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She would shake off all pretence to it as easily as she would shake aside that clustering hair. . . . . Titian must have been a very good-for-nothing old man. I looked again at Michael Angelo's Fates to-day; but cannot satisfactorily make out what he meant by them. One of them she who holds the distaff has her mouth open, as if uttering a cry, and might be fancied to look somewhat irate.

Could any advice have been more delicately worded than that of the caddie to the stout clergyman who with all his strength made a most mighty swing at his ball on the tee with the usual result a foozle? "It'll nae do, sir; ye ken ye canna drive as far as that." "Wha wha what do you mean by such a remark? As far as what?" gasped the reverend but irate gentleman.

I threw two of the torpedoes against the wall of the hall through which the guests were passing, and the immediate results were as follows: two loud reports astonished guests irate landlord discovery of the culprit, and summary punishment for the landlord immediately floored me with a single blow with his open hand, and said: " 'There, you little greenhorn, see if that will teach you better than to explode your infernal fire-crackers in my house again.

"You shall answer for this," said Carson, foaming; "we're professional men, and we're not going to be abused by a bargee." "Let him talk," said Mr. Thomson, hurriedly drawing his friend away from the irate skipper. "Let him talk." "I'll put you both in quod when we get to Hong-kong," said the skipper. "Meantime, no work, no food; d'ye hear? Start and cook the breakfast, Mr. Doctor; and you. Mr.

He moved uneasily in his chair, he was inwardly fuming with indignation, and for one moment was inclined to assume the melodramatic pose of the irate Churchman, and to make himself into the figure of an approved "stage" dignitary of religion, with out stretched arm, menacing eyes, and words that were as darts to wound and sting.

Before Hicks could finish he found himself inextricably tangled in Sandy's arms and legs, while that irate youth sat upon him and pommeled him soundly. "So it's the good doctor ye'd be after blasphemin' and abusin' and makin' game of! By the powers, ye'll take it back! Speak one time more, and I'll make you swaller the lyin' words, if I have to break every bone in your skin!"

"That I'll not," answered Billy, who had not at all liked the ominous frown which he had seen gather over the fair Angelica's brow, and still less the dictatorial tone of the irate major. Billy had a fair proportion of good sense, although he made a fool of himself sometimes; and was, when put on his mettle, as brave as any man.

This sort of reign of terror must not go on. "Don't fluster yourself, Mrs. Ransford," she said calmly. "I'll see to the matter myself." But she might as well have attempted to stem the tide of the river that had wrecked her journey as stay the irate woman's tongue. "But it's him!" she cried.

As Gwen thus cogitated, the scene in the cottage garden at home came before her, when she found Patty Howitt locked out by her irate sister, and her words flashed across her with clear distinctness now, 'If I'm kept out here till dark, I'll maintain a promised wife comes before a sister! A shadow crossed Gwen's determined face at this recollection.

Don't be a coward, Jim! There's the line; toe it!" and he marked a crease in the soft turf. "You bet I'll toe it!" growled the now irate farmer. "And don't whimper if I break a bone or two when I flop ye!" As Bishop threw his cap to the ground and rushed toward the defiant millionaire Carter saw fit to interfere. "Don't do this," he protested, jumping between them. "One of you will get hurt!