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"What's the matter?" I asked, startled. "I stepped on something that that moved!" plaintively. "Possibly it was a potato; there's a bin of them over there. Where the deuce are we?" "If you swear, I shall certainly scream!" she warned. "But I can swear in the most elegant and approved fashion." "I am not inclined to have you demonstrate your talents." "Aha! Here is the coal-bin.
Shore I never, never want to taste meat again, an' sight of a piece of sheep meat would jest about finish me.... Jim, you used to be a human bein' that stood up for Charlie Ladd." "Laddy, I'm lined up beside you with both guns," replied Jim, plaintively. "Hungry? Say, the smell of breakfast in that kitchen made my mouth water so I near choked to death.
Almost plaintively he turned and stared for a second from the Young Electrician's embarrassed grin to the Youngish Girl's more subtle smile. "Why, I'm nearly fifty years old," he said, "and since I was fifteen the only learning I've ever got was what I picked up in trains talking to whoever sits nearest to me. Sometimes it's hens I learn about. Sometimes it's national politics.
"Still, if Frances knows the Murgatroyds so intimately it isn't likely " "Did I say she knew them intimately?" protested the other, somewhat plaintively. "How like me! So stupid! As a matter of fact, my dear, I don't believe Frances knows them at all except as one knows people in a general sort of way. Drawing-rooms, you know, and all that sort of thing.
"You know, Betty," she said in a rare burst of confidence, "I never had the slightest idea I could feel so really b-bad " her eyes filled and she brushed her hand across them impatiently. "Am I not a goose?" she asked plaintively, and Betty, trying to laugh, choked, too, and abandoned the attempt. Then they both smiled, an April sort of uncertain smile and went in to breakfast.
It seems to me that my life stretches before me no more alluringly than yonder dusty road, that runs straight on, on, over vast spaces but always empty." The beauty that had been Sister Wynfreda's hovered now about her mouth as fragrance around a dead rose. Her gaze was on a branch above them where a little brown bird, calling plaintively, was slipping from her nest.
The fact that they were all restored to their parents before nightfall speaks well for the honesty of the general public. The German authorities have further restricted the foods to be supplied to dogs, and German scientists are now trying to grow dachshunds with a shorter span. "We have a Coal Controller, but where is the coal?" plaintively asks a contemporary.
"Which is something," David said with a chuckle. "But I allus told you so, Master Tom; I allus told you." Tom, too, proved that the country air and his life with his uncle agreed with him, for he grew wonderfully. "But you do sit up too much o' nights, Master Tom," said Mrs Fidler plaintively. "I wouldn't care if you'd invent a slope up in the top of the mill; but you won't."
So, often in rich and high cathedrals with Vesty by my side, the organ has but to peal forth plaintively, and those stately, emblematic windows fade away to others, broken, swaying in the wind, and the roar of the tides comes in, and high above the great clouds pass wondrously.
'O, no, said Pitman, 'surely not no more to drink. 'I don't know what you would be at, said Michael plaintively. 'It's positively necessary to do something; and one shouldn't smoke before meals I thought that was understood. You seem to have no idea of hygiene. And he compared his watch with the clock upon the chimney-piece.
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