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"There is no sense in making such hard work of a simple little poem like that," declared the teacher, closing her lips in a straight line and looking very much exasperated after an hour's battle with the child Tuesday afternoon. "You have just made up your mind that you will learn it, and that is where the whole trouble lies."
"May God punish them ... but may He wait a little bit!" he murmured in his thoughts. The imposing professor became greatly exasperated when speaking of the land in which she was living. "Mandolin players! Bandits!" she always cried when referring to the Italians. How much they owed to Germany! The Emperor Wilhelm had been a father to them.
Lee turned to Carrington, and said, with some bitterness: "Was he then the only honest public man we ever had?" "Oh no!" replied Carrington cheerfully; "there have been one or two others." "If the rest of our Presidents had been like him," said Gore, "we should have had fewer ugly blots on our short history." Ratcliffe was exasperated at Carrington's habit of drawing discussion to this point.
His peculiar prying imagination penetrated it quickly; the feeling that there was in it an element which eluded his grasp exasperated his impatience to get on. And so one trip came to an end, then another, and he had begun his third before he saw an opening by which he could step in with any sort of effect.
Political subjects which but a few years ago excited and exasperated the public mind have passed away and are now nearly forgotten. But this question of domestic slavery is of far graver importance than any mere political question, because should the agitation continue it may eventually endanger the personal safety of a large portion of our countrymen where the institution exists.
"Vy then, sir, dooty bein' dooty, I'll take a valk." "As you will!" said I. "Come, Anthony!" and turning, we began to retrace our steps. But we had gone but a little way when I faced suddenly about, for the man was plodding at our heels. "Why the devil do you follow us?" I demanded, greatly exasperated. "Becos' dooty is dooty, sir, an' dooty demands same," he answered imperturbably.
She took it from him, and gave it into the hands of one of her ladies, desiring her to preserve it as a curious sign of the times. If the royal family received insults from people who could not feel for them, it was equally true that their adherents exasperated the feelings of persons who quite as little deserved insult. Such was the effect of mutual prejudice.
"I fancy it was being left lying in the garden that had exasperated him so against me from the first," he thought, indulgently. The two strangers at the next table had fallen silent after the third mention of General Feraud's name. Presently the elder of the two, speaking again in a bitter tone, affirmed that General Feraud's account was settled. And why?
She was distracted between her various anxieties; exasperated against the fatal influence of Jacqueline, alarmed by the increasing intimacy with Giselle, desirous that all such complications should be put an end to by his marriage, but terribly afraid that her "cider apple" would not be sufficient to accomplish it.
They are so soaked in flattery, the flattery of budding orators, that your talk wakes them to the truth." "I take nothing back," said the Mayor in a calm, sweet voice to which feeling gave an edge. "Then you do not desire the nomination of Tammany Hall?" Arthur said with a placid drawl, which usually exasperated Everard and other people.
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