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'There's an article here about that German painter Lenbach whom they crack up so nowadays. When he was a young man, Baron Schack, it appears, paid him one hundred pounds a year, for all his time, as a copyist in Italy and Spain. He spoke very delicately, mincing his words a little. Fenwick's colour rose suddenly. Morrison was not looking at him, or he would have seen a pair of angry eyes.
Let me tell you, I have known my lady these thirty years; and if she were to take me by the shoulders, and turn me out of the house, I should only love her the more. So don't you think to come between us with any little mincing, peace-making speeches. I have been a mischief-making parrot, and I like her the better for being vexed with me.
Hayley exclaim, "Now we'd better telephone to the police." And then, a moment later: "But the telephone's gone! What an extraordinary thing! This becomes, as in 'Alice in Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser " There was a tone of rising excitement in his quiet, rather mincing voice. Then came the words, "Look here!
But he was out on the pavement and getting into the workhouse van. "Ah!" said a mincing voice beside her. "How jolly it is when anybody is suffering for your sake!" It was Polly Love, and again her eyelids were half covering her eyes. "I'm sure I don't know what you mean," said Glory. Her own eyes were swimming in big tear-drops. "Don't you? What a funny girl you are!
At first all Nick could see was legs: red legs, yellow legs, blue legs, green legs, long legs, strong legs in truth, a very many of all sorts of legs, all stepping out together like a hundred-bladed shears; for these were the Saddlers of Cheapside and the Cutters of Mincing Lane, tall, ruddy-faced fellows, all armed with clubs, which they twirled and tossed and thwacked one another with in sport.
Shrapnel neither insulted her nor meant to ruffle her. 'She has done no such nonsense. 'If she has not! but I trust her to have done it. 'You play the trumpeter, you terrorize her. 'Into opening her lips wider; nothing else. I'll have the truth from her, and no mincing: and from Cecil Baskelett and Palmet. 'Give Cecil a second licking, if you can, and have him off to Shrapnel.
Though I don't go much on mincing words, I won't specify the priest nor the Levite right here in Cedar Mountain; but I will make mention of the Good Samaritan.
Singh started as if he had been stung, and was about to turn furiously upon the boy, under the impression that he was the nigger in question; but at the same moment he caught sight of a full-blooded, woolly-headed West Coast African leading a very large camel by a rope, the great ungainly beast mincing and blinking as it gently put down, one after the other, its soft, spongy feet, which seemed to spread out on the gravelled road, while their high-shouldered owner kept on turning its bird-like head from side to side, muttering and whining discontentedly, as if objecting to be seen by such an elongated crowd, and murmuring against being made the one visible object of the show.
Twirling his richly chased dirk with one tiny white hand, and at the same time playing with a pet curl which was picturesquely flowing over his forehead, he advanced with ambling gait to Miss Gusset, and, in a mincing voice and courtly phrase, summoned her to the imperial presence.
"The very lightest thing may hurt, if it falls on a tender place." "I don't like people who have these tender places," said aunt Rachel. "I never get hurt at what is said to me. No never! To be ever picking and mincing, and chopping off your words to be afraid to say this or that for fear somebody will be offended! I can't abide it!" "People who have these tender places can't help it, I suppose.
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