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"That isn't very likely," said Herbert. "I got hit as hard as you did." "Your hat didn't get knocked off. Pick it up," said James, imperiously, pointing to it as it lay in the path. "I will, because it is by my fault that it fell," said Herbert, stooping over and picking it up. "You needn't have ordered me to do it."
Peace, slavish dog!" she panted, flinging out a gleaming hand and seizing him by one earring. "Thus I mark curs that seek their food among the dead!" With the words Dolores's right hand flashed upward, knife-armed, and across Rufe's cheek glared a crimson cross; into his eyes leaped the fear of death. "Now go!" she said imperiously, pushing him away.
Now, when this tardy recognition comes, for which I have waited so long, it is tainted with fraud and crime and blood, and I must pay for it with my child's life!" "And I must forfeit that of mine, it seems, for withholding it so long," sobbed the other, as, tottering, she turned to go. "It is but just." "Stay do not go yet!" commanded Janet imperiously, her pride still keeping back her tears.
Ambrose demanded four men of him to carry Tole's body to his father's house. Watusk kept him waiting while he listened to a communication from Myengeen. Ambrose guessed that it had to do with himself, for both men glanced furtively at him. Watusk finally turned away without having answered the white man. Ambrose, growing red, imperiously repeated his demand.
Can't I even quote 'A book of verses underneath the bough " "Oh, not on any account! That least of all." "You don't want me to be hackneyed? Well, I'll be perfectly original. I know one thing I can say which will always sound mysterious and marvellous!" "Say it, say it!" she commanded, imperiously, knowing quite well what it was.
Even the lounging pith-hatted Englishmen nodded their appreciation of this lithe Yankee who so hurriedly bounded up the steps of Shepheard's Hotel and spoke imperiously to the Maitre d' Hotel of that famous hostelry.
"I saw you and I am going to prove it." So saying he turned to the mistress of the house, who had dropped into an arm-chair, and imperiously asked, "How many packs have we used?" "Five." "Then there ought to be two hundred and sixty cards upon the table." Thereupon he counted them slowly and with particular care, and he found no fewer than three hundred and seven.
The person designated, rose and replied to such questions as were addressed to him. If the responses were confused, the prisoner's embarrassment was regarded as a conclusive proof of his guilt; if they were long, he was imperiously ordered to be silent. Witnesses were heard, of course; but those who testified in favor of the accused were roughly handled.
"Well, I hope you won't," Rachael Breckenridge said amiably, "for if there is one thing I loathe more than another, it is being waked up for theatricals in the middle of the night. Good-bye. Be sure to thank Mrs. Bowditch for chaperoning you." "Are you going to speak to Clancy?" the girl demanded imperiously. "Run along, Billy," Rachael said, with a faint show of impatience.
He looked up and there, not two hundred yards away, its tapering mast showing dimly against the sky, was the vessel that had pursued them from The Hague, a single lantern burning on its stern. Martha looked and grunted; then she leant forward and whispered to them imperiously. "It is madness," gasped Martin.
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