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"Everybody laughed heartily, but the lady of the house shook a minatory forefinger at me, saying, 'Ah, wicked scoffer! Is nothing to escape that scathing wit of yours? "The clever man shook hands with me as he passed me, saying "'Admirably done. Much obliged to you. "The young poet turned his back upon me with much contempt.
He did not speak for a minute or two. Then: "You've been playing with me, then fooling me?" he said heavily. Magda remained silent. The heavy, laboured speech seemed to hold something minatory in it the sullen lowering which precedes a tempest. "Answer me!" he persisted. "Was that it?" "I I suppose it was," she faltered. He drew still closer and instinctively she shrank away.
The harsh, minatory note of that voice sufficiently expressed the fact. "I can see that, fool; just as I can see what the rascal is. Who gave you leave to set Spanish legs?" "I am a doctor, Colonel Bishop. The man is wounded. It is not for me to discriminate. I keep to my trade." "Do you, by God! If you'd done that, you wouldn't now be here."
"What's the matter?" inquired Deb, advancing. As she was not a great lady then, but quite the contrary, Mr Goldsworthy explained what was the matter, with scarcely any modification of his minatory air. A caller had called yesterday, bringing with her a little boy.
"I'll give ye more'n ye can carry away in less'n half that time see?" was the minatory retort; and the threat was made good by an awkward buffet which would have knocked the engineer out of his chair if he had remained in it.
He was a tall, lean man, with a minatory countenance set off by terrible eyes in deep black circles, under enormous eyebrows; and his eloquence, very unlike his love-making, could be incisive. Monsieur Gravier was a little, round man, who in the days of the Empire had been a charming ballad-singer; it was this accomplishment that had won him the high position of Paymaster-General of the forces.
In consequence of this adventure, he commenced, says Pollnitz, a system of decisive measures; of reprisals even, and of altogether peremptory, minatory procedures, to clear Hanover of this nuisance; and to make it cease, in very fact, and not in promise and profession merely.
No hint was let fall of the existence of any minatory brief; he sustained his pretence of good will, till there was no longer any occasion for him to counterfeit; and two months later it suddenly appeared on the doors of the churches in Flanders.
Fentolin leaned forward. His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory. "I am under the impression, sir," he said, "that I saw you with my glasses from the window attempting to force an entrance into that building." Hamel nodded. "I not only tried but I succeeded," he remarked. "I got in through the window." Mr. Fentolin's eyes glittered for a moment.
Requisitioning the services of the mariners of Wales, a notoriously disloyal body, he gave the warrant, issued in 1208, a severely minatory turn. "Know ye for certain," it ran, "that if ye act contrary to this, we will cause you and the masters of your vessels to be hanged, and all your goods to be seized for our use."
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