United States or Palau ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But then it harshly screeched, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" This laughter was discordant, cynical, derisive, as if the bird relished a tasteless jest. Winona went to the hammock and resumed an open book. Its title was "Matthew Arnold How to Know Him." She was getting up in Matthew Arnold for a paper. Winona at twenty was old before she should have been.
"To propose the printing of such a speech," said Lecos, a constitutional bishop, "is to propose the printing of a code of atheism. It is impossible that a society can exist, if it have not an immutable morality derived from the idea of a God." Derisive sneers and murmurings hailed this religious protest.
However swift a dash was made upon one of these, always the clam closed a little quicker, sending a derisive shower of drops over the head of the gull. Once, after a week of rough weather, the storm gods brought their battling to a climax. Great green walls of foaming water crashed upon the rocks, rending huge boulders and sucking them down into the black depths.
There was a swift scramble in the dust by the door, an oath from the sheepman, and the yellow dog dashed away again, with Tommy at his heels. Creede was the first man to regain his nerve and, seeing his pet triumphant, he let out a whoop of derisive laughter. "Ah-hah-hah!" he hollered, pointing with his pistol hand, "look at that, will ye look at 'im yee-pah go after 'im, Tommy we'll show the "
"Perhaps their father is Irish and the mother Italian or Spanish," suggested Professor Marshall. Sylvia was delighted with this hypothesis, and cried out enthusiastically, "Oh yes Camilla looks Italian like an Italian princess!" Judith assumed an incredulous and derisive expression and remained silent, an achievement of self-control which Sylvia was never able to emulate.
"Polykrates laughed at this message and returned the letters his pirates had taken from our trireme, with a derisive greeting. For the future all your letters will be sent by Syria. "You will ask me perhaps, why I have told you this long story, which has so much less interest for you than any other home news. I answer: to prepare you for your father's state.
You know that very well. Why do you extend your hand to me with derisive phrases? Whether you wished it or not, you have made me desperately in love with you. You have become my evil, my suffering, my torture, and you ask me to be an agreeable friend. Now you are coquettish and cruel. If you can not love me, let me go; I will go, I do not know where, to forget and hate you.
"This may be called Fort meeting Feeble, hey, Boldwood?" said Troy. A low gurgle of derisive laughter followed the words. The paper fell from Boldwood's hands. Troy continued "Fifty pounds to marry Fanny. Good. Twenty-one pounds not to marry Fanny, but Bathsheba. Good. Finale: already Bathsheba's husband.
"Ha!" for an arrow well and strongly aimed hit squarely above his heart, and rebounded from the coat of mail Rose had insisted upon his putting on. "For thee, wife!" murmured the captain, and fired. Bark and splinters flew from the tree where the crown of the warrior's head had showed for an instant, but a shriek of derisive laughter told that no further harm was done.
Henceforth work, work, work teaching by day, correcting exercises by night, in a deserted schoolroom, with three months' holiday a year spent at home among brothers and sisters whose interests had necessarily drifted apart from her own! As the years passed by she would become staid and prim; schoolmistressy manner; the girls would speak of her by derisive nicknames...
Word Of The Day