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He flew at him with open beak and lifted wings, scolding vigorously, in fact gave him so hostile a reception that he quickly retired to the top of the cage, where he stood a long time. Afterward also, the goldfinch showed so strong a determination that the intruder should not enjoy his beloved bath, that at last I had to keep him in his cage while the new-comer had a chance at the water.
The writer has spent a June morning quite alone but for the myriad birds wheeling around and scolding at his presumption in being there at all. The route now follows the coast road from Newhaven westwards.
Scolding in a book means, as a rule, either juvenility or it means relapse into conscious degeneration of the soul the focussing and fusing power in a man.
"You and Brother have had more than your share of scolding today, haven't you, Sister?" To his surprise, and Ralph's, Sister's small foot in its patent leather slipper and white sock struck at him viciously. "Why, Elizabeth Morrison!" exclaimed Ralph, lifting the little girl to his lap and holding her firmly there in spite of her struggles. "I'm astonished at you. What are you kicking Jimmie for?"
And I should have thought, Horace Clifford, you might have given her that money! That was what made her run off; you was real cruel, and that's why I wouldn't mind what you said. And and " "Hush," said Aunt Madge, brushing back a spray of fair curls, which the wind had tossed over her forehead. "I don't allow a word of scolding in my house.
"You may jest, Phineas, but I think she is a kind soul. On her way home I saw her stop twice; once to speak to an old woman who was gathering sticks; and again, to scold a lad for thrashing a donkey." "Did you hear her?" "No; but I judge from the lad's penitent face as I passed him. I am sure she had been scolding him." "Then she's not young, depend upon it.
One of the girls in the car tells somebody how fast they went and that somebody refers to it before others until it gets to the boy's mother and father. What harm to the boy? A little scolding, perhaps, and a repetition of the warning and the promise? That's only the superficial consequence. There is a deeper and more remote one. The parents' confidence in their boy receives a shock.
I've had my bellyful o' Frenchies, Mr. Carvell save it be to fight 'em. An' I tell 'ee 'twould give me the greatest joy in life t' leave loose 'Scolding Sairy' at that there Landais. Th' gal ain't had a match on her this here cruise, an' t' my mind she couldn't be christened better, sir." I left him patting the gun with a tender affection.
Let us see who made it, and show him how much loss it causes us, and give him a pritty good scolding. 'No, said Taylor, 'he ought to be discharged; d n him, he ain't fit to be around a store; if we owe him anything pay him up, and let him go; it will be a lesson to the rest.
It certainly does seem like it to anyone who has just come from the fireless cooker that sometimes rejoices under the name of Manhattan. My old Aunt Maria! But it is hot there, though." "We're very glad to see you, Tom," Kathryn began; "although we do owe you a scolding." "What for?" he demanded, setting the child to the sward and taking off his hat. "You haven't been near us for a fortnight."
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