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Groups of these have been constantly leaping on to our floe. From the moment of landing on their feet their whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a pig-headed disregard for their own safety. They waddle forward, poking their heads to and fro in their usually absurd way, in spite of a string of howling dogs straining to get at them.
An' some's so pig-headed they don't believe their own eyes. As for th' wind, if you lay down flat and squint toward th' west, you can see it blowin' along near th' ground, like a big ribbon; an' sometimes it's th' color of air, an' sometimes it's silver an' gold, an' sometimes, when a storm is comin', it's purple."
"They are pig-headed," he added fiercely; "pig-headed and selfish; they are like children who cry for food ten minutes before dinner-time: it is bound to come if they will wait a little." "And you will tell them so?" "That they are pig-headed? Certainly." Mabel looked at her husband with a pleased twinkle in her eyes.
It might be far more healthy than it is, but there are some people in it still even now, at this time, nearly two hundred years later so selfish, so pig-headed, and so ignorant, that I doubt if even another Great Fire would warm them up to do their duty.
'Never mind; if Theodora is so pig-headed as to rush into this scheme, it is no concern of yours. All you have to do is to take care not to be worried. Violet had regained a cheerful voice. 'If you were going with her, it would not signify. 'It would signify pretty much to me to be bored with all that riff-raff. One would think Theodora bewitched. 'There is hardly any one of our acquaintance.
"Well," Fay chuckled, apparently not displeased, "you're an obstinate young man, or rather a pig-headed young man, but I don't know as that counts against you. I'll help you out, anyway if not as a friend, then as an enemy. You see, I have my marching orders from someone else, and you haven't anything to do with it."
"Well," said Jock, in an odd apologetic voice, "you see the old beggar had got into a pig-headed sort of pet last year. He said he would cut me if I left the service, and so he felt bound to be as good as his word; but he seems to have felt lost without us, and to have been looking out for a chance of meeting. He was horribly humiliated by the Friar looking over his head last week." "Very well.
If he would come into the sugar-business, where a place was waiting for him, and make good there, it would be all right. Otherwise, the affair must be broken off, absolutely, finally, and forever. From this you can see that the Obstacle was not bad-hearted, but only pig-headed. Well, for five or six years things drifted rather miserably along this way.
Get rid of him, May." "I am sorry to displease either you or my father," said Reginald stiffly; "but, pardon me, in this respect I must judge for myself." "Don't be pig-headed," said the spiritual ruler of Carlingford; but he had to rush off for his train, and had no time to say more.
Take the advice of your seniors, as I was too pig-headed a fool to do, and don't put it in the power of any woman to make you as rottenly wretched as I am at this minute." "Why! women can make you rottenly wretched," admits Beauvayse, with a confirmatory creak of the bamboo chair. "But, on the other hand, they can make you awfully happy what?"
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