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Chauvelin had not raised his voice above a whisper; he was now quietly taking a pinch of snuff, yet there was something in his attitude, something in those pale, foxy eyes, which seemed to freeze the blood in her veins, as would the sight of some deadly hitherto unguessed peril. "Is that a threat, citoyen?" she asked at last. "Nay, fair lady," he said gallantly, "only an arrow shot into the air."
As the housekeeper now made a plunge to drag him out of his extemporary fortress, he gave her such a hearty pinch on the leg, that she sprang back with a scream, and sank, wholly overcome by the pain, into the huge, leather-covered elbow-chair which was near her workstand at the window. "You are a monster, Hodge," groaned she, exhausted "a heartless, horrible monster.
'And, Mark, do you know, he has been putting out feelers as if to discover whether we would do what he asked us to do five years ago. 'Would you? 'If it were not for the children, and and sometimes the extreme pinch, I should say it was more like life to work yourself up as a City man, said Annaple.
Season with cayenne, mace, half a teaspoonful of white sugar and a pinch of salt. Bind all with a well-beaten egg; shape into small balls; dip in egg, then powdered cracker; fry in butter, and drop into the soup when it is served.
Have his patrician birth and aristocratic fortunes given him any right to censure those who dispose of the fruits of their own industry, according to their own pleasure? My father took a long pinch of snuff, and replied, 'Very well, Alan; very well indeed. I wish Mr.
We hear a dolorous howl in Parliament and elsewhere about the dearth of seamen; experts inform us that we could not send out much more than half our fleet if a pinch came, because we have not enough real sailors. Is it not well for us, as Britons, to care as much as we can for our own hardy flesh and blood the finest pilots, the cleverest seamen, the bravest men in the world?
I have not the heart to wake Madeleine to make her tell me more, though I really ought to pinch her well for being so secretive besides, my head is so full of my own day that I want to get it all written down, and I shall never have done so unless I begin at the beginning. Yesterday, then, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon Lord Dereham's coach and four came clattering up to our door to call for me.
But if they keep me to my hundred and fifty per annum, don't let them trust me every day with the bags, as they do that old fellow. Some of the men say he's good to lend fifty pounds at a pinch. Are the chops coming, Ned?" "The chops are coming," said Edward, who had thrown on a boating-coat and plunged into a book, and spoke echoing. "Here's little Peggy Lovell." Algernon faced this portrait.
This moral phenomenon might, at a pinch, be made to excuse the tendency we all have, more or less, to gossip. It is so natural, socially speaking, to laugh at the failings of others that we ought to forgive the ridicule our own absurdities excite, and be annoyed only by calumny.
The Shoshonies, however, who, as has been observed, have still "horse to ride and weapon to wear," are somewhat bolder in their spirit, and more open and wide in their wanderings. In the autumn, when salmon disappear from the rivers, and hunger begins to pinch, they even venture down into their ancient hunting grounds, to make a foray among the buffaloes.
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