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Sentences starting with dryfoos

Dryfoos necessarily depended upon him for advice concerning the scope and nature of the dinner, but he received the advice suspiciously, and contested points of obvious propriety with pertinacious stupidity. [8]
Dryfoos seems, somehow, to take the poetry and the pleasure out of the thing. [8]
Dryfoos apologized for the streets because they were hand-made; said they expected their street-making machine Tuesday, and then they intended to push things. [8]
Dryfoos couldn't keep the boom out of has own family even. [8]
Dryfoos will be sure to say something to outrage Lindau's 'brincibles,' and there'll be an explosion. [8]
Dryfoos appeared greatly pleased that 'Every Other Week' was giving Lindau work. [8]
Dryfoos was an old Pennsylvania Dutch farmer, about three or four miles out of Moffitt, and he'd lived there pretty much all his life; father was one of the first settlers. [8]
Dryfoos heard nothing of the strike in the lobby of the Stock Exchange, where he spent two or three hours watching a favorite stock of his go up and go down under the betting. [8]
Dryfoos owns the magazine; he can stop it, or he can stop us, which amounts to the same thing, as far as we're concerned. [8]
Dryfoos also wanted his woman-cook to prepare the dinner, but Fulkerson persuaded him that this would not do; he must have it from a caterer. [8]

Sentences ending with dryfoos

Pity I got you a piano, then," said Dryfoos. [8]
On their way up-town in the Elevated he told her of his talk with young Dryfoos. [8]
But Fulkerson said that was the splendid side of Dryfoos. [8]
Neither of them; nor Mrs. Dryfoos. [8]
How are you, Mrs. Dryfoos? [8]
You must give it to Dryfoos. [8]
That is, what I wanted to do," he continued, turning from March to Dryfoos. [8]
Then, suppose you get rid of Dryfoos? [8]
So when a fellow came along one day and offered old Dryfoos a cool hundred thousand for his farm, it was all up with Dryfoos. [8]
He'll never move Dryfoos. [8]

Short sentences using dryfoos

Who's Dryfoos? [8]
Dryfoos. [8]
Dryfoos! [8]

Sentences containing dryfoos two or more times

Fulkerson came back to March, who had turned toward Conrad Dryfoos, and said, "If we don't get this thing going pretty soon, it 'll be the death of me," and just then Frescobaldi's butler came in and announced to Dryfoos that dinner was served. [8]
Old Dryfoos wanted me to go out and see the Dryfoos & Hendry Addition--guess he thought maybe I'd write it up; and he drove me out there himself. [8]
Apparently, however, Dryfoos daunted him somehow; and besides the homage which those who have not pay to those who have, Fulkerson rendered Dryfoos the tribute of a feeling which March could only define as a sort of bewilderment. [8]

