With these well-timed words the broad-minded personage settled himself more reposefully among his cushions and signified that Kai Lung should be led forward and begin.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
"Let us remain another space of time," pleaded Hwa-mei reposefully, "and as without your all-embracing art the course of events would undoubtedly have terminated very differently from what it has, will you not, out of an emotion of gratitude, relate a story for my ear alone, weaving into it the substance of this ancient arch whose shade proves our rest?"
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
That one thing was that while the face listened reposefully the legs were industriously dancing like the legs of a marionette.
"The Club of Queer Trades"
G. K. Chesterton