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But the men proved to be much more peaceably disposed than the same class at home; they apologized for intruding, pleading the inclemency of the weather, and were quite willing, with our permission, to take up with pot-luck about the fire and leave us the shanty. They dried their clothes upon poles and logs, and had their fun and their bantering amid it all.
There was card-playing for small stakes, idle jests of coarse nature, much bantering among the younger fellows, and occasionally a mild quarrel. All morning men came and went, until, all told, Duane calculated he had seen at least fifty. Toward the middle of the afternoon a young fellow burst into the saloon and yelled one word: "Posse!"
And now to hurry back to Murray. We found him standing watch in hand, and he began to smile when he saw my companion. "Well! well!" he exclaimed in a bantering tone; "so you 've fallen a prey to Checkers, have you? What loser has he touted you onto, that's 'going to win in a walk, hands down'?" "Now, there's a guy that makes me sick," interrupted Checkers, ignoring the question.
Oh, he had been giving his sister a ride on a donkey, and they had met with an accident. Mr. Talboys was in a humor for revenge, so he pulled up, and in a somewhat bantering voice inquired where was the steed. "Oh, he is in port by now," said David. "Do you usually ease the animal of that part of his burden, sir?" "No," said David, sullenly. Eve, who hated Mr.
He drew himself up, affecting to look over the cavaliere's head as he bent on his stick before him. "Go on," retorted the cavaliere, doggedly. "How strange you have not heard any thing!" Trenta now looked so enraged, Baldassare thought it was time to leave off bantering him. "Well, then, cavaliere, since you really appear to be ignorant, I will tell you.
I might have been an acquaintance of the day before yesterday. I made her a low bow. "J'avais bien l'honneur, madame," but refusing to take up our usual bantering tone, she murmured a hospitable commonplace and disappeared. Boris and I looked at one another. "I had better go home, don't you think?" I asked. "Hanged if I know," he replied frankly.
Besides" with a bantering glance at her husband "I think it was only the prospect of being of some use at my hospital which induced Miles to marry me! He's my private secretary, you know, and boss of the commissariat department." Miles saluted.
"Signor della Rebbia," she said, and her voice shook, "should I have come here at all if " and as she spoke she laid the Egyptian talisman in Orso's hand. Then, with a mighty effort to recover her usual bantering tone "It's very wrong of you, Signor Orso, to say such things!
On February 15, 1817, he announces to Murray the completion of the first sketch of Manfred, and alludes to it in a bantering manner as "a kind of poem in dialogue, of a wild metaphysical and inexplicable kind;" concluding, "I have at least rendered it quite impossible for the stage, for which my intercourse with Drury Lane has given me the greatest contempt."
Missy felt a stranger to herself as, like some gracious belle and fairy princess and airy butterfly all compounded into one, she walked no, floated down the stairs. "Well!" exclaimed father, "behold the Queen of the Ball!" But Missy did not mind his bantering tone. The expression of his eyes told her that he thought she looked pretty. Presently Mrs.
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