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In general, birds in flight bring the wings as far below the body as they do above it. He is a heavy flyer, but can face a pretty strong wind. His wings probably move through an arc of about ninety degrees. The phœbe flies with a peculiar snappy, jerky flight; its relative the kingbird, with a mincing and hovering flight; it tiptoes through the air.
Through confusion and annoyance he caught nothing of the conversation till Elias, in a mincing voice, announced: "The grub quite ready." The Englishman laughed at that; upon which Elias, dancing up to him, exclaimed: "You are a good fellow; I see that. I like you, and so blease to see you here."
Weisspriess conceived that he had good reasons for addressing her in the tone best suited to his character: he spoke with a ridiculous mincing suavity: 'My pretty sweet! are you not tired? We have not seen one another for days! Can you have forgotten the enthusiastic Herr Johannes? You have been in pleasant company, no doubt; but I have been all all alone. Think of that!
With a courtier's raiment Kenneth put on, too, a courtier's ways; he grew mincing and affected in his speech, and he whose utterance a while ago had been marked by a scriptural flavour now set it off with some of Galliard's less unseemly oaths.
The so-called "practical men" sneer at speculative men, as if, because they speculate or see, they could do nothing. I have heard it said that the clergy who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day are addressed as women; that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men they do not hear, but only a mincing and diluted speech.
Tamburini solved the problem ingeniously, for he donned the fugitive's satin dress, clapped her bonnet over his wig, and appeared on the stage with a mincing step, just as the rioters, impatient at the delay, were about to carry the orchestral barricade by storm. Never was seen so unique a soprano, such enormous hands and feet.
He had been met by the lightning charge of the ram, fair in the ribs, and hurled sprawling into a brittle, pointed tangle of dead limbs sticking up from the trunk of a fallen tree. Having delivered this most effective blow, the ram stepped back a pace or two, mincing on his slender feet, and prepared to repeat it.
"You'll live where I TELL you," the dentist suddenly cried, exasperated at the mincing tone she affected. "Then YOU'LL pay the rent," exclaimed Trina, quite as angry as he. "Are you my boss, I'd like to know? Who's the boss, you or I?" "Who's got the MONEY, I'd like to know?" cried Trina, flushing to her pale lips. "Answer me that, McTeague, who's got the money?"
Saying she would tell 'Brown, the young lady departed; and by the time I had divested myself of my heavy, wet cloak, shawl, bonnet, &c., a mincing damsel came to say the young ladies desired to know whether I would take my tea up there or in the schoolroom. Under the plea of fatigue I chose to take it there.
A great deal is due to you, I know; but I can't pay a jot of it while you go on rating my father like a madman. 'Harry! either my aunt or Janet breathed a warning. I replied that I was past mincing phrases.
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