With a tact of which the subtle ease and grace can in no way be conveyed into description, she gathered up the cobweb threads of conversation going on at different parts of the table, and, by the most apparent accident, flung them into Disraeli's fingers. A L'abri: Or The Tent Pitch'd - Page 50by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1839 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1839 - 196 pages
...on at different parts of the table, and, by the most apparent accident, flung them D'ISRAELI, JR. 51 into D'Israeli's fingers, like the ribands of a four-in-hand....so coarse a figure can illustrate it, he took the n Slip-hand like a master. It was an appeal to his opinion on a subject he well understood, and he... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 398 pages
...with the turbulent ambitions, and disciplined energies which were stirring, I knew, in his, could ba concealed under that polished and marble tranquillity...was an appeal to his opinion on a subject he well jiderstood, and he burst at once, without preface, into that fiery -ein of eloquence which, hearing... | |
| William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1910 - 468 pages
...and Disraeli were silent altogether. I should have foreboded a dull dinner if in the open brow, and clear sunny eye, and unembarrassed repose of the beautiful...apparent accident, flung them into Disraeli's fingers. It was an appeal to his opinion on a subject he well understood, and he burst at once, without preface,... | |
| Robert Ernest Spiller - 1926 - 470 pages
...the start, but the composure of Lady Blessington promised a change. "It came presently," says Willis. "With a tact, of which the subtle ease and grace can...apparent accident, flung them into Disraeli's fingers." He seized them like a master and "burst at once, without preface, into that fiery vein of eloquence... | |
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