More example sentences with the word dryfoos in them

No offence to you, Colonel Woodburn," said Dryfoos, turning to him before he drank. [8]
I know you wouldn't do yourself justice, Mr. Dryfoos, and I want 'em to know how a strike can be managed, if you take it in time. [8]
Lindau came in with some copy while Dryfoos was there, and March introduced them. [8]
When Kendricks came with Beaton to call after her father's dinner, she used all her cunning to ensnare him, and she had him to herself as long as Beaton stayed; Dryfoos sent down word that he was not very well and had gone to bed. [8]
The Dryfoos ladies will want to call on her as the last-comer, and if I treated myself 'en garcon' now, and paid the first visit, it might complicate matters. [8]
All the time, while these thoughts passed through his mind, he was afraid Dryfoos would die. [8]
He said that where his advantage was not concerned, there was ever so much good in Dryfoos, and that if in some things he had grown inflexible, he had expanded in others to the full measure of the vast scale on which he did business. [8]
I don't think we've given Miss Dryfoos a pleasure, but perhaps nobody could. [8]
I thought you were just holding out against Dryfoos because he took a dictatorial tone with you, and because you wouldn't recognize his authority. [8]
That evening March went with his wife to return the call of the Dryfoos ladies. [8]
He comprehended perfectly well that Dryfoos had made him that extraordinary embassy because he wished him to renew his visits, and he easily imagined the means that had brought him to this pass. [8]
I don't know: we don't quite expect a saint to be rustic; but with all his goodness Conrad Dryfoos was a country person. [8]
I suppose he's very much in earnest with Miss Vance at times, and with Miss Dryfoos at others. [8]
What they both understood was that Dryfoos was endeavoring to get at Beaton through Conrad's memory; but with one this was its dedication to a purpose of self sacrifice, and with the other a vulgar and shameless use of it. [8]
It grew louder toward morning, and then Dryfoos knew from the watcher's deeper breathing that he had fallen into a doze. [8]
Wish we could torpedo this well, Mr. Dryfoos, and let 'em see how it works! [8]
Nobody seemed willing to take it up, and Mrs. Dryfoos went on, with an old woman's severity: "I say they ought to be all tarred and feathered and rode on a rail. [8]
I'd like him to know--" "No one can speak to him, no one can tell him," March began again, but again Dryfoos prevented him from going on. [8]
Well, I'm off to find Lindau, and when I come back I hope Mr. Dryfoos will have you under control. [8]
When Beaton came to ask himself this question, he could only perceive that he and Dryfoos had failed to find any ground of sympathy, and had parted in the same dislike with which they had met. [8]
Fulkerson told March the morning after Dryfoos returned that he had not only not pulled out at Moffitt, but had gone in deeper, ten times deeper than ever. [8]
She smiled upon the Marches, while Miss Dryfoos watched them intensely, with her eyes first on one and then on the other, as if she did not mean to let any expression of theirs escape her. [8]
But Dryfoos owns the magazine--" "He doesn't own me," said March, rising. [8]
So far as the Dryfoos family was concerned, the dinner might as well have been given at Frescobaldi's rooms. [8]
Fulkerson looked over the chairback, now at March, and now at the elder Dryfoos as he spoke. [8]
It was decided that the dinner should be sent in from Frescobaldi's, and Dryfoos went with Fulkerson to discuss it with the caterer. [8]
I've merely a sort of psychological curiosity to know how men like Dryfoos and Fulkerson will work out the problem before them. [8]
He kept a smiling face turned to Dryfoos while these irreverent considerations occupied him, and hardened his heart against father and son and their possible emotions. [8]
But Beaton had seen him, and Dryfoos, with a nonchalant nod to the young man, came forward. [8]
The elder Dryfoos said, with his chin on the top of his stick, "I reckon those Little Neck clams will keep. [8]
If ever you sacrifice the smallest grain of your honesty or your self-respect to Mr. Dryfoos, or anybody else, I will simply renounce you. [8]
It was a relief when Conrad Dryfoos, having apparently waited to make sure that his father would not return, came up from the counting-room and looked in on March with a troubled face. [8]
Among the faces put out of the carriage windows he saw that of Dryfoos looking from a coupe. [8]
But most o' people thought old Dryfoos was down in the mouth because he hadn't asked more for his farm, when he wanted to buy it back and found they held it at a hundred and fifty thousand. [8]
When Lindau went out, March explained to Dryfoos that he had lost his hand in the war; and he told him something of Lindau's career as he had known it. [8]
He believed that old Dryfoos could step into Bismarck's shoes and run the German Empire at ten days' notice, or about as long as it would take him to go from New York to Berlin. [8]
He came out of his reverie to find Mrs. Dryfoos saying to him, in her hoarse voice: "I think it's a shame, some of the pictur's a body sees in the winders. [8]
The Dryfoos feature of 'Every Other Week' is thoroughly distasteful to me. [8]
But Bismarck would not know anything about Dryfoos's plans till Dryfoos got ready to show his hand. [8]
Now you have no quarrel with that horrid old Dryfoos, and you can keep right on. [8]
I put out my hand, and I said, 'Isn't this Mr. Dryfoos from Moffitt? [8]
I don't believe Mr. Dryfoos has got any idea of the extent of this thing. [8]
But I'm glad Mr. Dryfoos could come with you; I'm so glad you could all come; I knew you would enjoy the music. [8]
Did they say Miss Dryfoos was seriously ill? [8]
This heightened Mrs. March's resentment toward both Lindau and Dryfoos, who between them had placed her husband in a false position. [8]
But what struck March was the fact that Dryfoos seemed furtively conscious of being a country person, and of being aware that in their meeting he was to be tried by other tests than those which would have availed him as a shrewd speculator. [8]
It seemed to March that his own good-night from Dryfoos was dry and cold. [8]
So far as March knew, Dryfoos had been left to suppose that Lindau had simply stopped for some reason that did not personally affect him. [8]
March was a little surprised when Dryfoos turned to him, but that reference of the question seemed to give Fulkerson particular pleasure: "What do you think, Mr. [8]
