United States or Ireland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Alma's coldness during the last few weeks he had explained to himself as the result of his failure to take interest in her proceedings. He knew that this behaviour on his part was quite illogical; Alma acted with full permission, and he had no right whatever to 'turn grumpy' just because he disliked what she was doing.
"Just think, Hugh, it's actually England!" she cried, as we stood on the wet deck. But I felt as though I'd been there before. "No wonder they're addicted to cold baths," I replied. "They must feel perfectly at home in them, especially if they put a little lampblack in the water." Maude laughed. "You grumpy old thing!" she exclaimed.
He looked "grumpy," as he had been accustomed to look in his darling childhood when he was about to have a croupy attack, at which times the sense of injury against all the world had been part humorous, whole poignant, to his mother's mind. "What is it, darling?" she asked, although she knew before he spoke what was the matter. "I have been talking to Father," he broke out.
They looked at each other then those two with that careful, yet careless-appearing glance which two duellists might employ when some common instinct warns them that sooner or later they will cross their swords. Uncle Stanley was the first to lower his eye. "The law requires three directors," he said in his more usual grumpy voice, "or I wouldn't have bothered you.
The grumpy Englishman, in an ill-temper with his wife, is capable of some day putting a rope round her neck, and taking her to be sold at Smithfield. The inconstant Frenchman may become unfaithful to his adored mistress, and be seen fluttering about the Palais Royal after another.
Her eyes seemed to have grown too big for it. Ena said Petro mustn't find out where she is. Rather rum what?" "Is this the thing that's made you so grumpy ever since?" "I don't know that I've been grumpy. Only a bit reflective. The fact is " "What?" "Never mind. It wouldn't sound very nice." "Who cares how it sounds? You might tell me, now we've got so far."
Despite his grumpy silence he showed an air of repressed excitement, sending frequent, shifty glances over the room; and that he possessed the temper of a fiend I did not doubt after seeing him turn upon the waiter for some trifling omission and reduce that usually placid individual to a state of amazed incapacity.
Harvey Farnham, who was here a few days ago, and who has often stopped in the hotel?" I caught her up eagerly. "Was?" I echoed. "Wasn't he the same as usual this last time?" "No, that he wasn't, sir. I thought to myself, thinks I, 'Mr. Farnham must have been disappointed in love or something, he was so grumpy and dull.
Janice helped in the garden again; but Marty was grumpy, and as soon as the last row of potatoes was hoed he disappeared until supper time. Uncle Jason was marking a field for corn planting. A harness strap broke and he was an hour fixing it, while old Lightfoot dragged the rickety marker into the fence corner and patiently cropped the weeds.
On his morning runs he observed that many people were grumpy and sullen, and treated him and their fellow passengers discourteously. At first his inclination was to respond in the same way.
Word Of The Day