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His eminence of Whitefriars on this burst out into a loud, chuckling, impudent laugh, repeating the word, till his voice was almost inarticulate, "Niggle Green Niggle Green Niggle Green! why, my lord, you would be queered in the drinking of a penny pot of Malmsey, if you cry before you are touched. Why, you have told me the secret even now, had I not had a shrewd guess of it before.
You want to have ideas, Mary; get hold of something big; never mind making mistakes, but don't niggle. Why don't you throw it all up for a year, and travel? see something of the world. Don't be content to live with half a dozen people in a backwater all your life. But you won't," he concluded.
Life was exciting, we were free from parental control and we were on the verge of something big though in the background there was this little niggle of apprehension about the future. Early on my inadequacy as a teleprinter operator was discovered by an RAF corporal whom I had last seen as a 13 year old when he lived a couple of doors away from me, but only he and I knew.
The young woman, as she sucked her lead-pencil, was quite unconscious that the boulder thought at all. She wrote in an unformed hand, and in letters that began by being large and round, and tailed off into a slanting niggle. "W. Keyse, Esquer." Then she bit the pencil awhile, and dreamed dreams. Then she wrote again, "Jane Keyse" and "Mrs.
"Oh, what does it matter what he thinks? He won't think anything about it." "But he'll think it's funny." He thought, "Dash these buts!" This was what he called "niggling." It was on the tip of his tongue to say, "Why niggle about the thing?" but he recollected his purpose; that was him all over and that was just it! He said brightly, "Let him. Do him good.
You made me Captain here, and, by James! Captain I'll be. We're handicapped for want of the hose, but we're going to try and get this fire under without. Anyway, there's no question of leaving the ship yet." "Good God, man, don't niggle about that now. I know what I'm saying. There's eight tons of powder in that hold." "And we may be blown up against the sky as a thin kind of rain any minute?
To have fed themselves liberally at their own expense was, perhaps, an extravagance to be deplored, but, at any rate, they had had something for their money; to have drawn an unknown and socially unremunerative Ellen Niggle into the net of their hospitality was a catastrophe that they could not contemplate with any degree of calmness.
"That is just what I don't know," was the answer; "and you don't seem to know much better than I do." "You came up to us in the club " "In what club?" "The New Didactic, in Calais Street." "The New Didactic!" exclaimed Lady Drakmanton with an air of returning illumination; "thank you so much. Of course, I remember now who I am. I'm Ellen Niggle, of the Ladies' Brasspolishing Guild.
'Do you mean that you cannot write well if you choose? 'It is like other arts an inspiration. Dogberry was deep when he said it came by nature. 'Then make no more attempts. No. That schoolgirl's niggle is worse than the first. 'Fanny, as I told you, said Louis, looking vacantly up in resigned despair, yet not without the lurking expression of amusement, 'I will try again. 'No, I thank you.
Ethel's best writing was an upright, disjointed niggle, looking more like Greek than anything else, except where here and there it made insane efforts to become running-hand, and thereby lost its sole previous good quality of legibility, while the lines waved about the sheet in almost any direction but the horizontal.
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