← Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages. 🔊
← Soames was quite five or six years older than either of us. 🔊
← I did not, when the time came, quite see that. 🔊
← There was, I felt, quite a swing about that first stanza—a joyous and rollicking note of comradeship. 🔊
← Soames triumphantly exposing the devil as a liar, and laughing "full shrill," cut a quite heartening figure, I thought, then! 🔊
← He was smoking a cigarette, with an untasted salmi of something on his plate and a half-empty bottle of Sauterne before him, and he was quite silent. 🔊
← "Neglect—yes, perhaps; but that's quite another matter. 🔊
← "You are pleased to sneer," said the devil, who had also risen, "but it is one thing to write about an impossible machine; it is a quite other thing to be a supernatural power." 🔊
← "Are you sure," I temporized, "quite sure you copied the thing out correctly?" 🔊
← and we had a rather heated argument, in the thick of which it suddenly seemed to me that Soames saw he was in the wrong: he had quite physically cowered. 🔊