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And then that cranky, exigeant colonel, longing to make love to me if I would let him; the stiff dinner parties, tiresome people, spoilt children though I do delight in Harold and Winnie and Gwynne and Dot and baby, too, for that much and 'And your father, quietly suggested Mrs Jones. 'I never thought you would wish me to leave you, Serena. Those happy, useful days!
George's mouth twitched. He slipped, smiling, into a place beside Letty. "Did you hear that?" he inquired. "Fontenoy's speech, of course," said the under-secretary, looking round. "She's pitching into Leven, I suppose. He's as cranky and unsound as he can be. Shouldn't wonder if you got him before long."
I'm in deadly earnest. In this country, so far as society goes, I'm at the top. You may say it doesn't amount to much, and you're right. But it makes it all the worse when I'm in Europe, and see the sort of women I have to give place to. Say, don't you sit there, Mr. Courage, and look at me as though I were a woman with some cranky grievance to talk about. It's got beyond that, let me tell you!"
As to the rest, I don't know whether there's so much for us to be proud of. It seems that this cranky wretch of a mare had been sideling and fidgeting when Mr. Falkland and his daughter started for their ride; but had gone pretty fairly Miss Falkland, like my sister Aileen, could ride anything in reason when suddenly a dead limb dropped off a tree close to the side of the road.
The poetry, however, was there ineradicably in his soul, affecting his judgments, the lawyers still called him "cranky" or "erratic," and giving even to routine judicial acts a significance and dignity little suspected by the careless practitioners in his court.... And so this elderly gentleman, for he had crossed the sixty mark by now, recalled the timid, pale-faced, undersized girl, with her "common" aunt, who seven years before had appeared in his court and to whom he had been the instrument of giving riches.
Most of the girls are pretty good to me; though, now and then, there's one who thinks she was cut out of finer cloth. I dote on the professor, even if he does get a bit cranky sometimes, like to-day, when something ruffles his stately feathers. His wife is lovely, too, and the teachers are all nice. But don't call me Miss Wild, please. I'm 'Jennie' to everybody.
His views on drugs and their real value as expressed in this article should be an eye-opener to those good people who believe that we of the Nature Cure school are altogether too radical, extreme, and somewhat cranky. However, what Dr. Osler says regarding the "New School" is true only of a few advanced members of the medical profession.
Why, we had to treat her as gingerly as if she were a yacht rounding a mark-boat to make her bear up a point or go to the wind; although I'll give her the credit of saying, if she were cranky and she was that, and no mistake she made no leeway, which was a blessing at all events.
He had evidently got himself up for the occasion, for his shoeblack uniform had been well brushed, his hands and face severely washed, and his hair plastered well down with soap-and-water. "Come in, Slidder that's your name, isn't it?" said the doctor. "It is, sir Robin Slidder, at your sarvice," replied the urchin, giving me a familiar nod. "'Ope your leg ain't so cranky as it wos, sir.
He related certain intimate incidents which had aroused his first twinge of suspicion. He was revoltingly frank "I spoke to her plainly," he said. "'What's the matter with you, Dora? I asked her. 'Don't you like me any more? And she got wild and said she hated me like poison. She never talked to me like that before. It was a different Dora. She was always downhearted, cranky.
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