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They, of course, don't care thrippence about me; it's you they hope to annoy. Then after beating them at their own game of daily little courtesies, we want a fight with them a good stiff fight about something wherein we are dead right, to remind them sharply that we have sand in our craw . I pray every night for such a fight; for they like fighting men.
A faithful protector was Bob, and woe to the intruder who dared to annoy the household while he was around. Fernando waited patiently and long for the return of his father. Every night before retiring to his trundle-bed, he would ask his mother if "father would come next day." At last the joyous shout of the older children announced the approach of the wagon. They ran down the road to meet it.
"I do wish, Dorothy, that you would cease your harping on the same old subject!" he cried, worriedly. "You annoy me so!" "Annoy you?" whispered Dorothy, half under her breath. "Why, I did not know that we could say anything to those we love which could make them vexed at us, because I thought we were: "'Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.
When he had placed a safe distance between himself and his victim, the adventurer eased up, took his booty from his pocket, replaced the watch, opened the purse, and counted out the money. Seven shillings constituted the miserable spoil. The poor result of his efforts seemed to amuse rather than annoy him, for he chuckled as he held the two half-crowns and the florin in the glare of his lantern.
During the night the enemy were found to be throwing up works "most furiously," and skirmishing parties were sent out of the town to annoy them. In the darkness nothing of consequence was effected, but a Scotch officer was captured, who informed the Spanish commander that the enemy was fifteen thousand strong a number which was nearly double that of Leicester's actual force.
Later still there was the experience which all of us know of waking in the morning with a feeling of dismay at what we have to do on getting up; the obvious duties in which perhaps we have grown stale; the things we have neglected; those in which we have made mistakes; those as to which we have wilfully done wrong; those which weary or bore or annoy or discourage us.
You haunt my steps you pursue me you annoy me with attentions which I dare not receive for fear of encouraging you, and in spite of all this, which everybody in the village must have seen but yourself, you still press yourself upon me." "Margaret Cooper, be not so proud!" "I am what I am!
He believed that it was his duty to come over and preach to the Wallencampers also, in their school-house, and he did so. I think that the Wallencampers regarded this, on the whole, as a doubtful though entertaining move. I do not think that they took any particular pains to harass or annoy the Rev. Mr. Rivers.
'Yes, Jacinth agreed, 'perhaps it would be right. For, you see, mamma, she thought I avoided speaking of them because I did not want to annoy her, and I think I made myself believe that too. But now I see it wasn't only that. It was partly a I feel ashamed to think of it a sort of horrid jealousy, I am afraid, mamma.
The rooms were very prettily decorated with this elegant plant, hung round it in festoons. In many places the clearing has been considerable; the road passes through several fine farms, situated in the sheltered hollows; we were told that the wolves continue to annoy them severely, but that panthers, the terror of the West, are never seen, and bears very rarely.
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