I don't know the figures off-hand. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Pooh!" grunted the Captain off-hand, rather impolitely. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
"That's nothing -- nothing!" said Fritz in an off-hand way. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
He did it in an off-hand way so that Judd would not anticipate the reason. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
But he couldn't think off-hand of any suitable way of returning the courtesy. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Few men can tell off-hand which sock, shoe, or trousers-leg they put on first. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
She told me her secret in an off-hand way, as if we were discussing the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Other Stories] Reference
Of course, a scene is not made off-hand -- not even an outdoor pageant like this. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
"Bedad, I did that, sir; father's no denyin 'it," answered the Irishman, off-hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
He appeared to expect Kiddie to tell him off-hand exactly how the thing had occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
What is possible and is desirable in this field is not something to be decided off-hand. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Altogether, therefore, the choice of the method of molding is not to be decided off-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
"What was it you were saying about not being alone?" putting on a careless, off-hand tone. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough] Reference
"Indeed?" smiled Ralph, amused at the off-hand, yet self-important manner of his companion. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
And that question I can answer off-hand, without taking thought, and be sure that I am right. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
And let me tell you, the first camp-fire is too serious a thing for you to start it off-hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol] Reference
Let me propose an off-hand test by which to determine whether or no a given book is literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
'Do you think if it was anything we could settle off-hand like that I should ask you about it?'. From Wordnik.com. [That Scholarship Boy] Reference
"But where have you been?" repeated the Captain, whom this off-hand statement did not quite satisfy. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Jarvis shot him a keen glance of intelligence, and replied, in the same off-hand tone: "High, you bet!". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Very often off-hand introductions take place; but it is better to be more formal and careful, as indicated. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference
Van nodded in his crisp, off-hand way to Adair, whom he knew, and took off his cap to his dignified companion. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
This may lead our people to consider whether it would not be cheapest and wisest to settle the quarrel off-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
"Oh," said Eric in an off-hand way, "I opened the cask Captain Brown gave us and roasted a piece over the fire.". From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
All loved him for his frank and pleasant off-hand speeches, and all received him with good humor and confidence. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
What she did was to say brightly, but in quite as off-hand and matter-of-fact way as the girl herself had spoken. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
In this off-hand manner of constituting a Parliament, we detect the mingled daring of the Puritan and the Soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Mr. Justice Story himself must, on reflection, have seen that the off-hand expression attributed to him was erroneous. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
The young men of the whole South are off-hand and impulsive; either naturally careless in pecuniary matters, or made so by habit. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
I begged his pardon off-hand, immediately, of course, although I would not give him the written apology he peremptorily demanded. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
At the moment of inoculation we were all, officers and men, very facetious and off-hand about it, but as the evening came on we grew. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
Canadians know that, though many of them could not tell an inquirer, off-hand, the name of the Canadian Prime Minister who preceded Sir. From Wordnik.com. [William Adolphus Turnpike] Reference
The judges were unprepared to accept this view off-hand; and, after consulting with the assessors, the President insisted that, whatever. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
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