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"It is a little one," said he, "but I know it of old for a good one; Les Trois Poissons. But what is this writ up? I mind not this;" and he pointed to an inscription that ran across the whole building in a single line of huge letters. "Oh, I see. 'Ici on loge a pied et a cheval," said Denys, going minutely through the inscription, and looking bumptious when he had effected it.
She was loved throughout the regiment for her kindliness and grace of mind, as well as for her devotion to the sick and suffering in the old days of the Indian wars, and Stannard had made a similar proffer and been similarly refused, and he had gone away indignant. He thought Mr. Hayne too bumptious to live; but he bore no malice, and his wrath was soon over.
The youths before him awakened the hot, headlong youth still within him, and he launched forth upon a tirade of invective that was wild and reckless even for him. "This folly, this falsity, this bumptious vulgarity shall we not put an end to it?" cried the Doctor. "Yes, yes," responded the house. "No; go on," said a single voice.
"Is he taking it worse or better than you expected?" Josephine asked, in the lowest of whispers. "He took it like the bumptious idiot he can be, at first. He's a trifle calmer now. I'm hoping by morning he'll be reasonable." "Don't you think he must see the beauty of it when he looks at Sally?" "One would think so.
Life means action; action means self-assertion; self-assertion rouses all the small, colorless people to the only sort of action of which they are capable to sneering at the doer as egotistical, vain, conceited, bumptious and the like. So be it!
Good-looking in his own way, if not on such showy lines as Comus, always well turned-out, witty, self-confident without being bumptious, with a conspicuous Parliamentary career alongside him, and heaven knew what else in front of him, Courtenay Youghal certainly was not a rival whose chances could be held very lightly.
When, after a triumphal procession through miles of thoughtless enthusiasts, who remembered only the services of France, forgot that their friends had been confined entirely to the royalty and aristocracy that the mob was murdering, and were intoxicated by the extreme democracy of the famous Secretary of State, Genet arrived in Philadelphia, inflated and bumptious, his brain half crazed by the nervous excitement of the past two years, and was received with frigid politeness by Washington, Hamilton was not long discovering that Jefferson was in secret sympathy and intercourse with this dangerous fire-brand.
Carry yourself as if you were the undoubted inheritor of the Reade traditions. Think how Reade himself would have borne himself then strike out from it all the bumptious and aggressive parts and be the rest. Two things destroy a man in America. One is the suggestion of personal eccentricity, Bohemianism, etc. The other is a disposition for criticism and controversy on their own subjects.
"I am David Malcolm, sir," I answered. "Ah!" He lifted his eyebrows. "You are one of those bumptious Malcolms." "Yes, sir," I returned proudly, for the word "bumptious" had a ring of importance in it, and I had every reason to believe that the Malcolms were persons of quite large importance. Why Mr.
The mere sound of the word made Jimmy shudder, but engrossed in his own troubles Alfred continued without heeding him. "Henri, the head-waiter, told me," explained Alfred, and Jimmy remembered guiltily that he had been very bumptious with the fellow.
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