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It was now, and not sooner, that Sharpitlaw, recollecting his promise to Effie Deans, or rather being dinned into compliance by the unceasing remonstrances of Mrs. Saddletree, who was his next-door neighbour, and who declared it was heathen cruelty to keep the twa brokenhearted creatures separate, issued the important mandate, permitting them to see each other.
One thought, pounded through her brain and dinned itself into her ears at all costs Cyril must not be allowed to say that which she so feared; he must be saved from himself. "Woman-hater? Why, of course you're a woman-hater," she cried merrily. "I'm sure, I I think it's lovely to be a woman-hater." The man opened wide his eyes; then he frowned angrily. "Nonsense, Billy, I know better.
Haven't you dinned it into me at half a dozen dances lately? No! I'm entitled to my say and here it is. Claim all the freedom you like but as you're not twenty-five, but nineteen let a good fellow like Buntingford give you advice and be thankful!" "Prig!" said Helena, pelting him with a spray of wild cherry, which he caught and put in his button-hole.
They have dinned that into my ears for the last two months since I have been on the throne. It is a matter which I had not thought of, and therefore I have been in no haste to answer them; and they have grown impatient, saying that it is for the good of the realm. Have you ever been at the court of King Offa of Mercia?"
The Old Masters we're always having it dinned into us didn't hustle; they mugged away at a Saint, or a Virgin and Child, and never minded if it took 'em half a lifetime.
Augustine, like Coleridge, and all the supreme saints of the world in this insistence upon the necessity for a cleansed heart and a will devoted to the glory of God; he was different from them all in believing that this message must be shouted, dinned, trumpeted, and drummed into the ears of the world before mankind can awaken to its truth. "He made a tremendous demand.
'I must take up the thread of my story, my dearest Matilda, where I broke off yesterday. 'For two or three days we talked of nothing but our siege and its probable consequences, and dinned into my father's unwilling ears a proposal to go to Edinburgh, or at least to Dumfries, where there is remarkably good society, until the resentment of these outlaws should blow over.
Nevertheless, just to show my readers that there is a measure of truth in the prevalent impressions here of John Bull's general ignorance and apathy as to what is going on in America, I willingly admit that not till I had been a few days resident in Cambridge did the unpalatable fact fully dawn upon me that the country was undergoing the ordeal of "hard times" a phrase, by the way, which I have had dinned into my ears almost incessantly as far back as I can remember.
But th' parson were a steady-gaited sort o' chap, and Jesse were strong o' his side, and all th' women i' the congregation dinned it to 'Liza 'at she were fair fond to take up wi' a wastrel ne'er-do-weel like me, as was scarcelins respectable an' a fighting dog at his heels. It was all very well for her to be doing me good and saving my soul, but she must mind as she didn't do herself harm.
A Hun isn't so much to them as a cow, and they would see you all in perdition rather than lose a good mule." The faces about him were scowling and malignant. Each man was ready to believe all evil against that great and incomprehensible body known as a corporation. They had heard the war-cry between capital and labor dinned into their ears since the day they set foot upon American soil.
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