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Shakespeare moves jauntily, airily, easily, with careless indifference; Swedenborg lives earnestly, seriously, awfully.— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
"Describe her to me, if you will be so good, Monsieur Whereupon Reuben ran on,--jauntily, at first, as if it had been a ballet-girl of San Carlo whose picture he was making out; but his old hearty warmth declared itself by degrees; and his admiration and his tenderness gave such warm color to his language as it might have shown if her little gloved hand had been shivering even then in his own passionate clasp.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
So Prale swung his stick jauntily, and hummed the Spanish love song again, and told himself that Rufus Shepley and Kate Gilbert, old Griffin and the hotel manager and the rest of the motley crew that had made the day miserable for him amounted to nothing in the broader scheme of things, and were not to be taken seriously He came to a block where there were few pedestrians, where the great shops had their lights out and their night curtains up.— The Brand of Silence A Detective Story
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