"I wish no contention of
idle words with you, friend," said Heyward, curbing his dissatisfied manner, and speaking in a more gentle voice; "if you will tell me the distance to Fort Edward, and conduct me thither, your labor shall not go without its reward."
If I have said anything which you think justifies this very abrupt leave-taking, I beg you will forgive and forget it--or, at least, let it have no more weight with you than the
idle words of any woman.
Pay no attention to my
idle words, I really have no desire for olives now.
"All that is Kadour ben Saden's is thine, my friend, even to his life," he said very simply, but Tarzan knew that those were no
idle words.
And as to people saying a few
idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church-steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
But at the time I had other thoughts, and they lay too deep for
idle words, for to me also it was a bitter hour.
It was like the aimless talk of a man pursuing a secret train of thought far removed from the
idle words we so often utter only to keep in touch with our fellow beings.
The ape-man wasted no time in
idle words. In his hand was his long bow and at his back hung a quiver full of arrows, poisoned arrows that he had stolen from the village of the blacks; just as he had stolen the bow.
An
idle word here or there and great secrets are given away.
His boast was no
idle word. It had a directness, an emphasis, a particularity, that showed a backbone of solid meaning within the mystery of his expression."
"Oh, friendship, friendship!" he said, "what an
idle word you are!
But if any shall be disobedient and pay no heed to my warning, of if there shall be any
idle word or deed and outrage as is common among mortal men, then other men shall be your masters and with a strong hand shall make you subject for ever.