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And in his attitude there was something of infantile, derisive, sparrowlike impudence as he peered back into the Judge's face something that was very like the attitude of an outraged, ruffled old reprobate of a parrot rearing himself erect. Old Jerry made no haste. It was a thing which required a nice deliberation. And so he waited waited and prolonged the moment to its last, sweetest second.
Why don't you kiss him now, when he can know it? But he's a beauty to take care of you for somebody else. Fighting for the other one, eh? Stuff and humbug! Take him home, and the curse of Judas on the brace of you." So saying, he burst into wild, derisive laughter, flogged his horse on the ears and the nose, shouted "Down, you brute, down!" and shot off at a gallop across the open Curragh.
Steve was about to indulge in a derisive hoot at the idea of her looking after them, but a sudden thought restrained him, and suggested a way in which he could satisfy Rose, and better himself at the same time. "What will you give me if I'll tell you every bit about it?" he asked, with a sudden red in his cheeks and an uneasy look in his eyes, for he was half ashamed of the proposition.
All this impressed him to an extent which he had hardly deemed possible, though of any outward evidence thereof he gave no sign. "Are all dead up yonder?" he asked some of the Ba-gcatya, as he joined them in their frugal fare. A laugh, derisive but not discourteous to himself, greeted the question. "Au! The bite of The Spider does not need repeating twice," was the reply.
In the midst thereof was seen the tall, lank figure of a man, whose extraordinary appearance enchained the attention of the multitude, and excited afresh their shouts and derisive laughter. And, in fact, nothing could be more striking or fantastic than this man.
I suppose by now you have all the train robbers safely tucked away in the penitentiary?" "Not yet," he answered cheerfully. "Not yet!" Her lifted eyebrows and the derisive flash beneath mocked politely his confidence. "By this time I should think they might be hunting big game in deepest Africa." "They might be, but they're not." "What about that investment in futurities you made on the train?
When, however, an hour later, another shock of cannon shook his chamber, followed immediately by what sounded to him like a derisive blast of fish-horns, there was no more irresolution left in him. Hastily arising and throwing a coat over his shoulders, and dashing a hat over his eyes the first one that came to hand, and which happened to be a tall beaver Mr.
A derisive smile lit up his cold features; when, casting violently upon the marble center table an enormous roll of greenbacks, William Barker cried "See! Look on this wealth. And I've tenfold more! Listen, old man! You spurned me from your door. But I did not despair. I secured a contract for furnishing the Army of the with beef " "Yes, yes!" eagerly exclaimed the old man.
He looked from one to the other, not seeming to entirely comprehend the significance of the command, and then he saw the gleam in Betty's eyes, the derisive enjoyment in Dade's, the implacable glint in Calumet's, knowledge burst upon him in a sudden, sickening flood and his face paled. He looked at Calumet, the look of a trapped animal. "Get goin'!" said the latter; "we're all waitin'."
It is not unnatural that those who remembered Borrow as one of William Taylor's "harum-scarum" young men, who at one time intended to "abuse religion and get prosecuted," should find in his appointment as an agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society a subject for derisive mirth. Harriet Martineau's voice was heard well above the rest.
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