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So the class maintained and so they chanted soon and late, in many keys, "with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino." And who so bold or malicious, or age cankered as to dispute the dictum? Is it not youth's privilege to fling enthusiasm and superlatives to the wind and to deal in glorious arrogance?
Shall we justify the accusations of our adversaries? Hoc Ithacus velit The Tories and Jacobites will behold us with a malicious pleasure, determined upon the ruin of our friends: For is not the present set of bishops almost entirely of that number, as well as a great majority of the principal clergy? And a short time will reduce the whole, by vacancies upon death.
"I know that his wife divorced him, and I have heard a dozen or more malicious tales about his present life. I doubt if you can add to the collection." "You put me in a false position." "And you reflect on mine in assuming to dictate whom I shall receive. This house belongs to the state. Every citizen is welcome." Mrs. Van Dam had gathered her furs and risen, but at this she paused.
Hiram took the sling-shot with him, and went up to the Dickerson house. He had got along so well with the Dickersons for these past months that he honestly shrank from "starting anything" now. Yet he could not overlook this flagrant piece of malicious mischief. Indeed, it was more than that. Two stacks had already been burned, and it might be some of the outbuildings or even Mrs.
"Oh, no!" was the cheerful reply; "but all the rest have." Presently the malicious thing gave a sudden start. "Oh! such a piece of news; you remember Colonel Dujardin, the obnoxious colonel?" No answer. "Transferred his attentions. Fancy!" "Who to?" "To Josephine and mamma. But such are the military. "Oh, yes!" "We will go and look for my deserter.
"You never met Selwyn, did you?" "No, sir." "Never heard anything definite about his trouble?" insisted Gerard. "Oh, yes, sir!" replied young Erroll, "I've heard a good deal about it. Everybody has, you know." "Well, I don't know," retorted Austin Gerard irritably, "what 'everybody' has heard, but I suppose it's the usual garbled version made up of distorted fact and malicious gossip.
He was a forbidding-looking creature, with a hard face, divided in its expression between evil thoughts and a malicious humor. His general appearance was much that of the rest of the men, with the exception that he made no display of offensive weapons. It was not this, however, that drew Helen in his direction, for she well enough knew that, in fact, he was a perfect gunpark of concealed firearms.
There was nothing human in her countenance, and infernal light gleamed in her strangely-set eyes. Her personal strength, evidently unimpaired by age, or preserved by magical art, seemed equal to her malice; and she appeared as capable of executing any atrocity, as of conceiving it. She saw the effect produced upon him, and chuckled with malicious satisfaction.
All at once a thought struck him, and, like an arrow impelled from the bow, he dashed forward and ran after Jean Paul Marat. "Doctor Marat, Doctor Marat!" he shouted, breathless, from a distance. Marat stood still and looked around with a malicious glance. "Well, what is it?" snarled he, "and who is calling my name so loud?" "It is I, brother Marat," answered the cobbler, panting.
Always asking about 'Uncle Levinsky. Some little children have a better memory than some grown people." Having delivered this thrust, she swept my shop with a sepulchral glance, followed by a succession of nods. Then she said, with a grin at once wheedling and malicious: "There are two more floors, aren't there? And I see you're very busy, thank God. Plenty of orders, hey? Thank God.
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