Usa "offhand" in una frase
offhand frasi di esempio
offhand
1. He most offhand almost told me to leave his father alone
2. offhand excuse for a service in which only a few of the
3. Didi said it in a manner so offhand that it
4. But he has complimented me on my appearance once in a while in an offhand fashion
5. What then? What reason did he really have for rejoining the modern world? He couldn’t think of one offhand, but he still had to get back
6. Luka had, at Max’s offhand request, joined us on the couch with a platter of food
7. The Degaud Massacre was a dark piece of town history that was only told in an offhand way, it wasn't something that was dwelt upon
8. conversation, this nice woman said to me, in an offhand manner,
9. Small and buxom, she was not unattractive when you bothered to examine her, which one was loath to do offhand
10. With this idea I pressed him to read the beginning, and doing so, turning the Arabic offhand into Castilian, he told me it meant, "History of Don Quixote of La Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian
11. "There is no need of threats with me," said Sancho, "for I am not a man to rob or murder anybody; let his own fate, or God who made him, kill each one; my master is engaged very much to his taste doing penance in the midst of these mountains;" and then, offhand and without stopping, he told them how he had left him, what adventures had befallen him, and how he was carrying a letter to the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, the daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo, with whom he was over head and ears in love
12. She presented herself at his place with an offhand air
13. Rodolphe, who had managed the fatality, thought the remark very offhand from a man in his position, comic even, and a little mean
14. But he was often short and offhand with her
15. And how I resented the offhand manner in which the captain had extended his deplorable invitation! You would have thought it was an issue of going into the woods on some harmless fox hunt!
16. I walked up and down the aisles looking at things I couldn’t have, stupefied by their offhand plenitude
17. He didn’t have the number offhand, but it was easy enough to find, and so my next step was to talk to the owner, a guy named Joe Henderson
18. He couldn’t remember the address offhand, but told the operator Maria’s parents’ names, as well as the street and cross street
19. Then I thought about Sam and wondered whether my offhand reference to a relationship had been wise
20. “Oh!” said Melanie, still more embarrassed by Belle’s offhand reference to her “girls
21. He should be offhand and careless, as other men callers
22. He did not even come to her to give her his usual offhand kiss but stood looking at her, with a grin, a
23. "I merely mean," said Will, in an offhand way, "that the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping about in woods with a pocket-compass while they have made good roads
24. Casaubon, who received this offhand treatment of symbolism very uneasily, and bowed with a neutral air
25. Lydgate was as polite as he could be in his offhand way, but politeness in a man who has placed you at a disadvantage is only an additional exasperation, especially if he happens to have been an object of dislike beforehand
26. ) It was weird to hear colleagues refer to me as one of the “easy” correspondents, or make offhand comments about how relatively mellow I was
27. The jury will disregard the witness’s offhand remarks
28. He was partnered with Kyle Robertson, who joined Robbery, don’t remember when offhand, but before that he was in uniform since the Flood
29. ‘Is it warm enough for you yet?’ Thaniel said, trying to sound offhand
30. " He was surprised at my knowledge of the trains offhand, but he does not know that I have made up all the trains to and from Exeter, so that I may help Jonathan in case he is in a hurry
31. Natasha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more
32. Mrs Duveen had not been able to give Joe Harman's address offhand, but she confirmed that he was managing a station somewhere in the Gulf country
33. “But listen,” he shouted to the guard, “there’s a whole world you don’t know anything about… here how about this?” Desperately he grabbed for the only bit of culture he knew offhand – he hummed the first bar of Beethoven’s Fifth
34. The previous month, Fermina Daza had spoken about him, in an offhand way and with no sign of interest, one afternoon when she did not want to pass by the house of the Marquis de Casalduero because the landau with the golden horses was stopped in front of the door
35. I could not dream of sacrificing it in this offhand fashion
36. “I can't help it, I am not God!” the doctor answered offhand, though with the customary impressiveness
37. Sees SAHÁTOF and addresses him in an offhand manner
38. Natásha suddenly shrank into herself and involuntarily assumed an offhand air which alienated Princess Mary still more
39. It is not against the rules to invite strangers, but they can’t be invited offhand
