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"But I want my dishpan!" cried Cayke. "No one can blame you for that wish," remarked the Frogman. "Then tell me where I may find it," she urged. The look the Frogman gave her was a very wise look, and he rose from his chair and strutted up and down the room with his hands under his coattails in a very pompous and imposing manner.
Admire that artful turn in the parson's eloquence! it was worthy of Riccabocca himself. Indeed, Mr. Dale had profited much by his companionship with that Machiavellian intellect. "A marriage, yes; but Frank has only just got into coattails!" "I did not allude to Frank, but to your cousin Jemima!"
He was so overcome with gratitude that it seemed as if his very coattails wagged with his emotion. "Take it quietly," said Master Gridley. "Don't make a fool of yourself. Tell your mother to have some clean shirts and things ready for you, and we will be off day after to-morrow morning."
But the Chamber met this morning, and there was an expression of opinion in favor of a democratic Government. No vote was taken; but the latest reports speak of some disorder. The approaches to the Schwarzburg are held by troops. There are barricades in the main streets." Prince Michael's hands went under his coattails.
Mr Saltzburg pondered. "I will go and speak to the children," he said. "I will talk to them. They know me! I will make them be reasonable." He bustled off in the direction taken by Mr Miller, his coattails flying behind him. The stage director, with a tired sigh, turned to face Wally, who had come in through the iron pass-door from the auditorium. "Hullo!" said Wally cheerfully. "Going strong?
The old lady his wife is sick of the place and he only come here on her account. He cal'lates that New York is good enough for him. I cal'late 'tis. Anyhow, Denboro won't hang onto his coattails to hold him back. Tell Ros the whole story, George." George told it, beginning with his receipt of his father-in-law's telegram and his hurried return to the Cape.
His legs entangled in his flowing coattails, and blinded by his hat which kept falling over his face, shaking his sleeves like the sails of a windmill, and splashing into puddles of water, and stumbling against stones in the road, running and bounding, Marius was following the carriage as fast as his legs could carry him.
If you had turned around a moment ago, you would have seen our constable's coattails disappearing behind the bushes on our right." In the long after years Mark Griffin used to wonder at the strange way in which love for Ruth Atheson entered his life. Mark always owned that, somehow, this love seemed sent for his salvation.
A few words were sufficient to win completely the shyest boy whom he desired to attract; and thus it happened that, even when he had been with us only a few weeks, he was never seen crossing the court-yard without a group of the younger pupils hanging to his coattails and clasping his hands and arms.
He rammed his hat on tight, and took it flying, with his black coattails fluttering like wings; and, coming back laughing, said, "There's a bit of the old Adam for you, Mrs. Buckley! Be careful how you defy me again." The sun was bright overhead, and the land in its full winter verdure, as they rode along the banks of the creek that led to Toonarbin. "That is a strange sight to a European, Mrs.
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