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When he made his offering, it was received in a snappish and threatening manner, but swallowed with a facility that sufficiently proclaimed how much it was relished.
As yet, however, prudence and timidity reigned supreme. Though the Czar uttered some snappish words at the threatening increase to the Duchy of Warsaw, he still posed as Napoleon's ally.
What were the people? 'Captain Dartrey says, England may hold up her head while she breeds young women like Matilda Pridden: right or wrong, he says: it is the substance. Hereupon Manton, sick of Miss Pridden, shook the little man with a snappish word, to bring him to attention.
You look so sick. For heaven's sake, go home and rest." "I can't afford to go home." Cross and snappish as the girls were, they managed to spare Kitty, and to stand in front of her to conceal her idleness from the floor-walker, and give her a few minutes' occasional rest sitting down.
The tone of his reply startled her. 'Look here, child, he said, or rather snapped he had never been snappish before 'since you took the confounded thing off last evening I haven't seen it and I haven't touched it, and I don't know where it is. 'But you must
He gradually improved in means so that he was able to set up a store. Whilst living in Water Street, New York, he fell in love with Polly Luna, the daughter of a caulker. The father forbade the marriage. But Girard persevered, and at length he won and married Polly Lum. It proved a most unfortunate marriage. His wife had no sympathy with him; and he became cross, snappish, morose.
A snappish whispered conference ensued, the trend of which was at once betrayed in an acrimonious retort by Shiphrah: "Just keep your foolish nose out of my affairs, will you? When I say he is going to stay here for some time I mean it. Don't you mind her, David." "Mother! Mother! Mother!" Matilda trilled with a gesture of disgust, and flounced out of the room
Jenkins, with her snappish manner, though really not unkind heart, lecturing Jenkins on his various shortcomings until it drew up at their own door. As Jenkins was being helped down from it, one of the college boys passed at a great speed; a railroad was nothing to it. It was Stephen Bywater. Something, legitimate or illegitimate, had detained him, and now the college bell was going.
My uncle was grumpy, snappish, silent, giving his visitor most unmistakably to understand that his calls were anything but a pleasure to him; but it was all of no use. 'That wouldn't do, boy, said my uncle, puckering his face into a rather pleased smile.
"She's homely, she came from the poor-house, and more than all, she lives here." "So she remembers us, then?" said aunt Hannah, resting the point of her needle in a gather while she steadied her hand. "Yes, you are the only people she has asked about, and her way of doing it was snappish enough, I can tell you."
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