Often he wouldpositively refuse to learn, or to repeat his lessons, or even to look at his book.
But now I positively must go and dress: the second bell will ring directly, and if I come to dinner in this guise, I shall never hear the end of it from Lady Ashby.
But now I want to talk about the ball; and to tell you that you positively must put off your holidays till it is over.
My good Mr. Winterfield, believe me or not, I--I positively like this woman.
Whisky or old rye or something like that," Frank declared; and it spoke well for those five boys that no one was positively able to identify the odor, though well knowing its general character as an aid to drunkenness.
Nozzing like zat right now, sare," he went on to declare, so positively that it was evident he had found the Indian also agreed with him.
She could not but smile as she gave him her hand to turn round, and the man looked positively grateful as he received it.
Betsey was positively festive, exuberant and unconfined, on the very top rung of her gamut of feeling, as she bounced and caracoled along.
That will not be the worst, however; five years more and she will be positively fat!
Compared with what she was now, her condition of the morning seemed positively natural.
I know positively nothing of his private affairs, and do not care to know.
Though the heat was intense and oppressive and most of the visitors were positively sick, one of the sprinters, in spite of severe illness, was far above his previous best, while all of the distance men went quite to pieces.
Half an hour of earnest talk on the strenuous life from Theodore Roosevelt has often been known to raise a passion of aspiration that has positively lasted for weeks.
The doctors said positively that he was dying, and that a few days at the utmost would bring the end.
She covered her pretty ears with her ringed fingers when he talked of it, and positively refused to listen.
There seemed to be a story in every face, and he felt vaguely and yet positively that he could read it if he chose.
There are brown circles round your eyes, and your cheeks have fallen in, and you are growing positively gray at the temples.
I am married,' Paul responded in a voice so strangled and unlike his own that it positively startled him.
Black and Blue, however, declared most positively that his father was a native, and no European.
I can positively say that I never take it up without finding in it some new view, or light, or suggestion that I have not noticed before.
One fact with which it is positively inconsistent is worth as much, and as powerful in negativing the hypothesis, as five hundred.
I think I shall positively trample upon my dressmaker when I am grown up, to revenge myself for all I have suffered from the tribe.
But you lookpositively exhausted, poor fellow," pursued Dora pityingly.
When the agent called for the remainder due, he was handed the book, with a statement that it was positively N.
Who was this beast, for positively he was a beast.
I refer to this, since it is a thing that can be remedied, and positively should be.
And more than half that have such, have not nearly the colored population that this town has, and positively have not nearly the need.
Legs did not positively condone the light fingered method.
But the most extraordinary feature of this was, that the druggist received no more of this class of trade, than did the grocery keeper, notwithstanding the fact that he was high in society, and was positively of their point of view.
He was positivelyso bad that he had much effort to keep from doing injury to himself.
The train was tearing along now at a speed that made it positivelydangerous to alight.
They had positively not been acting suspicious, nor were they seen fighting, and neither were they drunk.
Let me know, my interesting, my sublime Olivia, when you are positivelydetermined on your voyage to Petersburg; and then you shall become acquainted with your friend as a politician.
I am positively quite weary of this life of eternal bustle; but once in the eddy, one is carried round and round; there is no stopping.
To jealousy I should positively decide, but that two reasons oppose this idea, and keep me in doubt.
No particular news, except that the Coronation was positively to take place on the 8th of September.
All this contrasted strangely with the useful occupation of honest Vulcan, whom I had positively enjoined not to laugh, or stop working.
The Barber had positively stated that the only practicable way to the big river was north-east by north from Tangulda; and it now appeared that the lowest part of this range lay exactly in that direction.
It is positively an honour to be captured by him--let that be your consolation, my dear sir.
Gerald, however, willingly undertook to pay a visit to the mate, who not being positively prohibited from seeing visitors, Gerald was admitted.
The young ladies and Mrs Twigg had positively refused to take more than their share.
It was necessary, therefore, to avoid any strange sail till her character could be positively ascertained.
She positively and quietly settled down with the Buntings.
Illustration: She positively and quietly settled down with the Buntings.
For a time at least they positively succeeded in converting the Sea Lady into a credible human invalid, in spite of the galaxy of witnesses to the lady's landing and in spite of the severe internal dissensions that presently broke out.
Here there was a stiff breeze that at times was positively cold, and both boys were glad enough to button their jackets tightly around them.
The underbrush at certain points was positively impassable, and he had to make long detours, which took time and tired him greatly.
It is positively stated that it was sanctioned by Wirz and Winder.
Lucy was positively an attractive woman until turned of fifty, retaining even a good deal of her bloom down to that period of life.
Then the cells of this brainy tissue would cease to be gorged with blood, and sleep would positively follow.
Be that as it may, come as approximately as you can, and there will positively result an improvement in your physical condition, a progression in your happiness, and a realization of longevity.
There are times when an irresponsible sort of line is positively desirable,--say for rough foreground suggestion or for freeing the picture at the edges.
To represent even approximately the subtle values would require so much ink that nothing short of a positively black background would suffice to give a semblance of the delicate transparent effect of the glass as a whole.
Lady Berryl assured her that Mr. Reynolds had positively forbidden her going to him; and that he had assured Lord Colambre he would not see her if she went to him.
And now," cried Lord Colambre, "I am happy, positively happy.
Then positively you must read it before we say one word more upon the subject.
Miss Broadhurst is so entertaining to-night, notwithstanding her sore throat, that one can positively attend to nothing else.
But in some of these stories he discovered exaggeration so flagrant as to make him doubt the whole; in others, it could not be positively determined whether the mother or daughter had been the person most to blame.
I positively will not live upon the bounty of Mrs. Somers.
They could not tell positively as yet whether the Indians were friends or foes, nor at what moment an attack might be made by a hidden enemy.
No man couldpositively swear to it, just by seeing the color of the hair.
The violin very positively disowns all relationship with it, and leaves it to settle its claims with the guitar.
