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With spurious cheerfulness she announced everywhere, "I guess I'm a born spinster," and "No one will ever marry a plain schoolma'am like me," and "You men, great big noisy bothersome creatures, we women wouldn't have you round the place, dirtying up nice clean rooms, if it wasn't that you have to be petted and guided. We just ought to say 'Scat! to all of you!"
"Now, sir, is it likely I would offend you for the pleasure of dirtying my fingers with that rascal's blood? Don't let such a lump of dirt as him make mischief between you and me, sir." "I understand! with you any unchristian sentiment is easily driven out by another. Hatred is to give way to contempt."
I brightened a little at hearing this, for the possibility of the cook having made a mistake was always before my eyes. So after satisfying ourselves that the men were not likely to return yet, I was one of the busiest in dirtying the plates and spoons, and ended by emptying the soup from the window with a feeling of the most intense relief. "Will it send the fishes to sleep, Mr Frewen?"
"Now, I'll tell you what you are you're a Fraud; and if I wasn't afraid of dirtying my boot, I would kick you and your dinner into that dock." "I'll tell you something, too," retorted the captain, duskily flushing. "I wouldn't sail this ship for the man you are, if you went upon your knees. I've dealt with gentlemen up to now."
"Yes, brother, very few.... Very few everywhere! The shooting here, if one is to look at it with common sense, is good for nothing and not worth having. There is no game at all, and what there is is not worth dirtying your hands over it is not full-grown. It is such poor stuff that one is ashamed to look at it." Meliton gave a laugh and waved his hands.
"And I like this sitting-room," rejoined Stapleton; "how mighty comfortable it will be to sit at the open window, and smoke in the summer time, with one's jacket off!" "At all events you'll have no excuse for dirtying the room, father; and as for the lad, I suppose his smoking days have not come yet." "No," replied I; "but my days for taking off my jacket are, I suspect."
Are you particular about dirtying your hands? If you aren't, just reach up that chimney a bit!" Mike stared. "What the dickens are you talking about?" "Go on. Get it over. Be a man, and reach up the chimney." "I don't know what the game is," said Mike, kneeling beside the fender and groping, "but Hello!" "Ah ha!" said Psmith moodily.
Outside the weather continued lamentable. The rain beat down steadily upon the heaps of snow on the grass-plats by the curbstones, melting it, dirtying it, and reducing it to viscid slush. The sky was lead grey; the trees, bare and black as though built of iron and wire, dripped incessantly.
Bad luck to my uncle O'Haggarty, that had the tan-yard here at all! He might have lived as became him, without dirtying his hands with the tanning of dirty hides." "I was just going," said John Gray, "to comfort you, Simon, for the laming of your horse, by observing that, if you had your tan-yard in order again, you could soon make up the price of another horse." "Ohoo!
It is not unusual for this device to be employed for refuting an idea in more or less humorous terms. One of the characters in a comedy of Labiche shouts out to his neighbour on the floor above, who is in the habit of dirtying his balcony, "What do you mean by emptying your pipe on to my terrace?" The neighbour retorts, "What do you mean by putting your terrace under my pipe?"
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