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You've caused that young lady a heap of trouble already. Are you going to unload a lot more on her just because you want to be pigheaded. Only a kid struts around and hollers 'Who's afraid? No, it's up to you to pull out, not because of Luck Cullison but on account of his daughter." "Who is such a thorough friend of mine," the sheepman added with his sardonic grin. "What do you care about that?
'Pretty, thinks I; 'so far so good. The way she whacked the pillers, shook the blankets, and pitched into the beds was a caution; specially one blunderin' old feather-bed that wouldn't do nothin' but sag round in a pigheaded sort of way, that would have made most girls get mad and give up.
And thus it happened that I deserted my farm and friends at Bar la Rose, and with my goods and chattels boarded the toy train one spring morning, bound for my abandoned house, away from sufficient-unto-itself Bar la Rose and its pigheaded inhabitants, the butcher, the blacksmith, and the mayor.
Pigheaded as a War-Office-mule," he side-tracked hastily. For she had looked at him with a momentary bristle of enquiry in the gentle brown eyes, and he remembered, just in time, that her husband had once held the reins in Pall Mall for half a year, when, feeling atrophy creeping on, he resigned office and died three months later.
A quick flush crossed the olive cheek of Therese, which Lady Caroline afterward remembered. The eventful day of trial came. The public were gathered, impatient and scornful as the pigheaded public are apt to be. In the open area a long cylindrical balloon, in shape like a Bologna sausage, swayed above the machine, from which, like some enormous bird caught in a net, it tried to free itself.
He led her away, with rather a pale face, to the most secluded part of it. "What did the captain say?" she asked. "The captain is a canny, suspicious, pigheaded old Scottish-man!" "Of course, of course," very despondingly, "no one can do anything for me. I must go to a lodging, and advertise for another situation." "They will want a recommendation from your last place."
Still followed, they drive where? Straight to the garage at the back of that wharf yonder! Neither Gianapolis, Max, nor the chauffeur come out of the garage. I said, and I still say, that we should have broken in at once, but Dunbar was always pigheaded, and he thinks Max is a tin god."...
Grice's, at Butter End. The next time Susan and Bessie encountered Arthurine, she began 'Can you or Admiral Merrifield do nothing with that horrid old Grice! Never was any one so pigheaded and stupid. 'What? He won't part with the land you want? 'No; I wrote to him and got no answer. Then I wrote again, and I got a peaked-hand sort of note that his wife wrote, I should think. "Mr.
The Dean as he read this declared to himself that he knew the reasons very well. The reasons were not far to search. The man was pigheaded, foolish, and obstinately proud. So the Dean thought. As far as he himself was concerned Lord George's presence in the house would not be a comfort to him. Lord George had never been a pleasant companion to him.
The old mountaineer behind the horse laughed apologetically. "I been trying to git her to go, but she won't stir. With the pinto daid, o' course we couldn't both make it." "That's plumb foolishness," the Texan commented irritably. "Mebbe," admitted the girl; "but I reckon I'll stay long as dad does." "No use being pigheaded about it." Her dark eyes flashed. "Is this your say-so, Mr.
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