but you insinuated.†   (source)
  • "Well, what do you think of it?" inquired the cool, mocking, insinuating voice of Butler.†   (source)
  • The woman's voice was more and more insinuating.†   (source)
  • "Don't be afraid," he continued, in an insinuating way.†   (source)
  • Matthew Maule understood the insinuated suspicion.†   (source)
  • Ichabod, therefore, made his advances in a quiet and gently insinuating manner.†   (source)
  • He approaches you, he insinuates himself; offers you a pinch of snuff, or picks up your hat.†   (source)
  • "I will tell her what you have said—when you go!" said Mrs. Penniman, with an insinuating laugh.†   (source)
  • Wherever the impulse exceeds the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.†   (source)
  • I said no, as Mrs. Badger's insinuating tone seemed to require such an answer.†   (source)
  • Well, you stand well with M. Morrel I hear,—you insinuating dog, you!†   (source)
  • "At least," thought he, "her poison has not yet insinuated itself into my system.†   (source)
  • —(in an accent meant to be insinuating)—I am sure you have seen and understood me.†   (source)
  • He is extremely insinuating; but it's a vulgar nature.†   (source)
  • 'Shall I convey any message to—ha—anybody else?' asked Mr Dorrit, in an insinuating manner.†   (source)
  • 'Every man's his own friend, my dear,' replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin.†   (source)
  • 'Do you care for taters?' said the waiter, with an insinuating smile, and his head on one side.†   (source)
  • 'A savage place indeed,' said the insinuating traveller.†   (source)
  • 'But you are familiar with them, sir?' the insinuating traveller assumed.†   (source)
  • 'You, madam,' said the insinuating traveller, 'have visited this spot before?'†   (source)
  • The insinuating traveller complimented her on the justice of the distinction.†   (source)
  • 'New to mountains, perhaps?' said the insinuating traveller.†   (source)
  • The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: "Friend, do me a kindness.†   (source)
  • When he only got a pass degree his friends were astonished; but he shrugged his shoulders and delicately insinuated that he was not the dupe of examiners.†   (source)
  • His oily, insinuating tones, his greasy smile and his monstrous self-conceit grated on my nerves till sometimes I was all in a tremble.†   (source)
  • "Leave him alone," said Mr. Pappleworth, in that insinuating voice which means, "He's only one of your good little sops who can't help it."†   (source)
  • Strange it was to Joan that this villain Pearce, whom she could not have dared trust, grew open in his insinuating hints of Kells's blackguardism.†   (source)
  • The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.†   (source)
  • It sounded insinuating.†   (source)
  • Bertha can already make her believe anything she pleases—and I'm afraid she's begun, my poor child, by insinuating horrors about you.†   (source)
  • After peering out at the side of the curtain to see whether Eulalie had shut the front-door behind her; "Flatterers know how to make themselves welcome, and to gather up the crumbs; but have patience, have patience; our God is a jealous God, and one fine day He will be avenged upon them!" she would declaim, with the sidelong, insinuating glance of Joash, thinking of Athaliah alone when he says that the prosperity Of wicked men runs like a torrent past, And soon is spent.†   (source)
  • "Well, it looks to me as if you might have been in love, or hypnotized at that," insinuated Jephson at the conclusion of this statement, the tail of his right eye upon the jury.†   (source)
  • For she understood, as she insinuated, that the real cavalier here was Hans Castorp and that young Ziemssen was merely his assistant; but since she was also well aware of Hans Castorp's partiality for Frau Chauchat, she assumed he was chaperoning poor little Karstedt as a substitute for a woman he evidently did not know how to approach.†   (source)
  • "You did a good action," said the prince, "for in the midst of his angry feelings you insinuated a kind thought into his heart."†   (source)
  • With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself.†   (source)
  • She would say to Odette, after deftly insinuating a few words of praise for Forcheville, as she had so often done for himself: "You can make room for M. de Forcheville there, can't you, Odette?"†   (source)
  • He procured a trickle of insinuating items about neighborliness and the Bible, about class-suppers, jolly but educational, and the value of the Prayer-life in attaining financial success.†   (source)
  • She recalled that Don Carlos had been presented to her, and that she had not liked his dark, striking face with its bold, prominent, glittering eyes and sinister lines; and she had not liked his suave, sweet, insinuating voice or his subtle manner, with its slow bows and gestures.†   (source)