Fulkerson was as little likely as possible to fall under a superstitious subjection to another man; but March could not help seeing that in this possible measure Dryfoos was Fulkerson's fetish. [8]
He cocked his little gray eyes at me, and says he: 'Yes, young man; my name is Dryfoos, and I'm from Moffitt. [8]
Alma brought a little bunch of flowers, which were lost in those which Dryfoos had ordered to be unsparingly provided. [8]
Not long after Lent, Fulkerson set before Dryfoos one day his scheme for a dinner in celebration of the success of 'Every Other Week. [8]
But I don't know, really, that I despise Fulkerson so much for his course this morning as for his gross and fulsome flatteries of Dryfoos last night. [8]
But Dryfoos apparently kept himself from looking at these things. [8]
He began to joke with Mrs. Dryfoos, and to match rheumatisms with her, and he included all the ladies in the range of appropriate pleasantries. [8]
After the first jarring contact with Dryfoos, the editor ceased to feel the disagreeable fact of the old man's mastery of the financial situation. [8]
Mr. March wanted it, because he felt in his bones just the way you do about it, and Mr. Dryfoos wanted it, because he's the counting-room incarnate, and it's cheaper; and I 'wanted it, because I always like to go with the majority. [8]
Tried to give it to the Dryfoos family, and when I couldn't, I sold it to 'em. [8]
He went right in with him, as far as Dryfoos would let him, and glad of the chance; and they were working the thing for all it was worth when I struck Moffitt. [8]
Miss Dryfoos was ill, her sister said. [8]
But I suppose if Dryfoos won't keep on, it must come to another Angel. [8]
I turned green, I was so scared; but Mr. Dryfoos kept his color, and kind of coaxed the fellow till he quit. [8]
Mr. Dryfoos and I have met before. [8]
Well, the American husband is old Dryfoos all over; no mustache; and hay-colored chin-whiskers cut slanting froze the corners of his mouth. [8]
We don't print his opinions, and he has a perfect right to hold them, whether Mr. Dryfoos agrees with them or not. [8]
Then Dryfoos wanted his maids to wait at table, but Fulkerson convinced him that this would be incongruous at a man's dinner. [8]
Dryfoos laughed, showing his lower teeth in a way that was at once simple and fierce. [8]
He took a hint from March's position and decided that he did not know Dryfoos in these relations; he knew only Fulkerson, who had certainly had nothing to do with Mrs. Mandel's asking his intentions. [8]
Dryfoos suddenly pulled himself together from the dreary absence into which he fell at first. [8]
When we got him to go away, Mr. Dryfoos drove up to his foreman. [8]
Dryfoos turned from him to Fulkerson without speaking, and Fulkerson said, caressingly: "Why, of course, Coonrod! [8]
Dryfoos listened uneasily; he did not quite understand the allusions, though he knew what Shakespeare was, well enough; Conrad's face expressed a gentle deprecation of joking on such a subject, but he said nothing. [8]
Dryfoos thought of having ladies, but it seems your infallible Fulkerson overruled him. [8]
He could not have taken any ground in relation to Dryfoos but that which he held, and he felt satisfied that he was right in refusing to receive instructions or commands from him. [8]
I believe I have all the points clearly in mind, and I think I should act more freely in meeting Mr. Dryfoos alone. [8]
March got his hat, passing a joke with the hatter about the impossibility of pressing his old hat over again, and came out to thank Dryfoos and take leave of him. [8]
No one yet had taken charge of Conrad's work, and Fulkerson was running the thing himself, as he said, till he could talk with Dryfoos about it. [8]
He said he had been giving Miss Dryfoos a lesson on the banjo; he had borrowed the banjo of Miss Vance. [8]
Dryfoos, through Fulkerson, had asked all the more intimate contributors of 'Every Other Week' to come. [8]
Dryfoos tried to grasp the idea of commercialism as the colonel seemed to hold it; he conceived of it as something like the dry-goods business on a vast scale, and he knew he had never been in that. [8]
But the box-office gets there all the same, and that's what Mr. Dryfoos wants. [8]
Dryfoos fumbled about for the knob in the dim passageway outside, and Beaton, who had experience of people's difficulties with it, suddenly jerked the door open. [8]
Dryfoos is Fulkerson's financial backer in 'Every Other Week'. [8]
I want your father to interview Dryfoos for me, and I-I'm afraid to ask him. [8]
It's all well enough for Dryfoos to feel grateful to Lindau, and his wish to honor him does him credit; but to have Lindau to dinner isn't the way. [8]
Mr. Dryfoos doesn't employ her on 'Every Other Week. [8]
He looked at Dryfoos, and wondered whether he would consider these rites a sufficient tribute, or whether there was enough in him to make him realize their futility, except as a mere sign of his wish to retrieve the past. [8]
He saw that Dryfoos was trying to undo Mrs. Mandel's work practically, and get him to come again to his house; that he now conceived of the offence given him as condoned, and wished to restore the former situation. [8]
They both ignored Dryfoos in the little play of protests which followed, and he said, half jocosely, half suspiciously, "And is the banjo the fashion, now? [8]
But it isn't Dryfoos I want you to help me with; it's your father. [8]
I brought old Dryfoos here one day, and he thought it was sweet-oil; that's the kind of bottle they used to have it in at the country drug-stores. [8]
Mrs. Dryfoos came down for the ceremony. [8]
Miss Dryfoos looked down at her fan, and looked up defiantly at Mrs. March. [8]
Miss Dryfoos looked down at her fan again, and said, "I like 'Trovatore' the best. [8]
It was a curiosity which Fulkerson himself shared, at least concerning Dryfoos. [8]
Among these the caterer designed one for a surprise to his patron and a delicate recognition of the source of his wealth, which he found Dryfoos very willing to talk about, when he intimated that he knew what it was. [8]
We must begin by seeing Mr. Lindau, and securing from him the assurance that in the expression of his peculiar views he had no intention of offering any personal offence to Mr. Dryfoos. [8]
There was nobody but Conrad in the counting-room, whither Dryfoos returned after glancing into Fulkerson's empty office. [8]
She found herself, before she knew it, making her banjo a property in the little comedy, and professing so much pleasure in the fact that Miss Dryfoos was taking it up; she had herself been so much interested by it. [8]

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