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"Well, now, that's something like," returned the dame, with a smile that was intended to be a complimentary one; "and shows, jest as clear as any thing, that thar is a few streaks o' human nater in you arter all." Then, as if fearful the permission would be countermanded, the good lady at once set off in haste to join her adopted daughter.
Minnie Gray was expert with her needle, and for some years past had contributed not a little to the comforts of the household into which she had been adopted. She now set herself to work with redoubled zeal and energy. Besides this, Mrs Brand had a brother, a retired skipper, who obtained the complimentary title of Captain from his friends.
I've been a-feeling of it for some time, since we all quit out with the nursing and taking 'em complimentary dishes of truck. They is is hungry." Mrs. Pratt brought out the statement of the fact in a positively awestruck voice.
His whole appearance was so impressive and so decidedly that of a gentleman, that as he finished laying aside the garments, the ladies arose from their seats, and, together with the master of the house, they received anew, and returned the complimentary greetings which were again offered.
Ripson, Pipson, Nipson? it's not complimentary, but I can't remember names of that sort. Why do you have friends of that sort? He's not a gentleman. Better is he? Well, he's rather too insignificant for me. Why do you sit off there? Come to me instantly. There I'll sit up, and be proper, and you'll have plenty of room. Talk, Dick!" He was reflecting on the fact that her eyes were brown.
The copilot, G. W. Anderson, was looking at the chart but out of the corner of his eye he saw the pilot lean forward and look out the window, so he looked out too. He saw the light just as the pilot said, "What's that?" The copilot's answer was classic: "No, not one of those things." Both pilots had only recently voiced their opinions regarding the flying saucers and they weren't complimentary.
His computation of dates, though apparently exact, betrays a mind indifferent to the importance of chronology. The fragments of the next two books are more copious. He tells us that Gaul, then as now, pursued with the greatest zeal military glory and eloquence in debate. His notice of the Ligurians is far from complimentary.
She was called a 'strapping lass. That is quite a complimentary term in the West Riding." "Please, grandmother, I don't want to hear any more. In two weeks I shall be able to judge for myself. Since then there have been two generations, and if a member of the present one is fit for Parliament " "That's nothing. We needn't look for anything specially refined in Parliament in these days.
Osbaldistone, unless you have much better conversation than these fadeurs, which every gentleman with a toupet thinks himself obliged to recite to an unfortunate girl, merely because she is dressed in silk and gauze, while he wears superfine cloth with embroidery. Your natural paces, as any of my five cousins might say, are far preferable to your complimentary amble.
De Grasse consented to stay, and Washington, grateful beyond measure, wrote him that "a great mind knows how to make personal sacrifice to secure an important general good." Under the circumstances, and in view of the general truth of this complimentary sentiment, one cannot help rejoicing that De Grasse had "a great mind." At all events he stayed, and thereafter everything went well.
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