Thank the ancestors for not-so-small blessings, Geary thought irreverently.

"Its mighty engines roaring," she thought irreverently.

And the Continental Congress and the Great Jehovah, she thought irreverently, but she obeyed.

Gaizar, he thought irreverently, must have overslept this morning.

I thought irreverently, then snorted laughter.

I wonder what young Elphinstone has done to annoy him, Grant thought irreverently.

This one's for me, Megan thought irreverently.

With the beat sustaining her, and everyone else, they marched on; totally unlike any Christian soldiers, she thought irreverently.

Maybe I should call it Blood Will Tell, she thought irreverently.

Ancestress or not, she was a real dolly, he thought irreverently.