Aunt Jane, never
demonstrative, cried with Rebecca as she attempted to soothe her.
Cecil, too, became
demonstrative. He saw that the needful fire had been kindled in Lucy.
The women simply frightened them, as being, even more than the men,
demonstrative and excessive in their fine looks, their fine dresses, their extravagant demand for excitement.
Nig, equally friendly, though less
demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.
When he first came in he kissed me and spoke kindly to me, but he was not
demonstrative. I felt at once his deliberateness and personal dignity, and was a little in awe of him.
This was done without any
demonstrative accompaniment, not long enough, or often enough to harass him; and it lightened Mr.
"Nor does he seem
demonstrative," was Villa's judgment.
Glaucon is more
demonstrative, and generally opens the game.
A moment after I heard the click of the gate-latch and then in an ecstasy of barking from his
demonstrative dog his serious head went past my window on the other side of the hedge, its troubled gaze fixed forward, and the mind inside obviously employed in earnest speculation of an intricate nature.
However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to
demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb "to eat." But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined.
The latter, who had seen enough of it by this time, by a rapid motion put aside his too
demonstrative admirers and went out of the palace, directing his steps immediately toward the balloon, for it was now six o'clock in the evening.
But he admitted that he had very seldom told any one that he cared for them, and when he had been
demonstrative, he had generally regretted it afterwards.