United States or Cameroon ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'Have doon wi' ye, she said sullenly, putting out a long bony arm in front of her husband, 'or I'll just lock oop that brandy where ye'll naw find it if ye pull the house doon. Now, sir, turning to Elsmere, 'would ye jest be going? Ye mean it weel, I daur say, but ye've doon yer wark, and ye maun leave it. And she motioned him out, not without a sombre dignity. Elsmere went home crestfallen.
However, the ci-devant sustainer of the besieged chair was but little disposed to afford him the clemency he demanded, and approached the crestfallen bravo with so grim an air of truculent delight, brandishing his sword and uttering the most terrible threats, that there would have been small doubt of the final catastrophe of the trembling bully, had not the other gallant thrown himself in the way of his friend.
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core. . . . I put down the glass, and the head that had appeared near enough to be spoken to seemed at once to have leaped away from me into inaccessible distance. "The admirer of Mr. Kurtz was a bit crestfallen. In a hurried, indistinct voice he began to assure me he had not dared to take these say, symbols down.
Oh, good gracious! your uncle must be in precious low water to stick you up in a hole like that at three-and-six a week. Do you know what my lodgings cost, eh, young 'un?" "No," said I, very crestfallen; "how much?" "Fifteen bob, upon my honour, and none too grand. Three-and-six a week, why I say, Crow!" "Oh, don't go telling everybody!" cried I, feeling quite ashamed of myself. "Oh, all serene.
"My opinion about you, Miss Garman, has always been, that the aimless life a lady in your position is obliged to lead here at home, must sooner or later become unbearable to you." "I cannot work," said she in a crestfallen tone. "Well, but at least you can try." "How am I to begin? You remember that time when father would not receive my offer of assistance."
Whether Greg was crestfallen at the news no one knew. Greg had never believed, anyway, in wearing his heart on his sleeve "just for other folks to stick pins in it, you know," was his explanation. There came the day when the furloughed second class marched over to camp.
But the farther north the army marched the more distant became Cibola in the report of the natives whom they met on the way; until at last the invaders became involved in the pathless deserts of New Mexico and the intricate ravines of the foothills beyond. The soldiers grew mutinous, and Guzman returned, crestfallen, to Mexico.
This intimation was not received with that alacrity which the captain expected to find in our adventurer, who told him in a peremptory tone, that he had no design to come to action, and desired to be left to his repose. Crowe forthwith retired crestfallen, and muttered something, which was never distinctly heard. About eight in the morning Mr.
"You are punctual," said the latter. "I am," replied Dalhousie, cavalierly. "This business admits of no delay. Are you prepared to give me an answer?" "Yes," returned Jaspar, endeavoring to assume a crestfallen air. "Well, sir, do you accept my terms?" "I do, on one condition." "Name it."
Charles Hazlewood, that you had some conversation with me concerning his studies, and that I was of opinion that his carrying them on in this house was altogether impracticable, and not to be thought of." Dominie Sampson left her presence altogether crestfallen, and, as he shut the door, could not help muttering the "varium et mutabile" of Virgil.
Word Of The Day