United States or Tonga ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Find out what the invalid likes and how she likes it by observation and not by questions. Sometimes, of course, a question must be asked. If we receive a snappish answer, let us not resent it, but blame the illness and be grateful if, along with the snappishness, we find out what suits our patient best.
And I sez, "Whilst you're walkin', dear Josiah, you might meditate on the danger to the govermunt from wimmen's emotional nature, and the patience and long sufferin' of men voters." I said it real tender and good, but he snapped me up real snappish. Sez he, "I shall meditate on what I'm a minter. Come, Tommy," and they went out. And the next day we started for Yokohama.
He never takes it if he can help. He hates it; and when I tried to force him to-day, he was that sharp and snappish I was afraid. There's a deal of hydrophobia about, I'm hearing." "Hydrophobia? Nonsense. What else has he had?" "I really couldn't say, ma'am." "Somebody must say. Call the cook."
When Harry began to dress himself in his out-of-door morning costume: he was very hard indeed to please, and particularly severe and snappish about his toilet: he tried, and cursed, pantaloons of many different stripes, checks, and colors: all the boots were villainously varnished, the shirts too "loud" in pattern.
There was something in the younger woman which quelled Mrs. Reffold: it may have been some mental quality, or it may have been her boots! "Little Brick," said Mr. Reffold, "isn't it nice to have Winifred here? And I have been so disagreeable and snappish." "Oh, we won't say anything about that now," said Mrs. Reffold, smiling sweetly. "But I've said I am sorry," he continued.
How can a man remain cold, like St. Anthony, before such powerful sorcery, and have the courage to remain faithful to the good principles represented by a scornful wife, whose face is always stern, whose manners are always snappish, and who frequently refuses to be caressed? What husband is stoical enough to resist such fires, such frosts?
An hour passed, and another; still he did not return. Lottie's head bent lower and lower over her work. Mr. Dimmerly never played a more wretched game of whist. At last he quite startled them all by throwing down the cards and saying, in the most snappish of tones, "I wish the blockhead would come home." "Why, brother, what is the matter?" asked Mrs. Marchmont, in a tone of surprise.
"Will he bite?" asked Keith, going up to the huge bear, which had stretched itself out comfortably on the floor. "Not generally. He's a good-tempered brute, most times like a lamb. But he ain't had nothing to eat all day, so it wouldn't be surprising if he was a bit snappish." "Nothing to eat!" echoed Keith. "You poor old thing!"
Poole," said Mr. Rochester. "How are you? and how is your charge to-day?" "We're tolerable, sir, I thank you," replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: "rather snappish, but not 'rageous." A fierce cry seemed to give the lie to her favorable report: the clothed hyena rose up, and stood tall on its hind feet.
"Mother," answered Laura bravely, while the colour mounted to her cheeks again. "Well, I guess she made up her mind you shouldn't get lost as long as you wore it," went on her cousin with disconcerting candour. "It makes you look just like a great big red double dahlia." "Let the child be. She looks well enough," threw in Godmother in her snappish way.
Word Of The Day