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Deena ran to the window and caught her mercurial sister issuing from the door below. "Stop, Polly!" she called. "I cannot afford a new hat, and I cannot accept anything more please come back." Polly made a little grimace and walked steadily down the path; at the gate she condescended to remark: "Have all your last words said to your cook by the time I get back, for Ben will not want to wait."
Directly afterwards he spat it out, with a ridiculous grimace, exclaiming "Rotten lemons, iron filings, and saltpetre, by all that is abominable! Ah, faith! there must have been poison in the cup." "Wash it out and try again," said Uncle Richard; "although, I tell you, I believe the cup is perfectly clean." The dominie made a second attempt, with the same result.
The gray-haired leech and antiquary, Hartmann Schedel, whom Herr Wilibald, spite of the gout which sometimes forced a slight grimace to distort his smooth-shaven, clever, almost over-plump face, led by the arm like a careful son, resembled, with his long, silver locks, a patriarch or an apostle.
I looked up at Master Lionel, and he made such a grimace, that I could hardly keep my countenance, and I did not exactly feel satisfied at thus performing, as it were, with a servant; but still, that servant was Lionel, who was very unlike other servants. In ten minutes, as promised, we were released, much to my satisfaction.
Had I been going up the ladder to be hanged, I should have laughed at this sight; for to all this outrageous grimace, was added a fantastic habiliment, and an odour from Desdemona and company, that associated the ideas of the skunk or the polecat.
They had carried her as gently as possible, but had absolutely refused to allow her to walk. At regular intervals they gave her an opportunity to rest, and food and water. "Dried fish?" I asked hopefully. Desiree nodded, with a most expressive grimace, and Harry burst into laughter. Then of the elevation to her evident authority.
On many occasions this has a singular and striking effect, but it degenerates into mere empty form and grimace in cases where the defunct has had the misfortune to live unbeloved and die unlamented.
You are clever, and well-read, and probably fastidious. I'm... well, you see what I am! and no good for anything except trying to restrain horrible children from thumping till they break the notes." "I thought you said you were a music-teacher?" "That's what they call it," with a dry grimace; "but when I dare to be honest, I have too much respect for music."
Of course I'll take him," laughed Alice; "and right under his mother's nose, too," she added, with a playful grimace at Billy. "And we'll make pat-a-cakes, and send the little pigs to market, and have such a beautiful time that we'll forget there ever was such a thing in the world as an old germ. Eh, babykins?"
"I never deceive a lady, at any rate," said Mr. Thorne, "especially when the gratification of my own wishes is so strong an inducement to keep me true, as it now is." Mr. Thorne went on thus awhile with antediluvian grimaces and compliments which he had picked up from Sir Charles Grandison, and the signora at every grimace and at every bow smiled a little smile and bowed a little bow. Mr.
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