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He frequently, likewise, muttered dark threats against the overbearing policy and dark injustice of "The Great Monopoly," as he used to characterize the Hudson Bay Company. Occasionally he would burst out into passionate words like these: "They treat us as they would blood thirsty savages upon the plains. They spurn us with their feet as dogs, and then they spit upon us.
Overbearing, he was not yet too overbearing to appreciate a manly carriage, and had been pleased with what some would have considered the boorishness of Malcolm's behaviour such not perceiving that it had the same source as the true aristocratic bearing namely, a certain unselfish confidence which is the mother of dignity.
'Then he must have a hint of it, said Wegg, 'and a strong one that'll jog his terrors a bit. Give him an inch, and he'll take an ell. Let him alone this time, and what'll he do with our property next? I tell you what, Mr Venus; it comes to this; I must be overbearing with Boffin, or I shall fly into several pieces. I can't contain myself when I look at him.
The Virginian borderers were fearfully exasperated, and ready to take vengeance upon any Indians, whether peaceful or hostile; while the Shawnees and Mingos, on their side, were arrogant and overbearing, and yet alarmed at the continual advance of the whites.
Dunborough's passion for the girl to the stay at the Castle Inn, the abduction at Manton Corner, the strange night journey in the chaise, and the stranger release. When he had done, 'Sir George was the girl's fancy-man, then? Pomeroy said, in the harsh overbearing tone he had suddenly adopted. The tutor nodded. 'And she thinks he has tricked her? 'But for that and the humour she is in, Mr.
Our name shall suffer no discredit from me; and as a gentleman, I assert, that Sir Thomas Metcalfe has only received due chastisement, as you yourself will admit, cousin, when you know all." "I know him to be overbearing," observed Sir Ralph.
He was of a passionate and overbearing temper, and Philip's coolness, and the manner in which he had turned the tables upon him and challenged him to a duel, inflamed him to the utmost. "Hands off, Louis," he said. "Do you think that I, Raoul de Fontaine, am to be crowed over by this youth? He has challenged me to fight, and fight he shall." "You provoked him," Louis said firmly.
Then Chief Manuelito, who was highly elated with his victory over the Mexican, challenged me to a game in a very overbearing and provoking manner.
But now it was different: his black face and the company he was in made him seem one of the people, so that his appearance caused no surprise, and he was able to ride on perfectly unnoticed by the common folk and the many armed, overbearing, mounted and pacing warriors they passed.
An expression of sadness passed over Charley's face as his friend said this. "You are right in the last particular," he said, with a sigh. "Mr Whyte is so rough and overbearing that the Indians are beginning to dislike him.
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