United States or Guam ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And if your aunt chooses to stay quietly in England, I'll take a house for her anywhere she likes, and I'll look after you both myself. You can take care of each other when I have to be absent for a day." "Would you like us to go?" asked Diana, screwing her head round impishly. "Or are we going to be a ... a ... frightful nuisance?"
I nearly died in history class when Miss Jenks, a love and nothing but a girl, just out of college, asked me the date of the Battle of Hastings, I couldn't remember and she looked at me so impishly and said, 'Better ask Aunt Jane's poll parrot. Imagine Ducky Lucky doing such a thing.
I'm a great stage-manager as well as a great poet. There shall be no more prompter. 'Indeed! Goldwater raised the eyebrow he was pencilling. 'And how are you going to get on without a prompter? 'Very simple a month's rehearsals. Goldwater turned an apoplectic hue deeper than his rouge. Kloot broke in impishly: 'It is very good of you to give us a month of your valuable time.
Thought you were going to ride in a regular car." "That's why I chose mine," Betty laughed back impishly, still intent on the sound of the engine. It was part of their fun to be always throwing insults at each other's car but the thrusts were invariably good-natured. Only once had there threatened to be any trouble between the chums on account of rivalry over the cars.
"What price, Waller R. A. now?" thought Carnaby impishly. "The plum tree in moonlight! eh? Wouldn't he give his eyes to see it! But he won't! Not if I know it!" The boy was as blind to the tree's beauty as his grandmother had been, but he had scientific ideas how to cut it down, for he had watched the felling of many a tree.
He was red to the ears, but Bessie could tell from the way he was looking at Dolly that the city girl, with her smart clothes and her pretty face, had already made a deep impression on the farm boy. Now as the two girls approached, he looked at them sheepishly, standing first on one foot, and then on the other. "Do you work all the time?" Dolly asked him, impishly, darting a look at Bessie.
The Senior Surgeon's eyes narrowed suddenly again. "Damn it all, Rae," he said, "I want you!" Precipitously the White Linen Nurse scrambled to her feet. "If you don't mind, sir," she cried, "I'll run down to the brook and get myself a drink of water!" Impishly like a child, muscularly like a man, the Senior Surgeon clutched out at the flapping corner of her coat.
Barney and father said a chorus was no place for me." She drew nearer. "Oh, Larry, I've such a lot to tell you." "Go on." "Well" she cocked her head impishly "I've been going to school." "Going to school! Where?" "Lots of places. Just now I'm going to school at the Ritzmore Hotel." "At the Ritzmore Hotel!" He stared at her bewildered. "What are you learning there?" "To be a lady."
Sommers' eyes lightened impishly. His thin lips twisted in a smile at the damnable joke which Life was playing there in that room. "Gentlemen of the Junta," he said in his sonorous, public-platform voice, "I find it expedient, because of untoward circumstances, to advise that you make no resistance.
And again she laughed, not impishly, but with a hardness altogether astonishing to her auditor. "Think," she cried, "of my sorry fate! Not only a wretchedly ailing husband on my hands, needing attention day and night, but a wretchedly disconsolate young lover as well. For poor Marshall will be inconsolable only too clearly do I foresee that.
Word Of The Day