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Making all allowances for that greater charity, tolerance, and kindliness of judgment which comes with the riper years nobody ever could have remained as Britishly bumptious, or as bumptiously British as Dickens was in his younger days when he first came to pay us a visit taking also into consideration the fact that a certain explanatory softening of earlier criticisms was politic, that the novelist found a city far more to his taste in 1868 than he had found in 1842 is not for a moment to be questioned.
Those who were on the alert for offence, who resented a marginal note as a slight, and bumptiously demanded that their work should be printed just as they had written it, were commonly not much more desired by the reader than by the editor.
Uncle Fountain's factotum got down from the dicky, packed Lucy's imperial on the roof, and slung a box below the dicky; stowed her maid away aft, arranged the foot-cushion and a shawl or two inside, and, half obsequiously, half bumptiously, awaited the descent of his fair charge.
Therefore, when the spring drive is ready, and the head-driver is armed with his jackboots and his iron-pointed sceptre, the damster opens his sluices and lets another river flow through atop of the rock-shattered river below. The logs of each proprietor, detected by their marks, pay toll as they pass the gates and rush bumptiously down the flood.
However, necessity said yes; and cocking his flat hat jauntily on his head, he stuck a cheroot in his mouth, and went smoking and swaggering on, looking or rather squinting bumptiously at everybody he met, as much as to say, 'Don't suppose I'm walking from necessity! I've plenty of tin. The third cheroot brought Jack and his suite within sight of Hanby House. Mr.
"We don't want to take you on board without any head." "But they daren't hurt us," cried Smith bumptiously. "We're Englishmen, and our gunboat is in the river. I'm not afraid. Why, there'd be a war if one of these men interfered with us. Our people would land and burn up the place." "No," said Ching quietly. "Send letter to mandalin. Why you men cut off little offlicer head?"
Those who were on the alert for offence, who resented a marginal note as a slight, and bumptiously demanded that their work should be printed just as they had written it, were commonly not much more desired by the reader than by the editor.
He said this to Josephine, but his eye sought Rose. "I'm a famous runner," he added, a little bumptiously; "I'll be at the town in half an hour, and send a surgeon up full gallop." "You have a good heart," said Rose simply. He bowed his blushing, delighted face, and wheeled Dard to his cottage hard by with almost more than mortal vigor. How softly, how nobly, that frolicsome girl could speak!
"Well," said the Captain, a little bumptiously, "a parabola is a curve of the second order, formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides." "You don't say so!" cried Ardan, with mouth agape. "Do tell!" "It is pretty nearly the path taken by a shell shot from a mortar." "Well now!" observed Ardan, apparently much surprised; "who'd have thought it?
"A present from my lord, the marquis," he said bumptiously, almost rudely, and laid them on the table. "Dinna lay them there; tak them frae that, or I'll fling them yer poothered wig," said Malcolm. " It's a stan' o' pipes," he added, "an' that a gran' ane, daddy." "Take tem away!" cried the old man, in a voice too feeble to support the load of indignation it bore.
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