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"A queen it is; and a right good smacking toll all round I have not bussed a maid this day! Up with her, Tom!" "Stand back, ye rogues, and let us pass!" But alas and alack for the bandy-legged man! He could not ruffle and swagger it off as Gaston Carew had done of old; a London apprentice was harder nuts than his cowardly heart could crack. "Stand back, ye rogues!" he cried again. "Rogues? Rogues?
Shrapnel neither insulted her nor meant to ruffle her. 'She has done no such nonsense. 'If she has not! but I trust her to have done it. 'You play the trumpeter, you terrorize her. 'Into opening her lips wider; nothing else. I'll have the truth from her, and no mincing: and from Cecil Baskelett and Palmet. 'Give Cecil a second licking, if you can, and have him off to Shrapnel.
Even the very donkeys walk along with dignified resolution, as if determined to ruffle it with the best, and not yield an inch of their prerogative. In fact, they evidently know their own value, and remember that not one of the hills around not the giant tree on the heights of Lugliano, nor the tempting strawberry-gardens on the mountain of Benabbio could be attained without their help.
Carroll who would far rather pay too much and hear no more about it than be bothered would be worried, and Lydia would be cross; and to Penelope it seemed a pity to be made so uncomfortable for the sake of sixpence or a shilling. She could not bear jars and discords. These, though, were troubles that occurred but seldom to ruffle the surface of her usually happy life.
"But you don't think so?" "It's hard to deceive him." "Confound it! Don't I know? Well, here's for a try. Soft-foot it down stairs. I'll go after you and bang the door. Then you say good-evening in a loud voice and I'll go into the library. How's that?" "Very good your coat over your arm so! Just ruffle your hair a bit, sir now you should do very nicely."
No breath of air, not a single ruffle in the great, drooping leaves of the African trees and dense, prickly shrubs. All around the dank, nauseous odour of poison flowers, the ceaseless dripping of poisonous moisture.
Even such winds as these have their own merit in proper time and place. It is pleasant to see them brandish great masses of shadow. And what a power they have over the colour of the world! How they ruffle the solid woodlands in their passage, and make them shudder and whiten like a single willow!
In the midst of his marches and from the very battle-field he writes to his wife with the same passionate tenderness. The composure which no danger or hatred could ruffle broke down into almost womanish depression at the thought of her coldness or at any burst of her violent humour. To the last he never left her without a pang.
Lily had made him such a good wife, according to the tenets of wifehood, that he had apparently no reason to complain. She was always perfectly amiable and affectionate, not violently affectionate, but with the sort of affection which does not ruffle laces nor disarrange hair, and that he had always considered the most desirable sort of affection in the long-run.
I tell you, Guy Rivers, if you but ruffle the hair of this child in violence, I will knife you, as soon as I would my worst enemy." "Pshaw! I only threatened her to make her confess where she had sent Colleton or hidden him." "Ay, but there are some threats, Guy, that call for throat-cutting. Look to it.
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