  • Then, having done so, he dressed and went out of the house for a walk—up Wykeagy Avenue, along Central Avenue, out Oak, and then back on Spruce and to Central again—feeling that he was walking away from the insinuating thought or suggestion that had so troubled him up to now.†   (source)
  • Another modification of Prunes and Prism insinuated itself on Little Dorrit's notice very shortly after their arrival.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence, and tried to make out something complimentary; but, between his submission to her taste, and his having always intended the same himself, with the superadded objects of professing attention to the comfort of ladies in general, and of insinuating that there was one only whom he was anxious to please, he grew puzzled, and Edmund was glad to put an end to his speech by a proposal of wine.†   (source)
  • We both know that he has been profligate in every sense of the word; that he has neither integrity nor honor; that he is as false and deceitful as he is insinuating.†   (source)
  • *g If, when they have beheld all these riches, they still hesitate, it is insinuated that they have not the means of refusing their required consent, and that the government itself will not long have the power of protecting them in their rights.†   (source)
  • This man has insinuated himself into your confidence, and almost into your family under a false name.†   (source)
  • Merely making a sign to a man at the bar, Fagin walked straight upstairs, and opening the door of a room, and softly insinuating himself into the chamber, looked anxiously about: shading his eyes with his hand, as if in search of some particular person.†   (source)
  • It even prevailed over the miserable travesty of the song of David which the singer had selected from a volume of similar effusions, and caused the sense to be forgotten in the insinuating harmony of the sounds.†   (source)
  • But Anna's aunt had through a common acquaintance insinuated that he had already compromised the girl, and that he was in honor bound to make her an offer.†   (source)
  • 'Well, Mr Nickleby,' said Squeers, insinuating himself into the warmest corner, 'you did very right to catch hold of them horses.†   (source)
  • "Why, it comes into my mind, do you know, sir," said Wegg with an air of insinuating frankness (having first again looked hard at the book), "that you made a little mistake this morning, which I had meant to set you right in; only something put it out of my head.†   (source)
  • It is patient, insinuating, flexible, and never has recourse to extreme measures until obliged by the most absolute necessity.†   (source)
  • How well she remembered the Inn Yard, and the ostler to whom she refused money, and the insinuating Cambridge lad who wrapped her in his coat on the journey!†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the various members of Sleary's company gradually gathered together from the upper regions, where they were quartered, and, from standing about, talking in low voices to one another and to Mr. Childers, gradually insinuated themselves and him into the room.†   (source)
  • My account states, that your sister's friend, the lady now staying with you, whom I have heard you mention, came to Bath with Miss Elliot and Sir Walter as long ago as September (in short when they first came themselves), and has been staying there ever since; that she is a clever, insinuating, handsome woman, poor and plausible, and altogether such in situation and manner, as to give a general idea, among Sir Walter's acquaintance, of her meaning to be Lady Elliot, and as general a surprise that Miss Elliot should be apparently, blind to the danger.†   (source)
  • This interference often took the ungracious character of advice; advice not openly given, but hinted or insinuated.†   (source)
  • All this you understand was with the object of dividing me from my mother and sister, by insinuating that I was squandering on unworthy objects the money which they had sent me and which was all they had.†   (source)
  • Getting up, for this purpose, an ordinary conversation in a private company, he insinuated his case to the physician, as that of an imaginary individual.†   (source)
  • I really may say, sir—" and M. Nioche gave a little feebly insinuating laugh—"I really may say that I envy you!†   (source)
  • He therefore gently insinuated the incapacity of the native of any other country to engage in the genial conflict of the bowl with the hardy and strong-headed Saxons; something he mentioned, but slightly, about his own holy character, and ended by pressing his proposal to depart to repose.†   (source)
  • I added in an insinuating tone.†   (source)
  • This was addressed to the brown setter, who had jumped up at the sound of the voices and laid her nose in an insinuating way on her master's leg.†   (source)
  • Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.†   (source)
  • The tone of Marmaduke was mild and insinuating, and, as his sentiments were given with such apparent impartiality, they did not fail of carrying due weight with the jury.†   (source)
  • "SHALL I wish you good day for the present on the part of myself and the gentleman of the house?" he asks in an insinuating tone.†   (source)
  • With an art worthy a better cause, for example, they have insinuated the term 'analysis' into application to algebra.†   (source)
  • So you needn't write touching notes and smile in that insinuating way, for it won't do a bit of good, and I won't have it.†   (source)
  • "Have I the honour of addressing myself to Mrs. Dobbin?" asked the Secretary with a most insinuating grin.†   (source)
  • If the air of Munro was more commanding and manly, it wanted both the ease and insinuating polish of that of the Frenchman.†   (source)
  • "Planchet," said d'Artagnan to his domestic, who just then insinuated his head through the half-open door in order to catch some fragments of the conversation, "go down to my landlord, Monsieur Bonacieux, and ask him to send me half a dozen bottles of Beaugency wine; I prefer that."†   (source)
  • In this manner he came up to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, he slipped away like an adder through the shadows.†   (source)
  • But in the left eye, which was screwed up and seemed to be insinuating something, Smerdyakov showed himself unchanged.†   (source)
  • "I perceive, Avdotya Romanovna, that you seem disposed to undertake his defence all of a sudden," Luzhin observed, twisting his lips into an ambiguous smile, "there's no doubt that he is an astute man, and insinuating where ladies are concerned, of which Marfa Petrovna, who has died so strangely, is a terrible instance.†   (source)
  • Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.†   (source)
  • I did not pretend to disguise from my perception the identity of the singular individual who thus perseveringly interfered with my affairs, and harassed me with his insinuated counsel.†   (source)
  • This she had done in the quiet, soothing, insinuating way in which her sex usually exerts its influence on such occasions.†   (source)
  • But with the true professional hatred to a successful practitioner of their art, they insinuated that, since the medicine was beyond their own knowledge, it must necessarily have been compounded from an unlawful and magical pharmacopeia; since they themselves, though no conjurors, fully understood every branch of their art, so far as it might be exercised with the good faith of a Christian.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you have only seen a ballet rustic, smiling like a merry countryman in crockery, with graceful turns of the haunch and insinuating movements of the head.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sparsit's tea was just set for her on a pert little table, with its tripod of legs in an attitude, which she insinuated after office-hours, into the company of the stern, leathern-topped, long board-table that bestrode the middle of the room.†   (source)
  • Every time Kolya, walking to and fro through the rooms, came into the hall, the dog shook his head and gave two loud and insinuating taps on the floor with his tail, but alas!†   (source)
  • As minute after minute passed by, leaving them in undisturbed security, the insinuating feeling of hope was gradually gaining possession of every bosom, though each one felt reluctant to give utterance to expectations that the next moment might so fearfully destroy.†   (source)
  • We turned back, on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter; and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it at noon.†   (source)
  • "Avast!" cried a voice, whose owner at the same time coming close behind us, laid a hand upon both our shoulders, and then insinuating himself between us, stood stooping forward a little, in the uncertain twilight, strangely peering from Queequeg to me.†   (source)
  • William Buffy carries one of these smartnesses from the place where he dines down to the House, where the Whip for his party hands it about with his snuff-box to keep men together who want to be off, with such effect that the Speaker (who has had it privately insinuated into his own ear under the corner of his wig) cries, "Order at the bar!" three times without making an impression.†   (source)
  • Still further, in spite of sword thrusts which weaken, and painful exercises which fatigue, he had become one of the most gallant frequenters of revels, one of the most insinuating lady's men, one of the softest whisperers of interesting nothings of his day; the BONNES FORTUNES of de Treville were talked of as those of M. de Bassompierre had been talked of twenty years before, and that was not saying a little.†   (source)
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